little boy at my easter egg hunt last this past monday night said miss linda do you know that it's almost april and they said yes you know and he said do you know that easter is april fool's day and i said yes you know i know following you and he said i just want you to know that i think it would be very terrible to do a joke on easter so i think i have to save the april fool's day and i just started laughing in my head and thought you know and i told him oh you but for the day after that out of the blue i just don't think i should do that on easter thank you sweet little thing right we are jumping into it for news around the globe so to hear what you have to share with us well here's what i decided to focus on for for this time and the next show is kindergarten because don't yeah we dust had tea at the library that we had with the kindergarten teachers preschool teachers and directors librarians to talk and get together to show them as you know that everything that we have you know the resources that we have and ways that we can help the kids and the parents get ready for kindergarten so i thought you know what i think i'm going to concentrate on that for these two because as you know even though it's in advance we're going to talk about it again next schools first of all you know being up at the schools to help with the kindergarten registration and i know we've said this before as we're walking through different schools how you see the walls lined with thing  hero in you know the word of the you know word of them on third p p has word of the week they have a big w o w a big wow and they put up really good words i mean you know something like a significant word back when i was in school up a few years ago kindergarten has turned to instance when i was in kindergarten it is on i mean i'm happy for the kids there it's so different i know society is different but the education good and bad maybe is different you know everybody but this is this is talking about the new can discard the experience of kindergarten assessments begin to shape instruction in the not too distant past they're saying that kindergarten classrooms look like everybody else's classrooms which would be you know like they're talking about road test all lined up and everything in their arranged in rows and and there wasn't any differentiation in the instruction from the teacher to the kids and then we've learned that there has to be differentiation not everybody learns the same right so everybody was taught the same way but now in recent years god bless kindergartners now while teachers teachers are the world the school is tried to shift instruction in a way that they say works better for young children and they credit the use of a comprehensive method of evaluating kindergarten students called kindergarten and tree assessment as one of the tools that allow them to do that so what they do is they bring the kids in here and  what they're doing is assessing like or one on one with the instructor assessing the child skills and it's not even you know about being able to necessarily i think people get caught up on the need to because that's you know from what i have you know talk to the different preschool and the kindergarten teachers that's not the issue you know they'll learn that but there's other things and even down to the basics which i'm going to talk about  next one they said assessments are reality in most states the teachers say that they appreciate being able to adjust their methods as well which i'm sure their methods of teaching i can only imagine today that with the you know common core in everything that the teachers have to follow challenging i would say it would be to be able to meet all the needs of all the students in your class yeah you know i think that would be that would be tough but having said that it's good that they're allowing them the flexibility to do so so there are doubts that i want to show kindergarten entry assessments our inventories are saying they're not new but they've received a big push through the federal race to the top early learning challenge grants well that's nice requires applicants to outline a plan on how they're going to use these different assessments to promote school readiness so that they're offering money out there to to help because i know with the budget cuts just one lot of money for education and they keep unfortunately the good to do what ause should i point out the kindergarten readiness program adds evaluations of children smash social and i like this one self regulation skills can they do things for themselves many take care of themselves and they said in here is self regulation and social skills are just as important and it's the same kind of skill as reading and math it's learned in school just like reading and math are in a fit kid was struggling to read we would never say they don't belong in our classroom right you know said that they're just what we had said you know the parents that get caught up and well my child can't rejet are going to be left behind it's not going to happen so just saying you know i guess basically just talking about the different assessments and i you know got to see some of it out by the you know pleasant valley this week when they took the kids down the hall and i know where they were due and different things and it come out with a big sticker i don't know what the assessments were but they went to a couple different places so i'm sure it's a big  all ages but we're going to focus on teens right now is hamilton so hamilton is huge i mean if you live in pittsburgh which we all do you know the tickets to the not date disco announced when he would have to be appearing here in pittsburgh and it's going to be just insane to get tickets to that yet because everybody and their mother wants to see him milton so it's it's awesome so it's we're going to be doing a hamal tunes thing along at community which is june thirtieth so please stay that date you know commute is a fun family event anyways and we hope all cleaning members attend but make sure you head over to our stage and that's going to be going on to sing along with him alton and because of the hamill tunes now we decided to do all these other things involving hamilton to get us excited so the first event coming up is we're having a hamill teens event so we have a a lot of him what is extremely trendy right now and it's a very well followed by deans and i remember last year actually in the last day  school i walked into the tuner mitt was like a friday afternoon the tuner had like teen kids or so and it was pretty well pretty crowded in there and they were all singing along to hamilton and it made my musical geek heart smile absolutely i sickle i love the music and that it is so it is and it's a really wonderful way for people to learn history i learn a lot of his american history actually just from listening to him and you know what have you so yeah yeah so it's  pretty cool and lot of kids are really getting excited about this time period because of him walton too so it's just been awesome thing for for pop culture and general but they're having a huge himmel teens party on april seventh it will be from one  probably two thirty three o'clock we're going to have a trip yeah and we're making some hamilton crafts we're going to have him wilton kind of themed food we're going to have a finished a leader a game show we're going to play the song and stop it and you have to finish  and i was reading a little bit about it so when she took her melissa de la cruz is a pretty well known author in why she's written a lot of things and she took her whole family to see him and to new york and her ten year old daughter was more interested in the alex in the lies love story than in hamilton story and she was like mom you know they released a name the musical allies because she lives and tells his story which is the one of the main songs on the musical right and so she did a little  series so there's a new one coming out soon i can't remember the date off the top of my head but normally in my tree child life i would fly through multiple books when i was on vacation because that was for me they cation i would just sit and read can i just mention about i'm really sucked into it what i like about how she's writing it she also at the beginning of each chapter she will tell you the date and location of when it's taking place just to kind of get a little bit more that history there no it so i mean it's historical fiction so yeah i don't know how much is pulling from the truth but again hamilton is also fictional as you know it's so yeah different bitter but i like that i'd like to read her interpret that right yeah the relationship right it's so much fun so we're going to be discussing this also on april seventh at noon we'll have a little bit of a light pizza lunch and then immediately following the book club discussion we'll go right into the hamilton himmel teens event so it's going to be a good day long of hamilton so if you are a hamilton fan which i'm sure there's maybe an himmel to fans in our studio today because it's everywhere i go i have more i mean i think it's going to be so much fun i'm excited for it so and it should be a good time i think so for to all right here we are once again that time of year in april where it is pennsylvania one book every young child early literacy programs good times and great because we're focusing on  they've done it for how i read it i think it's like fifteen thirteen thirteenth year and every year they pick a book for a picture book right that they would like or hoping that every kid will have a chance to either read or be read to write have it read to them so we brought some of the past ones this year  hora my cousin momo so i'm going to show you that is the two thousand and eighteen winner published in two thousand and fifteen and it's for children ages three to five and it says the boston globe report what they're with their little tidbit on it says picture books picture books with him quirky illustrations that are not just funny but also have plenty of heart and are hard to find the stylish hora has it all and that was written by the boston globe so that's pretty cool good review yeah and it is adorable and we're going to have fun with this book because we are her to begin with yeah we'll talk about more of those books too but this our spring programming or talk about that later as well starts up the week of national library week so we choose national library week to read our pennsylvania one book yep so we're going to be if you are coming to our programs reading this to the kids and doing some related activity and participating in that it's a it's just a great great program that they came up with i know there's national things but i think pennsylvania should be really proud of the fact that they take take and start so many initiatives i agree with you know and they choose folks for different reasons but this one like the focus of it is about a family meeting people that are different so it really opens a lot of different conversations with the kids and and what's great is they also provide us with  were officially right because the most sticker nice they're big yeah they are saying yes so we're going to be celebrating this all week april eighth is a sunday that starts national library week our program start on monday yeah and we will be reading th and you know what i was thinking i was reading it and look thinking about it and i thought oh who doesn't like squirrels going to do also stuff with mine that's what i decided said i started thinking and then i started thinking because they have i'm in here as like a superhero and  so there's so much we can do with this but i was like it's adorable it's really fun you know i did about it is a good choice ok let me show last years yes we'll go backwards so that was two thousand and eighteen this is two thousand and seventeen which i thought was perfect last year but now that we're talking about it in april it's called daniel finds a poem by me archer and it's a really very it is and has national poetry month and so at this came out last year which was perfect i think that especially poetry you know the kids kind of you know no matter the age very kind of put there no you cannot yeah go off you know they they won't give it a chance right you know so you start i'm young with something real simple like this daniel finds a poem and again these pictures are great now i love them yeah those the fun to do i enjoy doing that  ideas ready exactly your storyboard so you want to show your car so that was two thousand and seventeen so i have the two thousand and sixteen which was by wilhelm brand and we actually were able to have a brand come to our library during the awesome yeah and his books all a lot of them have to do with this bear and this mole and it's they're all stories of friendship and that's what this is about they're they're out playing and they want to fly a kite and you know that's about their friendship together and of course yes bad things happen like the string choices that they can come in for a book for that and a lot of times not always the p a one because also written by a pennsylvania native author i don't think zachariah hair is one but i don't know that they use that in their choice  also during national lottery they're going to end the week off with well pretty fun you know what one thing that we didn't put on there and i kind of spaced did out a little bit i figured out in time to be able to do it for national library week hertha help of so will be good with that so we'll give away some books that week and then also at the end of the week that saturday yes we're doing i thought family recycled craft day but recycled children's got an old beat up book because unfortunately books do fall apart but they do be turned into something else i know and i've been having actually fun researching it you know how to friend yes i have been finding lots which gives you ideas for something else and go oh if that would work for that then you know so i'm just like you know typing it up like all my ideas so i don't forget them right we've made will just have fun with it for the teens over i made pumpkins out of books yeah you did that was cool yeah that's  limited to advance for i was going to say they had i was looking at one and it was an apple you know and they're like oh how to make an app and i looked at that and i thought i doubt i could do that let alone write i want this to be a family something they also did a play off kinds of real simple and it's in the evening it's six thirty we have a life size bob cut out so you can wear a heart we have a bunch of these hardheads you can wear while you're there and get your picture taken with bob he's making all different types of bob crafts who have really fun the books now for  such as myself you will notice that bob has changed ok so bob is now used to be done by nickelodeon and i believe these bob's younger than me like i member him being on but i would certainly wasn't at the age bulldozer friends and things and they solve problems and they can fix things together when they work together as a team and so it's a great show so we're watching episode of bob and doing all kinds of really fun bob crafts but before i stop talking about i became the real real fast best news i could really give you for two thousand and eighteen i believe is that danielle tiger is coming to our library and i have a whistle daniel tiger yeah i am so excited about the official a digital tiger and he's going to come just friends i'm going to make it historical fiction bob the builder all right here we go so real quick program start on the ninth makes you have your sign up do a real quick book to take us home with i do what you mean poems all about food and there's a swan do you like liver i've never had it oh have you didn't have it like spit it out or anything oh sliver of liver get lost go away you trembl quiver oh sliver of liver you set me i shiver and spoil my day oh sliver of liver get lost go away i feel like livers not really serve any more you get used to be and now you realise you don't know i