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Saturday, April 7, 2018

Earth Day, April 22, 2018

Earth Day is coming up on April 22. The theme for this year is End Plastic Pollution. You can check out things going on for Earth day and get some resources at https://www.earthday.org/

We are going to be doing a program at the library on Earth Day, April 22. I will be reading a story to the children, "The Adventures of a Plastic Bottle." I thought this would be appropriate for the theme this year. I can't wait to read it to the children.

Water Bottle Wind Spirals
This is a fun craft using reusing water bottles. I will cut off the bottoms of the bottles for the kids before the program and they will be used for the project below. The kids will color the water bottles with permanent markers and cut them with safety scissors. I already did a test one and the safety scissors will cut the bottles easily. I still have to buy the permanent markers because we only have black and red at work.

Water Bottle Flowers Craft for Kids
I will have as many flowers available for the kids to make as I have spirals. How many flowers each child gets to make depends how many kids I get at my program. I cannot afford special paint, so I will be having the kids color the bottles with the permanent makers like in the project above. I also decided to use craft sticks that the kids can color with our washable markers instead of the straws, since we already have them. We will attach the sticks to the back of the flowers with low temp hot glue. The kids will have help with this part if they are young.

This Earth day craft is a very fun and simple way to teach kids about our planet using paper plates.

I am also doing this Paper Plate Earth Day Craft for Kids, for those who don't want to get permanent marker on their hands and for younger patrons.

I will be modifying this for our kids. I will use blue construction paper glued to a paper plate. Glue sticks, not paint with lots of kids expected at the library, will be much less messy. Then pieces of green tissue paper for the land then face, arms and legs as seen here.

Or you can try this one... https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/FREE-Earth-Day-Craft-Earth-Man-667248

I am not doing this one... Soda Bottle Zippered Pencil Case... but it does look fun and maybe some of my readers would like to try it. The sample looks like it is a 2 liter bottle but you could do any plastic bottle. Each would hold different kinds of "goodies." Maybe we will try it another time. The staff uses a lot of water (and other plastic) bottles and we can set up a box in the staff break room and collect some in a short time.

This resource looks interesting. I may put it on a loop on a TV in the STEM room where I will be doing my program.
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/FREE-Earth-Day-Bottled-Water-Use-PowerPoint-Activity-228101

I may also put out one or more of these games...

I always have handouts, bookmarks, coloring pages for the children to take home as well.
Try these...

I have been using Teachers Pay Teachers a lot lately. You can search for a topic and you can limit the search to only Free items. They have a lot of good stuff. All of these resources are FREE.

I hope you enjoy my first post of my blog reboot.
I will be updating links, and many things on my sidebar, as well as my header and link buttons.

Debbie Phillips
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Saturday, May 2, 2009

Library Book Sale

One of my readers asked about where I buy/find the books I use for History. (See that post here). Yesterday my husband and I were out doing some errands and we stopped at a Library near our home, not our closest Library but one about 20 minutes from our home, still in our county, and covered by our county library card. They happened to be having a book sale. I walked in and did a few things and then headed for the room with the book sale. As I walked in a couple of ladies were sitting by the door. One said, "Grab a paper bag there." So I turned and saw a pile of paper bags like you would get at a normal grocery store. "You can fill a bag and all the books you can fit in there are just $5.", she said.

WOW!!! Great Deal!!

I grabbed a bag and started looking... and looking... and putting things in the bag... and looking... you get the idea. They had books, hardback and paperback; books on tape (cassette) and video tapes.

I got through all the stuff and ended near the front where the kids books were.

"Can the books stick up out of the bag?" I asked.
"Sure," she said.

"Do I have to be able to pick the bag up off the floor?" I asked, with a smile.
"Yes!" she answered with a chuckle.

My bag was already sitting on the floor next to me because it was to heavy as I continued to browse and add books to my bag.

Below you will see many pictures of the finds I got yesterday and of the kids looking at all the "goodies" I brought home.

Look What I Got For $5!!!

This is the bag of books. Full to the brim and spilling over!

A side view so you can see how full the bag really was.

The kids looking at the books
Rachel
and part of Christopher in the lower left hand corner

Nathan and Jessica

They could not wait to unpack them and see what I had gotten.

Here are all the books, cassettes and one movie I got for $5
All laid out!

42 items in all

5 book on tape sets
1 movie
36 books

Yes I will say it again because I can hardly believe it myself

All for only $5

Thank You, Lord for this bountiful blessing!!

Below are pictures of the books a little closer up... sections of the books while they were laying on the floor.

Science, History, Poetry, Art, Crafts, Diet and a couple of kids fiction.

You can click on each of the pictures to see them larger. That should allow you to see each book title more clearly.

I will not bore you with the complete list of everything I got.

If you have questions about a specific book, tape set or the movie just ask in the comments and I will let you know the exact title, author and give a link.

If someone does have a question I will post it as an update on a new blog post.

Just one note: this photo shows the only movie I picked up
Christmas in Colonial Williamsburg.
We have been to Williamsburg a couple of times but never at Christmas. I thought this would be fun and it did not take up to much room in my bag.

There is only one problem...
None of these were on my list of books we need for next year! LOL

But they were all good books,

of the types my kids enjoy,

of series or publishers that we take out of the library often,

AND they were only $5!!! LOL

I hope you all enjoyed that.
Thank you again, Lord, for this wonderful, unexpected blessing
Many crafts will be made, books read by my kids and grand kids (some day), and tapes listened to from this purchase.

Debbie

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

CPSIA - from dangerous toys to our nations libraries

You may have seen a lot of things on the internet about the new testing for children's toys that is so ambiguous that it will cover almost every item that a child under the age of 12 touches. Here is another example of the foolish repercussions because of the inability of the lawmakers to write a good law that only effects what was needed to be taken care of. The problem was with toys from other countries coming into the U.S. and those where found out about. Now we have sooo many problems stemming from this.

Please read this and go to the site to see what to do further before they shut down all the libraries, public, private, and in museums. Just click the title link right under this sentence to go to the original of this article.

ALA Urges Congress To Correct Law That Inadvertently Targets Libraries, Publishers

January 09th, 2009

CPSC ruling requires children’s books to be removed for safety testing

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American Library Association (ALA) released a letter to Congress yesterday, urging members to take action against a recent opinion ruling released from the General Counsel of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) that would require public, school, academic and museum libraries to either remove all their books or ban all children under 12 from visiting the facilities, beginning on February 10.

The opinion was issued to the Association of American Publishers (AAP), following the group’s request to exclude children’s books from regulation under the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA), which passed the 110th Congress in August and is enforced by the CPSC.

Under the CPSC’s interpretation of the law, which seeks to protect children from exposure to lead and phthalate, books for children under the age of 12 are required to undergo the same testing procedures as children’s toys. Since the General Counsel’s opinion is retroactive, all books currently on library or store shelves must be removed for testing, including textbooks and children’s literature books in academic library research collections.

The publishing community has supplied the Commission with evidentiary support (available at www.rrd.com/cpsia ) that books and other non-book, paper-based printed materials should not be subject to the lead, phthalate, and applicable ASTM standards that are referenced in CPSIA because they do not present any of the health or safety risks to children that the law intended to address.

ALA President Jim Rettig said he agrees that books do not pose a threat to children and should not be subject to regulation.

“The CPSC should enforce this important legislation where the dangers are – not with books, which are not playthings and should remain unregulated,” Rettig said.

“I sincerely doubt that Congress intended to require libraries to be subject to this law, but if Congress does not act soon, libraries across the country will be forced to remove books from the shelves, rather than keep them available to serve the educational needs of our nation’s children.”

The ALA’s letter to Congress can be viewed here.

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