Children's Library Decorations!

Whew! The library is started to look awesome! Over the last week and days and today Carly, Rhonda and I have been revamping our Children's Library area to go along with our Summer Reading Club theme: UP, UP and AWAY! I'm really please with our decorations this year! Rhonda went all out and made some beautiful cardboard masterpieces for the library. We have a lovely cardboard rocket ship and some crazy alien ships!

Here's some pictures of the kid's area!!! Hope everyone had a lovely long weekend!!

Week 3 - It Came from Outer Space with the Mad Scientists!

Kyleen's amazing alien mask! 

Today we welcomed a few Mad Scientists in to the library! Today we had a small number of 6 kids! We had Sara, Kyleen, Emily, Caleb, Alicen and Kyle, who dropped in from Rosedale to see us!

We started by following the Young Professors suit by making our own alien name tags!

After adorning ourselves with our alien name tags, we sat around in a circle and grabbed a strange fact from our Strange ... But True? fact jar! We all took a fact and read it out loud to the group!

We then talked about space and science fiction!

I introduced some Ray Bradbury and H.G. Wells to the kids and we talked about the infamous War of the Worlds radio broadcast done by Orson Welles in the early 20th century! This tied in well to last week's Guest Wednesday visit with Jayne Garry from EZ Rock Radio!

We also talked about NASA and astronauts, comets and asteroids and the giant telescopes and satellites in space! I was shocked at how much the kids know! Wise Caleb knew all about the Hubble Telescope and told as all about the process of how after its launch into space the telescope sent back blurry pictures back to Earth and how lots of planning, time and money had to go into fixing the telescope to fix it!


We didn't have time to watch this video, but here's a video from NASA for kids about engineering and the process of planning, answering and working out important questions!

We watched a clip from a beautiful and fascinating documentary called iMAX Hubble. It's a great 45 minute movie about the repairs done to the Hubble Space Telescope and as a bonus its narrated by Mr. Leonardo Di Caprio! It's a win win situation right there, let me tell ya!

It's such a lovely delivery of the story of the Hubble Telescope and the magnificence and vastness of the world in which we live in. Seeing the infinite amounts of space and galaxies that the Telescope is able to view after its repairs really gives you a huge appreciation for our own planet Earth!

Week 3 - It Came from Outer Space with the Young Professors

It Came from Outer Space!!!!!

This morning we welcomed the Young Professors back into the library! We had 10 Professors today: Zoe, Ava, Sydney, Tyler, Joshua, Cohan, Cody, Chloe, Paige, and Chesney!

We started off talking about our theme for the week! This week's theme: It Came from Outer Space, meant that today we were going to venture out into space and talk about aliens, planets, and astronomy!

To begin everyone was given a rocket ship name tag! The name tag had a space that said "My name is ______________ From the planet of ___________________" 

Here, we made up our alien names for our name tags by taking the first 3 letters of our first names and adding it with the first 3 letters of our last names! Mine was a pretty horrible sounding name "Amapou"! But the kids seemed to find it funny! We had some great alien sounding names though! Some like "AvaJin", "ZoeGil", "TylMcN", "JosFri", and "ChesFlu". 

What are name tags looked like!

After completing our name tags we all gathered on the tarp area and talked about Science Fiction books in the library! We talked about what sort of things you would find in a science fiction book! Things like time-travel, space-travel, science, aliens, futuristic technology and so on! We also talked about fiction books and non-fiction books and where to find them in the library!

Next we looked at some photos from the great Hubble Telescope! The kids enjoyed looking at the photos!

We talked about NASA and astronauts and played a game pretending to be astronauts and moving in 0 g gravity! Here they had to try to spin around, sitting in a rolling chair without using their feet or arms to touch the ground or without pushing off the ground! 

Here are some pictures of us playing this game!

Astronaut Sydney working her way through 0 g

Week 3 - It Came from Outer Space with the Little Einsteins

This week's theme: It Came from Outer Space!!!

Today I was conscious enough to remember my camera this morning and I played paparazzi for Rhonda and the Little Einsteins!

With the theme being very alien-oriented Rhonda started off taking about outer space to the kids and singing a couple cute songs!  

Rhonda's prepped crafts! UFO's, complete with little alien drivers! Too cute!

Rhonda read a few stories about aliens and outer space and the kids were such good listeners! And very very smart! These little guys knew all about planets and gravity it was fantastic!!

Then came craft time! Rhonda did such a wonderful job! The crafts for today were little UFO paper plates with little alien friends! The kids decorated their little spaceships and went crazy with stickers and such! Masterpieces were created by the handful!

CUTE!