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Fourth grade students involved in ImaginOn’s year-long classroom collaboration with First Ward Elementary School have been hard at work this year, and their efforts have culminated in a book! The year included professional development workshops in performance poetry for the teachers, and sessions for kids that helped them find creative ways to open up their writing through a study of Romare Bearden’s artwork, a look at (and listen to) the history and artistry of jazz, and many ways to use drama, theatre and storytelling to help move ideas from the brain to the page.
The year’s final project is a book called The Dream Keeper’s Alphabet. It is an ABC book inspired by the Langston Hughes poem, The Dream Keeper. In it the fourth-grade writers and illustrators share advice on how to make dreams come true. Copies will be available at all PLCMC library branches by Fall, 2008.
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Join us in the Loft @ ImaginOn to kick off the Teen Summer Reading Program on Wednesday, June 11! Come to the party to sign up for the reading program and score some free food and cool prizes, or you can go online and create your own summer reading account. Either way, once you sign up you will be eligible to collect prizes once you complete 15 hours and 25 hours of reading. Attending a library programs also counts for one hour of reading, so if you attend the party you can sign up and knock out an hour! This year’s prizes are also better than ever, with a coupon for free food, a drawstring backpack, a $5 print coupon, and a 64 mb flash drive!
As an added bonus, this summer teen participants have the opportunity to waive up to $20 in fines and fees from their library cards. At registration, 15 hours of reading, and 25 hours of reading, participants will be able to print out a fine waiver coupon that can be redeemed in the Loft or at any local branch library. The fine waiver coupons may be used to waive fines, lost items, and/or lost cards for the summer reading participant only and each coupon is good for only one use. |
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Teens at ImaginOn created a summer reading PSA through a partnership with the Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP). This announcement will be shown around the country and explores the theme of Metamorphosis.
Teens used 2D and 3D filming techniques to achieve the special effects. Versions of the video exist in English and Spanish, and feature four different teen actors.Click here to see the video!
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After a 4-month stay which included a tour of branch libraries for several letters, Contraptions A-Z will be leaving ImaginOn on May 27. Very soon after everyone’s favorite mechanical alphabet leaves, the familiar StoryLab computer stations will return…but look again!
Staff are working with kids! - to develop new games for kids of all ages. When the kiosks return they will have new software, to help visitors to ImaginOn discover, in a playful way, a few new ways to bring a story to life. Stop by and see for yourself !
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