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From: "PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults and Children"
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To: "PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults and Children" <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 6:57 PM
Subject: PUBYAC digest 697
PUBYAC Digest 697
Topics covered in this issue include:
1) Re: helping a needy child
by "M. Mills" <mmills@leaguecitylibrary.org>
2) Pilot's Wife Movie
by "Fauver, Marge" <MFAUVER@ci.santa-barbara.ca.us>
3) Foreign Language videos
by "Cathy Chesher" <cchesher@monroe.lib.mi.us>
4) ALA homepage challenge
by Jean Hewlett <nbclsref@sonic.net>
5) Displays provided by public
by Bonita Kale <Bonita.Kale@euclidlibrary.org>
6) Compilation of Scarf Ideas (long)
by "HEATHER O MCCUTCHEN" <mccutcho@atlas.forsyth.lib.nc.us>
7) Junie B trivia
by "Bryce, Richard" <bryce@palsplus.org>
8) computers in children's room
by Bonita Kale <Bonita.Kale@euclidlibrary.org>
9) About stumpers
by "Susan Dailey" <obldailey@wellscolibrary.org>
10) SPEAKER NEEDED
by Josephine Nolfi <JNOLFI@libraryvisit.org>
11) movie afternoon for YAs
by "Julia Ozimek" <ozimekju@oplin.lib.oh.us>
12) Put Your Irish On....Compilation of Responses
by MaryEllen Byrne <mebyrne@poklib.org>
13) ESL Collection
by Deborah_Dubois@freenet.richland.oh.us
(Deborah Dubois)
14) Re: Stumper/Mama Provi and the pot of rice.
by Jean Nichols <jean@clarksville.org>
15) Checkers Tournament
by Jocelyn Shaw <redfernshaw@yahoo.com>
16) Captain Underpants craft ideas?
by "Barbara Scott" <barbarascott@hotmail.com>
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From: "M. Mills" <mmills@leaguecitylibrary.org>
To: "Keener, Lesa" <LKeener@acmail.aclink.org>
Subject: Re: helping a needy child
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Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 19:48:29 CST
I have a group of young boys who come with two different "aunts"
several
days a
week after school. Only one or the other of the aunts comes with them,
occasionally at night their parents bring them to the library. Their dad,
for
instance, doesn't speak English very well, and the kids get him to come to
the
reference desk to ask for access to games on the computer. When the
children
are on the computers, they mess them up within five minutes and run to ask
for
help at the reference desk. When one of the aunts is with them, they roam
freely throughout children's department and bother reference desk person
even
more often. I have conversed with the aunt(s) several times and have asked
them
to help these children stay at proper site. When I do this, the aunt(s)
leave
the library with the children in hand within a few minutes instead of
helping
the children. By the way, the whole time the aunt(s) are here, they are at
the
standup computers in the Youth Services area adjacent to the Children's
area,
searching the internet and sending emails. I have the distinct feeling
that
when I have left reference desk duty or go home, they will probably return
and
continue their patterns.
"Keener, Lesa" wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nadine [mailto:booklover32@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 6:33 PM
> To: pubyac@prairienet.org
> Subject: helping a needy child
>
> Dear Wise Ones,
> I need your suggestions on dealing with a
> situation we have. We have a young boy who comes into
> the children's room, and requires a lot of our
> attention. <snip>
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From: "Fauver, Marge" <MFAUVER@ci.santa-barbara.ca.us>
To: "'mjagos@rcls.org'" <mjagos@rcls.org>,
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I found this on the Lions Gate website:
Lions Gate continued its leadership in television movies and miniseries,
producing... the television movie THE PILOT'S WIFE, based on the
best-selling novel from Anita Shreve , for CBS...
http://www.lionsgatefilms.com/CorpSite/corp/television.html
The more you read the more you know
The more you know the smarter you grow
The stronger your voice when speaking your mind or making your choice.
Marge Fauver, Librarian
Eastside Branch Library
1102 E. Montecito St.
Santa Barbara, CA 93103
805-963-3727, Fax 617-344-0433
mfauver@ci.santa-barbara.ca.us
www.ci.santa-barbara.ca.us/library
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From: "Cathy Chesher" <cchesher@monroe.lib.mi.us>
To: "Pubyac" <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Foreign Language videos
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Hello,
Can anyone recommend a good video series for kids for
learning foreign
languages?
Thanks
Cathy Chesher
Children's Librarian
Adrian Public Library
143 E. Maumee St.
Adrian, MI 49221
517-265-2265
cchesher@monroe.lib.mi.us
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From: Jean Hewlett <nbclsref@sonic.net>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: ALA homepage challenge
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Mary Ann Gilpatrick wrote:
[received challenge saying]
by-the-way-there-is-graphic-depiction-of-homosexuality-on-the-ALA-homepage
Where is it?
Do they mean the rainbow in the ALA store graphic? Or is somebody taking
a very odd look at the convention poster graphic? Or perhaps all the
women on the American Libraries sample cover?
Jean Hewlett
nbclsref@sonic.net
Mary Ann Gilpatrick wrote:
>
> Haven't had one for awhile, but here on my desk is a formal challenge; and
a
>
by-the-way-there-is-graphic-depiction-of-homosexuality-on-the-ALA-homepage.
> Some recent surgery has sapped my energy; any immediate thoughts?
>
> TIA,
>
> Mary Ann Gilpatrick
> magilpat@walnet.walla-walla.wa.us
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From: Bonita Kale <Bonita.Kale@euclidlibrary.org>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Displays provided by public
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We don't have any special insurance--although the library would
probably be covered if it burned down. In the children's department,
where we have children's collections on display in locked cases, they
need a parent's signature, but that's all.
The kids love it; the cases are low so that even toddlers can see the
tea sets or cars or wooden trains or baseball cards or foreign money
etc. And the child who owns the stuff gets to take home the display
card with his/her name and the name of the collection on it, when the
time (2 weeks to a month) is over.
For the more formal displays put up by adults from the community, our
public relations person has a policy sheet that they sign. It says the
library "assumes no insurance liability," and recommends that the
displayers, "check with their private insurance policies to insure
coverage." It also specifically disallows commercial or political
material, and leaves choice up to the library.
Bonita
For more formal displays
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From: "HEATHER O MCCUTCHEN" <mccutcho@atlas.forsyth.lib.nc.us>
To: PUBYAC@prairienet.org
Subject: Compilation of Scarf Ideas (long)
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Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 19:51:58 CST
Thanks to everyone who sent me great ideas on what to do with
colorful scarves in storytime. Can't wait to try them! In case
anyone is interested in purchasing scarves, I found a great deal on
the Arts Education Ideas website - www.aeideas.com/scarves.html
They have a great offer right now in which you can get a set of
fourteen 18X36 inch scarves in seven colors for only $10!!
I use chiffon scarves in my Tiny Tot storytimes for twos and threes.
I tied one end of the scarf to a large plastic ring (actually a
decoration on some flower pots) but you could use a wooden hoop
or nothing at all. I have found that holding the ring is somewhat
easier for the little one, you just have to avoid any song or rhyme
that asks you to toss the scarf into the air. Anyway, we have
"borrowed" the following songs and adapted them to scarf play.
You can also use music with different tempos and move
the scarf accordingly.
(tune: "Are You Sleeping?)
See our scarves. See our scarves.
Watch them wave! Watch them wave!
Swish-a-swish-a-swish-swish;
Swish-a-swish-a-swish-swish;
Watch them wave! Watch them wave!
(tune: "London Bridge Is Falling Down")
Give your scarf a great big shake,
A great big shake, a great big shake,
Give your scarf a great big shake,
Just like this.
Give your scarf a little bitty shake...
Give your scarf a great big shake...
(tune: "Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush")
This is the way we wave our scarves;
Wave our scarves; wave our scarves.
This is the way we wave our scarves,
So early in the morning.
Wave down low and touch your toes;
Touch your toes, touch your toes.
Wave down low and touch your toes,
So early in the morning.
Wave up high and touch the sky;
Touch the sky, touch the sky.
Wave up high and touch the sky,
So early in the morning.
I've been using scarves in my Dance themed preschool story
times. We do lots of dancing throughout, but the scarves come in
after we read Color Dance by Ann Jonas. If you're not familiar with
this book, it shows a bunch of children dancing with colored
scarves and showing how different colors mix together to form new
colors (red and yellow make orange, etc). After we read Color
Dance I pass out scarves and put on the cd of "Dance of the
Sugarplum Faeries" from the Nutcracker and we dance about with
our scarves. It is really really fun.
The first time I saw Ann Jonas' book, Color Dance, I knew I had to
have scarves! (It is my inspiration for this!)
Very often as a component of my 2 year old storytime, I will just
play music on my boom box -- pick your favorite : classical,
modern, kid rock -- and let the boys and girls (and grown ups, too!)
move to the music, waving their scarf in the air, throwing it in the
air, putting it on their heads and pulling it off, dancing with it. . .The=
more often you do this,the sooner they'll pick it up and be more
creative on their own! Great for gross motor skills development!
I'm not lucky enough to have scarves, but I've collected squares of
tulle in various colors. Thanks for the peekaboo idea!
I use them with "Fall" programs, and have the kids dance with
them, pretending to be falling leaves.
I use them for circus programs, letting the kids "learn to juggle"
with
them. Most juggling books explain the basic technique. This
program is good for K-6. You can add balled-up socks and plastic
fruit for step 2 and step 3.
If you work with YA's, you can have a "Learn to tie a scarf" program.
Amazon has this book: (Plus 2-3 more)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0517886162/qid=3D10141
34612/sr=3D8-3/re
I thought there was a Kimbo record that explained some scarf
moves, but I couldn't find it. I THINK you can use scarves in place
of beanbags, on some of the Kimbo records, but I haven't done this.
BUT, while looking, I came across this description in Kentucky that
made mae feel much more important about all the things I'm
teaching kids when I have them dance to music. Enjoy!
According to the Kentucky Supreme Court (June 8, 1989), it is the
right of each and every child within the Commonwealth to receive
'sufficient grounding in the arts' (dance, drama, music, visual art) to
'enable each student to appreciate his or her cultural and historical
heritage.' The arts are a basic mode of knowing, participating in,
and experiencing life.
The humanities can be defined as a field of study concerned with
the areas of dance, drama, music, and visual arts in addition to the
areas of literature, philosophy, language, and history. Humanities
include the analysis (appreciation) and evaluation of art. In this
respect, the areas of arts and humanities are complementary and
enhance one another.
INDICATES SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF PRIMARY =96
DANCE & DRAMA
BEGINNING DEVELOPING
COMPETENT
DANCE=85 Moves for the delight of moving. Explores body
movements. Demonstrates locomotor movements. Explores
elements of space, time, and force. Relies on imitation of others
rather than generating own ideas. Moves body parts into different
positions. Reproduces some locomotor and non-locomotor
movements. Describes a locomotor and non-locomotor movement
series within a dance. Develops awareness about balance.
Reproduces some locomotor, non-locomotor, and dance steps.
Recognizes and uses own space when moving. Explores the
coordination of body parts. Invents shapes with own body. Creates
simple movement patterns that have a beginning, middle,
and end. Performs created movement patterns with music.
Distinguishes between movement steps in a sequenced pattern.
Gives personal reaction to a performance. Develops awareness that
dances from other cultures may have music that sounds different
than music he/she usually experiences.
Produces a movement sequence and remembers the sequence.
Follows a leader's pathway while holding hands. Observes and
accurately describes the action in a dance or movement sequence.
Changes types of movements while performing. Successfully
performs simple cultural and partner-type dances. Works with a
partner or in a group to create a movement/dance sequence.
Makes effective use of space when creating movement/dance
sequences. Discusses similarities and differences of two dances,
using correct terms. Connects folk dances with particular cultures
and time periods.
At our library, we have a video called JUGGLETIME which comes
with three scarves. The video teaches juggling for young children.
(The ISBN IS0-9615521-7-4)
I have used a song called "I have a scarf" on a CD entitled Moving
with Mozart [sound recording] / activities by GeorgiaMozart has
worked fairly well with my toddler program. Are they different
colors. If they are you could pass them out and then have the
different colors stand up and move around the room?
That sounds like fun. have you read the book Color Dance by Ann
Jonas---the kids do experiments with color like yellow and blue
make green kind of thing. Or, maybe they would come in handy for
acting out things with older kids--acting out poetry . . .Ask the
kids, they'll tell you what you can use them for.
A fun magic trick is to tie a handful of scarves together and then
place them in a bag or a hat and then start pulling them out. I
usually come upwith some story about my liking to wear costumes
when I do stories but sometimes I can not find the right thing to
wear so I pull out my magic scarf... I have heard about using
scarves during the baby programs but I do not remember how.
If the scarves are chiffon, you can use them like they're used in Ann
Jonas's Color Dance. But even if not, they're great for a dance
themedstorytime. The kids enjoy waving them, throwing and
catching them and holding things in them (like stuffed animals). I
even did a circle dance with them. Instead of holding hands we held
each end of the scarf. You can do this with any dance, Ring around
the Rosy, Looby Loo, etc. It makes a nice change of pace,
especially if you often do these dances.
When I was in gym class in grade school, we learned how to juggle
with scarves. They were the kind that floated in the air for a bit-real
lightweight-and we used three-just as if we were juggling with balls.
It was really fun-it might be too advanced for preschoolers though-
but it might give you an idea.
I lurk on pubyac and had an idea to answer your question about
what to do with the scarfs that you bought. This doesn't relate to
baby times, but what about holding a juggling program for some of
the older kids that come to your library. You could invite a juggler
or a juggling team to come to the library for a performance and then
have them teach the kids some of the basic techniques of juggling
after the performers are done.
I thought of this because when I was attempting to get a
teaching
certificate, I had to take a class in teaching P.E. to kids and
juggling was a part of that. The professor had us start out juggling
scarves. Hope that helps somewhat.
We use a bunch of scarves tied together to create our storytime
circle!
The kids often help us make it and it signals the beginning of
storytime!
(plus it helps keep people from sitting in the stacks!)
Scarves, especially if they are the feather light sheer type, are the
easiest thing in the world to juggle. Even if you are juggling-
impaired, as I am, three scarves can be tossed into the air -- one at
a time and the appearance of juggling takes place. The effect is
lovely and fun because they float so slowly like feathers. Don't be
afraid to try it. Good luck!
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From: "Bryce, Richard" <bryce@palsplus.org>
To: "'pubyac@prairienet.org'"
<pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Junie B trivia
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 19:52:04 CST
Hi! Thanks for all the help on the homework alert forms. We're
working on
a sample and I'll pass it on when it's ready.
In the Spring I will be having a Junie B Jones program. I want to do some
trivia with them but have not been able to find any. I know the website
used to have a trivia quiz but it's over and the questions are gone. Has
anyone ever done one with questions they can share or know where I can get
my hands on some? I can certainly flip through the books and pull
questions
out, but there are so few titles on our shelf right now that it won't be
representative. Any help is appreciated. TIA.
Enjoy the weekend!
Richard :-)
Richard Bryce
Sr. Children's Librarian
West Milford Township Library
973-728-2823
bryce@palsplus.org
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From: Bonita Kale <Bonita.Kale@euclidlibrary.org>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: computers in children's room
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Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 19:52:10 CST
Sure we have computers; I'm on one now.
Also, our catalog is on computers.
Also, we have Internet computers, and three or four computers that have
cd rom games installed on them. They are a terrific nuisance. We sign
up for 1/2 hour for Internet, and 1 hour for games. They are mostly
always busy.
The internet computers have -no- speakers. The is -very important-!
The game computers have headphones.
We also have a couple of computers with Ohio Proficiency Test practice
and Microsoft Word on them. These are busy a lot, too. Also one hour
sign up.
Being able to get pictures and info off the Web means that we've almost
eliminated our vertical file and have eliminated our picture file.
If I had my druthers, I'd avoid all problems by having text-only
access. No one would be interested except for school work and rap
lyrics, and there wouldn't be porn site ads popping up at the kids when
they're trying to get they're pictures of Lil Bow Wow.
However, that's kind of like stopping the tide. We have to live with
what we've got, and we've got the Internet and all the noise and
problems that brings, plus a lot of great stuff.
Bonita
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From: "Susan Dailey" <obldailey@wellscolibrary.org>
To: "PUBYAC" <PUBYAC@prairienet.org>
Subject: About stumpers
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To those seekers of obscure books,
Please put your email address in the body of your message or under your
signature. It will make it easier to reply directly to you. I enjoy
reading the stumpers and replying to those (few) I know, but it is a
challenge sometimes to know where to send the response. Thanks.
Susan Dailey
librarian and author of A Storytime Year (www.susanmdailey.com)
Ossian Branch Library, Ossian, Indiana
219-622-4691
<mailto:obldailey@wellscolibrary.org>
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From: Josephine Nolfi <JNOLFI@libraryvisit.org>
To: "'pubyac@prairienet.org'"
<pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: SPEAKER NEEDED
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We are looking for a speaker who is knowledgeable about current research on
baby brain development and the role of public library programs in light of
these findings. Has anyone heard a good speaker on this subject?
Thanks
for your help!
Josephine Nolfi
Manager of Children's Services
Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County
305 Wick Ave.
Youngstown, Ohio 44503
Voice: (330) 744-8636, ext. 124 Fax: (330) 744-2258
E-mail: JNOLFI@YMC.LIB.OH.US
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From: "Julia Ozimek" <ozimekju@oplin.lib.oh.us>
To: <PUBYAC@prairienet.org>
Subject: movie afternoon for YAs
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 19:55:34 CST
Hi Everybody!
I am planning a movie afternoon for YAs (students in grades 6 and up). =
And I was curious to see what movie you might recommend to show to them. =
Also have you done this before? What was the reaction? Did they have any =
recommendations on a movie to show?
Thanks for your help!
Julia Ozimek
Youth Services Aide
St.Paris Public Library
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From: MaryEllen Byrne <mebyrne@poklib.org>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Put Your Irish On....Compilation of Responses
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 19:55:41 CST
THANKS SO MUCH TO ALL WHO RESPONDED -- MANY WONDERFUL SUGGESTIONS AS YOU
WILL SEE. MEB
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At last I've found it--a wonderful picture book for St. Patrick's Day that I
knew I owned! It's The Last Snake in Ireland: A Story About St. Patrick by
Sheila MacGill-Callahan. The illustrations by Will Hillenbrand are
marvelous. It's from Holiday House (1999) and is appropriate for preschool
through primary. You'll love it!
Kat Corbett
Author of the DanceFutures Series
Website: http://www.katcorbett.com
E-mail: kat@katcorbett.com
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Last year I had a great time with 2's doing a ST. Patrick's day Parade and
an Irish Jig. I played Irish music and we paraded around the room with green
streamers. Later during the storytime, I played Irish Jig music and we
danced.
The kids Loved it.
Lisa Cole
Arapahoe Library District
lcole@ald.lib.co.us
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I, too, have had limited success finding short books for St. Paddy's Day.
The ones that I usually use with the PS group are "Clever Tom and the
Leprechaun" by Linda Shute, "Tim O'Toole and the Wee Folk" by
Gerald
McDermott, and "The Pot of Gold" by Lisa Hopp. This last book is a
paperback
that I bought at Barnes & Noble and keep at home until I need to use it for
storytime. Below are fingerplay sheets that I have developed for St. Paddy's
Day, and my list of storytime books for Music. I thought I had a fingerplay
or song sheet for music, but I can't locate it right now.
Hope this helps.
Beverly Bixler
San Antonio Public Library, TX
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St. Patrick's Day--
I often expand this to include "green." This way I can include stories
like
"Green Eggs and Ham" (great with the cassette tape) and "Small
Green Snake"
by Moore. Some specifically St. Patrick's Day books I have used are
"Clever Tom and the Leprechaun" by Shute; "Daniel O'Rourke"
by Calhoun;
"Fin M'Coul" and "Jamie O'Rourke and the Big Potato," both
by dePaola; and
"The Hungry Leprechaun" by Calhoun (condensed, and as a flannelboard).
Sorry-
"Daniel O'Rourke" is by McDermott (my eyes skipped ahead a line!).
Fingerplays--On St. Patrick's Day a shamrock we often see. (point to eyes)
Let's count the leaflets--1, 2, 3! (raise fingers)
As we look around the room, what can be seen?\
Someone (or name) has a (article of clothing) on;
It's the wearing of the green!
(or, There's a [object] in the room and it's green!--
then have children guess what it is)
Let's look for shamrocks now, let's look for shamrocks now,
And when we find a bright green one, then we can take a bow!
(sing to "The Farmer in the Dell")
Ann W. Moore
Schenectady Co, NY Public Library
scp_moore@sals.edu
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LONG:
You're right about St. Patrick's Day books. I usually do "rainbows" or
"rain" or "magic wishes." I've done "green"
stories and "snake"
stories, too, since St. Patrick rid Ireland of snakes.
Here's the storytime I'm getting ready to do. It mentions specific
things in our collection.
Storytime: Rainbow Colors (Rainbows for St. Patrick’s day)
Date: March 4&5, NE
Age: 2-5 with parents.
Books to display:
A Rainbow of my own by Don Freeman J EASY Freeman
White Rabbit’s Color Book by Alan Baker J EASY Baker
Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert J EASY Ehlert
The Lion and the Little Red Bird by Elisa Kleven J Easy Kleven
Red Day, Green Day by Edith Kunhardt J EASY Kun
Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh J EASY Wal
A Million Chameleons by James Young J EASY You
A Color of his Own by Leo Lionni J EASY Lio
Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni J EASY Lio
Color Box by Dayle Ann Dodds J EASY Dod
Color Dance by Ann Jonas J EASY Jon
“Color juvenile”=300 (Reverse chronological order)
Leon the Chameleon by Melanie Watt J EASY Wat (2001)
Ballerina! By Peter Sis J EASY SIs
A Beasty Story by Bill Martin Jr. J EASY Mar
Purple is best by Dana Meachen Rau J EASY Rau
Rainbow Joe and me J EASY Strom
April Wilson’s Magpie Magic: A Tale of colorful mischief by April
Wilson
J EASY Wilson
Bob’s Vacation by Dana Meachen Rau J EASY Rau (Snowman bored with
white)
Deep in a rainforest by Gwen Pascoe J EASY Pascoe
Welcome to the Icehouse by Jane Yolen J EASY Yolen (Arctic spring
colors)
Colors : with Dib, dab and dob (DK) J EASY Colors
Eye Spy Colors by Debbie MacKinnon
Hello, Red Fox by Eric Carle J easy Carle
The Teeny Tiny Mouse by Laura Leuck J EASY Leuck
Mysterious Thelonious by Chris Raschka J EASY Ras
Chidi only likes Blue by Ifeoma Onyefulu JEREAD 306 ony
Cat Among the Cabbages by Alison Bartlett J EASY Bar
Bonnie’s Blue House by Kelly Asbury J EASY Asb
The Crayon box that talked by Shane Derolf JPR EASY Derolf
Cat’s Colors by Jane Cabrera J EASY Cab
What color was the sky today? by Miela Ford J EASY For
Tell me a season Mary McKenna Siddals J EASY Sid
Cindy Szekeres’ I Love my Busy Book by Cindy Szekeres J EASY Sze
My Crayons Talk by Patricia Hubbard J EASY Hub (1996)
My Many colored days by Dr. Seuss
Goblins in Green by Nicholas Heller J EASY Heller
Brown Cow, Green Grass, Yellow Mellow Sun by Ellen B. Jackson J EASY Jac
My Colors: Let’s Learn about the colors by Keith Faulkner J EASY Fau
Wide-mouthed frog by Keith Faulkner J EASY Fau (green frog, blue bird,
brown mouse)
Baby’s Colors by Naomi Macmillan J EASY Macmillan
Color Fun J EASY Color
Pink, Red, Blue, What are you? By Laura Kvasnosky J EASY Kav (animal
colors)
Spot’s Big Book of Colors, Shapes and Numbers by Eric Hill J EASY Hill
Blue Hat, Red Coat by Clara Vulliamy J EASY Vulliamy
What am I? Looking through shapes at apples and grapes by N. N. Charles
J EASY Charles
Colors everywhere by Tana Hoban J EASY Toban
Museum Colors by Gisela Voss J EASY Voss
If you want to find Golden by Eileen Spinelli J EASY Spi (City colors)
Lunch by Denise Fleming J EASY Fle
A Winter Walk by Lynne Barasch J EASY Bar
Fun with colors J EASY McCarney-Muldoon
Thinking about colors J Easy Jenkins
Color: a poem by Christina Rosetti J EASY Ros
Red Bear by Bodel Rikys J EASY Rik ... favorites only:
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see? By Bill Martin J EASY Mar
(1992)
Color Farm by Lois Ehlert J EASY Ehl
Color Zoo by Lois Ehlert J EASY Ehl
I went walking by Sue Williams J EASY Williams
Who said Red by Mary Serfozo
Growing Colors by Bruce McMillan
In a red house by Nancy Tafuri J EASY Taf (CB)
Spot looks at colors by Eric Hill J EASY Hill
Red, Blue, Yellow shoe by Tana Hoban J EASY Hoban
Umbrella Parade by Kathy Feczko J EASY Feczko
Mary wore her red dress and Henry wore his...by Merle Peek J EASY Peek
Babar’s book of color by Laurent de Brunhoff
Blue Hat, Green Hat by Sandra Boynton J EASY Boynton
If you take a paintbrush by Fulvio Testa J EASY Testa
White Rabbit's Color Book J EASY Baker by Alan Baker
Purple, green, yellow by Robert Munsch (on order)
Colors Around Us by Shelley Rotner and Anne Woodhull (Not in system)
The Colors by Monique Felix (Not in system)
Nonfiction:
A song of Colors JEREAD 811.54 Hiundley (poems about colors)
Red J535.6Woo
Yellow JEREAD 535.6Woo
Blue J 535.6Woo
How the world got its color 398.2Hir (CB,ML) (little Japanese girl
paints)
What is pink? By Christina Rossetti J 811 Ros
“Country” series: Colors of Japan 952, Africa 932, Australia
(919.4);
Germany 943;
Videos to display for circulation:
Finn McCoul (30 minutes) CIRC-ML (Irish)
The Purple Coat by Amy Hest (CD) and VC Children’s Circ (ML) (30
minutes)
Puppets/characters:
Mouse Paint mice: one white, one yellow, one red, one blue
Flannelboard story:
The Crayon box that talked by Shane Derolf JPR EASY Derolf (cardboard
cut-out)
Magnetboard: Match colors to animals.
Red, orange, yellow, blue, green, black animals of different colors
Videos:
A Rainbow of my own (5 minutes) J PR VC (NE)
Umbrella Parade (8 minutes) J VC (ML)
Elmer Elephant (8 minutes) J PR VC (NE)
Filmstrips: about rain, rainbows, or St. Patrick’s day or Irish things
A Rainbow of my own JKT-324 (ML)
Rainy day Max JKT 1027 (NE)
St. Patrick’s Day JKT-745 (ML.NE)
St. Patrick’s Day 1049 (ML,NE,CB)
The Lavender Leprechaun JKT-299 (ML, CB)
Under the rainbow JKT-794 (NE)
Quigley meets Patrick Gilhoolie Muldoon JKT-1008 (ML,NE,CB)
Filmstrips about a color: (There are many more.)
Harold and the Purple Crayon JKT-154 (ML)
My red Umbrella JKT-618 (ML)
Fingerplay about colors:
(yellow, red, green, blue... attached)
Rainbow Song
(Sung to the tune of Hush, Little Baby)
Rainbow purple (Pointing to colors on the rainbow)
Rainbow blue
Rainbow green
And yellow too
Rainbow orange
Rainbow red
Rainbow shining overhead.
Come and count
The colors with me
How many colors
Can you see?
1-2-3 on down to green (Pointing and counting colors)
4-5-6 colors can be seen
Rainbow purple (Counting each color, to 6)
Rainbow blue
Rainbow green
And yellow too
Rainbow orange
Rainbow red
Rainbow shining overhead.
Rub Your Tummy: Rub your tummy, pat your head,
Point to something yellow, point to something red.
Paint like an artist, flap like a bird.
Quiet as a mouse, now, don't say a word!
CRAYONS (Actions)
Five little crayons (wiggle fingers)
Happy as can be
Draw a little picture (draw square with finger)
Do you want to see?
Red drew a house (outline house)
As cozy as can be
With flowers made by purple (planting motion)
Planted underneath a tree.
The tree was made by green (arm up, wiggle fingers)
Yellow drew the sun (make circle)
Blue colored the sky (arc arm)
Isn't drawing fun?
I See Something Green
I see something green, do you?
Raise your hand if you see it too.
I see something red as a rose.
If you see it wiggle your nose.
I see something yellow, do you?
Stand up straight if you see it too.
I see something blue around.
If you see it, then sit down.
Color Surprises
(Do actions as rhyme indicates.)
I took a blob of red paint,
Then I took a blob of yellow.
I squished and swished them all around
As far as they would go.
My red and yellow began to change,
And much to my surprise,
I saw those colors turn to orange,
Right before my eyes!
I took a blob of red paint,
Then I took a blob of blue
I squished and swished them all around
Like I was told to.
My red and blue began to change,
And much to my surprise,
I saw those colors turn to purple,
Right before my eyes!
I took a blob of blue paint,
Then I took a blob of yellow.
I squished and swished them all around
As far as they would go.
My blue and yellow began to change,
And much to my surprise,
I saw those colors turn to green,
Right before my eyes!
Fingerplays about Rain:
Itsy Bitsy Spider... “and when he got to the VERY top of
the
waterspout, he saw a BEAUTIFUL rainbow!”
Eentsy Weentsy Spider, p. 25 The Eentsy Weentsy Spider Finger Plays and
Action rhymes J 793.4 Col
Rain
Pitter-pat, pitter-pat, (Wiggle wingers to represent
rain falling.)
The rain goes on for hours.
And though it keeps me in the house,
It’s very good for flowers. (Open hands as though they are flowers
blooming)
(Rain: p. 14,The Eentsy Weentsy Spider Finger Plays and Action rhymes J
793.4 Col)
Songs about colors:
“Mary wore her red dress”(1:26) and “Little white
duck” and “Brown girl
in the ring”on Raffi’s Everything grows CD
“Put a little color on you” on Can a Cherry Pie Wave Goodbye
CD
by Hap
Palmer J CD Education (ML,CB,NE) (PR NE)
“Jenny Jenkins” (couldn’t find)
“Cluck Cluck Red Hen” on Raffi’s The Singable
Songs
Collection CD Disc
#3
“Favorite Color Song”on Kurt Gallagher’s Call me
Mr. Kurt
CD, Track 1,
(PR NE)
“It ain’t gonna rain no more” on Silly Songs CD
(PR NE)
“St. Patrick’s day is Here” Track#28 on Holiday
Piggyback
Songs CD (PR
NE)
Songs about rain:
It's raining, it's pouring
It's raining, it's pouring;
The old man is snoring.
Bumped his head
And he went to bed
And he couldn't get up in the morning.
Rain, rain, go away;
Come again another day;
Little Johnny wants to play.
Rain on the green grass
Rain on the green grass;
Rain on the tree;
Rain on the housetop,
But not on me!
Poems:
Out of the blue: poems about color J 821Oram
Activity: prism glasses
Activity: Add food coloring to a (3: red, blue, yellow)) clear glass of
water. Let them watch you mix colors.
Activity: Crepe Paper Rainbow
Use 6 strips of crepe paper (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet)
to make a rainbow. Have 12 kids hold the strips for you.. (Cut each
strip longer than the one before so they have room to stand.) OR Have a
child hold one end, and you hold the other ends.
Coloring Sheet/Craft:
Leprechaun
“Happy St. Patrick’s Rainbow Coloring page” from
Jan
Brett’s website
Craft: Rainbow colored on paper plate: make a rainbow or a rainbow hat.
Craft: Color collage
Activity:
Squirt some red, yellow and blue paint in a Ziploc bag for them to take
home. “Fingerpaint.” Mix colors.
Take home craft or souvenir:
“a piece of a rainbow” Cut laser paper ribbon or giftwrap
into
pieces
for them to take home.
Tell them it’s a pretend piece of a rainbow they can keep with them.
Ideas from WEB:
Mixing Colors...
In a zip-lock bag I put about a tennis ball size squirt of
shaving cream, a squirt of red paint and a squirt of blue paint. The
children mix it with their fingers until purple magically appears, then
open a small area on the end so they can squeeze it out and they finger
paint with it on a piece of thick white paper or construction paper.
Pasta Necklaces...
One activity we did for blue was to make necklaces out of dyed
wagon wheel pasta (blue food
coloring and rubbing alcohol mixed with the pasta - mix in large Ziploc
bag and allow to dry on a
garbage bag overnight). The children used tipped yarn and threaded on
the blue wagon wheels (they are a perfect size for the yarn). They
looked great. I also use dyed pasta for patterning activities.
Eat Your Art?...
I use white frosting and color it blue, red and yellow.
We use this like
finger paint- but a graham cracker is our paper. I use the
large one that can be
cut into four parts. Tell the students that their finger is
the brush.
(Wash
hand first) Each student has a spoon size amount of each
frosting on a paper
plate. Tell them to take some red and spread it on on section
of the cracker.
They are to clean their paint brush off by licking off the
frosting. Kids
love this part. When finger is clean tell them to spread
yellow on top of the
red. Mix --What has happened? In other sections mix to make
green, purple
and brown/gray. We mix all three colors together just to see
what we get.
Then students can eat their work.
Mary Gonzalez <marycgon@lmxac.org>
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MaryEllen Byrne
Library Assistant, Children's Services
Poughkeepsie Public Library District
Arlington Branch
Poughkeepsie, NY
Arlington Branch Library
Poughkeepsie Public Library District
Poughkeepsie, NY
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From: Deborah_Dubois@freenet.richland.oh.us
(Deborah Dubois)
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: ESL Collection
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 19:56:09 CST
Erin,
The newest BookLinks magazine (Feb/Mar 2002) has an article on ESL books
with
a section giving advice on building a collection.
I just read it today.
Deborah L. Dubois
Children's Outreach Librarian
Mansfield/Richland County Public Library
deborah_dubois@freenet.richland.oh.us
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From: Jean Nichols <jean@clarksville.org>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org, Christine
Hill <chill@willingboro.org>
Subject: Re: Stumper/Mama Provi and the pot of rice.
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Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 19:56:26 CST
Dear Christine,
This is the answer to your question about the different floors and
food...
Wonderful book, make an apartment building with windows that open
(similiar to an Advent calendar) put the food in the windows... up you
go on the stairs....
Have fun,
Jean Nichols
Rosa-Casanova, Sylvia.
Mama Provi and the pot of rice / by Sylvia
Rosa-Casanova ;
illustrated by Robert Roth. New York, N.Y. Atheneum Books for Young
Readers, c1997.
Christine Hill wrote:
> Picture book about a little girl who takes something to eat
> (possibly chicken soup) to her grandmother's apartment building.
> On each floor a different neighbor asks her to trade some of it
> for a dish from the neighbor's culture. When she arrives at
> grandmother's she has a multi ethnic feast.
> Christine M. Hill
> Willingboro Public Library
> One Salem Road
> Willingboro NJ 08046
> chill@willingboro.org
> My new book! Ten Hispanic American Authors, Enslow, 2002
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From: Jocelyn Shaw <redfernshaw@yahoo.com>
To: Pubyac <PUBYAC@prairienet.org>
Subject: Checkers Tournament
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Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 19:56:33 CST
Hi all,
We are thinking of running a checkers tournament during Summer
Reading. Has anyone else done this? Any hints, ideas,
warnings?
I did a quick check of google this morning on checker
tournaments and only came up with sites that let you play
checkers or tell about tournaments that are happening. I found
the rules to checkers at about.com, but no tournament rules.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Jocelyn
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Jocelyn Shaw, MLIS
Librarian, Web Mistress
Hackley Public Library
316 W Webster Ave
Muskegon MI 49441
231-722-7276 x 272
http://hackleylibrary.org (new
address!)
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From: "Barbara Scott" <barbarascott@hotmail.com>
To: PUBYAC@prairienet.org
Subject: Captain Underpants craft ideas?
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Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 19:56:39 CST
Hey, Pubyaccers!
We are hosting a Captain Underpants party on March 23. What I need are
some
craft ideas that I can use for 4-5 tables that the kids can mosey around to.
Anyone got any brilliant suggestions? My brain is fried after coming up
with the scavenger hunt and trivia quiz!
Contact me directly at barbarascott@hotmail.com
Thanks!
Barb Scott, Children's Librarian
Bucyrus Public Library
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