Last Monday, March 2nd, was Dr. Seuss’s birthday. Schools across the country participate in the Read Across America program to celebrate this. I’d been working with an elite corp of 5th graders who would be visiting the pre-k, kindergarten, and 1st grade classrooms to read them a Dr. Seuss story and help them make a craft. It had been in the works since January (and believe me, next year I’m starting earlier!). I’d vetted the 5th graders, worked with the reading teacher, talked to the classroom teachers, practiced and trained the selected 5th graders. I’ve been eating, breathing, and sleeping this program for weeks now.
Tag: programs
Today was my very last program at the public library; my official last day is on Tuesday. So I decided I wanted to have another GCPP. Following the hit formula of the first one I did back in April (which followed the hit formula of my Girl’s Club predecessor), we watched two movies, had lunch, made a craft, and were all around pretty silly.
Last night I did my last weeknight program and my last Animal Mania! program. Animal Mania! has been on hiatus since the beginning of summer, which was chock-full of bug programs. I hadn’t realized that quite a few of my regulars still didn’t know I was leaving; with the chaos of back-to-school week, I hadn’t told everyone. But I think they’re fine with it. I’ve got one program left before I leave, another Girl’s Club Pajama Party this Saturday!
Today is the first day of school for the kids in my current library, so last night I had a program called School Year Resolutions.
First we read Splat the Cat, Rob Scotton’s fun story about a high-strung cat who is very nervous about his first day at cat school. I had a few little ones who could relate, but most of the kids were old pros going into 2nd and 4th grade.
This week I just did a straightforward craft. Originally we were going to make buggy pencil toppers out of erasable Sculpey clay, but due to budget and time constraints I dropped that plan in favor of the go-to pipe cleaner option.