Today I:
Observed preschool storytime. We have an African drumming program coming up on the 17th, so my supervisor chose stories and songs about Africa as a tie-in. We sang the Hippo-Pokey (“You splash right in the mud and you squish your foot around…that’s how a hippo cools off.”), went on a lion hunt, and made [...]
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I spent this evening with the branch manager working at a neighborhood movie night. I wasn’t sure what to expect going in (I love those days when I show up to work not merely unprepared for but in fact completely ignorant of what’s about to happen), but it turned out to be an event hosted [...]
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Today I:
Helped with pre-school storytime and tested out a vegetable stamp craft. We had some donated small rectangles of matte board, a bag of vegetables (carrots and cauliflower and brocolli), and some ink pads, so my supervisor had me try making vegetable stamps by slicing them in half and inking them. It worked pretty well, [...]
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Today I:
Set up and observed Storytime with my supervisor; I helped set up the room, supervised the sidewalk chalk craft for a while, and then helped put things away since the meeting room would be used tonight.
Helped the teen librarian set up the meeting room for a program the teen and adult librarians were putting [...]
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