[OPLINLIST] 2008 summer reading manual call for ideas

[Laura Lee Wilson]

ATTENTION CHILDREN'S LIBRARIANS AND CHILDREN'S PROGRAMMING STAFF:

Do you have a great program idea for the 2008 Collaborative Summer
Library Program manual?  The theme is "Catch the Reading Bug".  The
deadline for submissions is December 8, 2006.  Submit by either email or
snail mail (addresses below); program submissions by email should be a
WORD or PUBLISHER attachment.   Please be thorough in your program and
activity descriptions.  Also, consider submitting ideas for decorating
the library, promoting the program, and school visits.  I look forward
to all your great ideas.  ~LLW

 

This is the chapter breakdown:

Chapters 1 & 2 Planning and Promoting


 


Ch 3            Backyard Safari-


                   Put on your straw pith helmet and grab your
collecting jar or net.

                   Possible programs/topics to cover:

Mosquitoes

Bug collecting, bugs as pets-also safari as in looking for bugs  

Bug identification "What's That Bug?"

Ponds and polliwogs, frogs, toads, water bugs, fly fishing

Underground: worms, composting, Dig It!

Keep a backyard Nature Journal: Tracking Bugs.

 

Ch 4            A Bug's Life-

                   Science-y chapter. Make life-cycles, etc. fun

                   Possible programs/topics to cover:

Metamorphosis, Insect and pond ecology, beneficial bugs, attracting
bugs, bug identification, state insects, insect camouflage, life cycles
of butterflies, ladybugs, etc.


 


Ch 5            Ants in My Pants and other creepy crawly critters 


                   Possible programs/topics to cover:

Ants, spiders, Picnic in the park, spider and other insect folklore
(Ananse, Arachne, scarab beetles), Spider Man, other crawling bugs

 

 

Ch 6            What's That Fluttering?

                   Possible programs/topics to cover:

Flying Bugs. Dragonflies, House Flies, Butterflies, Fireflies, Ladybugs,
etc. 

                   

Ch 7            The Good, The Bad and the (B)ugly

                   Possible programs/topics to cover:

Gross bugs, edible bugs, scary bugs, killer bugs, bugs under the
microscope, giant bugs, stink bugs, cockroaches. Also possibly what
entomologists do.  Also viruses as bugs? Crime stopping bugs?

Insect (Horror) Film Festival with bug-tasting before hand. Or YA

Crime fighting insects tie in with some of the insect detective books or
chapter in Donna M. Jackson's The Bug Scientists.

Bugs and Crime-Ace Lacewing, Bug Detective and others

 


Ch 8            Adult programs/Family Literacy Chapter


                   Possible ideas: 


                   Create a butterfly garden; go on a field trip (insect
hunting)

                   Catch the Reading Bug about__________

                   Night time

 

Laura Lee Wilson

lwilson at holmeslib.org

Head of Children's Services

Holmes County District Public Library 

3102 Glen Drive

Millersburg, Oh 44654

PH: 330-674-5972 ext. 211

FX: 330-674-1938

 

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