Librarian-students all had a chance to create/report out a program they developed as a final project. Each considered the goals of the program, format (active, passive), how much time/money it might take and described how it was or would be done. Suzanne from WI shared this idea.
This program
is an active program designed to help new library users become familiar with
the library, as well as learn how much fun the library can be! The program will be a one time program held
on site, for children grades kindergarten through third grade. The actual program will last approximately 1 hour
and will be held after school during the timeframe that the after school
program is held. This is from
4-5:30. The program will be held in
cooperation with the school staff running the after school program. Holding it during the after school program
guarantees an audience as well as built in helpers. Program preparation time should be around 2-3
hours for set up, craft preparation, instructions for the groups to follow and
finding books in the collection to use in our library treasure hunt and
shopping for snacks.
Program
Detail:
The kids
will be divided up into 5 groups, each with a student or adult leader. There are typically around 25 kids in this
age group, so the groups will be ideally about 5 kids. We are affiliated with a
historical Museum, and they have a wildlife case with around 40 animals and
birds in. The program will start in the
museum with a focus on the wildlife case.
Each group will be told to pick an animal from the case that they are
familiar with or are interested in. After they have their animal picked out, they
will be told to find both a fiction and nonfiction book with this animal
in. The leaders of the groups will be
familiar with how and where to find these materials. The groups will be shown the online card
catalog for assistance in finding their books.
After the groups have all found their books, they will be asked to
“present” their books to the other groups, giving a bit of detail about what
the book is about and why they chose the ones they did. The group as a whole will pick which ones
they would like to have read aloud. This
can be done by me or one of the group leaders.
How many books will be read will depend on the length of the books that
they choose.
Snack:
A snack will
be served of nuts, fruits, seeds and juice while talking about how and what
animals in the woods eat.
Craft
Project:
Materials: 10 foot piece off of a roll of paper,
markers, crayons, ink pads and animal foot stamps. A nearby Natural History Museum has animal
foot stamps that they loan out for projects.
The stamps are of a bear, beaver, rabbit, squirrel and raccoon. These stamps are awesome and very
realistic. (kind of creepy in that they
almost look and feel like a real animal foot!)
We have used them before and the kids love them!
Prior to the
program animal habitat and animals will be drawn on the 10 foot piece of paper
to match the animals that we have tracks for.
During the craft project the kids will match the appropriate track up
with the animals on the paper, which will be laid out on the floor for them to
work on. They will use the stamps to
show their travels in the “woods” of the scene leading up to the animals in
their habitat. They will also draw food
and additional habitat that they learned about in the books we read. The finished mural will be hung on the wall
at the library. The kids will be given a
copy of the wildlife identifier that is in the museum to assist in identifying
the animals in the case, and those that don’t already have library cards will
be sent home with a form to fill out to get one.
Graphic courtesy of Pixabay
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