A Cozy Quilt for Bear in Hiawatha

The Morrill Public Library hosted four special Storytimes during Kansas Reads to Preschoolers week. The children who attended colored quilt blocks to make a cozy quilt for Bear on a giant bulletin display. The Library also distributed copies of Bear Feels Sick to the hospital, local clinics and preschools, and city officials to encourage people to read this book and others to children.

Beck-Bookman Library of Holton Reads to Preschoolers about Health!

Beck-Bookman joined libraries throughout the state to celebrate Kansas Reads to Preschoolers week November 16-22. Thanks to RN’s Henrietta Area and Katie Eteeyan, preschoolers at Colorado Elementary School and the Library were able to hear the Bear Feels Sick from a health professional.

RN Katie read to the morning and afternoon classes of Mary Porter and Terri Johnson. Library Director Candee Jacobs continued the lesson with songs and fingerplays and crafts. The children received a Curious George band aid to take home. Each classroom received a copy of Bear Feels Sick.

Nurse Henriette read to the Toddler Time children at Beck-Bookman. Parents as Teachers educator, Rhonda Mitchell, continued the theme with fingerplays, songs and crafts from the website during the library session. Each child who attended was given their own copy of the Bear Feels Sick book.
Jackson County Day Care providers were also mailed a copy of the book along with a packet of ideas for promoting the theme.

Bear Feels Sick Story time at Liberal

Youngsters listen to the story, with a giant cardboard stand up Bear looking on, during a Kansas Reads to Preschoolers event at Memorial Library. The week was divided between in-library story times and visits to area preschools and day care facilities.

KS Reads at the Olathe Public Library

It was a busy week in Olathe! Library staff, with help from community volunteers, were able to visit 37 daycares and preschools in Olathe. Between preschool visits and regular storytimes, we read Bear Feels Sick to more than 1,400 children! Children who heard the book at their preschool were excited to receive a special heart shaped "Kansas Kids Read" sticker. Library patrons were also invited to make get well cards for bear at both Olathe libraries, and the cards are currently on display for all to see.

KPIRC Reads to Preschoolers!

The staff of Kansas Parent Information Resource Center have been busy reading to preschoolers this week! We have read at Head Start Programs, Home Daycares and Daycare Center across Kansas. Additionally, we supplied books to each child in attendance! Thank you to SEK-CAP, KACCRRA, Capper and the public libraries for helping us connect to make this a wonderful event for us as well as for the families!

Washburn University's Vice President for Academic Affairs Robin Bowen Reads to Kansas Preschoolers

Dr. Robin Bowen, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Washburn University

Washburn University vice president to read to Randolph Elementary School children Thursday

TOPEKA – Washburn University Vice President of Academic Affairs Robin Bowen will be participating in Celebrate Kansas Reads to Preschoolers Week Nov. 16-22, when she reads “Bear Feels Sick” by Karma Wilson from 9:45 to 10:15 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, in the Randolph Elementary School library. Washburn sponsors include the Curriculum Resources Center, education department and Washburn University Early Childhood Educators student group. Bowen's reading will be one of many taking place in the Topeka area. Washburn Education students are reading the book while teaching and volunteering in preschools, kindergartens, and afterschool programs. The department espouses a close relationship with area schools and many teachers are WU alumni. Student teacher placements, volunteer programs, and Washburn University Transformational Experiences often take place in Topeka's preK-12 classrooms. For more information, check out the Washburn Web site at www.washburn.edu/mabee/crc , or call Heather Smith-Collins or Judy McConnell-Farmer at 670-1956.

KS READS @ the Scott County Library

The Scott County Library is having a guest reader, Sue Rogers, R.N. at the Scott County Hospital, for StoryTime on Tuesday, November 18 to read Bear Feels Sick to our preschoolers and talk to them about how to stay "well". We will be handing out packets that include handouts from the website along with information about the importance of reading to your child; a Bear Feels Sick bookmark and a bear at the hospital sticker sheet. Children who visit the Library on Tuesday, will be able to put their name into a drawing for a Bear Feels Sick book, we are giving away two books.
During the week of November 17, Miss Stephanie and Miss Millie are going to travel to some of the local daycares to read the book, Bear Feels Sick, to their kids. They will also have packets to handout to the kids.

Tuck That Bear in Bed!

Jeannie Kendall at Osage City Library has shared a fun project on the Northeast Kansas Library System homepage. Go to www.nekls.org to view the blog post and print out her reproducible color-and-cut pages.

Include Your Health Dept

The Health Department in Lawrence is sending someone to talk to the kids at all of our preschool storytimes about Bear Feels Sick. They will talk about the importance of washing hands and other health tips. The also will do a germy hands demonstation under ultra-violet light. All the germs will show up and when they wash their hands, the germs are gone.

They are coming free of charge, so it would be something any library could include.

Joyce

If You're Healthy and You Know It

I revised and added a few parts to this take-off on If You're Happy and You Know It. Feel free to use it and/or change it to suit your needs. -Jennifer Adams, Manhattan

If you’re healthy and you know it, stretch and jump.
If you’re healthy and you know it, stretch and jump.
If you’re healthy and you know it, then your body will surely show it.
If you’re healthy and you know it, stretch and jump.

If you’re sick and you know it, say “Achoo!” (sneeze into arm)...
If you’re sick and you know it, then your achy body will show it…

If you’re clean and you know it, wash your hands (scrub, scrub)...
If you’re clean and you know it, then your hands will surely show it…

If you like to exercise, run in place...
If you like to exercise, then you’re really very wise…

If you like nutritious food, eat it up (yum, yum)...
If you like nutritious food, then your body will feel good…