Join us for Mysteries and Monsters! October 26-31

Calling all gals and ghouls!
You're invited to spend a week of howling fun as we explore mysteries and monsters!

Monday, October 26th beginning at 6:30 pm we welcome magician Ran'D Shine!
We love having Ran'D as our special guest and look forward to his amazing tricks and illusions.

 

Other activities:
Monster themed storytimes.
Monday, October 26th beginning at 10:30 am.
Tuesday, October 27th beginning at 10:30 am.
Thursday, October 29th beginning at 10:30 am.

Pajama storytime
Wednesday, October 28th at 6:00 pm

Monster Make and Take
Thursday, October 29th at 4 PM in the Family Room.
Join us for monster themed crafts and activities.
All ages are invited to participate.

Lansdowne Borough's Halloween Party
Lansdowne Farmers Market to the Twentieth Century Club When: Saturday October 31st 1pm-3pm
Come out in your Halloween costumes for an afternoon of family fun! We will parade our fancy Halloween duds from the Farmer’s Market down Lansdowne Avenue to the Twentieth Century Club, where we will have snacks, crafts, games, prizes and more. What a great way to start your night of trick or treating!

Halloween Hot Spot
We are pleased to team up with the Lansdowne Police Department for a Halloween Hot Spots!
The Lansdowne Police Department and the dedicated volunteers in all or our partner groups would like to be a part of your Halloween. The event will run from 5pm to 7:30 pm.

This year there will be five "Halloween Hot Spots" set up around the Borough.   While you are out trick or treating with your young ones, please stop by. Volunteers will be handing out all kinds of goodies. Police Officers and a very special guest will be visiting each of the station to share safety tips and meet trick or treaters of all ages.   


Please join Miss Rachee and other volunteers at the corner of Nyack and Wycombe! Other locations will be announced closer to the event. Visit us on Facebook to see what other locations will be participating.

Game Day and Comic Swap

The library loves Free Comic Book Day and today we celebrated by having a Game Day and Comic Book Swap!

Here is a glimpse of the afternoon...

Thank you to Effin Comics for the comic book donations, The Friends of the Lansdowne Public Library for the electronic equipment and the Delaware County Library System for use of the iPad Lab!

We're on Pinterest

Hi Friends!
We have found a great new way to look for and share ideas for storytime, programs and events at the library...Pinterest!
Miss Abbe and I have been obsessed and have been happily pinning ideas for programs, crafts, books and just things we think are cool.

If you would like to follow our boards check us at http://pinterest.com/lanspublibrary/.

Here are some of Miss Rachee's favorite pins from the last week.

We are proud to once again be a part of the Suburu Cherry Blossom Festival of Greater Philadelphia. Here is a cool craft to bring pink cherry blossoms to the library.

Source: alphamom.com via Lansdowne on Pinterest

Miss Rachee has a love hate relationship with origami. From her: "It's so beautiful but I get frustrated with not being able to fold it properly!" This web site has some really easy folds to make doable origami.

Source: thecraftyclassroom.com via Kelly on Pinterest

Fans are a huge hit. We can decorate them as we'd like or use a template and add splashes of bold colors.

Source: thecraftyclassroom.com via Amy on Pinterest

Japanese sandals
These are so adorable! I will fully admit that I pinned them thinking these were just too cute but the more I thought about it the more I realized that we could make these little sandals as keep sake boxes!

Source: thecraftyclassroom.com via Lisa on Pinterest

Speaking of clothing...what a cool way to use some colorful paper! Origami kimonos!
The site we found looks doable.

Source: origami-pictures.info via Lansdowne on Pinterest

Lastly we thought we could make lanterns and begin to introduce this year's Summer Reading theme, Dream Big. This owl is absolutely adorable and costs about three dollars. We would have to purchase the lanterns and we are lucky to have a craft closet full of supplies. Each child would be able to go home with a cute friend.

Source: dollarstorecrafts.com via Lansdowne on Pinterest

Do you pin? Let us know so that we can follow you.
Hope to see you during the Suburu Cherry Blossom Festival. We are planning special storytimes and events the week beginning Monday, March 26 2012.

Sayanora
-r

Got Game?

Thanks to a very genrous donation from the Friends of the Lansdowne Public Library we were able to purchase brand new video gaming systems and entertainment system! This week we are debuting all of the systems and here is a short video of our gaming experience.

We have Wii and Xbox. Future program ideas include a Just Danceathon, Mario Kart tournament, and a Super Smash Bros Brawl contest.

If you like what you see, be sure to join us for Game week beginning Monday, November 7th!
-r

What in the World Wednesdays...Can you find it?

For our theme of What in the World Wednesday we welcomed our library friends to participate in a scavenger hunt. To participate, hunters had to scour the Family Room and complete at least two of the four available hunts.

There were two mandatory hunts, shared with us by M. Beedon, the Youth Services Librarian at the Ypsilanti District Library. We changed a few questions to make it more specific to the Lansdowne Library but the information that we were sent was very good and we didn't have to really change much. These hunts are broken into two age groups: entering grades 1-3 and entering grades 4-6.

Library Scavenger Hunt 1-3[1]

Library Scavenger Hunt 4-6[1]

The two optional hunts were for any ages. The first hunt instructed children to translate words from Spanish and French and find colors around the room. The second instructed children to translate the animal names from Spanish and find pictures or stuffed animals around the room.

One World Scavenger Colors

One World Scavenger Animal Spanish

All participants who completed the hunt were rewarded with a coupon to Dunkin' Donuts. The Summer Reading Club is sponsored by Delaware County Library System.

Like this event?
Join us next week for Global Games with ideas inspired by Flow Circus.
-r

This week at the Lansdowne Public Library...Summer Reading begins!

Please note: during the summer we have more programs to offer and send out more reminders. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience the extra e-mails may cause.



Good afternoon library friends!

It's the fourth most wonderful time of the year...the Summer Reading Program has begun!

This year the themes are One World, Many Stories for children preschool through entering fifth grade and You Are Here for children entering grades sixth through twelfth.



Have you registered?

If no, please check out the Summer Reading tab on the Lansdowne Public Library website for direct links to the online program.

If yes, don't forgot to log, log, log! We are excited to announce the launch the return of the Book Bucks program! Friday will be the first day to spend your book bucks and we have some fun incentives to keep children reading.

Teens have an extra chance tow win prizes courtesy of the Delaware County Library System. After you register for the You Are Here program you are already entered into the Countywide drawing!

It’s as easy as that. No meetings, no discussions, no limit to the number of books you can read for the program. Just you, some books, a library, and some prizes.



Weekly countywide drawings will award the following prizes. *You must include a review for your book to be eligible for the prizes.



iTunes $25.00 gift card (2)



iPod Shuffle (3)



Nintendo DS (2)



GRAND PRIZE:



Nook eReader (1)

Stop by the Family room and let us know Where in the World you read! Some of our library friends have been busy at work decorating a world map and we have stickers for you to use to show off your reading travels!



Programs this week:

Tuesday:

Bibs-n-Books ay 10:30 AM



Wednesday:

Sleepytime Tales at 6:30 PM



Thursday:

Wee Reads presents Musician Peter Touney at 10:30 AM

Book Bunch at 4:00 PM



Friday:

Exchange'n'Things from 10-4!




As Always:
Tank you for your interest and support!

If you have any questions or comments please feel free to contact me at 610-623-0239 ext 5

Thank you for your support!
-r

Making a difference: Community Service Project

Members from The Lansdowne YMCA at St John's were treated to a special story time when the eighth grade class from The Hill Top Preparatory School assisted with a community service project. Each student in the eighth grade are doing a project to make a difference in the community and one student focused on literacy. Stephanie planned a book drive at her school, with books being donated to Philadelphia Reads, and a trip to the library. The entire eighth grade class would read classic picture books and work with the preschoolers to create art projects.

The eighth graders were broken up into groups of two and each group read and did activities inspired by the following books:
Horton Hears A Who- by Dr. Seuss
-Make a clover out of pipe cleaners

If You Give A Mouse A Cookie by Laura Numeroff
-Make a cookie out of paper plates and crayons or markers

Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin
-Making a cow mask out of paper plates, popsicle sticks and markers.
At this station the preschoolers were so enamored by the typewriter used as a prop that no masks were made!

Some children NEVER saw or used a typewriter!

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendek
-Make a scary monster mask out of paper plates.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
-The eighth graders read the story using a puppet made for us by a friend of the library/ For the art activity, we drew pictures of caterpillars using different color backgrounds.

Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
-Draw an entire world in purple (or favorite color) crayon

A dino from the book...ROAR!

The children from the YMCA were broken up into groups of two to three children and each group of children was able to to rotate through each group of  the eighth graders reading. After hearing the story, each child was given art supplies to create or recreate a small scene from each book.

Without exaggeration, the collaboration was such a success! The YMCA group loved the individual attention and enjoyed hearing the stories. One child asked when could we do it again!

We loved the book suggestions so much that we used them for Wee Reads and The Book Bunch!


Thank you to the staff and students of The Hill Top Preparatory School for providing such a great storytime and thank you to the staff and students of the Lansdowne YMCA at St John's for participating!

The Rocky Horror Shrek Show!

We celebrated Children's Book Week with a clever take on the movie Shrek. Inspired by the revival on the television show Glee, we combined the interactive nature of The Rocky Horror Picture Show with one of our favorite movies, Shrek!

What is The Rocky Horror Picture Show?
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a 1975 British musical comedy film that parodies science fiction and B-movie horror films.

Why The Rocky Horror Shrek Show?
Inspired by an episode of Glee and a love for the original Shrek movie, we thought we could take the interactive part of Rocky Horror and mesh it with Shrek. Despite a small turnout (8 children and three adults) we did have a great afternoon!

We are sharing information with you to create your own Rocky Horror Shrek Show!.
Also, if you have ideas to share, please leave us a comment or e-mail us at lacsd@delcolibraries.org!
The ideas listed below are collected from friends and colleagues.

Please note: the information below assumes that you have previously watched Shrek.

The materials we used to create the experience:
-paper (for airplanes and to make signs.
-gumdrops
-string
-marshmallows (we used Kraft Jumbo Marshmallows)
-shredded paper for confetti

Movie license to show Shrek.

How we interacted with the movie
We left the captions on so that we could read the screen and/ orsing along.

Opening :At true Love’s first kiss we blew a kiss
Sing: All Star
Scare away the Mob: Scream
Donkey flies: Paper airplanes
Sing: All Alone (Donkey)
Who Knows Where Lord Farquaad is: we all screamed "Pick Me! Pick Me!"
When Lord Farquaad is torturing The Gingerbread Man and threatening his buttons: we ate a gum drop button
We all recited the exchange between Farquaad and the Gingerbread Man:

Do you know the Muffin Man?
The Muffin Man?
The Muffin man.
Yes, I know the Muffin Man, who lives on Drury Lane?
She's married to the Muffin man.
The Muffin Man?
The Muffin Man!

When The magic mirror showed Farquaad his choice of bachelorettes we held up signs to pick bachelorette 1, 2, o r 3

Upon arriving in DuLoc we all sang the welcome sign and took a picture
The fight in DuLoc:

Throw yarn, ribbon (the ale)
Cheer Shrek

Rescuing Fiona: we all screamed when we saw the dragon.

Walking in the woods
Fiona sings with bird: Everyone sings (I think if we do this again I am going to pass out bags to pop when the bird explodes)

When Robin Hood 'rescues' Fiona: Subtitles to sing the song

When Shrek, Fiona and Donkey make camp for the night: Marshmallows to eat in lieu of weed rats. (I couldn't find shoestrings for rat tails!)

At the wedding of Fiona and Farquaad:

Signs that read Applause, Awwww! Aaah! Gasp!
Green hearts (they are ogres!) and we made kissy noises.

At Shrek and Fiona's wedding we used shredded paper as confetti.
And of course all sang I'm a Believer.

In the future this will definitely be restricted to ages 10 and up. The younger members enjoyed the food but didn't really care for the interactive part of the performance.

Some of the materials for the movie

Lots of string!

Ms. Margaret helped out

A giant marsh..., uh weed rat!

The players showing off the signs

We have a whole week of events planned! Stop by and join in on the fun!
-r

Homeschool Happenings accueille* Caitlin!

Bonjour les amis bibliothèque!**
Homeschool Happenings was pleased to welcome Madame Caitlin Knight from Lango Philly Main Line who shared a wonderful French class! We had a wonderful group with ages from toddler through tween experience a full immersion French lesson.

Along with Cosmo, Lango's mascot, Mme Caitlin introduced us to numéros (numbers) and couleurs (colors) with the help of Cosmo, the bulldog who is the mascot for Lango. Despite Mme Caitlin speaking totally in French, the group had no trouble following along and a few members who already spoke some French assisted.

Bienvenue 

Bienvenue

Bonjour! Bonjour!

Combien?

Quelle couleur?

Dans le cadre du parachute

Faire sauter Cosmo!

Homeschool Happenings is a new program designed for homeschooling families to socialize and experience special library events. Please join us May 11th for our next event!





*Welcomes
**Hello Library Friends!

The Stop, Drop and Craft Aerodynamic Experience!

To celebrate our participation in Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival of Greater Philadelphia for this past Wednesday's Stop, Drop and Craft activity we practiced origami. But our library friends wanted to explore the paper planes we found in A Kid's Guide to Origami...Making Origami Paper Airplanes Step by Step and we had a paper plane flying contest!

Guest crafter Ms. Margaret was our special judge as we held a contest to see how far the planes flew, the best design, and to help determine who flew the furthest distance.
There were no set rules for our impromptu paper plane throwing contest. The group could choose to use origami paper which measures 6" by 6", 'regular' copy paper which measures 8 1/2" by 11" or legal sizes paper which measures 11" by 14 1/2 "

Books available for origami:
A Kid's Guide to Origami...Making Origami Paper Airplanes Step by Step by Michael G. LaFosse
Origami: The Fun and Funky Art of Paper Folding by Thiraunt Boonyadhistarn
I Made it Myself: Paper Folding Fun by Didier Boursin
A Kid's Guide to Origami...Making Origami Science Experiements Step by Step by Michael G. LaFosse
Classic Origami by P.D. Tuyen

Web sites consulted for paper planes:
Amazing Paper Planes: http://www.amazingpaperairplanes.com/Simple.html
Alex's Paper Planes: http://www.paperairplanes.co.uk/rapier.php
California Science Center: http://www.californiasciencecenter.org/Education/GroupPrograms/BigLab/Rollercoasters/docs/RollercoastersPre.pdf


Stop, Drop and Craft meets Wednesdays from 4-6. Stop by and see what crafty goodness we are making!

Even Mrs. Gianella got in on the act!

What can we use to make THE best plane?

Our supplies: paper, scissors and glue!

Other plane options available

The helicopter option

The contest!

Literacy Career Fair

Join the Lansdowne Public Library and the Darby Free Library Monday, April 4, 2011 beginning at 6:00 PM for a Literacy Career Fair! Our special guest is Stephen R. Swinburne the author of 2011's Pennsylvania One Book, Whose Shoes? A Shoe for Every Job

Each year, Pennsylvania's One Book program highlights the importance of early literacy development in preschoolers ages 3 to 6. Another goal of this program is to increase awareness among parents, other family members, and the early childhood community of the need for practices that promote early literacy development.

For our event members of the community will meet with children and their parents and will demonstrate their careers and talents and tell what shoes are best for the job. Our special guest is the author of the book, Stephen R. Swinburne, who will read and sign free copies of his book for each child.

Also scheduled to appear:

Musician Noelle Huie from Reilly the band
Hoop Dancer Sarah Maccarelli from Hooping with Sarah
Ballet Dance Jamie Laughlin from Ajala Dance Studios
Office Larry Albertoli, Lansdowne Police Department
Magician Ran'D Shine from Shine Entertainment
Laboratory Technicians from Fitzgerald Mercy Hospital
Amtrak Safety Track Program
Pastry Chef Heather Perot
Children's Librarian Mr. Perry

A fruit stand with free samples and volunteers from RSVP, the Retired Senior Volunteer Program will be dressed as clowns and doing face painting! There will be crafts and activities for children and the first 50 children registered will get a copy of the book!

The event will be held at the beautiful historic Twentieth Century Club located at 84 S. Lansdowne Avenue Lansdowne, PA 19050.

Please call Rachee Fagg at 610-623-0239 ext 5 or Susan Borders at 610-586-7310 for more information or to register for this event!

To learn more about the PA One Book program please visit them online at www.paonebook.org

Preschool Playschool...Here Comes the ABCs!

Our second week of Parent Child Workshop was all about literacy and engaging little ones. We had two professionals today, Youth Services Coordinator Rachee Fagg and Master Storyteller, Carla Wiley.  For Preschool Playschool we invited children and their caregivers to explore a variety of activities to help children get ready to read.

Activities included Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and a tree for the children to send letters climbing, magnetic letters to spell words, an Alphabet Walk in which children searched for letters through environmental print, rhyming games, fishing for letters and free books courtesy of the Book Bank and The Pennsylvania African American Library Association.

Playtime

Sorting through the alphabet

A matching game

Match the rhyming words





Getting ready to fish

Exploring letters

Magnetic letters to sort

Free books from PAALA

Exploring the matching game

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Tree

Building together

Hunting for letters

More hunting for letters

Placing letters on the tree

Matching games

Children and their parents exploring