for the peters tundra public library i am a shannon and i miss linda and we are back once again to fill you in on everything you need to know about our library the second half of april for the most part of what's going on we have so much going on i mean that we have to do to a month pretty soon i'm surprised we don't do want to week ladies and they're ok we're coming every we will do something so a lot to cram into a half hour episode that's for sure that's yeah that's why but to start real always have to start about something that's not a slow going on our labor but going around on a more global scale so we do library news around the globe that would be more last time i talked about you know the as because kindergarten registrations happening with the schools and we're going to be having kindergarden parent meeting which we'll talk about later so i talked about kindergarten like assessments and how it's changed and that teachers are adapting to the different needs of the children you know for learning styles so to day night in kindergarten well first of all a little intro i can't just jump into it kindergarten is an important milestone in your child's life don't we know it truly is it's our first step into formal education which we when they say that i always think about us with our library programs preparing children for the step is the job of the parents and early learning centers and libraries they did i put in libraries because you can yeah ok well but nowadays now this is i agree with and we've talked about it off and on throughout the book buzz about the you know pressures of parents nowadays parents are feeling more and more pressure to make sure their children have the sorry skills that will put them on the same level or ahead of their peers which i had an interesting conversation with a mom at one of the kindergarten  registrations the child that she is was registering as already doing tutoring and will continue to throughout the summer and i said you know our programs are very helpful as well early learning centers help teach preschoolers all these fight all skills and they put them on the path to kindergarten success so they came up with their own urine list the principal of this one school said i believe it's important for pre kindergarten children to be able to follow directions i've heard them talk about this i think as a matter of fact our t v that we just did and the ability to express their feelings it doesn't say you know all the other things that i think parents worry about we talked about a little time it says some of the reading and math skills i would like to see kids now coming into kindergarten this is very basic are their letters and be able to describe some of the sounds recognition of numbers one to ten and be able to write and recognize their name which it's not asking them to be able to write a paper and be able to cut with safety scissors all right numero uno nine kindergarten readiness skills it tells you how to teach them this is a great article if you want to get on their website w w w dot c c s w f l dot  i don't know never really thought about it much but i get to after your doubt good ok writing have your child practice writing the alphabet at all and picking out letters that spell their name and it's not telling them to you know learn how to do all this other stuff and this one letter recognition in this is funny because it talks about purchasing a large set of letter refrigerator magnet and i remember doing that and the kids would you know just two words you know neck kept them up it's all fun and recognition number recognition and counting like you said earlier at least one to ten to recognize the numbers visually but also you know haven't learned to count which kids do sounding out letters you know even just knowing that the direction like you you know a good kid with yeah exactly pick up this paper they would know you know from that number eight following directions and paying attention so that was in that little is a really good question ok wow that's a whole nother set of readiness and number nine and this is important and i and i just always try to push this to the parents develop social skills and what i always say what better way to try and get them to be with other kids their age and social than bringing them to the library you've got nothing to lose it costs you nothing points i want to make ok remove yes so the fun thing when you're trying to get off the website i just want to put it out there that anything that's ever discussed in the show whether it be you know article and brings up or a book that we bring up and you notice it somehow or you don't know or we didn't reference t or you missed what the website was pushes contact us because we're happy to share any of these recent right with you directly so write whatever they are the whole article then just let us know and we can get it to you so that's the first thing i think was your second one you mentioned for kindergarten skillets cutting yes so my story that was doesn't involve me but my own my good friends erin when she was in kindergarten the teacher wrote on her report card that you know little erin cannot cut straight into this day i mean she's thirty two years old like world crooked and big chunk taken out i said angela did you cut your hair no mommy you didn't cut your hair you know so i thought oh now i look at huge teen himmel teen events for all teens to grade six or twelve on the fair to milton fan please check that out also if you are interested in a musical and you have a knack for singing grad she's perform in new york she's been all over as a singer and performer and she's going to come and teach get a little quick workshop and how to actually prepare for an audition any kind of audition wow so that's going to be really fun so june thirtieth but we are going to ask for a dish and like leaders you know because it's basically like a very fancy kind of karaoke basically but it could be could get really out of hand if nobody's leading it right so we are going to have edition leaders for different songs so we can audition to be part of hamlet tunes on saturday the twenty april twenty eighth from one to three you can sign up for a five minute edition slot online all the editions are being held online i believe and or possibly  circulation desk so just contact us if you need more information and come and you know i can't wait try out your shot i can't wait our way or shut like that and i'd like that new it home you know to read it and i was trying to finish up another book so i had it like sitting i think i even had a deciding at the coffee table on my coffee table and one day i noticed that it wasn't sitting there anymore like tim has a favorite like a chair that he says it has the little stand in the light and everything you know by the t v and i noticed it over there and i thought oh you know well here he's already finished it i have i've kids are loving it and he thought mr peet thought at that more towards like the beginning of the school year when he was kind of setting up dates that he would not be able to be here in april so we had it on our calendar then we took it off our calendar and then we just found out that he whatever it was that he had planned i guess doesn't have planned he will be there on april seventeenth it's free and there's really no charge and everybody seems to be learning how to play chess now i mean that seems to be a huge trending yeah it is so he teaches he's such he's a chess champion and so these kids are learning for free and then he will on the in april is earth day so this being an earth day kind of related thing so we're having in the fall we do our costume swap which is not our program either but we always talk about it because it's i think that's probably what our best oh i love their halloween costume so i think that was  and then you can come and you can drop them off on the eighteenth or the nineteenth and then on the twentieth which is a friday from one to four you can pop out of the library and forever made puzzles you dropped off you could get that many new puzzles i believe that's all it's going to get is exactly how the cost how they did it yes so i have built this clothing puzzle many times and i have built this dock puzzled many times i think i've just up to here with the ox so maybe we can swap raid and share ok and now i'll build a ducky and you can build the close sank you my puzzle friend so let's see if we can do it doesn't you know this would be my style right if i put this one backwards if it's funny oh funny all right out of print and i mean i'll do it right so we have the opportunity the more geared towards adults i don't know if they are collecting children but you know we just we do think this is a wonderful idea idea so very green again which is you know for earth day that's a nice and i say idea so excellent so talking more about kindergarten and we were leading up to this for the last the last show and today it's called cross the bridge into kindergarten it's going to be may twenty third in the evening at seven p in the preschool teachers and the parents and i've even been telling about it when we were handing out information at the kindergarten registration saying be at this meeting it's going to be fun you're going to learn about the resources and stuff so i have a feeling thinking about how it will go i imagine that the kindergarten teachers like maria hyatt would be because the thing i'm presenting we do have an actual speaker coming to from the big doctor's going to be coming talk a little bit about you know different things you can do and we're going to show you how to garden has to make you be on a do those different things that your child ready for kindergarten because as you know you have three months for the summer to get ready and we have everything basically you would need at our library free yes i could tell the mom that that you know and i didn't ask you know at the registration what she was having her child tutored in it's not my business you know i didn't want to prior anything but i just had to get that little gentle reminder that the summer time is our busiest time of the year we were swapped because we take in every age group up through teens  offer so much to just keep them doing something you know and it's not like you're going to come in and and read and have to write a report you know you're going to come in and have fun and maybe make something learns it's just it's nothing but fun and yeah it's not tutoring it's laid back it's not that there's anything wrong with tutoring but it's another as you said free free option option to read  up and are so reading program is going to be awesome so i know all these hamilton things because the theme for the summer is libraries of rock a lot of music some libraries are doing even like physical rocks we're going to five do a little bit of everything because that's what we do so and may in our next episode we're going to tell you all about what's going on for the summer so make sure you tune in for those once and have your gasoline paper ready right so you'll want to be doing a lot more than just hamilton all summer we have  looking forward to we have a team that's all really excited about it and it's just going to be i think it's a lot of fun yeah and i think collaboration with the schools too because i felt i talked to mr mcguffin you know would love to get the students involved if there's anybody are all right so we talk about music we're also yap about national poetry month which is april so we're going talk about some fun poetry books ok you go first you do one ok well i'll talk about so about a boy that plays basketball and everything is written in approach in like poetry form so that's just a different way to read and actually all of his books are written that way so this is his brand new one talking about music solo when the heart in a lost let the music find you some would be highly in this book a lot for the summer so i didn't know about the book so this one's of this is very new and we just got this one poem is called on the biggest stage of my life in the middle of the most important thing i've ever done well maybe if a one world weekly karaoke in the children's apartment this one i think i thank you no i am thinking karaoke i don't know how to do it i don't know which way i'm going to do a commode where was our friend that liked my sliver of love yeah it's not butter than that i think i love love love hysterical it is i think if you want to get kids to just laugh and have fun and think hey that's really cold everybody likes  toilet poem or a book for sure this is a little on the dark side but i like it it is called lies and girls and red dresses and it is all written in prose as well mostly but it is all about three tales twisted fairy tales which most fairy tales of who talked about the original fairy tale tend to be a little bit dark  fun i mean it's definitely a twist on fairytales but i would probably recommend it maybe for a little more of a mature reader but it was very well reviewed a couple years ago it was dark funny gruesome and insanely original yeah hide because i am a turtle i feel secure inside because i am a turtle you know and then you blame is good and i like to knock off my filter yeah ok that rhymes but you know what i mean so you go through its adorable like a snow poem start friends poem start and it helps them and it gives them ideas of how to think about them like they have to be really fun for a class or activity  everybody but isn't plans already done for you yeah you just get them all go in and start to put it up on the screen and the studio always has some fun stuff but yeah he does but to this one because it's national poetry so now only are they going to love but really it was the same person and she was make yourself believe that somebody else who well ok i this was called tilt and this is about three different friends to basically their parents are all splitting up and their lives are kind of falling apart