Misadventures of the Monster Librarian

Today was a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) day. This morning the younger kids made hovercrafts with CDs, balloons, and pop-top caps. Prairie Dawn already had the CDs and pop-top caps already hot glue gunned together, so the kids were only really doing the balloon part, but she talked about friction with the kids, and what was causing the hovercraft to move. The parents loved that the craft was simple and something they could take home and that the kids could use all day on the floors! 65 attended! That's our biggest program this summer! Teens dissected owl pellets this afternoon, which was a great thing that definitely got some of our fence-riding boys to come out! As you can see from the link, it was a pretty inexpensive thing, and a nice break for Prairie Dawn to not be doing so much prep work!

Some Summer Reading photos: Some of our younger kiddos made Batman symbols with tissue paper and contact paper. Elementary students painted Capt. America shields! 3-D comics Making 3-D comics; each kid got a pair of 3-D glasses to take home (Relatively expensive bought in bulk through Amazon ) Teens made bleach superhero t-shirts We traced superhero symbols onto foam, then cut out the shapes, laid the foam on the shirts and gave them a few blasts of bleachy water. These turned out AWESOME!

Wow. I miss you blog. Work and life was very hectic and stressful this spring, and I didn't want to post any of the grumpy gumbo I was stewing in for a couple months here, so I held by tongue, and look at what happened! Months are gone! I'm back. And of course it's Summer Reading time again, but I feel like Prairie Dawn and I have hit our stride--this being our 3rd Summer Reading together--and things haven't felt stressful AT ALL yet, and it's week 2!! More soon on what we've done!