In this Issue Library Services for Preschool Teachers
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Is a blog of librarians with a passion for creating fun and engaging STEM programs for library patrons of all ages. Amanda Boyarshinov and Kim Vij are longtime teachers. This blog shares resources on topics spanning from science and gardening to writing and global awareness. Plus all of their content is divided into helpful categories, making it quick and easy to find what you need
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Gwen Doolan Preschool Liasion Lesley Jakacki Youth Services Manager
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"How does writing with children help them get ready to read? There is a strong connection between reading and writing. When children are given a chance to explore scribbling, draw pictures, and tell stories, they are learning reading skills. Print Motivation When children have a chance to do their own writing, they have a chance to feel connected to print in a different way than when they are listening to a story. Being an active participant in writing helps keep children excited about reading stories." Here are some examples from Clermont Library you can use to promote print motivation: "Scribbling When you give your child paper and a pencil or crayon and encourage her to mimic writing, you’re helping her understand that those written marks are related to letters and words. Plus, it’s a great exercise for developing hand-eye coordination. Lists When you’re writing a shopping list or a to-do list, sit down with your child. Give him a pencil and paper too and encourage him to make his own list. Make your lists together. Show him the words you’ve written and say each one. When you go to the store, show him the word as you pick up the item; this connects the idea that the written words symbolize actual things."
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Let's Learn About. . . Wind
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Wind
by Alice K. Flanagan
Simple text describes the wind, how it is formed, and its effects on the world
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Wind
by Helen Cox Cannons
"Through stunning photographs and simple text, books in this series introduce children to different types of weather. In Wind, children learn what wind does, how the wind can vary in strength from gentle breezes to hurricanes and tornadoes, and how the wind can help us"
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Wind Power : 20 projects to make with paper
by Clive Dobson
Surveys the history of wind power and windmills, outlines the science that makes them work, and provides instructions for increasingly difficult projects that demonstrate each principle
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Please, Wind?
by Carol Greene
A child begs the wind to blow hard enough to make a kite fly. Includes suggested learning activities
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When the Wind Blew
by Petra Brown
Snuggling up on a stormy night, Big Bear and Little Bear wake up to discover that the wind has knocked down all the trees in their forest home and that they will have to move, a distressing situation that is helped when Big Bear explains that home is not about place, but about the family that shares it. Simultaneous eBook.
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I Face the Wind
by Vicki Cobb
Introduces the characteristics and actions of the wind through simple hands-on activities
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Gilberto And The Wind
by Marie Hall Ets
A young boy finds in the wind a playmate of many moods: one that can sail boats, fly kites, blow dirt, and turn umbrellas inside out
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Windblown
by Edouard Manceau
A series of animals lay claim to, and take their form from, a set of oddly shaped scraps of colored paper, until the wind makes the final claim and blows them all away
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One Windy Day
by Tammi J. Salzano
In a charming padded board book, accented with shiny bronze-foiled leaves, that teaches preschoolers all about opposites, Fox the mail carrier experiences a particularly windy day when the mail he's delivering starts blowing away--up and down, left and right, high and low, near and far, and even over and under a fence.
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Leaf Man
by Lois Ehlert
A man made of leaves blows away, traveling wherever the wind may take him, in a fresh, autumn tale with illustrations made from actual fall leaves and die-cut pages on every spread that reveal gorgeous landscape vistas. Jr Lib Guild.
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Need A Nursery Rhyme? Blow wind, blow And go, mill, go That the miller may grind his corn That the baker may take it And into bread make it And bring us a loaf in the morn. Need A Song? Tune: "Here We Go 'Round The Mulberry Bush" Oh, the wind is blowing - all over town, All over town, all over town. Oh, the wind is blowing all over town, Just like so. (Child blows)
Oh, the trees are bending - way down low, Way down low, way down low. Oh, the trees are bending - way down low, Just like so. (Child bends low)
Oh, the kites are flying - watch them go, Watch them go, high then low. Oh, the kites are flying - watch them go Just like so. (Child pretends to fly kite)
Continue with "Oh, the clothes on the line - flop to and fro" "Oh, the flag on the pole - waves fast and slow"
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Wind Vane Target Age: 3-6 Learning Goals: The wind blows from different directions. Materials What You Need: - Round plastic drinking cup
- Paper plate
- Removable mounting putty
- Sharpened pencil
- Drinking straw (a straight one, no bendies!)
- Straight pin
- Card stock paper
- Black permanent marker to mark Never Eat Soggy Wheaties on paper
- Compass
What You Do: - Start by putting a hole in the bottom of a plastic cup, using a drill works the best. The bit should be the size hole that a pencil can can go into. Push pencil through hole then secure cup and pencil to paper plate with mounting putty.
- Cut out a square of colored cardboard and mark the corners, North, South, East and West.
- Cut a hole in the middle of the cardboard paper and push it over the pencil. From another cardboard sheet cut two small triangles.
- Tape the triangles to the ends of a straw. Push a pin through the middle of the straw and then into the eraser.
- Put the vane outside and point it so that the N matches North on a compass. Which way does the wind turn it? Experiment found in:Andrews, Georgina and Knighton, Kate.. "50 Science things to make & do". 2009o
Have kids make an observations about the wind? Can they see the wind? How do they know if it is windy? What do they see moving? Can they feel the wind on their faces? Ask them; which direction do they think the wind is blowing from? .
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