Intro:

If You’re Happy and You Know It (Flannel Board)

Book:

Freight Train by Donald Crews– Have the kids make train noises throughout the book to keep them interested.

Songs:

Firetruck song (to the tune of 1 little, 2 little, 3 little Indians) — Hurry, hurry, drive the firetruck (drive), hurry, hurry drive the firetruck, hurry, hurry drive the firetruck on a Sunday morning.

Other verses: Hurry, hurry turn the corner… (turn and shift to side) Hurry, hurry find the fire (search with hand over eyes)… Hurry, hurry climb the ladder (climb)… Hurry, hurry spray the water (pretend hose)… Hurry hurry back to the station (drive).

The Wheels on the Bus

Goodbye:

Ring around the Rosie

Books:

The Busy Little Squirrel by Nancy Tafuri

Old Bear by Kevin Henkes

Fall Leaves Fall by Zoe Hall

Plumply Dumply Pumpkin by Mary Serfozo

Songs:

The Leaves are Falling Down (to The Farmer in the Dell)

The Little Squirrel

Activity:

I got the idea for a pretend walk through the forest from Children & Libraries in an article called “Let’s Pretend.” We put on our coats and zipped them up, and everyone got a pair of binoculars (paper towel rolls stapled together with a piece of yarn at one end). We ran through the meadow, hopped around bushes, skipped on the path, balanced on a log over a stream, tiptoed around a sleeping porcupine, and twirled with the falling leaves (adapted from Wee Sing Let’s Pretend). Then we looked at pictures of animals (labeled with their names) that were posted on the wall through the binoculars. After the walk the children decorated their binoculars with stickers.

Assessment:

Next time I might lead the children through each picture so they can talk to me and each other about the animals. Also, the stickers didn’t stick well to the paper towel rolls.

more graph humor and song chart memes

Found this on Librarian Avengers. Tee hee.

Created by Mingle2.com (Dating for non-zombies)

One of my favorites blogs is LISNews. They blog about all things librarian. If you hear of a library-related story, you can suggest they blog about it by filling out a quick form. The most recent post up there now is about how the comic strip “Unshelved” is sponsoring “Pimp My Bookcart.” If that’s not some awesome librarian news, I don’t know what is.

This blog was born during the Spring of 2008 as part of my Internet Fundamentals and Design class. I chose this template because it has a clean look and I like the black, white and green colors. I also like that you can change the photo at the top. I picked a fuzzy ball with googly eyes partly because googly sounds like Google, and that made me chuckle. Library humor. What can I say?

I enjoy writing on my blog, but its way too easy to forget that others are also reading it. Once, I created a post complaining about a fee for LibraryThing. I was very surprised when someone from LibraryThing commented on my post. I felt pretty silly about that one.

I just got invited to start using Twine, a new Web 2.0 tool that allows users to store and organize all sorts of documents, web sites, and emails. You can send things to Twine by using a bookmarklet, like with del.icio.us, or by emailing them directly to the program. I’m still trying to figure it out (like, why can’t I make a twine called blogging just because there’s already one out there?), but once I do, I’ll let you know how it works and if I like it.

Yay new tools!

I learned how to search for patents in my “Searching Online Databases” class last night, and this is by far my favorite invention ever.

No more dusty dogs for me!

I created a Teen Gaming Web site using HTML for my LIS753 class. The site includes a homepage with general information, a Gaming in the Library page, a Links to Online Games page, and a permission form (PDF).

I started off with a very simple page, and as the hours passed during lab time, I stole ideas from my friends and neighbors. My original idea was to put my links on the left side of the page, but when I started coding I wasn’t sure how to format a table within a table properly so I just put the links at the top. As I learned more about how tables work, I could have moved the links to the sidebar, but I decided I liked the look so I stuck with it. I think I ended up with something that looks sort of OK!

Some of the more interesting elements I used are a header from FlamingText (which includes what I consider to be a lovely shade of neon green), lots and lots of tables, and 35 breaks at the end of the page so that my anchors would actually take users someplace useful.

The number one thing this project has taught me is that I’m even more obsessive than I thought — once I start coding, it is possible, and in fact likely, that I will spend several hours hunched over the computer trying to figure out how to put my text in just the right place. Hmm, why can’t I feel my wrists? But the number two thing this project has taught me is knowing HTML code is like knowing a different language. Once you learn it, you can open other sites and understand how and why they work, and even speak the language to edit content when its necessary. Fun and useful!

-Laura

I’m not really sure why Norton hates my computer.