Library olympics

Brains met brawn in a bookish competition for the ages

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Library Olympics events are great fun to run during Olympics years. This is our second time running a summer Library Olympics. We try to make it a mix between crafts and events (as not all kids are crafty or athletic). Due to our space, we registered 31 kids for this event and all 31 showed up. Craft 1: Design Your Own Flag This is a great way to raise some spirit and add an educational component-you can make country flags, team flags, Olympic flags, flags with your names on, etc. You can…

When you start with chocolate and add kids, timers, blindfolds, spoons, and straws…you get a special kind of wild magic. I’ve heard of other libraries doing chocolate challenges with te…

Library Olympics at University of Dayton, August, 2016 : )It was the second year of the Library Olympics, which features events such as The Journal Toss, which involves flinging to-be-recycled journals at a target; Speed Sort, in which competitors organize books on a cart as fast as possible (in correct Library of Congress order); and Cart Racing. Also, the balance beam, in which a book is balanced on a head. See photos.

This STEM activity invites kids to create a falling Olympic flame of food coloring in a bottle. A free activity printable is available on this post.

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The last week of May was Brimhall's first ever Library Book Bowling. Students in every grade have been trained in using the library this year. As a culminating event to show what they had learned I had a Book Bowl off in the library. I saw this idea on Tina Benedek's library blog and modified her Biography Bowling Activity. Mr. Thomas hoping for a strike! Each grade had a different task they were assigned to find in the library: Kindergarten= a book that had a call number that started with a…

By Elaine Pearson Joanne Shaw created these wonderful banners for our Olympic Reading Challenge. Have a look at more great ideas for FREE and low cost printable posters, worksheets, lettering and bamnners on her website: http://www.instantdisplay.chio.uk/ The inspiration for the Challenge comes from this website which has lot of ideas and some great activities: http://www.mrsmacslibrary.com/book-week-2012.html Karen Collins has produced some great record sheets. (They are PDF files) I…

Library Olympics at the Strathmore Library

The summer Olympics are coming up! This is a great way to get students or kids involved in learning! What do you include? You can include Venn diagrams, books, KWL charts, traditions, STEM and so much more to your lessons that relate to summer sports. Because students are seeing the events at home, they will be more engaged in your lessons. These are my favorite Summer Olympics activities for kids!

Ok… I needed a way to spruce up Library Orientation…and fast. After reflecting on my practice the last few years I knew that the students needed to be instructed on how to use the catal…

Celebrate this summer's Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games with these fun backyard activities for your sport-obsessed kids.

I LOVE the Olympics! I have always loved the Olympics, and I get very excited when it's an Olympic year. The summer Games are my favorite, especially the gymnastics and swimming. The Olympics is also a high-interest topic for students. The summer Games are a perfect theme for the end or beginning of a school year, and it's a great theme for summer school, as well. When I have a theme that I'd like to teach but is not in my curriculum, I always start with guided reading. I am very lucky to…

Are you looking for elementary library lessons? A fun way to review what you've taught this year is with a Battleship library game! Read all the how-to's in this blog post! #LibraryLearners

As many of you know, especially if you follow me on Twitter, one of my greatest fears in life is that all these cool and amazing programs we have – especially the ones during summer – miss out on working parents. Everything we have starts at 2 PM? Well, what about if you don’t have... Read more »

Get in the Olympic spirit by reading one of these highly-rated fiction or non-fiction books about the summer Olympics or a related sport.

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