by Leah Langby | Sep 12, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
Sorry for the absence of blog posts, I’ve been out of the office more than in for the past few weeks, taking part in some terrific opportunities (the Youth Services Institute, Prepare Training to learn how to defuse challenging situations, and dropping my...
by Leah Langby | Aug 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
Even though it is on a commercial site, this is a great explanation of the way kids learn to understand numbers (being able to count to 10 does not mean that children understand the concept behind the numbers). It gives some simple suggestions of activities to...
by Leah Langby | Aug 22, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
The booklists and other resources have been released for 2017-2018 Read On Wisconsin books. If you don’t already know about it, Read On Wisconsin provides book discussion resources and carefully selected books for several age groups each month. If...
by Leah Langby | Aug 17, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
Teens’ Top Ten, sponsored by the Young Adult Library Services Association, allows teens from across the country to vote for their top three favorite recent books from a list created by other teens. This is a great way to encourage teens in your area to...
by Leah Langby | Aug 16, 2017 | Uncategorized
We have to keep talking, providing resources, shining a light where it is needed, and helping kids, teens, and families cope with some of the tough things in our world. The recent events in Charlottesville and the increasing rise of white supremacy and other...
by Leah Langby | Aug 9, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
If you get two creative people together who are interested in thinking outside the box about ways to meet community needs, you just never know where you’ll end up. Patti Becker and Sue Queiser at Barron have been looking at the way the community uses the...
by Leah Langby | Aug 2, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
I heard from a reliable source (my own teen) that the interactive teen displays in Menomonie are the bomb. Abby Seymour, the teen librarian, shared some of her recent displays:The first display takes the intriguing first line of a YA book was on the front, with...
by Leah Langby | Jul 28, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
Read Aloud 15 Minutes is devoted to encouraging parents and caregivers to read at least 15 minutes a day with children. They have some fun infographics, posters, and other resources that are free to download, and in addition, they are sponsoring a challenge in...
by Leah Langby | Jul 19, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
Many thanks to Kathy Larson from Bloomer for this terrific guest post!I’ve gone to many workshops over the past few years where I’ve heard librarians say, “Setting up a coding club is so easy” but they can’t really explain how they started it. I thought there was some...
by Leah Langby | Jul 5, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
One of the programs I attended at ALA this year was called Strong Girls School. Nancy Evans, from the public library in Levittown, New York discussed a program that she developed after teen girls in a library writing group clamored for it. As a writing...
by Leah Langby | Jul 3, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
I know I have posted about National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Gene Luen Yang’s Reading Without Walls Challenge before. But I just heard Gene Yang at ALA, and he inspired me to remind you. He told a great story about his next...
by Leah Langby | Jun 21, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
A couple weekends ago, I discovered a new favorite band (The Resonant Rogues–check them out!). As I sat in the concert, I was missing a beloved, departed family member and wishing I could share the music with her, so I wasn’t surprised to spring a...
