Welcome to Thrive Thursday for February the month of love. It’s a perfect month for me to host, because I LOVE THIS ROUND-UP and I love this community!
There’s TONS of great content this month, so let’s get going!
- Mallory has a BRAND-NEW blog (aw yes new bloggers, welcome and keep writing!) and she wrote this great post about her World Record program and it sounds totally do-able and amazingly customizable.
- Lindsey at the legendary Jbrary wrote about her adventures booktalking. I loved her lists AND there are included Powerpoint presentations!
- Ms. Kelly has a Life Size Chutes & Ladders program – my kids love life-sized stuff and this is a superb addition -and she covers some booktalking lists and tips aimed at a third grade crowd.
- Miss Meg had a great Spy Academy and wrote two useful posts about both the prep work and the first two weeks.
- Proving there is no such thing as too many spy programs, you must read Juana’s post about her secret agent program.
- Jennifer wrote three (!) great posts: one about her 1-3 grade book club (how amazing is that?) and one about a great Mad Scientist Club using lots of baking powder to make snow. (seasonal yes!) And her Messy Art program is quick and an easy way to use up felt!
- Brytani has a wonderful new addition to the list of character events with … a WINNIE THE POOH party! Um, yes.
- Laura wrote a post with a yummy recipe for a Sweet Snacks program.
- Design goddess Rebecca wrote about her new theme: GAME ON. Like all of her wondrous creations, there’s lots of passive programming included.
- I am OBSESSED with Lisa’s super-simple and super-wonderful Car Day program. All you need is tape and imagination! I’m definitely doing this one!
- Lisa (Thrive After Three founder) wrote about creating a play for kids to perform – it’d be a great addition to any Mo Willem programs!
- Bridget has a super fun Adventures in Fairy Tale program, which could be widely and easily customized!
- One of my heroines, Anne
Clarbfrom So Tomorrow has some great Self Directed Maker stations for passive programming AND maker magic.
- And I wrote about our Noon Year’s Eve party – you should start planning yours now!
Another amazing month of school-age programs. If you wrote something in January that fits, let me know in the comments and I’ll add it in.
THANK YOU to everyone who wrote and submitted something – you are all inspirations to program for this age and share ideas about it. We CAN serve this age group just as well as we do babies and teens. Let’s keep the conversation going!
If you’re interested about learning more about the wonders of Thrive After Three and the monthly blog hop you can:
- Check out the schedule here.
- Pinterest board: Find roundups and themes for your after school programs here.
- Join in on the after school fun with the Facebook Group.
Thrive On!
I posted (on my brand new blog!) about my world records program and restructuring my afterschool programs: http://www.malloryinman.com/world-records/
I wrote about my Booktalking Adventures on Jbrary! Thanks for hosting this month! http://jbrary.com/adventures-booktalking/
I talked about our Spy Academy program! I have two post, one about the prep work and one about the first two weeks!
http://missmegsstorytime.com/spy-academy-prep-work/
http://missmegsstorytime.com/spy-academy-first-two-weeks/
Thanks for hosting!
I wrote up a new recipe for my Sweet Snacks program. http://lalalalibrary.blogspot.com/2015/02/sweet-snacks-cinnamon-tortilla-chips.html
My first book club for grades 1 – 3! Despite the snow we had a really good turnout http://inshortbusy.blogspot.com/2015/02/bookaneers-setting-sail-on-sea-of-books.html
and I finally found a use for every spare bit of baking soda at our Mad Scientists Club featuring snow
http://inshortbusy.blogspot.com/2015/01/mad-scientists-club-science-of-snow.html
Here’s my Winnie-the-Pooh Party!
https://librarianneighbor.wordpress.com/2015/01/19/winnie-the-pooh-party/
Here a few Lisa already scooped up on Pinterest, too.
Lisa schooled us all by WRITING A PLAY:
http://thriveafterthree.com/2015/01/30/we-are-in-a-play/
The other Lisa put together this amazing boredom buster with nothing but masking tape:
http://lisaslibraryland.blogspot.com/2015/01/car-day.html
Kelly wrote about her adventures in booktalking:
http://mskellyatthelibrary.blogspot.com/2015/01/booktalking-with-third-graders-book.html
Jennifer shared her laid back and inspiring messy art program:
http://inshortbusy.blogspot.com/2015/01/messy-art-club-feel-it-with-felt.html
And her snowy science program!
http://inshortbusy.blogspot.com/2015/01/mad-scientists-club-science-of-snow.html
Juana shared her fun, secret agent program:
https://onthegolibrarian.wordpress.com/2015/01/27/book-adventures-secret-agent-cracking-the-code/
Rebecca wrote about yet another amazing library makeover! January was a game theme!
http://hafuboti.com/2015/01/26/2015-game-on/
And Meg wrote about her spy academy program:
http://missmegsstorytime.com/spy-academy-first-two-weeks/
Adventures in Fairy Tales http://whatisbridgetreading.blogspot.com/2015/02/adventures-in-fairy-tales.html
Thanks for hosting, Angie. It was so nice to finally meet you (albeit too briefly) at Midwinter! We did a self-directed maker program: http://www.sotomorrowblog.com/2015/02/self-directed-maker-program.html
I wrote about a life sized Chutes and Ladders program I did with Grades K-2: http://www.mskellyatthelibrary.blogspot.com/2015/02/kidding-around-life-sized-chutes-and.html. Thanks for hosting!
I’d love to be included in this amazing community of bloggers… Visit my blog The Adventures of Bookgirl http://bookgirlnadine.weebly.com. I love visitors and sharing ideas. Thanks!