SRP Save the Date!

Save the Date of Thursday, February 13th for our annual SRP Planning Workshop!

This year's workshop will be held at Barkhausen Waterfowl Preserve. Activities and speakers are being finalized. I'm very excited about the opportunities at this facility, including using the fireplace in the meeting room to make s'mores, and offering snowshoeing at the end the day. I think this will be a great environment to have fun, learn and share.

Official invites will be mailed in January.

Error in Children's Manual

A NJ librarian was going through the 2014 Summer Reading Manual and noticed an error on page 147 of the Children's Manual,  under Fibonacci Fun - the number three (3) is missing from the sequence:

                     0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, ...

The next number is found by adding up the two numbers before it.

• The 2 is found by adding the two numbers before it (1+1)
• Similarly, the 3 is found by adding the two numbers before it (1+2),
• And the 5 is (2+3),
• and so on!

The formula doesn't work if the three is not there. 

November Edition of Youth Services Showcase

From spa day to science stations, Wisconsin youth services librarians know how to inspire and engage children and teens.  Check out the November edition of the Wisconsin Youth Services Showcase to see what your colleagues around the state are up to: http://pld.dpi.wi.gov/pld_showcase

The Showcase is looking for new material, especially from librarians who have not submitted in the past.   Samples of teen programs and non-traditional programs are also appreciated.  Send in your pics, URLs, PDFs, and videos today!

Tessa Michaelson Schmidt

Public Library Youth and Special Services Consultant

WSRA Authors Festival in February

Jacqueline Woodson, Bryan Collier, Alan Lawrence Sitomer and Gene Luen Yang are the featured authors at the 2014 Wisconsin State Reading Association's Author's Festival on Saturday, February 8, 2014,  7:45-12:30, at the Wisconsin Center in downtown Milwaukee.

This is event is aimed at children and teens in grades 2-10, and gives young participants (and their chaperones)  the opportunity to spend the morning with these distinguished book creators in large- and small-group sessions.

Cost is $20 per child and $20 per adult chaperone.

Advance registration is required. Registration is limited to 400. Deadline: January 14, 2014 (Registration by January 1, 2014, is encouraged)

The complete brochure is available at:
http://www.wsra.org/assets/Convention/authors%20festival%202014.pdf

Registration can also be done online.

Questions? Contact Authors Festival chair Lynn Graening: lynngraening@frontier.com

Megan Schliesman (on behalf of Lynn Graening)

Read On! Titles for November

The start of November means another month of Read On Wisconsin! You'll find November's featured titles below.

Consider adding Read On Wisconsin titles into your story times, as classroom read-alouds or as part of literature circles or book clubs. Discussion questions are available for each month’s books, and TeachningBooks.net has compiled links to resources in their database about the titles.

For more information about the Read On Wisconsin program, go to:  

http://readon.education.wisc.edu

Read On Wisconsin titles for November:

Babies, Toddlers and Preschoolers

I Love Saturdays y domingos by Alma Flor Ada. Ill by Elivia Salvadier. Atheneum, 2002

Baby’s Day by Michael Blake. Candlewick Press, 2007

Poems (from Here’s a Little Poem: A Very First Book of Poetry edited by Jane Yolen and Andrew Fusek Peters. Illustrated by Polly Dunbar. U.S. edition: Candlewick Press, 2007.) :

“Your Birthday Cake” by Rosemary Wells, p. 22;

“Baby Fingers” by Nikki Grimes, p. 20;

“Candles” by Wendy Cope, p. 26 

Primary (Grades K-2)

Me and Momma and Big John by Mara Rockliff. Illustrated by William Low. Candlewick Press, 2012

Castle: How It Worksby David Macaulay, with Sheila Keenan. Square Fish / David Macaulay Studio / Macmillan, 2012

           

Intermediate (Grades 3-5)     

Auntie Yang’s Great Soybean Picnicby Ginnie Lo. Illustrated by Beth Lo. Lee & Low, 2012

Dolores Huerta: A Hero to Migrant Workersby Sarah Warren, Sarah. Illustrated by Robert Casilla. Marshall Cavendish, 2012

           

Middle School

The Mighty Mars Rovers:  The Incredible Adventures of Spirit and Opportunity by Elizabeth Rusch. Houghton Mifflin, 2012.

Moonbird:  A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 by Phillip Hoose. Farrar Straus Giroux, 2012

High School

Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick

You can see these books and the discussion questions at:

http://readon.education.wisc.edu/index.php/category/month/november

The complete list of 2013-2014 Read On Wisconsin titles, along with links to discussion questions and TeachingBooks.net resources, can be found at:

 http://readon.education.wisc.edu/index.php/row-books

Read On!

Emily Townsend, Librarian

Cooperative Children's Book Center

Growing Wisconsin Resources Available

If you missed the Growing Wisconsin Readers workshop in Appleton, the following is available on the Winnefox webpage.

- Recording of Tessa's presentation
- Recording of Tom Pease and Stuart Stotts
- Slides for both presentations
- Resources for Librarians

All libraries should have received posters and brochures.  I did request some extra, so let me know if more are needed!

Mileage reimbursement checks should be mailed in a a few weeks for those who attended.

And don't forget to save the date for the GWR statewide symposium set for March 21st in Stevens Point. More info to come.