WEBVTT 00:00:20.670 --> 00:00:24.629 Hello, I'm Patrick Adams. And I'm Caroline Legere. 00:00:24.890 --> 00:00:28.769 And this is Librarians of Littles, a podcast 00:00:28.769 --> 00:00:32.990 where we discuss books, give makerspace ideas, 00:00:33.530 --> 00:00:36.450 and give tips and tricks for working with our 00:00:36.450 --> 00:00:40.170 youngest learners in the library setting. This 00:00:40.170 --> 00:00:44.250 week we are going to continue discussing books. 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:48.439 that have to do with monsters or Halloween themes 00:00:48.439 --> 00:00:52.579 because as this episode is published it will 00:00:52.579 --> 00:00:55.299 be in October and we're getting closer to that 00:00:55.299 --> 00:00:59.240 spooky time of the year. We've got two really 00:00:59.240 --> 00:01:03.619 great books this week and the first one is titled... 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:06.980 Monster Trouble. It is written by Lane Fredrickson 00:01:06.980 --> 00:01:10.260 and illustrated by Michael Robertson. It was 00:01:10.260 --> 00:01:15.620 published by Union Square Kids in 2015. This 00:01:15.620 --> 00:01:20.340 book was on one list. It was on the Florida Award 00:01:20.340 --> 00:01:26.129 winners for 2015. And so we'll get into the author's 00:01:26.129 --> 00:01:28.569 background. Lane Fredrickson is a veteran of 00:01:28.569 --> 00:01:31.769 the United States Air Force and holds degrees 00:01:31.769 --> 00:01:36.530 in both psychology and English. She has a website, 00:01:36.989 --> 00:01:42.090 rhymeweaver .com, and it is full of image -based 00:01:42.090 --> 00:01:46.069 tutorials on poetry and writing. She lives in 00:01:46.069 --> 00:01:49.209 Florida with a volleyball player and a basketball 00:01:49.209 --> 00:01:53.099 player. also known as her children, also with 00:01:53.099 --> 00:01:56.859 her husband and a small Yorkie named Holly. And 00:01:56.859 --> 00:01:59.959 her website's really cool because she talks a 00:01:59.959 --> 00:02:05.420 lot about her first attempts at writing a book. 00:02:05.420 --> 00:02:08.360 She wanted to do a book in verse, a book in rhyme, 00:02:08.400 --> 00:02:11.939 and she had a lot of pushback for that because 00:02:11.939 --> 00:02:14.759 apparently that's not something that a lot of 00:02:14.759 --> 00:02:17.740 publishers are interested in unless you're like... 00:02:17.879 --> 00:02:19.659 really really good at. You have to find like 00:02:19.659 --> 00:02:22.060 the perfect rhyme scheme and stuff like that 00:02:22.060 --> 00:02:24.439 and basically if you read some of what she says 00:02:24.439 --> 00:02:30.159 that doesn't exist. So she gives some very cool 00:02:30.159 --> 00:02:35.919 tutorials on how to write in rhyme to make kind 00:02:35.919 --> 00:02:38.539 of the poetry kind of stuff and it's it was pretty 00:02:38.539 --> 00:02:41.699 cool to look through what she has on her website. 00:02:43.370 --> 00:02:46.689 Her one other book that she has published that 00:02:46.689 --> 00:02:49.949 I was able to find was called watch your tongue 00:02:49.949 --> 00:02:56.530 Cecily Beasley illustrated by John Davis and 00:02:56.530 --> 00:03:00.409 For the illustrator history our illustrator Michael 00:03:00.409 --> 00:03:03.860 Robertson was born and raised in northern Ohio. 00:03:04.919 --> 00:03:07.879 Michael graduated from Bowling Green State University 00:03:07.879 --> 00:03:10.539 with a degree in painting. He spent 10 years 00:03:10.539 --> 00:03:13.379 as a toy designer and character developer before 00:03:13.379 --> 00:03:15.560 trying his hand at illustration. His work has 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:18.199 appeared on many children's products, greeting 00:03:18.199 --> 00:03:20.539 cards, books, toys, and magazines and has received 00:03:20.539 --> 00:03:23.000 multiple recognitions from the Society of Illustrators. 00:03:24.030 --> 00:03:26.889 An avid collector of mid -century art and design 00:03:26.889 --> 00:03:30.050 since the 80s, Michael's vast array of influences 00:03:30.050 --> 00:03:35.090 include many modern masters such as Calder and 00:03:35.090 --> 00:03:38.289 Miro, as well as illustrators like Jim Flora, 00:03:38.810 --> 00:03:43.430 Alice and Martin Previnson, and Mary Blair. Michael 00:03:43.430 --> 00:03:46.129 lives in a spacious industrial warehouse loft 00:03:46.129 --> 00:03:48.949 in downtown Cleveland, where he enjoys painting. 00:03:49.080 --> 00:03:51.960 cooking, and listening to the extensive collection 00:03:51.960 --> 00:03:55.219 of vintage soul, jazz, and Brazilian music he 00:03:55.219 --> 00:03:59.500 has acquired over the years. Another book that 00:03:59.500 --> 00:04:03.020 he's published is my very favorite book in the 00:04:03.020 --> 00:04:06.659 whole wide world, which is written by Malcolm 00:04:06.659 --> 00:04:11.280 Mitchell. Malcolm Mitchell has another really 00:04:11.280 --> 00:04:14.280 good book that I love to read, The Magician's 00:04:14.280 --> 00:04:19.589 Hat. I was making all sorts of connections while 00:04:19.589 --> 00:04:21.870 I was reading about authors and illustrators, 00:04:22.009 --> 00:04:24.589 which was fun. Yeah, that was really good too. 00:04:25.829 --> 00:04:29.110 And so the summary for this book is that there 00:04:29.110 --> 00:04:33.170 is a little girl who is not afraid of anything. 00:04:33.350 --> 00:04:38.610 She's into scary movies and monsters and werewolves 00:04:38.610 --> 00:04:42.180 and all the things. But every night when she's 00:04:42.180 --> 00:04:44.540 trying to get ready for bed, the neighborhood 00:04:44.540 --> 00:04:48.560 monsters try to come in and scare her. Since 00:04:48.560 --> 00:04:51.279 she's not afraid, it's really just more annoying 00:04:51.279 --> 00:04:55.170 and it keeps her from getting to sleep. As she 00:04:55.170 --> 00:04:58.189 continues to miss out on sleep, she decides she 00:04:58.189 --> 00:05:01.009 needs to do something to deal with her monster 00:05:01.009 --> 00:05:04.670 problem. She gets a book about monster traps. 00:05:04.750 --> 00:05:07.810 She tries setting up different traps. Each trap 00:05:07.810 --> 00:05:10.410 fails for one reason or another. Like at one 00:05:10.410 --> 00:05:13.709 point she makes a small monster trap, but the 00:05:13.709 --> 00:05:16.509 big monsters show up first, things like that. 00:05:17.750 --> 00:05:22.839 And in the end, being so utterly exhausted, she 00:05:22.839 --> 00:05:25.060 finally falls asleep before the monsters make 00:05:25.060 --> 00:05:28.199 it to her room one night and when a monster tries 00:05:28.199 --> 00:05:32.100 to scare her she reaches out to grab it and cuddle 00:05:32.100 --> 00:05:35.339 it and ends up kissing it like one of her stuffed 00:05:35.339 --> 00:05:39.079 animals and all of the monsters freak out this 00:05:39.079 --> 00:05:42.120 is when she finally realizes what monsters hate 00:05:42.120 --> 00:05:46.560 most is kisses and so from that point forward 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:50.439 she no longer has any monster troubles because 00:05:50.439 --> 00:05:53.240 any monster that comes around she knows how to 00:05:53.240 --> 00:05:58.100 deal with it. And so this book, I love reading 00:05:58.100 --> 00:06:01.660 this book with my students because it is so much 00:06:01.660 --> 00:06:06.600 fun. It is a book in rhyme. So there's some rhyme 00:06:06.600 --> 00:06:09.379 scheme to it, which is fun because the kids like 00:06:09.379 --> 00:06:13.139 that predictability and the tempo that that gives 00:06:13.139 --> 00:06:18.079 it. The illustrations are awesome. The monsters 00:06:18.079 --> 00:06:22.920 are goofy and silly looking. The attempts at 00:06:22.920 --> 00:06:26.620 different traps that are being made are really 00:06:26.620 --> 00:06:30.000 pretty clever and fun and the kids love to look 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:31.680 at all the different parts, all the different 00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:35.959 designs. And in the end, the students just love 00:06:35.959 --> 00:06:40.839 the silliness of how she solves her problem. 00:06:41.240 --> 00:06:44.310 Winifred is able to... solve the problem in a 00:06:44.310 --> 00:06:46.430 unique way, and the kids just think it's the 00:06:46.430 --> 00:06:50.230 most gross and silliest way to deal with those 00:06:50.230 --> 00:06:53.629 monsters. And so I love this book. I think it's 00:06:53.629 --> 00:06:58.050 a five out of five. I think that any pre -K kinder 00:06:58.050 --> 00:07:01.689 student that hears the story will be very engaged. 00:07:02.149 --> 00:07:04.569 They will be laughing and just having a really 00:07:04.569 --> 00:07:07.480 good time with the story. Yeah, this was the 00:07:07.480 --> 00:07:10.379 first time that I'd gotten to read this one and 00:07:10.379 --> 00:07:12.699 Even though it was published a minute ago. That's 00:07:12.699 --> 00:07:15.779 okay. It was really cute though I really liked 00:07:15.779 --> 00:07:20.579 that it was still like Halloween esque and monster 00:07:20.579 --> 00:07:24.220 based but it was definitely not scary monsters 00:07:24.220 --> 00:07:27.180 a lot of our kids can be a little bit anxious 00:07:27.180 --> 00:07:33.930 this time of year and It was very Almost comforting, 00:07:33.930 --> 00:07:37.250 I think, to know that the monsters were most 00:07:37.250 --> 00:07:40.889 afraid of, you know, kisses and snuggles and 00:07:40.889 --> 00:07:44.089 things like that. So it was just I think this 00:07:44.089 --> 00:07:46.790 one would actually soothe a lot of kids fears 00:07:46.790 --> 00:07:49.370 of nothing else. I think it's great. I loved 00:07:49.370 --> 00:07:52.779 it. Agreed. Five out of five. Absolutely. I also 00:07:52.779 --> 00:07:56.300 love that the main character was a little African 00:07:56.300 --> 00:07:59.160 American girl just to add some diversity to it 00:07:59.160 --> 00:08:01.839 and to have some of our students see themselves 00:08:01.839 --> 00:08:05.240 in that story in a different way. Giving those 00:08:05.240 --> 00:08:07.339 opportunities is also just makes it that much 00:08:07.339 --> 00:08:10.800 better. I loved it. So yeah, definitely wonderful 00:08:10.800 --> 00:08:13.600 story. Highly recommend using it this time of 00:08:13.600 --> 00:08:19.439 year. For a makerspace activity. In the previous 00:08:19.439 --> 00:08:22.920 episode that we talked about monster books, my 00:08:22.920 --> 00:08:25.399 suggestion was to have the students create their 00:08:25.399 --> 00:08:27.459 own monsters, design them, and one of the ways 00:08:27.459 --> 00:08:29.519 that they could do that was with Legos. I thought 00:08:29.519 --> 00:08:31.660 it'd be really cool that if you were able to 00:08:31.660 --> 00:08:35.299 kind of keep some of those monster designs out 00:08:35.299 --> 00:08:39.500 of Legos, using those this week to have the students 00:08:39.500 --> 00:08:42.860 build using like Kiva planks, like wooden planks, 00:08:43.000 --> 00:08:46.399 they could build a monster trap. Think kind of 00:08:46.399 --> 00:08:49.889 like mouse trap kind of where like you set one 00:08:49.889 --> 00:08:52.909 thing off and it makes dominoes fall to make 00:08:52.909 --> 00:08:55.470 something else happen kind of thing to try and 00:08:55.470 --> 00:08:59.409 trap or encircle the Lego monster that was made 00:08:59.409 --> 00:09:01.490 the week before. I think that would be a lot 00:09:01.490 --> 00:09:05.169 of fun. It would be a very challenging thing 00:09:05.169 --> 00:09:07.110 for our students to do, but it would make those 00:09:07.110 --> 00:09:09.950 brains really have to work to think about cause 00:09:09.950 --> 00:09:14.870 and effect and to have that planning piece involved 00:09:14.870 --> 00:09:17.309 to make it so that the monster is trapped in 00:09:17.309 --> 00:09:21.029 the end. I love that. I love the the group work 00:09:21.029 --> 00:09:24.809 that that would involve and like lots of cooperation 00:09:24.809 --> 00:09:26.690 such especially for our younger ones because 00:09:26.690 --> 00:09:29.450 that's not something that I think very many of 00:09:29.450 --> 00:09:32.549 them would be able to do independently. So it's 00:09:32.549 --> 00:09:35.149 just another it's a super creative way to get 00:09:35.149 --> 00:09:38.509 the kids involved and to have you know a bit 00:09:38.509 --> 00:09:40.629 of social and emotional learning there with their 00:09:40.629 --> 00:09:43.649 that cooperation piece great suggestion that 00:09:43.649 --> 00:09:46.289 sounds fun you know they a lot of these kids 00:09:46.289 --> 00:09:50.429 are new to learning how to uh to work together 00:09:50.429 --> 00:09:52.870 and so yeah any way that we can get them to where 00:09:52.870 --> 00:09:56.429 they have to interact with each other and can't 00:09:56.429 --> 00:09:58.889 just go off solo and do the thing is always a 00:09:58.889 --> 00:10:04.549 good good practice so All right. And so that 00:10:04.549 --> 00:10:08.750 brings us to our library of littles management 00:10:08.750 --> 00:10:12.409 tip for this week. And so prior to starting recording, 00:10:12.450 --> 00:10:16.350 we were discussing our book checkout processes 00:10:16.350 --> 00:10:20.129 for this year and how they've kind of adapted 00:10:20.129 --> 00:10:23.250 a little bit with the students that we have this 00:10:23.250 --> 00:10:26.789 year on our campuses. Previously in prior years 00:10:26.789 --> 00:10:31.389 for kindergarten and then for pre -K a little 00:10:31.389 --> 00:10:35.830 bit. I would often have the students, kind of 00:10:35.830 --> 00:10:39.610 as a whole group, kind of go over to the picture 00:10:39.610 --> 00:10:41.529 books to look for books together. And then once 00:10:41.529 --> 00:10:43.750 everybody found their book, we'd get them all 00:10:43.750 --> 00:10:47.350 checked out and then move on to whatever was 00:10:47.350 --> 00:10:51.789 next on our list of things to do. But this year, 00:10:52.250 --> 00:10:56.330 I am finding that for multiple reasons, our students, 00:10:56.429 --> 00:10:59.610 that would not be the best approach. And so this 00:10:59.610 --> 00:11:01.370 year, I'm doing it a little bit differently. 00:11:01.490 --> 00:11:05.669 I have four makerspace tables that we use in 00:11:05.669 --> 00:11:09.289 the library. And so after any given book or activity 00:11:09.289 --> 00:11:14.789 that we've read, we go over their different makerspace 00:11:14.789 --> 00:11:17.009 challenges that they can choose from. So for 00:11:17.009 --> 00:11:19.210 a lot of books, I have more than one makerspace 00:11:19.210 --> 00:11:22.850 activity. And so I try to connect them to the 00:11:22.850 --> 00:11:24.509 books that we're reading. So there'll be like 00:11:24.509 --> 00:11:26.470 four different activities. We'll talk about them. 00:11:26.649 --> 00:11:28.610 And then I have the students go from the carpet 00:11:28.610 --> 00:11:33.110 to those tables and begin working. From there, 00:11:33.409 --> 00:11:37.110 what I tend to do is I've been pulling like five 00:11:37.110 --> 00:11:40.470 or six kids at a time. And as I was explaining 00:11:40.470 --> 00:11:43.169 to you, Caroline, the way I do that, how I pick 00:11:43.169 --> 00:11:46.250 who's going when is I use my seating chart to 00:11:46.250 --> 00:11:48.409 help me with that so that I make sure that I 00:11:48.409 --> 00:11:50.730 hit all the students that need to get books and 00:11:50.730 --> 00:11:52.909 everything. And so I'll pull my seating chart 00:11:52.909 --> 00:11:57.639 over and I will call those five or six students. 00:11:58.100 --> 00:12:00.620 They'll get their shelf stick and they'll all 00:12:00.620 --> 00:12:03.120 go over to the picture books. And before I call 00:12:03.120 --> 00:12:05.620 them, honestly, I also pull out their library 00:12:05.620 --> 00:12:08.000 cards that I've pre -made so that I have just 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:10.940 their five or six out because it makes it easier. 00:12:11.240 --> 00:12:13.980 in afterwards so once the kids we go over we 00:12:13.980 --> 00:12:16.039 all look for the books those five or six kids 00:12:16.039 --> 00:12:17.940 have their books we come back over to the computer 00:12:17.940 --> 00:12:20.139 and one at a time they have to find their library 00:12:20.139 --> 00:12:22.700 card out of the five or six that are there we 00:12:22.700 --> 00:12:25.100 scan their card we scan their book and then they 00:12:25.100 --> 00:12:27.840 can go put their book back on their spot on the 00:12:27.840 --> 00:12:30.200 carpet and they go back to the tables and continue 00:12:30.200 --> 00:12:34.000 to to work on the challenge when i can then pull 00:12:34.000 --> 00:12:37.759 the next group of five or six students over to 00:12:37.759 --> 00:12:40.860 do the same thing i will say that this process 00:12:42.810 --> 00:12:48.309 I don't know if it takes a lot more time. I think 00:12:48.309 --> 00:12:52.450 that depending on your students, it can take 00:12:52.450 --> 00:12:55.669 more time. If they're a little bit, if they struggle 00:12:55.669 --> 00:12:57.909 more to make a decision with what the book is 00:12:57.909 --> 00:12:59.750 kind of thing, it might slow the process down 00:12:59.750 --> 00:13:03.870 a little bit. In the past, like having like the 00:13:03.870 --> 00:13:07.970 big group go all at once, I could start checking 00:13:07.970 --> 00:13:10.580 out. the first few kids while the last couple 00:13:10.580 --> 00:13:12.299 kids are still looking for their book kind of 00:13:12.299 --> 00:13:16.259 thing. And so it didn't feel like it was taking 00:13:16.259 --> 00:13:18.860 as much time for me because I'd already started 00:13:18.860 --> 00:13:22.320 the check out process or check. Yeah. So that 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:25.960 the kids could move on this. It definitely slows 00:13:25.960 --> 00:13:28.919 me down as I'm like, okay, I need you to to get 00:13:28.919 --> 00:13:31.279 that so that we can let the next group go. And 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:35.539 so I try not to like rush them, but I do remind 00:13:35.539 --> 00:13:40.100 them that they need to be actively looking for 00:13:40.100 --> 00:13:43.120 the books that they want so that we can continue 00:13:43.120 --> 00:13:49.080 moving forward. But this is working out pretty 00:13:49.080 --> 00:13:54.299 well for me right now. By January, I might be 00:13:54.299 --> 00:13:58.200 able to let them just be like, okay, go and we'll 00:13:58.200 --> 00:14:01.139 see if I choose to go to that. But right now, 00:14:01.139 --> 00:14:03.340 this is the process that I'm using and it's working 00:14:03.340 --> 00:14:06.100 well. Everybody's still getting their book. We're 00:14:06.100 --> 00:14:09.610 getting them to like the other students, while 00:14:09.610 --> 00:14:12.769 some are looking for their books are busy working 00:14:12.769 --> 00:14:15.570 on the challenges and that kind of thing. And 00:14:15.570 --> 00:14:19.629 so it's it's working out well for me at the moment. 00:14:20.730 --> 00:14:23.169 Yeah, and I've been doing the same thing this 00:14:23.169 --> 00:14:28.210 year, but mine was more accidental and not really 00:14:28.649 --> 00:14:30.990 I didn't intend to do it that way at all. If 00:14:30.990 --> 00:14:35.009 any of you guys are Destiny users, you know that 00:14:35.009 --> 00:14:37.149 Destiny's been on the struggle list this year, 00:14:37.529 --> 00:14:42.250 and I elected not to make library cards yet. 00:14:42.490 --> 00:14:45.070 I know it's something I should have done, but 00:14:45.070 --> 00:14:48.750 with how many problems the catalog has been having, 00:14:49.590 --> 00:14:56.379 I just... I didn't do it. I had over... My computer 00:14:56.379 --> 00:15:00.000 thought I have about 600 kids at my school and 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:04.500 my computer thought I had about 1200 and I did 00:15:04.500 --> 00:15:09.460 not choose to go through and weed out the 600 00:15:09.460 --> 00:15:13.700 students that aren't there. So instead of making 00:15:13.700 --> 00:15:17.080 library cards like I probably should have done, 00:15:17.899 --> 00:15:21.600 I just went through class lists and called kids 00:15:21.600 --> 00:15:25.519 alphabetically. And kinder first and second grade 00:15:25.519 --> 00:15:27.740 actually and that's kind of what we did where 00:15:27.740 --> 00:15:32.500 we did our maker space stations pretty much exactly 00:15:32.500 --> 00:15:35.379 like you described we didn't talk about that 00:15:35.379 --> 00:15:38.620 beforehand we just came up with the same process 00:15:38.620 --> 00:15:43.559 accidentally. For different reasons and but i've 00:15:43.559 --> 00:15:46.929 been doing it with k one and two. Because it's 00:15:46.929 --> 00:15:49.730 been a library card problem not necessarily a 00:15:49.730 --> 00:15:52.350 I need to help you more problem But I have been 00:15:52.350 --> 00:15:55.090 enjoying being able to help the kids more and 00:15:55.090 --> 00:15:58.370 I feel like I do get more individual time which 00:15:58.370 --> 00:16:01.950 each with each of the kids with Second grade 00:16:01.950 --> 00:16:05.629 for sure. I call about five kids at a time Just 00:16:05.629 --> 00:16:07.529 they are a little bit more independent and they 00:16:07.529 --> 00:16:10.289 don't need quite as much help and I can help 00:16:10.289 --> 00:16:13.389 Those kids who need it if there's five at a time 00:16:13.389 --> 00:16:16.740 with kinder and first it's a little bit less 00:16:16.740 --> 00:16:20.299 I call like maybe three or four at a time and 00:16:20.299 --> 00:16:24.200 then but it's helping me get to know the kids 00:16:24.200 --> 00:16:29.080 names a lot faster I do feel like I know at least 00:16:29.080 --> 00:16:31.720 half the kids name like half the kids on site 00:16:31.720 --> 00:16:34.580 now which I feel like is pretty impressive for 00:16:34.580 --> 00:16:37.720 right now it's the end of September so I think 00:16:37.720 --> 00:16:39.720 that's pretty good for a brand new campus where 00:16:39.720 --> 00:16:42.899 I'm having to learn that many new humans because 00:16:42.899 --> 00:16:45.830 it's all students and staff that I'm learning. 00:16:46.309 --> 00:16:48.309 It's helping me learn names and it's helping 00:16:48.309 --> 00:16:51.110 me to build better relationships with kids because 00:16:51.110 --> 00:16:52.830 I have a little bit of one -on -one time, not 00:16:52.830 --> 00:16:56.850 a lot, but some. And the kids seem to enjoy it 00:16:56.850 --> 00:17:01.350 too. So when we do our checkout, I call them 00:17:01.350 --> 00:17:03.509 over. They check out their books and then once 00:17:03.509 --> 00:17:07.029 they have their book, when our kids are dismissed 00:17:07.029 --> 00:17:10.730 from the library, I have number Velcro by the 00:17:10.730 --> 00:17:13.329 door like... like you see in many classrooms 00:17:13.329 --> 00:17:15.990 right where it's just like one through I think 00:17:15.990 --> 00:17:18.670 I have 25 spots for the kids to stand because 00:17:18.670 --> 00:17:22.369 our campus is really big on lining up in number 00:17:22.369 --> 00:17:25.369 order so I have the number dots so the kids can 00:17:25.369 --> 00:17:27.130 line up in number order so once they check out 00:17:27.130 --> 00:17:30.990 their book they have the option to either go 00:17:30.990 --> 00:17:33.170 sit in the reading corner which where we've got 00:17:33.170 --> 00:17:36.990 a lot of you know cozy chairs and such to encourage 00:17:36.990 --> 00:17:40.549 reading or they can put their book on their number 00:17:40.549 --> 00:17:43.789 so that they have it like in the spot where they're 00:17:43.789 --> 00:17:46.410 going to line up and we talk about like not stepping 00:17:46.410 --> 00:17:49.710 on the books and like still putting it down gently 00:17:49.710 --> 00:17:52.750 by the door but that kind of just marks it so 00:17:52.750 --> 00:17:55.609 that everybody knows which one is their book 00:17:55.609 --> 00:17:57.650 because especially with kindergarten I think 00:17:57.650 --> 00:18:00.569 that's the biggest challenge with doing it. that 00:18:00.569 --> 00:18:03.589 way is kids might get their books mixed up afterward. 00:18:03.690 --> 00:18:06.970 But really like after showing them where to put 00:18:06.970 --> 00:18:08.869 their book and they already like the teachers 00:18:08.869 --> 00:18:11.170 have already taught them what their number is 00:18:11.170 --> 00:18:14.910 because that's really big across our whole campus 00:18:14.910 --> 00:18:18.329 from Kinder up through fifth grade. So they already 00:18:18.329 --> 00:18:20.049 know where their spot is going to be in line. 00:18:20.109 --> 00:18:23.069 So I really haven't lost like there hasn't been 00:18:23.069 --> 00:18:25.970 too many book mix ups or anything as far as that 00:18:25.970 --> 00:18:28.269 goes. That's been working really well for us. 00:18:28.470 --> 00:18:32.430 So I don't know. I think Destiny is, I think 00:18:32.430 --> 00:18:35.930 for me, finally fixed. And I don't know that 00:18:35.930 --> 00:18:37.730 I'm going to change my process though. I will 00:18:37.730 --> 00:18:39.490 like make library cards so that the kids can 00:18:39.490 --> 00:18:44.789 be more independent. But I think I've been enjoying 00:18:44.789 --> 00:18:47.609 checking out this way for younger kids. It's 00:18:47.609 --> 00:18:50.630 been good. Yeah, it's been working really well. 00:18:51.069 --> 00:18:54.450 And I do like that we get that time with those 00:18:54.450 --> 00:18:57.220 kids on them. not necessarily one to one, but 00:18:57.220 --> 00:18:59.420 in a smaller group setting so that I do get to 00:18:59.420 --> 00:19:01.420 learn about them a little bit more. That is a 00:19:01.420 --> 00:19:04.759 very big positive for sure. And yet, similar 00:19:04.759 --> 00:19:07.200 to yours, my students just bring their books 00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:10.440 back to their carpet spot. And then what I do 00:19:10.440 --> 00:19:14.599 is at the end of class time, the last five minutes 00:19:14.599 --> 00:19:17.279 is when I tell the kids that we stop and clean 00:19:17.279 --> 00:19:20.240 up, they all end up back on the carpet. And then 00:19:20.240 --> 00:19:22.420 that's where I can give any like last minute. 00:19:23.180 --> 00:19:26.460 reminders or anything like that. And then they 00:19:26.460 --> 00:19:29.299 take their books. And that's when they get to 00:19:29.299 --> 00:19:31.920 the line with their books at that point. But 00:19:31.920 --> 00:19:35.980 yeah, either way works really well. And because 00:19:35.980 --> 00:19:38.019 I otherwise if I had them go straight to get 00:19:38.019 --> 00:19:42.799 in line, I'd be like, forgetting to do like the 00:19:42.799 --> 00:19:45.619 last minute like reminder kind of things like 00:19:45.619 --> 00:19:48.779 a lot of times. since my schedule this year is 00:19:48.779 --> 00:19:51.059 weird and I don't have a consistent day where 00:19:51.059 --> 00:19:53.759 I see those groups like a lot of times I'm like 00:19:53.759 --> 00:19:55.880 this is the next time I'm going to see you is 00:19:55.880 --> 00:19:57.819 this day next week and that kind of thing and 00:19:57.819 --> 00:20:00.720 so that's true I like to have those last minute 00:20:00.720 --> 00:20:02.819 that last couple minutes where they are still 00:20:02.819 --> 00:20:04.700 sitting on the carpet so that I can give them 00:20:04.700 --> 00:20:07.059 those reminders and that kind of thing but either 00:20:07.059 --> 00:20:10.619 way as long as they have a safe place to put 00:20:10.619 --> 00:20:13.480 their book and can get back to their book before 00:20:13.480 --> 00:20:17.299 they leave it works out and so Definitely keeping 00:20:17.299 --> 00:20:22.819 this process going for a while still, yeah. Yeah, 00:20:23.039 --> 00:20:26.180 I enjoy it. I will probably just keep doing it 00:20:26.180 --> 00:20:29.980 all year like this. And I have noticed that I 00:20:29.980 --> 00:20:35.119 know for younger kids anyway, now I know that 00:20:35.119 --> 00:20:37.480 kid is gonna need a football book in a minute. 00:20:37.960 --> 00:20:41.240 And I think I know a little bit about that with 00:20:41.240 --> 00:20:44.490 our older kids. But like with our younger ones, 00:20:44.670 --> 00:20:47.769 I super know their preferences and which ones 00:20:47.769 --> 00:20:49.410 they're going to want to go for. And I think 00:20:49.410 --> 00:20:51.390 I can make book recommendations a little bit 00:20:51.390 --> 00:20:54.349 faster and better with them now because I have 00:20:54.349 --> 00:20:56.609 taken the time to get to know. Well, it's not 00:20:56.609 --> 00:20:58.589 necessarily taking the time, but I have developed 00:20:58.589 --> 00:21:02.750 a system where I can get to know them naturally 00:21:02.750 --> 00:21:06.089 a little bit better. Yeah. So highly recommend 00:21:06.089 --> 00:21:10.049 for the youngers. Yeah. The next book that we're 00:21:10.049 --> 00:21:12.599 going to talk about. It's another classic. It's 00:21:12.599 --> 00:21:16.079 Creepy Carrots. It was published by Simon and 00:21:16.079 --> 00:21:19.220 Schuster Books for Young Readers in 2012. The 00:21:19.220 --> 00:21:20.980 author is Aaron Reynolds and the illustrator 00:21:20.980 --> 00:21:25.099 is Peter Brown. This book won an Odyssey Honor 00:21:25.099 --> 00:21:27.200 Award. I had to look it up and see what that 00:21:27.200 --> 00:21:30.440 award is for. It's an audiobook winner. It got 00:21:30.440 --> 00:21:35.200 the Caldecott Honor in 2013. It's an ALSC Notable 00:21:35.200 --> 00:21:38.420 Children's Book in 2013 and a Junior Library 00:21:38.420 --> 00:21:43.069 Guild selection. And it is on a total of 24 state 00:21:43.069 --> 00:21:45.069 lists. So I won't list all of them, but a few 00:21:45.069 --> 00:21:47.569 of them are the Arizona Grand Canyon Reading 00:21:47.569 --> 00:21:51.289 Award, California Young Reader Medal, Colorado 00:21:51.289 --> 00:21:54.650 Children's Book Award, Illinois Monarch Award, 00:21:54.970 --> 00:21:59.230 and Texas Tube Lichu. And so now I'm gonna have 00:21:59.230 --> 00:22:02.269 to find this book as an audio book and listen 00:22:02.269 --> 00:22:05.170 to it to see. It's a good audio book. Yeah, I've 00:22:05.170 --> 00:22:07.289 never I've never had it listened to it as an 00:22:07.289 --> 00:22:09.269 audio book. But now I want to find out what it's 00:22:09.269 --> 00:22:11.410 like as an audio book, because I've always just 00:22:11.410 --> 00:22:14.890 read the physical book. So I've listened to it. 00:22:15.410 --> 00:22:19.450 I don't remember why I listened to it on audio. 00:22:19.990 --> 00:22:22.470 But I did listen to it on audio like five years 00:22:22.470 --> 00:22:25.329 ago. And like, there's that one line with the 00:22:25.329 --> 00:22:28.069 terrible charity breathing and it's got terrible 00:22:28.069 --> 00:22:34.109 charity breathing like to my my book checkout 00:22:34.109 --> 00:22:37.750 list from my library so that I can yeah I think 00:22:37.750 --> 00:22:41.869 maybe my personal kids were into audiobooks at 00:22:41.869 --> 00:22:44.509 the time and that's why I don't remember but 00:22:44.509 --> 00:22:47.210 it's a really good audiobook and actually I played 00:22:47.210 --> 00:22:50.410 it I think for a couple of classes and then I 00:22:50.410 --> 00:22:53.049 couldn't do it anymore because it did scare some 00:22:53.049 --> 00:22:56.990 of the kids too bad oh like and then I had to 00:22:56.990 --> 00:23:02.660 be like too creepy yeah it was And I was like, 00:23:02.660 --> 00:23:05.519 okay. I had to be like, y 'all, it's carrots. 00:23:05.759 --> 00:23:08.960 With this one, honestly, I do get a kid every 00:23:08.960 --> 00:23:11.140 now and then, even with me reading it, where 00:23:11.140 --> 00:23:13.079 they're like, oh, and then I have to be like, 00:23:13.160 --> 00:23:15.140 it's a carrot. It's a carrot. Would you like 00:23:15.140 --> 00:23:17.240 to eat a carrot? We're all good. It's carrots. 00:23:17.480 --> 00:23:19.359 Don't be scared of carrots. And then they go, 00:23:19.420 --> 00:23:22.160 it's cool. All right, I won't be scared of carrots. 00:23:23.200 --> 00:23:25.700 Anyhow, yeah, you should check out the audio 00:23:25.700 --> 00:23:28.400 book. It's also got, if you've gotten Novel Effect 00:23:28.400 --> 00:23:32.730 yet, that one has really, Good. Sound effects 00:23:32.730 --> 00:23:35.890 for this one, too. For the author history, Aaron 00:23:35.890 --> 00:23:38.990 Reynolds is a number one New York Times bestselling 00:23:38.990 --> 00:23:41.930 author. He is passionate about creating books 00:23:41.930 --> 00:23:45.430 and helping kids develop a love of reading. His 00:23:45.430 --> 00:23:47.849 father was in the Air Force, so he moved frequently 00:23:47.849 --> 00:23:51.410 as a child, but he now resides in Chicago with 00:23:51.410 --> 00:23:55.049 his wife and two kids. He has written over 50 00:23:55.049 --> 00:23:57.710 children's books, and a few of his titles include 00:23:57.710 --> 00:24:00.930 the Creepy Tales series. This is one of them. 00:24:01.029 --> 00:24:03.809 The others are Creepy Crayon and Creepy Pair 00:24:03.809 --> 00:24:07.549 of Underwear. And they're also coming up with 00:24:07.549 --> 00:24:11.109 Jasper Rabbit's Creepy Tales, which is also illustrated 00:24:11.109 --> 00:24:15.210 by Peter Brown. And that one is for a little 00:24:15.210 --> 00:24:18.130 bit older readers. I think that's like second 00:24:18.130 --> 00:24:21.160 grade -ish. Some more books that he's written 00:24:21.160 --> 00:24:25.240 are the Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter series 00:24:25.240 --> 00:24:29.839 and Nerdy Birdy and Nerdy Birdy tweets illustrated 00:24:29.839 --> 00:24:35.940 by Matt Davies. And then the illustrator is Peter 00:24:35.940 --> 00:24:39.079 Brown. Peter grew up in New Jersey. As a child, 00:24:39.079 --> 00:24:42.400 he loved to tell stories with pictures of whimsical 00:24:42.400 --> 00:24:45.019 characters and settings from his imagination. 00:24:45.599 --> 00:24:48.599 As he got older, he added words to his stories. 00:24:49.049 --> 00:24:52.990 and he studied illustration at Art Center College 00:24:52.990 --> 00:24:56.450 of Design where he took many courses on children's 00:24:56.450 --> 00:24:59.150 books. After graduating, Peter moved to New York 00:24:59.150 --> 00:25:02.569 to be closer to the publishing industry. He worked 00:25:02.569 --> 00:25:05.609 on animated television shows while signing his 00:25:05.609 --> 00:25:08.529 first book deal. Since then, Peter has written 00:25:08.529 --> 00:25:12.049 and illustrated many books for children. He currently 00:25:12.049 --> 00:25:15.859 lives in Maine with his wife and dog. And some 00:25:15.859 --> 00:25:19.920 of his other books include The Curious Garden, 00:25:20.359 --> 00:25:24.200 which is an amazing story. I love that one. Mr. 00:25:24.539 --> 00:25:29.299 Tiger Goes Wild, Fred Gets Dressed, Children 00:25:29.299 --> 00:25:34.319 Make Terrible Pets, You Will Be My Friend, Flight 00:25:34.319 --> 00:25:38.440 of the Dodo, Chowder, The Wild Robot Series, 00:25:39.039 --> 00:25:41.900 and he also illustrated the Creepy Tale series. 00:25:42.620 --> 00:25:45.579 including the newest one, the Jasper Rabbit, 00:25:45.720 --> 00:25:49.160 Creepy Tales, which I'm very much looking forward 00:25:49.160 --> 00:25:52.799 to. Before you get started with the summary, 00:25:53.019 --> 00:25:56.579 I just need to say that my students, like these 00:25:56.579 --> 00:25:59.140 books are never on the shelves because they are 00:25:59.140 --> 00:26:02.319 so popular. My kids love the entire series of 00:26:02.319 --> 00:26:05.019 them. And they're always asking me where they 00:26:05.019 --> 00:26:09.079 are. This is like the dog man of the picture 00:26:09.079 --> 00:26:12.759 book section. They always want to know where 00:26:12.759 --> 00:26:16.400 these books are. Same. I just ordered a second 00:26:16.400 --> 00:26:20.079 copy of each of them from my library. So library. 00:26:20.259 --> 00:26:23.700 Only one library this year. Yeah. Yeah, they're 00:26:23.700 --> 00:26:26.039 great. And kids love them. They're fabulous. 00:26:26.359 --> 00:26:30.640 And I really like this one in particular because 00:26:30.640 --> 00:26:34.440 it is... Like it is kind of I mean, it's creepy 00:26:34.440 --> 00:26:37.819 carrots. They're a little creepy, but They're 00:26:37.819 --> 00:26:40.920 not like overtly scary because it's still carrots 00:26:40.920 --> 00:26:45.779 but since it is I like I like this one in particular 00:26:45.779 --> 00:26:49.700 because it is a Caldecott winner and the Illustrations 00:26:49.700 --> 00:26:54.700 are so unique. I think it's a really great way 00:26:54.700 --> 00:26:58.579 to Introduce the Caldecott usually with the Caldecott 00:26:58.579 --> 00:27:01.410 like when I'm talking about the books with the 00:27:01.410 --> 00:27:04.349 Caldecott, I'm like, okay, it's really, it's 00:27:04.349 --> 00:27:06.410 really pretty pictures is what it is, right? 00:27:06.470 --> 00:27:08.730 It's the one for the best illustrations. But 00:27:08.730 --> 00:27:12.930 with this one, because it's so monochromatic 00:27:12.930 --> 00:27:17.509 with only the different shades of orange in there 00:27:17.509 --> 00:27:22.150 for your color, like the color scheme is so unique, 00:27:22.230 --> 00:27:25.690 I think it's easier to point out to kids of why 00:27:25.690 --> 00:27:29.660 this book in particular would win. a Caldecott 00:27:29.660 --> 00:27:34.220 and why the illustrations are so like why I would 00:27:34.220 --> 00:27:37.779 win a prize like that because it's not it's easier 00:27:37.779 --> 00:27:41.119 to point out to the kids I guess it's just I 00:27:41.119 --> 00:27:42.980 don't know usually it's just like the pictures 00:27:42.980 --> 00:27:46.460 are pretty there you go but this one it resonates 00:27:46.460 --> 00:27:49.460 with them more I guess with that Caldecott so 00:27:49.460 --> 00:27:52.059 I like to use this one this time of year to also 00:27:52.059 --> 00:27:53.880 to introduce that as well and that's when we 00:27:53.880 --> 00:27:55.779 start talking about award winners is with this 00:27:55.779 --> 00:27:59.799 book in particular so Anyway, the book summary 00:27:59.799 --> 00:28:05.740 that I forgot to do is In this book Jasper Rabbit 00:28:05.740 --> 00:28:08.720 is our main character and he loves to eat carrots 00:28:08.720 --> 00:28:11.220 more than anything in the world They are his 00:28:11.220 --> 00:28:14.180 absolute favorite food and he eats them all day 00:28:14.180 --> 00:28:17.460 every day until that is they start following 00:28:17.460 --> 00:28:21.069 him home. At first he thinks he's imagining things, 00:28:21.490 --> 00:28:23.930 but the carrots get progressively creepier as 00:28:23.930 --> 00:28:26.049 Jasper comes to realize that he's the only one 00:28:26.049 --> 00:28:29.390 who knows that he's being followed. He finally 00:28:29.390 --> 00:28:32.559 solves his creepy problem by building a wall 00:28:32.559 --> 00:28:35.400 around the carrot patch and vowing to never go 00:28:35.400 --> 00:28:37.599 inside again. But little does he know that all 00:28:37.599 --> 00:28:41.079 the carrots inside are secretly celebrating because 00:28:41.079 --> 00:28:45.079 they are finally able to stay in the carrot patch 00:28:45.079 --> 00:28:48.220 in peace without fear of being eaten by Jasper 00:28:48.220 --> 00:28:52.099 Rabbit. So I think we already said all the great 00:28:52.099 --> 00:28:55.380 things about it. It's the Caldecott winner. Super 00:28:55.380 --> 00:28:59.589 unique illustrations that or really, really resonate 00:28:59.589 --> 00:29:04.549 with our kiddos. Yeah, it's still somewhat sca 00:29:04.549 --> 00:29:07.869 - like, it is - creepy is a good word for it. 00:29:07.890 --> 00:29:11.589 Like it's a little bit, little hints of scary 00:29:11.589 --> 00:29:15.789 without being like super scary. Novel Effect, 00:29:15.930 --> 00:29:19.630 the Novel Effect app has a fabulous soundscape 00:29:19.630 --> 00:29:22.809 for it that I really like. It's one of my favorites 00:29:22.809 --> 00:29:26.809 with this book. And yeah, all the kids love it. 00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:29.920 it's just a fabulous book easily five out of 00:29:29.920 --> 00:29:32.859 five it's one of my favorite books to read ever 00:29:32.859 --> 00:29:37.700 agreed this is always such a hit i love introducing 00:29:37.700 --> 00:29:40.359 it to the kindergartners and pre -k students 00:29:40.359 --> 00:29:44.039 that have never heard it before and like it it's 00:29:44.039 --> 00:29:46.779 just yeah instant classic for all of them they 00:29:46.779 --> 00:29:50.660 love it because this thing is like most kids 00:29:50.660 --> 00:29:55.660 like monsters are probably like there's like 00:29:55.660 --> 00:29:58.279 a fine line and like monsters a lot for a lot 00:29:58.279 --> 00:30:00.940 of kids, it's kind of too much. But the fact 00:30:00.940 --> 00:30:04.599 that these are carrots, it's okay that they're 00:30:04.599 --> 00:30:09.019 creepy. Like it's still on the side of like not 00:30:09.019 --> 00:30:11.559 terrifying and not gonna be a thing that's gonna 00:30:11.559 --> 00:30:14.839 become an issue for most of the students. But 00:30:14.839 --> 00:30:21.900 a lot of the kids like that creepy and like the... 00:30:22.119 --> 00:30:25.640 Like I can feel the hesitation and that like 00:30:25.640 --> 00:30:29.740 almost scared, but not fully scared kind of situation. 00:30:29.960 --> 00:30:33.759 And so like a lot of our younger kids enjoy these 00:30:33.759 --> 00:30:35.960 books because they're not like, I'm going to 00:30:35.960 --> 00:30:37.660 go home and have nightmares because of this, 00:30:37.660 --> 00:30:40.680 but they can still get that feel of, oh, this 00:30:40.680 --> 00:30:45.059 is creepy and I can enjoy that feeling. Yeah. 00:30:45.259 --> 00:30:48.319 It's always just such a good book. And like the 00:30:48.319 --> 00:30:51.160 kids are always asking for them. It's so good. 00:30:51.339 --> 00:30:54.759 Love it. Yeah, and I'm really glad that they're 00:30:54.759 --> 00:30:57.960 starting with I haven't read Jasper Rabbit's 00:30:57.960 --> 00:31:01.299 creepy tales yet. No, not yet. I'm looking forward 00:31:01.299 --> 00:31:04.240 to it. I've ordered that one as well. And I hope 00:31:04.240 --> 00:31:09.599 it gets here soon. I have high high hopes. For 00:31:09.599 --> 00:31:14.460 a makerspace activity with this one, it's almost 00:31:14.460 --> 00:31:17.019 related, but not quite. It's a very Halloween 00:31:17.019 --> 00:31:20.980 activity, though. I always like for the weeks 00:31:20.980 --> 00:31:24.700 leading up to Halloween to write on pumpkins 00:31:24.700 --> 00:31:28.339 with dry erase markers. It wipes off really easily 00:31:28.339 --> 00:31:33.259 and really well. I usually get like pie pumpkins 00:31:33.259 --> 00:31:36.119 that are like a dollar each or something and 00:31:36.119 --> 00:31:40.160 I'll just get like five or six of them and I'll 00:31:40.160 --> 00:31:43.319 get like five or six dry erase markers for kids 00:31:43.319 --> 00:31:46.339 to write on and I'll talk about a jack -o' -lantern 00:31:46.339 --> 00:31:50.359 and kind of introduce that vocabulary. because 00:31:50.359 --> 00:31:52.619 it is a different word that we use this time 00:31:52.619 --> 00:31:57.160 of year. But then, and I'll kind of write, I'll 00:31:57.160 --> 00:32:00.720 use, you know, model writing on the pumpkin like, 00:32:01.079 --> 00:32:02.740 and I'll start with it doing like a jack -o' 00:32:02.740 --> 00:32:04.759 -lantern face and do like triangles for eyes 00:32:04.759 --> 00:32:08.119 and things like that. But then I'll like, I wipe 00:32:08.119 --> 00:32:11.380 it off and then show them that they could also 00:32:11.380 --> 00:32:13.740 like practice writing their name on the pumpkin 00:32:13.740 --> 00:32:17.170 or just practice. Writing anything really and 00:32:17.170 --> 00:32:19.690 just or like maybe I feel like drawing a carrot 00:32:19.690 --> 00:32:22.829 because we just read creepy carrots But it wipes 00:32:22.829 --> 00:32:26.809 off really easily with a baby wipe a baby wipe 00:32:26.809 --> 00:32:30.410 is does the best job you can just wipe it off 00:32:30.410 --> 00:32:35.289 with Just a regular paper towel or something 00:32:35.289 --> 00:32:39.410 though In in class, I usually wipe it off with 00:32:39.410 --> 00:32:44.519 either just a regular dry erase eraser or a paper 00:32:44.519 --> 00:32:47.180 towel but then after each class I wipe it down 00:32:47.180 --> 00:32:51.980 like really good with a baby wipe and it comes 00:32:51.980 --> 00:32:54.579 right off and it's like perfectly clean for the 00:32:54.579 --> 00:32:56.519 next class but it's just a really good way to 00:32:56.519 --> 00:32:59.420 encourage writing and I kind of add that as an 00:32:59.420 --> 00:33:01.559 extra and I do that one for usually a couple 00:33:01.559 --> 00:33:05.299 of weeks because it's so very popular and even 00:33:05.299 --> 00:33:08.980 your most reluctant writers will usually go to 00:33:08.980 --> 00:33:13.599 that one and attempt some kind of writing and 00:33:13.930 --> 00:33:16.470 It's definitely one of the favorites throughout 00:33:16.470 --> 00:33:20.029 the year. So, yeah. I really like that idea. 00:33:20.029 --> 00:33:23.190 That's really cool and a unique way to practice 00:33:23.190 --> 00:33:26.170 writing that I never really thought of, but that's 00:33:26.170 --> 00:33:28.930 really cool. And then, like, if you really wanted, 00:33:29.470 --> 00:33:32.450 you could take one or two of those pies and put 00:33:32.450 --> 00:33:35.549 them into, like, a big jar. Have you seen, like, 00:33:35.569 --> 00:33:37.250 where some of the librarians will show, like, 00:33:37.329 --> 00:33:40.930 the pumpkin decaying over the school year? like 00:33:40.930 --> 00:33:43.430 you could that's I haven't seen it but I heard 00:33:43.430 --> 00:33:45.910 the librarian before me did it I heard all about 00:33:45.910 --> 00:33:47.809 it at the beginning of the year so like if you 00:33:47.809 --> 00:33:50.029 had the pumpkins already and you're using them 00:33:50.029 --> 00:33:51.509 then you could put a couple of them in there 00:33:51.509 --> 00:33:53.470 and let the kids kind of see how they change 00:33:53.470 --> 00:33:55.930 every week when they come in as they're as they're 00:33:55.930 --> 00:33:58.450 slowly going bad and rotting and stuff which 00:33:58.450 --> 00:34:01.109 would be just kind of an extra little thing but 00:34:01.109 --> 00:34:03.710 that's I love the idea of writing on the pumpkins 00:34:03.710 --> 00:34:10.480 to show the like to give the kids that like they 00:34:10.480 --> 00:34:12.719 can write and they can draw and things like that 00:34:12.719 --> 00:34:14.780 and then just gets wiped off and the next group 00:34:14.780 --> 00:34:17.400 can come in and do the same thing yeah they like 00:34:17.400 --> 00:34:21.039 it a lot it's a lot of fun they do get kind of 00:34:21.039 --> 00:34:24.119 wrinkly over the course of a whole week at the 00:34:24.119 --> 00:34:26.099 end of the week they get kind of wrinkly because 00:34:26.099 --> 00:34:28.380 they've been wet so much when you wipe them off 00:34:28.380 --> 00:34:33.239 but it's still usable and it's not no kid has 00:34:33.239 --> 00:34:35.119 ever like complained because it's wrinkly i don't 00:34:35.119 --> 00:34:37.860 even think they know the difference I notice 00:34:37.860 --> 00:34:40.340 because I've seen it happen throughout the week. 00:34:41.039 --> 00:34:44.679 But that's the only thing, but it's not... I 00:34:44.679 --> 00:34:47.659 still use it. It's still okay, I think. It's 00:34:47.659 --> 00:34:50.579 not gross enough that I would throw it out. So, 00:34:51.340 --> 00:34:55.039 yeah. Very cool. Well, thank you all for joining 00:34:55.039 --> 00:34:57.420 us on this episode of Librarians of Littles, 00:34:57.460 --> 00:35:00.840 and we hope you found some fresh ideas for inspiring 00:35:00.840 --> 00:35:03.719 our youngest readers. Please be sure to subscribe 00:35:03.719 --> 00:35:06.590 and connect with us on social media. Happy reading! 00:35:07.309 --> 00:35:10.150 Thank you for listening to this episode of Librarians 00:35:10.150 --> 00:35:12.989 of Littles. We hope that you've enjoyed it. Check 00:35:12.989 --> 00:35:17.400 back each Wednesday for a new episode. Librarians 00:35:17.400 --> 00:35:20.159 of Littles is a podcast produced and hosted by 00:35:20.159 --> 00:35:23.820 Patrick Adams and Caroline Legier. Editor, Patrick 00:35:23.820 --> 00:35:27.599 Adams. 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