by Leah Langby | Dec 15, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Jill Patchin at the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library in Eau Claire for this information/blog post:Strawbees in action (from Strawbee’s kickstarter page)We recently purchased a new die for our machine to make Strawbees, which will allow us to...
by Leah Langby | Dec 11, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
Dino Tongue by Joe Utsler, flickr, Creative Commons Who isn’t interested in dinosaurs??I came across this amazing live-action game designed FOR KIDS at a LIBRARY and it is way too cool not to share. Scott Nicholson, a professor in the ISchool at the...
by Leah Langby | Dec 10, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
Team-building with homeschoolersThanks to Kathy Larson from Bloomer for supplying this guest post:Fall Creek and several other libraries in library land have been offering programs for Homeschool students and it inspired me to think about creating my own. In the...
by Leah Langby | Dec 8, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Julie Belz from Ellsworth for this guest post!After reading about a library in Colby, Wisconsin creating book bunches on the Growing WI Readers blog, we decided that it would be worth a try here in Ellsworth.Book bunches displayThey are flying off the...
by Leah Langby | Dec 5, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Valerie Spooner from Ladysmith/Rusk County for this guest post:I’ve been trying to keep a make and take activity available, but last month I added a craft activity that I kept as a bulletin board. I had the bulletin board set up to look like...
by Leah Langby | Dec 4, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Emily Eckstrand-Brummer, currently of Stanley and soon-to-be from Hibbing, MN for this guest book review!Beautiful Darkness coverBeautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann and KerascoëtI just HAD to share this awesome young adult graphic novel with my fellow...
