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Today's Topics:
1. websites for 4-yr-olds? (karen maletz)
2. sign for honor book rack (Housten, Frances)
3. stumper (Theresa Schroeder)
4. Louise Rennison (Ed Goldberg)
5. PUBYAC back to normal (?) (Pyowner)
6. Basal Reader Stumper (Domenica Simpson)
7. Paolini visit (Casabonita@aol.com)
8. ideas reqested (Jilljay123@aol.com)
9. 4 year-old website recommends from the 4 year old (Terrill)
10. Re: Frog Story Time (Stephanie Stokes)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 07:12:32 -0800 (PST)
From: karen maletz <kmlib@yahoo.com>
Subject: [PY] websites for 4-yr-olds?
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
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I recently had a patron who asked what websites would
be good for her four-year-old to explore. Any ideas?
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 10:18:02 -0500
From: "Housten, Frances" <F-Housten@CranfordNJ.org>
Subject: [PY] sign for honor book rack
To: "'pubyac@lists.prairienet.org'"
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Our library is adjacent to the local Community Center. We are putting a
bookrack in the Center's Teen Room with paperbacks, to be borrowed on an
honor system; no checkouts.
I need to post a simple explanatory sign and am unsure of verbiage; does
anyone have a thought?
Thanks much!
Fran Housten
Reference/YA Librarian
Cranford Public LIbrary
224 Walnut Avenue
Cranford, NJ 07016
908-709-7272
908-709-1658 (fax)
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 09:22:47 -0600
From: "Theresa Schroeder" <Theresa.Schroeder@anoka.lib.mn.us>
Subject: [PY] stumper
To: <pubyac@lists.prairienet.org>
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I am sending this for a coworker. Any ideas?
My sister is doing a music program with 1st and 2nd graders
about Mother Goose and she needs jokes. She wants jokes for
This Old Man, London Bridges, Jack be Nimble-Jumping Jones and
Old Mother Hubbard.
Theresa Schroeder
Anoka County Library
(763) 785-3695
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 08:51:42 -0800 (PST)
From: Ed Goldberg <longislandlibrarian@yahoo.com>
Subject: [PY] Louise Rennison
To: YALSA-BK <yalsa-bk@ala.org>,
PUBYAC <PUBYAC@prairienet.org>
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Hi all,
There is a Louise Rennison book called "It's OK, I'm Wearing Really Big
Knickers" which doesn't appear to be available in the US. I think the
US equivalent title is "On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex
God."
The problem is that the US publisher, Harper Collins, does not have the
worldwide rights to these books, so I'm trying by writing to the UK publisher,
but who knows if I'll get an answer.
I know I'll get an answer from you all. So, if there is anyone out there
that can confirm my supposition or can tell me how to confirm it, I'd appreciate
it.
Ed
Ed Goldberg
Syosset Public Library
longislandlibrarian@yahoo.com
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:21:55 -0700
From: "Pyowner" <pyowner@pallasinc.com>
Subject: [PY] PUBYAC back to normal (?)
To: <pubyac@lists.prairienet.org>
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Dear PUBYACkers,
I believe the New PUBYAC is finally working. (I'm a little tentative here
b/c I almost expect the ceiling to fall again.) I've got test people out
there with Hotmail accounts, Yahoo accounts, AOL accounts, dot com accounts,
library system accounts, etc. etc. Reports are coming in from all over the
world that things are working again.
HOTMAIL and YAHOO users: Check your Junk Mail or Bulk Mail for recent posts.
We're finding that the individual messages that begin with [PY] are being
fed into those folders. In Hotmail, you'll need to open a PUBYAC message and
follow the instructions to mark it as "Not Junk."
For those of you who are interested in the "why" of PUBYAC's recent
problems: it seems that there was a chokehold on the number of messages
MailMan would send to a single domain name. Very few were getting through.
In fact, many messages weren't leaving the Prairienet system at all--they
had an error log that had 100,000 lines in it. The original guinea pig group
did not run into this problem because everyone had a different domain. Many
thanks to those guinea pigs: Anne Friederichs, Samantha Maskell, Melanie
from Buckingham Library, Marykay Dahlgreen, Dorothy Williams, Liz Heideman,
Sean George, Laura Smith, Patricia Hull, Sheilah O'Connor, Suzanne Hall,
Patricia Vasilik, William Fong, and Andrea Gordon. Thank you also to the 2nd
batch of guinea pigs, of which there were 71 people. You never had the
chance to try the Test-Pubyac, b/c we got PUBYAC working, and that (as
Martha says) is a Good Thing. Thanks also to Karen Fletcher of Prairienet,
who spent countless hours on our behalf, rattling the cages of her systems
people, responding to my e-mails, and rooting around in the depths of
Mailman, so that PUBYAC would work again.
I have set the system so that everyone's bounce score should return to zero
in about 48 hours. Then I will reset it to count bounces for seven days
before your subscription is disabled.
I think I will probably sleep dreamlessly tonight.
Shannon VanHemert
PUBYAC Moderator
pyowner@pallasinc.com
Website: www.pallasinc.com/pubyac
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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 16:45:51 -0500
From: Domenica Simpson <dsimpson@epfl.net>
Subject: [PY] Basal Reader Stumper
To: pubyac@lists.prairienet.org
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Hi everyone, I'm sending out a stumper for a co-worker! Thanks, Domenica
Hi out there fun seekers!
I'm searching for a basal reader for a patron that includes a story about
2 children (possibly named Paul and Jane). These little tykes go to visit
their grandfather who is a doctor and lives on a farm.Probably this basal
reader story was written in the 1940s or 1950s. If you have any clues
please email me at: gvaness@epfl.net
Any and all answers or suggestions will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
Garrett
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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 21:19:43 EST
From: Casabonita@aol.com
Subject: [PY] Paolini visit
To: pubyac@lists.prairienet.org
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Hello ~
Chris Paolini, teenage author of 'Eragon' was in Oklahoma City today, so I
took my kids to go see him. He was fabulous. He was doing a book
signing at a
bookstore, and they had said that he might read a passage beforehand. He
told
us how he got started, gave a bit of an outline of the story, and then 'read'
(from memory!) a long passage from the book. He then told us a bit more
about the writing process, and 'read' another passage from the book. He
took
questions from just about everyone who had one. The audience, which
consisted of
many kids, mostly 10-15 year olds, I'd guess, was spellbound. If you have
the
chance to go see him, or get him to come to your school, I highly recommend
him. He's pretty amazing, very easy going and poised, and he's just barely
20,
if that! My kids were so excited that they actually got to meet him, and he
had a pleasant word for everyone as he was signing, even as he managed to keep
the line moving at a steady pace. He posed for as many pictures as the
audience wanted, and everyone had a great time. The Eragon Website is:
alagaesia.com
Vivian
Vivian Cisneros
MLIS student, University of North Texas
casabonita@aol.com
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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 21:33:04 EST
From: Jilljay123@aol.com
Subject: [PY] ideas reqested
To: pubyac@LISTS.prairienet.org
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I've just started a new job as an assistant children's librarian at a public
library in Colorado. I have 31 years background as an elementary teacher
and
middle school librarian in the public schools. The change is exciting. I
have
been asked to start a program, come this fall, for elementary school
children, probably mostly 3rd-5th grade age. We will meet once a month, on
a
Saturday, for about 11/2-2 hours. We'll probably have a new theme or
idea every
month. This site was given to me by several people at the Colorado libnet
list.
I've already found several great ideas! I'm also involved with the toddler
storytime, so I'm up for lots of new experiences! Any help or ideas would
be
greatly appreciated! (I'm not quite set up with my library e-mail, so I'm
using my personal e-mail for the time being.) Thanks for your help and a
great
service!
Jill Johnson
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Message: 9
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 19:16:52 -0800
From: Terrill <trumpeter2@shaw.ca>
Subject: [PY] 4 year-old website recommends from the 4 year old
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
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Karen et al
My 4 year old grandaughter finds the following websites engaging, and she
manages them quite well herself. I know they will seem quite commercial to you
folks, but she has fun on them. She likes some quiet time during the day without
her little sister and where she is able to do things her way.
Nick Jr has a large variety of things to do. Games, stories that she can listen
to, favourite characters ... and there are parent ideas and info too.
http://www.nickjr.com/
PBS kids ... more favourites, games, activities, colouring
http://pbskids.org/
This one is done with an older person, but its great for discussion and opening
up the wild kingdom. It has sound and movie clips of animals and birds and
information too. We do this together, have some great discussion and saw the
pandas play, even!
http://www.junglewalk.com/frames.asp
She is going through a 'My Little Pony' stage right now, and has fun on this
site
http://www.hasbro.com/mylittlepony/pl/page.da/dn/default.cfm
And last but not least in her books, don't faint, she likes to go to the Barbie
site. There are games, clips from movies, songs and there are the Kelly and
Polly Pocket sites that link from it. What can I say!
http://barbie.everythinggirl.com/
My two bits-du jour!
Terrill Scott
Fraser Valley Regional Library
British Columbia Canada
www.fvrl.bc.ca
"Let us read and let us dance, two amusements that will never do any harm
to the world." - Voltaire
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Message: 10
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 00:05:03 -0800
From: Stephanie Stokes <stephanie@ssdesign.com>
Subject: [PY] Re: Frog Story Time
To: pubyac@lists.prairienet.org,
librarybee@hotmail.com
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At 10:55 AM 3/10/04 -0700, you wrote:
>Subject: Frog Story Time
>Hi all - do any of you have ideas for a Frog story time? I have some
>ideas but can always use more thanks. -- Adrienne
I checked my idea files and can share a few goodies...
Frog Theme Activities & Songs
http://www.fastq.com/%7Ejbpratt/education/theme/reptileamphibian.html#Frog
Frog Crossword, jokes and more!
http://www.ipcc.ie/frogcrossword.html
Frog Storytime Ideas from The Association of Children's Librarians of
Northern California Web Site
http://www.bayviews.org/storytime/stfrog.html
Frog Unit Page [PDF]
http://unite.ukans.edu/explorer/explorer-db/rsrc/890848566-81EDF7A2.1.pdf
Frog Prince (pattern)
Color the frog and crown and cut out. Glue the crown to the frog's head.
Fold the frog along the dotted lines.
http://www.angelfire.com/wi/NancysHouseFCC/Frog.jpg
PUPPET SKIT for Big Blue Frog:
Music, "I'm in Love with a Big Blue Frog"
from More Silly Songs by Walt Disney Records (P) 1998.
http://www.district7.org/puppets/scripts/script-frog.htm
Muppet Style Pattern: Instructions and pattern for making a
basic mouth and rod puppet -- make it in green and you have
a wonderful frog or lots of frogs. Enlarge it even more
for a big blue frog!
Instructions: You will need to enlarge for adult hands
http://members.aol.com/BocasHouse/MG/BlueBoy.html
Pattern Page 1
http://members.aol.com/BocasHouse/MG/PaternA.GIF
Pattern Page 2
http://members.aol.com/BocasHouse/MG/PaternB.GIF
Pattern Page 3
http://members.aol.com/BocasHouse/MG/PaternC.GIF
Puppet Tools Printable puppet pattern: puppet construction using the Paper
Talker hinge.
http://www.puppetools.com/v3/library/puppets/template-detail.cfm?puppet_id=435&category_id=5#
Frog paper plate puppet
http://familyfun.go.com/crafts/season/feature/famf87project/famf87project07.html
Stephanie Stokes
"Library Media & PR"
http://www.ssdesign.com/librarypr/
[NEW for 2004]
The California Summer Reading Program Collaborative
http://www.casummerreading.org/
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