Youth Services/Programs
Youth Services/Programs
LEGO LEAGUES:
2009
Smart MoveTransforming Transportation
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First Lego League-
2008-2009 TeamsKids 1st-3rd Grade were on teams of six.
Created in partnership with the LEGO Group, Junior FIRST LEGO League (JFLL) is geared to children aged 6 to 9 years old and utilizes a modified FIRST LEGO League (FLL) framework. Teams of up to 6 children and an adult mentor receive a mini challenge, based on the annual FLL research project. Using an open-ended LEGO building set, they will design a model depicting an aspect of this year’s "Power Puzzle" Challenge. Children will spend approximately one month exploring, investigating, designing and building a model made with LEGO bricks. In conjunction, teams create a "Show Me" poster that depicts the teams’ experience during this process, through drawings and words.Teams are encouraged to gather together and hold local events to share their experiences with family and friends. Anyone is able to hold an event - tips, suggestions, and "how to" are offered in the Event Guide.
JFLL introduces children to the concepts of teamwork and basic design skills, creating an initial interest and hands-on approach to science and technology through the familiarity and fun of LEGO building. The goal: provide an experience that will begin to transform youngsters and open their eyes to the possibilities of improving the world around them through acknowledgement, thought, planning and technology.
FIRST LEGO LEAGUE for 4th-6th Grade.
What is First Lego League?
FLL is the result of a partnership between FIRST and The LEGO Group. In 1998, FIRST Founder Dean Kamen and The LEGO Group’s Kjeld Kirk Kristiensen joined forces to create FIRST LEGO League (FLL), a powerful program that engages younger children in playful and meaningful learning while helping them to discover the fun in science and technology. So far, FLL has reached more than 135,000 kids in 45 countries around the globe.
Baby Talk: Mondays @ 11:00
This program is for infants or toddlers and moms/dads/grandparents. Introduces books, colors and sounds to babies.
Program last for about 15 minutes.Story Time: Wednesday @ 11:15 at Headstart (Weippe Wesleyan Church)
This program is for preschoolers 3-4 years of age.
Expands and develops appreciation of stories
Provides socialization skills and improves "attention span"
Program last for 1/2 hour.Call the library to verify dates and times as these programs are mainly during the school year.
10 Good Reasons to Read to a Baby
1. Baby associates your voice with warmth, comfort, and security.
2. Reading has a calming effect on a restless baby.
3. Baby is entertained by nursery rhymes and songs.
4. Holding the baby while reading to him/her creates a close, loving bond between parent and baby.
5. Baby makes an association between reading and being held.
6. The pleasure of being held transfers to the desire to be read to.
7. Baby will learn to listen and will grow up ready to read.
8. Baby will begin imitating sounds and
words.
9. Baby must hear English (or French or whatever) in order to learn that language.
10. It's fun to read to a baby!
Selecting Books for Babies
Pictures should be large, bold colorful, and uncluttered. Illustrations should show definite contrast between light and dark.
Stories should be short.
Types of books to be shared with infants include:
- Books with rhyme, rhythm, and repetition
- Books with pictures of other babies
- Informational books
- Poetry books
- Books with textures or touch and feel books
- Mother Goose and nursery rhyme books
- Concept books
- Folktales
- Books that feature familiar items or events in baby's world
- Books that feature sounds
- Books babies can manipulate, such as lift the flap books or books with holes (12 - 18 months)
- Books of different sizes and shapes (18-30 months)
- Books with "parent appeal"
Books with longer stories should be read to baby as his or her attention span increases.
Wordless books are useful to parents to make up stories as they "read" the pictures.
