>Friday Morning Live! Presents:Habiba!

>Our kickoff to Friday Morning Live was delayed a week due to the mini hurricane/ extreme weather we experienced. We were happy to welcome Habibi from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

We were whisked away from our library in Lansdowne to Egypt as Habiba showed us traditional clothing worn by men and women. She shared anecdotes from her visits as well as her background with the country and the dancing.
Over 70 people enjoyed learning, practicing and watching the traditional dances!

Join us Fridays for throughout the Summer Reading Program for live entertainment.

Participants pose with Habiba

Explaining how to do the dances

Adults and children participate with the dances!

Aiawah!

Habiba dances for us

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A video of the day

The Lansdowne Public Library’s Friday Morning Live! was made possible by a grant from the Lansdowne Allied Youth and the Lansdowne Department of Recreation.

Habiba’s appearance was coordinated through a sponsorship by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as well as the sponsorship of The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

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>Water You Making? Set Sail With Vikings!

>Today we continued our drop in craft time with guests from The American Historical Swedish Museum. Educator Karin Nordbrandt shared Viking history and artifacts from the museum with our library friends in a program called Set Sail with Vikings!

We learned the history of Vikings, Scandinavian explorers, warriors and merchants who raided, traded, and settled in wide areas of Europe and Asia from the late eighth to the mid-eleventh century.

Karin shared different artifacts as well as facts about the lives of Vikings.

Karin showing us how Vikings traded

Viking warriors!

We created shields and Viking jewelry. By far the moist popular thing was Hnefatafl, aka Viking chess.

Who will win?

Hnefatafl board

In full on mode!

>Summer Reading Kickoff 2010!

>Summer 2010 have kicked off with two amazing performers!

Andrew warming up the crowd!

Wednesday, June 16th we welcomed Andrew from Piccarillo Sciencetelling! He shared The Case of the Mutating Hand while doing science experiments. With the theme of liquid and density, our group of 21 children and 12 adults learned of the Case of the Mutating Hand!

A demonstration of how water will NOT leak

through the plastic when the bag is heated

(From his web site)

Pirates – The Curse of the Mutating Hand (Theme – Liquid & Density) **Summer Reading Theme 2010**
In a time when pirates sailed the seven seas, there was one pirate who was feared the most. His name was Hendricks the Hand and he was cursed with a mutating hand. But this curse gave him power and now seeking to become unstoppable he must return to the place that cursed him…The Black Cave. In an attempt to protect the seas, the famous pirate James Dauer gathered a crew which included quartermaster Sam Sullivan and set sail for The Black Cave! Join us as we learn about the science of Liquid & Density by telling the tale of The Curse of the Mutating
Hand. By boiling water in a paper cup, crushing a can with only water,
creating a mutating hand, and exploding bottles through evaporation, see if
James Dauer can stop Hendricks before its too late!

The Mutating Hand!

For our second kickoff, Thursday, June 17th at 10:30 AM Mark Segal helped our group of 78 library friends become Tooth Buddies!

Mark, Silly Billy, Zeebo and other friends taught up proper oral care!

Waiting for the show to start!

Silly Billy and Zeebo

We’re all Tooth Buddies!

Visit our website to get more information about ALL of upcoming shows!

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>V is for Violin

>The Lansdowne community is rich with talent and we were lucky enough to have some of that talent share storytime with us! For Tuesday’s Bibs-n-Books, we had special guest reader Noele, lead vocalist for the band Reilly. She brought her violin, introduced the group to the orchestra, shared her wonderful playing and even gave the children an opportunity to try the instrument themselves!

Noele warming up

Introducing herself

Reading Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin! by Lloyd Moss

Accompanying us while we sang Old MacDonald,

Itsy Bitsy Spider and other familiar tunes

Everybody gets a turn!

Even some of the parents played!

Afterwards she shared pictures of violins for the group to color!

We were very excited about her visit and wish her luck with her upcoming tour.

We have many resources available for your own musical exploration. Available at the library, the Grandkit for music which includes instruments, cds and books.

Books about music:

Boom bah! / [Phil Cummings, Nina Rycroft].
I like the music / Leah Komaiko ; pictures by Barbara Westman.

Mole music / by David McPhail

Bibs-n-Books meets every Tuesday beginning at 10:30 with a play time following.

>TBC (‘Tween Book Club):Cookie Time!

>May is cookie month for our tweens and for our book club meeting today we decorated cookies and picked a new recipe to share. Thanks to a generous donation from The Friends of the Lansdowne Library Members, the decorators were able to use a variety of icings, candies and sprinkles to create sugar cookies to to eat.
Our book discussion took a creative turn: each member of the club found a recipe from our available books and will take it home to try something new.
Here are pictures from the event!
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Selection of books to try something new

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Keep on the lookout for our summer calendar when we will have more events like these available!

>Comic Book Day!

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Through a generous donation by the Friends of the Lansdowne Public Library we were excited to present a game day and comic book swap. Participants were invited to bring in their old books, get a new one and make one of their own in anticipation of Free Comic Book day, May 1st.

We had video games set up and children could play during the swap or create a book of their own from a template.

Books swapped were purchased from Cool Stuff Comics and every child was given a free book from a donation by the Delaware County Library System.

Here are pictures from the event.

A sample of the comics to be swapped

Picking out comics

Make your own comics

Competing in Just Dance

>What a Treasure!

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For the fifth consecutive year, Pennsylvania’s One Book, Every Young Child program will lead the way and highlight the importance of early literacy development in preschoolers ages 3 to 6. This year’s book is What a Treasure! by Jane and Will Hillenbrand.

To celebrate the Lansdowne Public Library held a special What a Treasure! themed storyhour.

Books Read:

These youngsters are waiting for the stories to begin!

What a Treasure by Jane and Will Hillenbrand

Treasure by Suzanne Bloom

One Dark Night by Lisa Wheeler (only read Wednesday night)

During our Thursday event Miss Margaret translated the books into Polish and Miss Heidi signed the books with us!

Activities:

We discussed moles and their low vision with a demonstration by Miss Rachee and how she sees without her glasses.

Pirate hates to look for treasure!

Here is Miss Rachee offereing a pirate hat to a young reader.

We mined for chocolate chips using Chewy Chips Ahoy.

We held a Scavenger Hunt in our Family Room. Participants were charged with finding objects from the books (mole, his parents, the animals the found treasures for) as well as other items that could be found while looking for treasures.

It’s Mole’s Mom and Dad!One less object to look for!

Completed boards were exchanged for coupons for local food stores on Wednesday evening or Jelly Beans on Thursday, as the 22nd was Jelly Bean Day.

Signs learned (courtesy of ASLpro.com)

Mole

Bear

Goose

Treasure

Bird

Copies of the books will be distributed to all participants of the storyhours.

Join us for storytime every Wednesday at 6:30pm or Thursday at 10:30 AM.

>One Potato, Two Potato

>Each week the library hosts a book club for children 4-7 years old*. This group, The Book Bunch, mixes books and crafts without the formal format of a storytime.

This week, in honor of the upcoming Saint Patrick’s Day holiday, we read and discussed One Potato, Two Potato by Cynthia DeFelice with illustrations by Andrea U’Ren. This is the story of a very poor, humble couple who lives so simple a life they share everything. One day the husband discovers a pot with magical powers buried under the very last potato in the garden.

After reading the book we discussed this book versus another similar one we read, Two of Everything by Lily Toy Hong and also discussed what WE would do with a magical pot.

For the craft we made potatoes.

Join us Wednesday afternoons for our young reader book group. New crafters are always welcome!

*Children up to and including 8/9 are welcome but may wish to join out monthly ‘tween bookclub, TBC.

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>Sleepytime Tales…With the Doctor!

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Dr. Seuss that is!

We read books by Dr. Seuss during a special Seussical Celebration. Guest readers were Miss. Amanda and Mr. Anthony.

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>Illstyle and Peace dance class!

>Last month we got down and boogied!
Not quite but we were pleased to welcome Brandon ‘Peace’ Albright, artistic director of Illstyle and Peace dance productions to host a hip hop dance class!

Here is some video from the day.

And yes, in the brown shirt is your blogger, Miss Rachee learning some moves.

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