by Leah Langby | Jul 15, 2020 | Keeping Up With Kids
Homeschooling looks lots of different ways. Here’s a homeschooler who built a cob oven (out of clay and sand–a multi-day project), built a fire inside it, and is approaching it with swim goggles for protection from smoke in the eyes. Next...
by Leah Langby | Jul 10, 2020 | Keeping Up With Kids
Many of you hopefully remember Jessica Bratt, who presented a great webinar for the Wild Wisconsin Winter Web Conference in 2019 titled Let’s Talk About Race, about how to successfully talk about race in a positive way in storytime with very young children and...
by Leah Langby | Jul 6, 2020 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Valerie from Ladysmith for sharing this wonderful guest blog post about creating a StoryWalk® for Ladysmith. I had the idea a couple of years ago when I first saw a library with a StoryWalk®. They were using lawn signs, which are great, but I wanted...
by Leah Langby | Jun 25, 2020 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Maureen for passing information about this worthwhile and interesting learning opportunity! If your summer is less busy than you planned, maybe this Institute would be worth looking into! 24th Annual Wisconsin American Indian Studies Summer Institute Dates:...
by Leah Langby | Jun 23, 2020 | Keeping Up With Kids
Oh, my, I do love book award celebrations! Hearing from authors and illustrators and narrators I admire never ceases to excite me. So this year, the fact that the ALA Book Awards are going virtual so that anyone will be able to take advantage of them (FOR FREE!) is...
by Leah Langby | Jun 22, 2020 | Keeping Up With Kids
It is ALWAYS time to be thinking about how to make our environments and our services accessible and welcoming to kids and teens who have disabilities. This is something I find that I can always use a reminder of, even though I’ve been trying to think about it...
by Leah Langby | Jun 18, 2020 | Keeping Up With Kids
Summer is a great time for recommending books. And also a time when you might not have as much time as you’d like to collate your own lists! SO–here is a compilation of lists and list resources that may be of use/interest for you: We Are Kidlit...
by Leah Langby | Jun 17, 2020 | Keeping Up With Kids
This is a topic that has been around the block a few times! Most of you already know about the excellent and complete resource created and maintained by School Library Journal about publisher permissions during the time of COVID 19–many of those publishers have...
by Leah Langby | Jun 11, 2020 | Keeping Up With Kids
I have had a lot of questions recently from people who are noticing that their storytimes mainly feature white creators and are looking for ideas and resources and booklists to help them feature more diverse authors and musicians. Here are some resources that might...
by Leah Langby | Jun 4, 2020 | Keeping Up With Kids
After yesterday’s blog post, which took 2 hours and a lot of contortions to write (and probably a few contortions to read!), I’m going to make this short and sweet. Just a few quick excellent youth services archives to share with you: If you haven’t...
by Leah Langby | Jun 3, 2020 | Keeping Up With Kids
We were all horrified to learn about the recent murder of George Floyd at the hands of police officers in Minneapolis last week, and along with a long list of other recent racist incidents and the disproportionate affect of COVID 19 on African American communities,...
by Leah Langby | May 15, 2020 | Keeping Up With Kids
It’s still a pandemic. It’s ALSO Friday. And sunny. I hope you will find these few reminders about great resources a good Friday diversion. Hopefully you have also heard the calming voice of Tessa Michaelson Schmidt on this week’s FAQ Friday...
