Sunday, February 9, 2025

This week at the library

Little zebra at storytime
Programs
  • Paws to Read
  • Family Storytime
  • Youth D&D
  • Family Storytime
  • Teen engagement
Outreach
  • After school outreach
  • 4K/daycare outreach
  • 1st grade outreach
  • OPtions outreach (family night)
Self-Directed Activities
  • Pokemon Hangout
Meetings, Hosted events, etc.
  • Girl Scouts
  • Library system meeting
  • Book vendor meeting
  • Homeschool group
  • January new book spotlight
  • Early literacy activity calendars
  • STEAM activity calendars
Notes
  • Super adorable guinea pig at Paws to Read - she was adopted a few days later! We are working on some new closing procedures. I don't think anyone else has the problem that I and my closing partner do - we forget to watch the time because we're absorbed in our work and have a tendency to, um, close a little late.
  • The after school outreach currently is using our marble runs and I took outreach books there earlier (or rather my staff did) so I only took the stuff I was doing that day. I read them There are no ants in this book which they were very interested in and Don't think of tigers. I brought hula hoops and the more, um, energetic kids made it almost half an hour before they got banned from playing with them lol. I also took suction cups, beading string, and beads and the kids were very fascinated by this craft.
  • I had absolutely no plan for D&D besides a pack of mini resin mushrooms. I warned the kids ahead of time, and I was glad I had the mushrooms to bribe them, otherwise it would have been maybe not the worst, but definitely pretty blah of the games I've (unwillingly) run.
  • I ended Thursday early with a set of class visits and then a dentist visit. This year's 1st graders are amazing chill! They sat still for There are no ants in this book, Be Quiet! by Ryan Higgins, The Rattlin' Bog (and an explanation of what a bog is), My Awesome summer by P. Mantis, and Squash the Cat. This carefully curated selection was what I grabbed off the random piles on my desk.

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