- Hey y’all! (I’m channeling Paula Dean, right now) I’m getting ready to start the Summer Reading Workshops. I’m leaving for Ardmore today, the workshop is tomorrow and then to Checotah. I’ll be back at ODL on Friday, but not at my desk.
- Friday is Read Across America Day at the Oklahoma City Zoo. I’ll be helping ODL’s Literacy Office. Also, send a birthday card to The Cat in the Hat. Every card sent RandomHouse donates a book to First Book.
- Monday is the Stillwater workshop.
- If you haven’t already, there is still time and room to sign up. Links to the online registration form and the agenda’s are on the CYA home page.
Looking forward to meeting all you!
If you downloaded the Children’s Workshop Agenda word document, please note the time is am not pm. That’s what I get for copying and pasting. The agenda has been corrected.
The deadline has been extended for submitting 2009 slogans for children and young adult (the theme is music and the arts) and a theme for 2010. Please send e-mail or comment below by logging in or registering. Oklahoma should be represented when it comes time to vote at the conference in April.
I need to send ideas to the Collaborative this Friday, February 16, 2007.
Print off the form.
This is from the Reforma: National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-Speaking listserv.
“Greetings from Colorful Colorado!
The Colorado State Library of the Colorado Department of Education has compiled a list of web resources pertaining to Spanish literacy for kids. It has been publicized in Colorado, but is useful to a wider audience, hence this message to Reformistas.
“Spanish Language Resources on the Web: Children’s Literacy” can be reproduced by government agencies at no cost, with proper credit given to the Colorado State Library. Bonnie McCune, longtime Colorado Reformista, deserves special mention for her work on this project. ¡Muchas gracias, Bonnie!
Here’s the link for this pdf file:
http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdelib/download/pdf/SpanishLiteracyWebResourcesForKids.pdf
Permission granted to nonprofits and government agencies to reproduce at no cost; please credit us.
Lando Archibeque”
Pat Williams, certification specialist, has configured the CEU’s for the 2007 Summer Reading Workshops based on the evaluations that I gave her. Each workshop, children and young adult, are awarded .19 CEU’s. If you are attending both workshops, make sure you pick up both the children’s and young adult CEU sheets.
I had quoted earlier that there will be four postcards. There will now be two. They will consist of 5 to 6 images in a collage on the front. On the back the Centennial Commission logo, verbiage about the summer reading program and a courtesy note to the Oklahoma History Center for the use of the photos. Children will be able to mail the postcards to friends.
The phone number for Ardmore Public Library is 580.223.8290. This has been corrected on the web site and word documents. Please update your copies.
Thanks to Diana at Chickasaw Regional Library System for catching my error.
The February 2007 issue of VOYA: Voice of Youth Advocates has the list of their best books for middle school readers. The list had the participation of nine schools in Cleveland and Northeast Ohio.
The list is available on the VOYA web site (pdf).
The agenda’s are now available for print or download.
Here is the Children’s and the Young Adult’s agenda’s. CEU credits will be posted soon.