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Music, Movement and Stories
A new highly interactive early literacy storytime featuring instrument exploration, songs, fingerplays, dance and books for ages 3 and up. Chandra and Sheila playing the drums.photo by Paige...
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A successful author event!
Roland Smith 2015photo by Paige Bentley-Flannery Last week, the Deschutes Public Library hosted author Roland Smith. He visited middle schools throughout Central Oregon and I loved spending the day...
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Poetry Paige
Have fun this month by reading poems aloud, over and over! Let’s yell out some words together to get ready for poetry month. I’ll say the words first and then you repeat after me, ready? Me: POETRY!...
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Super Animals!
Look! In the library! Is it a librarian? Is it a book? Faster than a reading turtle! Able to carry books taller than a giraffe’s neck! Wilder than a monkey checking out library materials! It’s SUPER...
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Crayons, paper, pencils…
Super Turtle (photo by Paige Bentley-Flannery) Capes are flying in the air at the Deschutes Public Library! Crayons, paper, pencils are scattered around the room, children are sitting on the floor...
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School Poems
Goodbye Summer Reading! Hello School Time! My cape is tucked away and our library super hero readers are almost off to school! Laura Purdie Salas’s poem captures the summer reading theme of “Every...
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Create a Kids Art Program with Inspiration from Museum Websites
Are you planning a family painting day, an art scandal mystery event or turning your children’s room into an ancient Egyptian maze? Finding new ways for creative kid programs are just clicks away at...
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Name that Person!
photo by Paige Bentley-Flannery A Pilot! A Voice! An Artist! An Explorer! Turn your library school visits into a game show or host a “Name that Person” event at your school library during lunch time....
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Surrounded by Art
photo by Paige Bentley-Flannery Pablo Picasso was prolific – creating art for over 75 years. Imagine his divergent styles in painting to sculpture. While teachers, parents or librarians might focus on...
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Get ready to celebrate wonderful women
photo by Paige Bentley-Flannery Do you know which president got the ball rolling for National Women’s History Month? It was Jimmy Carter who did (although it started as only one week) by saying that...
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Caldecott Library Programs with Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s...
photo by Paige Bentley-Flannery Did you offer a Caldecott art program at your library? As soon as the winner was announced, I started thinking about outreach art programs. Yellow paper! Bears! Zoo...
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Poetry Paige’s Pocket
photo by Paige Bentley-Flannery Do you share poems at your story time? Have you danced to a poem? Pretended you were a fish writing a poem in the ocean? Or maybe you crunched and munched along with a...
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Poetry Timeline: Slither, Run, Crunch, Flap, Slurp, Aaaaa, Hooray!
Poetry School Visit photo by Paige Bentley-Flannery Do you have poems swirling in your head? Do you have one poem memorized that you share every day with someone new in the library? Do you dress up...
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School and Public Library Collaborations
photo by Paige Bentley-Flannery As I participated in Kindergarten Round Up at Sisters Elementary School last week and recognized 90 percent of the families in the audience, I was reminded of the...
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Creative Play at the Library
Stuffed Animal Sleepover Puppet Show – photo by Paige Bentley-Flannery We encourage creative play every day at the library. In the heat of the summer, children are participating in summer reading...
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Map it! Write it! Yell it!
Pencils in a Jar photo by Paige Bentley-Flannery I’m ready for school! Singing the song, “Going back to Cali” by LL Cool J but I changed the words …”going back to school, to school, to school” and “I’m...
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Have you explored the amazing selection of famous women biographies in the past few years? Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo, Rad American Women A-Z: Rebels,...
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Tween Poetry Writing Camp
Poetry Books photo by Paige Bentley-Flannery Today is the first day of National Poetry Month! Whether you’ve been sharing poems all year at story time, interactive poetry at schools or introducing new...
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Animal Poetry Game
Are you ready? It’s time….to play….Name that Animal! (Game show voice) Hold your poetry book up high and share the cover – title, author and illustrator with your audience. Ask for two volunteers. Use...
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Young People’s Poet Laureate
Margarita Engle is the new Young People’s Poet Laureate! But what is the Young People’s Poet Laureate? How can you get the word out to librarians, teachers and children of all ages? I spoke with...
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