CLiF Grant Opportunities
The Children’s Literacy Foundation has some grant opportunities open. Find Community Building, At Risk, Early Educators Training and Rural Libraries grant applications here: https://clifonline.org/clifs-open-grant-applications/
CLiF is really excited to have added This is What Democracy Looks Like, the CCS graphic novel, as an option to the Community Building grant. This will offer copies of the comic, a visit from CCS, and funds to initiate a civic engagement project.
Bullet Journal Workshop
Bullet journals are part day planner and part diary and written meditation and used by many as a way to coordinate their lives, be more productive and be intentional with personal and professional goals. Join Bobbi Slossar and Deborah Dutcher for this Free basic ideas workshop that includes your own bullet journal notebook set and a few hours of networking with other NH Librarians.
This workshop is limited to 12 attendees. If you sign up and are unable to attend–PLEASE let us know ASAP to fill the spot.
Funding for this workshop provided by Endowment for Health as part Family Engagement Professional Development grant.
Date: Friday, December 6 10 am – Noon
Event Address: NH State Library, 20 Park Street, Concord, NH 03301
Sign up HERE
Mother Goose on the Loose Workshop
Event Timing: December 17, 2019 9am – 4 pm
Event Address: Hooksett Public Library, 31 Mount Saint Mary’s Way, Hooksett, NH
Contact Deborah at 603-271-2865 deborah.dutcher@dncr.nh.gov
Note: Bring your own beverages and lunch. Please bring a pair of scissors.
This FREE event is possible with funding from the Family Engagement Initiative Professional Development Opportunities from the Endowment for Health.
For more on why MGOL go to https://mgol.net/
Sign up HERE
Juggling Nutrition Magician Show
Celebrate Reading, Eating, Science and Healthy Habits! ToBe Fit, The Juggling Nutrition Magician is a rollicking fun-filled show that inspires kids to take charge of growing up healthy, happy and fit! Using circus arts and the science of nutrition, kids learn how to juggle the foods they eat to wind up with a balanced diet! Plus, they’ll discover how to make choices that are good for their health and the health of the planet.
info@ foodplay.com
A Moose with a Uke
Business name: A Moose with a Uke
Contact: Aaron Risi
Address: 64 Bellamy Road, Dover, NH 03820
Phone: 410-746-7845
email: Aaronrisi79@gmail.com
Website: AMoosewithaUke.com
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November Early Learning Meet-up: Curiosity
cu·ri·os·i·ty
(Noun) A strong desire to know or learn something
We are excited to announce a new librarian training program to promote curiosity, inquisitiveness, and investigation within your children’s programs with the goal of teaching children of all ages to ask questions, structure experiments, and discover answers.
The early learning meet-up will cover a short review about research design and how to apply these principles when working with young children to foster curiosity and learning. Attendees will also review professional development materials on integrating STEM (STREAM!) in to the 2020 Imagine Your Story theme and will have the opportunity for hands-on practice and role-playing. Upon completing the workshop, attendees will
• understand the importance of instilling curiosity in young children and how to encourage parents to participate in their children’s learning
• be able to design simple age-appropriate experiments for young children based on related books and activities
• bring two fully designed Curiosity programs back to their libraries
Presented by Bobbi Slossar & Deborah Dutcher – NH State Library Consultants
Wednesday, Nov 20 10:00-12:00 Derry Public Library
Sign up here: https://forms.gle/FDunJiTv5omHWMCKA
Fall STEM Activites
Little Women Program Resources
Hello —
I am an educational consultant for Sony Pictures, and we have created a free Little Women Toolkit for teachers and librarians with all the materials they need to plan a Little Women event in advance of the upcoming Little Women’s movie release on December 25th. We also have free bookmarks and mini posters.
FREE LITTLE WOMEN EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS AND BOOKMARKS!
The movie event of the year for book lovers will be LITTLE WOMEN which opens at movie theaters on December 25, 2019! Directed by Greta Gerwig, LITTLE WOMEN stars Saoirse Ronan as Jo, Emma Watson as Meg, Laura Dern as Marmee, Timothee Chalamet as Laurie and Meryl Streep as Aunt March.
Librarians and teachers, now is the time to plan a Little Women program for your library or classroom. Introduce a new generation to the beloved classic that resonates today just as much as ever. Start planning your Little Women programs for this fall with the Little Women Toolkit. Here is the link to all the materials on Dropbox — https://www.dropbox.com/sh/l86rcbv8i6eptzc/AADQDcXJaB_EkWR1btjddw5Na?dl=0<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.dropbox.com/sh/l86rcbv8i6eptzc/AADQDcXJaB_EkWR1btjddw5Na?dl=0__;!eeWmBe9sc1cuNw!BjyY4w3tEK5b-KDSKi1UyzBlNkwUSihw-DIXE4d2iQK1DY04auWyuWASfFxpS_-AZNJgtHvw$>
Please email Rachel Breinin at RGBreinin@gmail.com if you would like free bookmarks (indicate whether you would like 25 or 50 bookmarks) and mini posters (5 per person). When they are ready, she will send them to you. Also, provide your full mailing address.
The Little Women Toolkit features a link to three lesson plans developed by the Great Books Foundation, discussion questions for book groups and the classroom, “Are You Meg, Jo, Beth or Amy?” Quiz, links to the LITTLE WOMEN movie images that you can use to create displays at your library or decorate bulletin boards, tea party recipes from Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House and The Little Women Cookbook, and vintage games and arts-and-crafts activities from the late 1800s!
[https://owa.nh.gov/owa/]
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Rachel G. Breinin
Communications Consultant
914-921-3934 (Home)
914-649-2509 (Cell)
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Early Learning Meet-up September
Thank you to everyone that attended our first meet-up in Portsmouth or Conway this week. Here are the links to just a few of the things we talked about:
Stork Storytime READS It is all here–information for administrative buy-in, potential funding partners, flyers and reading log bookmarks and more! Don’t forget to let me know what you do at your library so I can let creator Jennifer Jordebrek know how her program is being used in New Hampshire.
How to select a Good Board Book
Guide for Selecting Anti-Bias Children’s Books
November meet-ups to be announced. Topic–2020 Summer Reading Program.