[youth] BAYN & PYN minutes for Sept 9 meeting

[Maryjane Hyatt]

Hi all,

I have staffing issues and will be unable to come to meetings in the forseeable future - please keep me posted!

Had a busy summer on the beach.

~Maryjane

 

BAYN/PYN

April 8, 2005



Present: Phyllis, Joy, Jennifer, Jo, Krystal, Kitt, Sharon, Maryjane, Marlene, Karen, Lisa, Lois, Juliet, Karen K., Nancy, Patrice, & Crystal



"Book Feast" 2006 FLYP theme – check online, California has terrific reading program with Steven Kellogg and JanWay.com has manuals you can purchase.



Special Presenter: Bert Moreno, MG Video Productions did a sample of their Kindergarten prep video; it’s broken up into six sections [Health & Development, Social & Emotional, Speech & Language, Emerging Literacy, Concept Development and Transitioning] 45 minutes in length. The Department of Education is working to institute a test to qualify children for Kindergarten to be sure they are ready.



Consensus on FLYP was that it was a wasted day; no food, no handouts,; PBS did not show up; Dept. of Ed. Speaker was for FCAT; Lynn Carpenter talked about teens and did 12 booktalks [good booktalker, but inappropriate] and spent the rest of the workshop knitting. In the afternoon, Miami Dade talked about organization, but not about a specific program; the African American storyteller was good.



FLYP 2006 will be "Book Feast" with a new illustrator.



Check online; the state of CA has a terrific reading program; Steven Kellogg is the illustrator for it!! Also, www.JanWay.com has several theme manuals you can purchase.



In Pasco they did a Young Artist Studio, ending with an Art Gallery – they met once a week for 4 weeks and had an art book display; 

it was for ages 4 – adult. The four weeks covered people, animals, aliens & monsters, and anime.



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County Parks and Library Cooperation worked well for programs.

There were Teens and Elementary age Board Games once a week; Book Buddies [Teen and young reader]; popcorn and a family movie once a week; crafts once a month; a couple of American Girl programs; a Harry Potter Program, giving away the new book; and a Library Fear Factor program.



Pinellas Park was having Special Guest Tuesdays; Reading Program Thursdays; Teen Lock-In; Sensational Samburger and a Friday night Fun Night for 4th & 5th graders 



Palm Harbor is having a Time Travel Booktalk series using A Wrinkle in Time and The Devil’s Arithmetic; the MOSI starlab; Lakeshore Learning Games Day; they are using a spinner to determine what question to answer when they talk about the book they read



At Seminole they read 2 hours a week; had reading mentors; there are at least 50 teen volunteers; the Mother Daughter book club [limit of 15] is a hit; this year they will try a parent/son book club at night; Page Turners is a program for grades 1 & 2, have the children read stories and they can do a mini-booktalk [booksharing] and a craft. A 30-Kid lock-in, there will be two this summer; a First – Fifth Grade Sleepover; 7 Special Guests, thanks to their Friends group [Wonderful Wednesdays].



Friday, September 9, at Dunedin is the next BAYN/PYN meeting; we will set the dates for the ‘06 meetings. We need more time for roundtable discussion.



Respectfully submitted,



 

Maryjane Hyatt

St. Pete Beach Public Library

 

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PYN

April 8, 2005

Present: Marlene, Joy, Phyllis, Jennifer, Jo, Krystal, Kitt, Sharon, Maryjane, Karen, Lisa, Lois, Juliet, 

North Greenwood will not be doing the Keats Kreations or the Clearwater Reading Club with the rest of the system.

St. Petersburg will be having special guests, teen reading buddies, Mother/Daughter Reading Club, Baseball theme [9 baseballs between bases, each baseball stands for 20 minutes of reading] They are no longer part of Leisure Services, but are in Neighborhood Services. Last year they did watermania, this year pirates; two books: The Pirates Parrot by Lyn Rossiter McFarland [1582460140] and What if you met a pirate? By Jan Adkins [1596430079]

Clearwater will be having puppet shows, Red Cross babysitting classes. They do a 4-day mandatory volunteer training, 2 hours each day, they learn accuracy in shelving, how to cut things out, etc. Audubon is doing a free program, call Jennifer for contact #.

Tarpon Springs is having a Parking Lot Library Day Festival with sidewalk art, games, and crafts; it will last 3 hours. They are going to do special events at the old library on Thursday mornings. A Harry Potter reading club for ages 11 – 18 called Dumbledores Army. Their reading log is for one week, like a coupon to turn in – they turn them in on Mondays and get a free book and an oriental trading item.

Pinellas Public Library Cooperative web page is not yet set up.

Palm Harbor is doing an etiquette program for ages 7 – 12 based on "Camp Manners" from Stein Mart.

Juliet says that PPLC would host PYN on off months; so we would not have to piggyback with the YASIG; so Oct 7 & Nov 4 PYN is at PPLC. Bring Hoot items for October meeting.

~Maryjane @ St. Pete Beach Public Library


		
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