Yesterday and Today
I've been having fun in the children's section, even though reading the picture books depresses me for some reason. Yesterday I played Alex Trebek to a roomful of kids, and they got a real kick out of it. Plus there were oreos.
Most of what I've been doing in Children's is related to the different programs coming up. My very first night I helped Jess, the second Children's librarian, with her signature program, Kids' Test Kitchen (we explored pizza), and since then I've been working with Judy, the head Children's librarian, on setting up her book group program. She wanted to do a Jeopardy-style game for the kids, with answers based on the book they all read (Gooseberry Park by Cynthia Rylant, which is a pretty cute book, even if the bat character totally steals the whole thing), so we brainstormed and came up with questions and point values. I did most of the work, including chopping up the question and point cards she printed out and then glued them together (so we could flip them over. I also came up with the idea of using magnets to hold up the cards so the board actually looked like a Jeopardy board) and laminated them. I was also the official judge, in charge of saying which team rang in first (we had 11 kids total, split into two teams) and whether their questions were close enough to our official ones. Judy later lauded me for coming up with the five second conferring rule, since Team B kept ringing in and then conferring with each other for the answer. But yeah, it was a lot of fun ^_^ And a lot of the kids seemed excited about the origami program I'm going to run in May (you have to get the word out early, apparently), so that'll be good, hopefully. I made a bunch of origami things to go along with the announcement, and I let the kids take them home.
I met with Dr. Miller today, and I'm no longer anemic! ^_^ I was also in and out in under fifteen minutes, including filling out my patient info yet again -_-
I wasn't looking forward to tonight's class, but it was okay. Of course, part of that was because I got the latest XXXholic and was covertly reading during the less relevent parts. But most of the class was relevent. Except for when we had to go over the competencies for LTAs and figure out how to actually measure them. I'm still not sure why we had to do that, other than she wanted us to do her work for her (that's what it sounded like to me, anyway). But it was interesting, so that's at least something.
Most of what I've been doing in Children's is related to the different programs coming up. My very first night I helped Jess, the second Children's librarian, with her signature program, Kids' Test Kitchen (we explored pizza), and since then I've been working with Judy, the head Children's librarian, on setting up her book group program. She wanted to do a Jeopardy-style game for the kids, with answers based on the book they all read (Gooseberry Park by Cynthia Rylant, which is a pretty cute book, even if the bat character totally steals the whole thing), so we brainstormed and came up with questions and point values. I did most of the work, including chopping up the question and point cards she printed out and then glued them together (so we could flip them over. I also came up with the idea of using magnets to hold up the cards so the board actually looked like a Jeopardy board) and laminated them. I was also the official judge, in charge of saying which team rang in first (we had 11 kids total, split into two teams) and whether their questions were close enough to our official ones. Judy later lauded me for coming up with the five second conferring rule, since Team B kept ringing in and then conferring with each other for the answer. But yeah, it was a lot of fun ^_^ And a lot of the kids seemed excited about the origami program I'm going to run in May (you have to get the word out early, apparently), so that'll be good, hopefully. I made a bunch of origami things to go along with the announcement, and I let the kids take them home.
I met with Dr. Miller today, and I'm no longer anemic! ^_^ I was also in and out in under fifteen minutes, including filling out my patient info yet again -_-
I wasn't looking forward to tonight's class, but it was okay. Of course, part of that was because I got the latest XXXholic and was covertly reading during the less relevent parts. But most of the class was relevent. Except for when we had to go over the competencies for LTAs and figure out how to actually measure them. I'm still not sure why we had to do that, other than she wanted us to do her work for her (that's what it sounded like to me, anyway). But it was interesting, so that's at least something.