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Did You Wiggle during Kansas Reads to Preschoolers?

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Congratulations to all who participated in the 2009 Kansas Reads to Preschoolers, featuring Wiggle by Doreen Cronin! This was really a fantastic year, and each one of you helped make it happen. There were events happening everywhere in the state that staff of the Kansas Center for the Book and the State Library are just now learning about — and that’s a great thing! It means that Kansas Reads to Preschoolers has become a grass roots project which the Kansas Center for the Book and its committee and staff enable, but which many libraries, organizations, and individuals make happen.

Now it’s time for your input. Please go to the Wiggle web page on http://www.kcfb.info and click on the evaluation form button on the left-hand menu column, complete the survey and submit it electronically. This is how we learn what you did, what we can do to improve for 2010 Kansas Reads to Preschoolers, and how many Kansas kids were read to during Preschooler week! Submit your survey now for the future of reading to very young children in Kansas!

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Kansas Reads to Preschoolers Evaluation

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Please go to the Wiggle web page at www.kcfb.info when you finish your 2009 Kansas Reads to Preschoolers programs!

It’s fall, and along with the brilliant autumn colors and tailgating comes one of the premier State Library events — Kansas Reads to Preschoolers!

The week before Thanksgiving — when many of us look forward to sitting down to big dinners, sitting and watching ball games, or sitting around visiting with friends and family — the Kansas Center for the Book encourages adults and youngsters to get up off the sofa and discuss fitness! This is the theme of the fifth annual Kansas Reads to Preschoolers. The book selected is Wiggle by Doreen Cronin.

The excitement is building as preschooler week approaches. Three sponsors and over a half dozen partners are joining to make the 2009 Kansas Reads to Preschoolers event the biggest and best ever. In 2008, over 22,000 Kansas kids were read to as reported by only public libraries and schools. It has been estimated that as many as 50,000 children will hear Wiggle and other books read to them in 2009. The evaluation form on the web page is the only way we have to know how close to this estimate we come, so please complete the form.

So dance, jump, and read Wiggle with your preschoolers November 15-21, 2009! It’s all about reading to young children!

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KCFB Particpates in Parent Involvement Month

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

The Kansas Center for the Book has partnered with the Kansas Parent Information Resource Center (KPIRC) for Kansas Reads to Preschoolers for three years. At a KPIRC partners meeting September 16 a Governor’s Proclamation was announced designating October as Parent Involvement Month. Roy Bird, Director of the Kansas Center for the Book, was present for this exciting meeting. The press release about Parent Involvement Month supports the efforts of 2009 Kansas Reads to Preschoolers…About Fitness!, featuring Wiggle by Doreen Cronin, November 15-21, 2009. 

Quoting from the press release: ”Parents took center stage at the statewide Kansas Parent Information Resource Center (KPIRC) State Board meeting on Wednesday, September 16, as Jane Groff, Director, unveiled the Governor’s Proclamation declaring October as Parent Involvement Month. The KPIRC state board met to recognize and celebrate parents as a child’s first and most important teacher, and to encourage parent involvement in a child’s learning from birth through high school…”

“The Kansas Parent Information Resource Center is a project of Kansas Families and Schools Together, Inc. (KFAST) and funded by the U.S. Department of Education to provide parent involvement and No Child Left Behind (NCLB) resources, training, and technical assistance to parents, educators, schools, and organizations. For additional information regarding parent involvement and to obtain free resources and/or inquire about training or technical assistance from the Kansas Parent Information Resource Center, please go to www.kpirc.org or call toll-free: 1-866-711-6711 or local: 785-783-2975.”

As part of its partnering with KCFB for 2009 Kansas Reads to Preschoolers, KPIRC has produced 500 kits using Wiggle in both English and Spanish, plus tools and streamers, all in a convenient preschooler-sized bookbag to distribute to child care facilities and preschools around the state. Join KPIRC and KCFB as Kansas Reads to Preschoolers…About Fitness!

KCFB director Roy Bird joins KPIRC state board celebrating governor's proclamaiton

KCFB director Roy Bird joins KPIRC state board celebrating Governor's Proclamation

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Literacy Kits for Wiggle

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

Tammie Benham, Assistant Director of the Kansas Parent Information Resource Center (KPIRC), is one of the sponsors of 2009 Kansas Reads to Preschoolers…About Fitness! She shares an additional resource if librarians, educators, and preschool teachers are interested. From Learning Connections and award-winning literacy expert Judy Guenzel comes a literacy kit for teachers and parents based on this year’s book choice for Kansas Reads to Preschoolers, Wiggle!

Judy taught kindergarten, first and second grades for 26 years for Lincoln Public Schools in Lincoln, NE. In 2002, she contracted with Great Plains National, co-owners of the children’s television program Reading Rainbow, as an Educational Consultant to write and create curriculum guides, theme weeks and lesson plans for the Reading Rainbow website, and literacy kits. Judy also created and presented a variety of workshops in California, Ohio, Missouri and Kansas.

Judy Guenzel wrote the literacy kit Piggy in the Puddle for Reading Rainbow that won the 2004 Parents’ Choice Award from Learning Magazine, an award judged by teachers.

Do you wake up with a wiggle? Do you wiggle out of bed? For energetic toddlers (are there any who aren’t?), here’s a book that invites them to wiggle along with the story. Told in rollicky, wiggly rhyme that begs to be read again and again, Doreen Cronin’s latest romp will have toddlers wiggling, giggling and then (hopefully) falling into bed, blissfully exhausted!

Parent packs for this wonderful kit are: English $17 and Spanish $18, and the literacy kit for teachers is $44.95. For more information or to order: Learning Connections, 3520 Hanson Dr., Lincoln, NE 68502 or http://www.learningconnectionsweb.com/readingrainbow.html.

For other ideas to implement during 2009 Kansas Reads to Preschoolers, visit the Wiggle page on the Kansas Center for the Book website  at www.kcfb.info and click on the Toolkit.wigglecover

 

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Do you wiggle?

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Do you wiggle when you read? When you wiggle with preschoolers, do they wiggle in their seats?

The 2009 Kansas Reads to Preschoolers committee and the SLK staff working with the statewide one-book/one-state reading project for the very young certainly hope so! During November 15-21, 2009 (the week before Thanksgiving), the Kansas Center for the Book will present the fifth annual Kansas Reads to Preschoolers…About Fitness!, featuring Wiggle by Doreen Cronin, in locations all across the state.

Plans are being laid for promotion leading up to, and events during, the preschooler week. This year’s theme is fitness, and a select committee of professionals in a variety of fields and from all parts of Kansas narrowed a field of about three dozen titles down to four, which were submitted last spring to State Librarian Christie Brandau. From these four, she selected Wiggle. Work on 2009 Kansas Reads to Preschoolers has progressed since then.

Wiggle was written by New York author Doreen Cronin and illustrated by Scott Menchin. It was published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers in 2005. Since then, Cronin, Menchin and their publisher have produced a companion book, Bounce.  A new title in the same vein, Stretch, is expected in September 2009. All three books should work very well together in events with children ages 2-4.

Sponsors who help with funding, and participate, include the Kansas Parent Information Resource Center (KPIRC), the Kansas Public Health Association (KPHA), the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE), and the Johnson County Health Department. Partners who will join in the promotion are the Kansas Association of Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies (KAACCRA), the Kansas Pediatric Foundation and Healthy Kids Challenge. Many joined the Kansas Center for the Book in this effort because of the dual attractions of the fitness theme, which they promote, and the importance of early literacy among children.

Doreen Cronin has been invited to come to Kansas and plans are under way for events at local libraries and through online video and audio programming to reach across the state. A website is being built to provide information, a toolkit, read-alikes, promotional materials and more. Wiggle is being recorded and will be made available through the Kansas Talking Books Service in Emporia, and the Kansas Audio-Reader Network has been approached to record and broadcast it. Requests have been made to Governor Mark Parkinson to sign a proclamation, and to his wife to read in a selected location. Sponsors and partners across the state are laying plans to promote in their own publications and participate during the preschooler week in a variety of ways.

The Kansas Center for the Book has a limited number of promotional copies of Wiggle available at a 50% discount. If you are interested in more information or how you can participate, contact KCFB at kcfb@kslib.info or 800-432-3919. Wiggle with us during 2009 Kansas Reads to Preschoolers! 

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