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- Annie Gaines: So hello, and welcome to today's and Info2Go! webinar my name is Annie Gaines and I am the continuing education consultant here at the Idaho Commission for libraries located and sunny Boise Idaho.
- Annie Gaines: Our webinars and other continuing education opportunities are funded by the Institute of museum and library services.
- Annie Gaines: Everyone is muted on entry and we encourage you to use the chat feature to ask questions and discuss with other attendees.
- Annie Gaines: As you exit the webinar you will be prompted to complete an evaluation and we always appreciate your honest feedback.
- Annie Gaines: today's topic is library programming in the great outdoors and i'm going to pass it over to Jennifer Redford our youth services consultant, who will introduce our speakers Jennifer Thank you so much for being here.
- Jennifer Redford: Thanks Annie and Thank you everyone for attending and thank you to all of you who are viewing this recording at a later date.
- Jennifer Redford: which I know a lot of people do they sign up for this just so they can treasure those those info to go moments so thanks everybody for being here and we live.
- Jennifer Redford: In the great state of Idaho it has a wealth of outdoor opportunities from the northern tip of the state to the southeastern.
- Jennifer Redford: Most part there is something to do outside in Idaho and idaho's libraries do a really wonderful job incorporating our natural environment into their services and programs for their communities.
- Jennifer Redford: And i'm very excited to bring together two pros at that Kasi Allen from twin falls public library is going to talk to you about her nature brewery.
- Jennifer Redford: concept and the other things that her library does outside and Sherry Scheline from the Dudley public library who's the director there.
- Jennifer Redford: And sherry's library, I believe, is 700 square feet total so she has a really wonderful outside space, which I think is two to three times the size of her actual inside space.
- Jennifer Redford: and her library does programming throughout the year, including in Idaho snowy winters outside and so she's going to share a little bit about what she does.
- Jennifer Redford: And we have Michelle Youngquist here from project learning tree, which is a wonderful arm of the forest division and.
- Jennifer Redford: She has a lot of great continuing education opportunities for Librarians to help them.
- Jennifer Redford: Use the natural environment of Idaho a little bit more intentionally and their programs and services and she's going to talk to us about.
- Jennifer Redford: What her organization does and how libraries can tap into it and everybody's going to speak for a little bit kind of share their information and then we will have time for lots of questions at the end, so if you do have questions, please save them up or comments, and if you have.
- Jennifer Redford: Some great ideas to share with the group as well, and you weren't lucky enough to be a panelist today, please.
- Jennifer Redford: feel free to share those two when we get to the end of this program will have lots of time for sharing so again, thank you for being here and i'm going to turn it over to cassie to talk about what she does in twin falls.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: Hello.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: Like Jennifer said i'm KAsi on and from the twin falls public library and I in the last two years have never once had to share my screen, can you believe that so.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: I figured out right now.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: I have a few photos I wanted to share we do a lot of programming outside and we do a lot of our just normal programming outside because the weather here is so beautiful on this summer.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: And then, I have a couple of outdoors centric programs that all focus on a little more so that I would just share a few photos.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: Okay, is everybody seeing my my.
- Jennifer Redford: yep looks great cassie good great wonderful.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: Okay, so First, I just wanted to show you a little map of what we have going on here so.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: Our libraries pretty big it's three floors and, but we have a big population so.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: Very often, especially during summer reading we run out of space in our library for people So these are just some of the spaces, that we use, and we do use all of them, we have this weird library lawn off to the right here.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: it's hard to get to with like a stroller because you've passed through the parking lot so.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: We didn't start using it heavily until the last few years, and then we have this strange little back line.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: And then, a sideline we use both of those pretty heavily and then we are fortunate enough to be right next door to the city park so as long as we ask them to turn their sprinklers off.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: We can use the city apart, and we do, and then we also utilize anyone who's been to twin falls knows that we have an abundance of trails and parks, so we try to utilize those as much as possible to.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: So these are just some programs we've had outside, we had the College of southern Idaho baseball team come teach us how to play baseball that was in our.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: library line, and then we had the College of southern Idaho volleyball team come teach us how to play volleyball I don't recommend doing that, next to windows.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: We had a club for a while called kids unplugged where kids learn how to do like old world skills and so that picture, there is of a four H kid teaching our kids how to raise chickens on the line.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: we've done a bicycle rodeo a few times for this one we we close off the road between the park and the library I don't know if you guys know you can do that, you can ask the city to just close the road off for you, we do it all the time.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: And we had a giant bicycle rodeo with a bicycle parade and decorating stations and even a bicycle obstacle course.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: We have block parties, every year, so this is the road closed off again and we utilize the park and the library lawns for that we have a DJ come everybody dances in the street, we have giant bubbles this year we're trying to get a mobile climbing wall for our block party.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: yeah we like to celebrate outside we do story walks, of course, and I made sure to include a cold weather story walk because we do do a lot of cold weather outdoor programming but it's not always the prettiest so we take a lot of pictures of it, but we do story was all the time.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: We do most of our summer reading activities outside either on the library Lon or in the park do a lot of physical activities and our activities outside, because then you don't have to worry about paint so much.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: We do story times outside that's me conducting our story times on the library line.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: We you know, during coven we did them outside year round, with just a heater but now we're just mean it's still covert but you know what I mean.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: Now we're just doing them outside when the weather is really beautiful, which again it's Idaho so pretty often the weather is beautiful where we're fortunate.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: This is a new program, so this is one of our programs that is more nature centric, this is a new program is called stroller ebrary it's a once a week walk on.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: A path in twin falls we start the group so it's it's caregivers basically it's an excuse for caregivers to meet each other and walk with each other.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: But there has to be an early literacy component because we're the library, so we all meet up at the walking path whatever walking path we're using that week and then I give them a short early literacy lesson.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: They take the sheet and then we all just go for like an hour long walk, so this is to have the trails that we've done this, is the Canyon road trail and the Orton botanical garden, and you know, the only.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: The only prerequisite for this program is that I just have to find trails that are stroller friendly, but we, we have a lot in Idaho.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: And I just started this program last month um but so far it's been really popular and really productive.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: And so I thought I would just show you kind of the the early literacy stuff we talked about before our walk and i'm if anyone is curious about starting a program like this i'm happy to help I, this is just two examples of a handout that I might give out.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: I, for one of these I just I just made it up.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: and other one I used room prompt to help me sort of build the the language for what we were going to give out but.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: yeah that one's really wonderful and, like last week we were on our walk and we saw a snake, and so we all stopped to look at it, the kids are a little more interested in the moms were.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: And as we were walking away, one of the little girls, because we have a gratitude practice and our story times, where we're really used to using gratitude language.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: And as we were walking away, one of the little girls that we had on our heart and said i'm just so grateful we spent time with the snake today.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: it's a really great program it really gets us out into nature.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: And the other one I wanted to talk about is nature prairie notice, I have a naming scheme stroller Barry in nature.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: um let's see.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: So nature Barry is a program for pre elementary kids to just do hands on learning outside I mostly do these in the park.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: Each week the kids get a little treasure map i'll show you i'll show you some examples.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: Of what is available to them, and then they just go do that on their own with their caregiver so in this one you'll see, we had a mud pie week and the kids just had like dinosaurs and measuring cups and all the stuff that you would need to play in the mud.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: In a kiddie pool filled with mud, and that was fun.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: To get rid of, but the kids loved it and, most of them came away just covered in mud, so we do tell the parents like this is a dirty program be prepared to get dirty on the right there they made paint brushes.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: Out of nature stuff twigs leaves whatever and then painted with liquid watercolors.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: This thing somewhere and then.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: here's just a few other activities we've done it it's a whole fleshed out program so we've done tons and tons of activities, I just thought, these were some good pictures.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: Here they're making their names out of nature objects super good fine motor skills they're cutting leaves they're cutting sticks they're gathering their spelling their names they're interacting with the sensory.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: components of the objects on the right here is a bug discovery, so those bins are filled with.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: died, rice and beans and they're either digging through what a wonderful sensory experience digging through to find the little plastic bugs or they're using the tweezers and then I have this little video we did a sensory walk.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: Different objects to feel with your feet.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: And I just love this little boys experience feeling.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: The cream and then there's rocks they really love to put their feet in the arby's so it's hard to turn them away from that.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: From that particular sensory experience how nice.
- The must feel so good.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: grandpa's holding his hand for his balance and then wet rocks and then they could go again.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: But that's the kind of stuff we get to play with and meet your brain that we don't get to play with inside the library, because we don't necessarily want kids walking around with wet shaving cream did I say what cream shaving cream what shaving cream feet in the library.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: So, as promised here's here's some examples of the maps that I give them each week it's totally self lead, so I have a really difficult job of sitting in a lawn chair and the park with the sun hat on.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: Just telling them to go have fun I don't have to do much after the setup and yeah they just go to each each little station and.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: Do their thing with their caregiver and each station has language for the caregivers if they have never, for example, if they've never done a measuring task with their child before it has good language.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: That they could use with their child if they wanted to, and how to continue that play at home for free.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: And then yeah, I just wanted to compile some photos because our adult services does a lot of outdoor programming to and they do a wonderful job with it, but I am usually just there as a participant so.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: But yeah we do a lot we do drive in movies, we do workshops classes parties.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: yeah I think that's it for me.
- Jennifer Redford: Thanks cassie and it looks like you all have so much fun with your program and I am I had listened to you give a similar talk at a different different group.
- Jennifer Redford: And you mentioned that your staff members actually really enjoyed being outside and had less instances of feeling ill during the year, probably because they had some of that great outside time.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: Yes, when we moved our story times outside, especially in the children's department, we have always had we've always been saying we're always say.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: we're ground zero for all the illnesses, but yeah when we moved all of our programming outside we completely stopped being sick.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: I don't think I took a single sick day.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: In 2021, and that is totally out of the norm for me and yeah our staff, really, we find that it's easier to get volunteers to staff for.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: You know I need a few extra staff members, for whatever if i'm going to be outside yeah i'd love to, so I think it's just more enjoyable for everyone, all together, the only downside is like you'll see in the flower arranging class there, we had to bring all those tables out.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: So now we do have permanent tables in that Lon they're not that big so we still do have to bring stuff out once in a while, but that is the only downside, that I see outdoor programming.
- Jennifer Redford: The schlepping.
- Jennifer Redford: it's always a thing.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: Lots of slapping.
- Jennifer Redford: Alright well thanks cassie and I.
- Jennifer Redford: Have and i'll have you have good questions to save up for for cassie later let's go ahead and move on to sherry shoreline from the Donnelly library Dudley public library.
- Jennifer Redford: and sherry is coming.
- Jennifer Redford: To us from the outside.
- Jennifer Redford: I sherry.
- hi.
- Sherry Scheline: The exciting thing is my shade keeps falling over so you're going to see like one of the problems of our outdoor programming, and so I wanted to give you all a quick tour, before I start.
- Sherry Scheline: Just because that way it'll help you understand our space, a little better, and I gotta figure out how to switch my camera.
- Sherry Scheline: So this is our outdoor space or libraries super tiny and you're probably wondering what these big old Poles are we are building.
- Sherry Scheline: Our outdoor classroom we're actually setting up to large teepees I got them in November and we've been fighting with our P amp Z to.
- Sherry Scheline: Direct them and we have final approval last Wednesday, so now we're just waiting on the approval from the tribe and we're going to have a teepee for an outdoor classroom.
- Sherry Scheline: And this is our space, so we slept a lot, so we have two different types of seating and we have a chicken coop back here with our chickens, and this is our fire pit and there's garbage and I right now um so that's our quick tour and then i'm gonna get my slides up here.
- Sherry Scheline: hold on one second.
- Jennifer Redford: And for those of you who are coming to us from a non Idaho state Donnelly is located, very close to McCall Idaho it's in the central part of this day right in the heart of the mountains.
- Jennifer Redford: They get lots and lots of snow.
- Sherry Scheline: So that's.
- Sherry Scheline: The first thing is, we are in the mountains so yesterday we had.
- Sherry Scheline: snow and today it looks super sunny out when I just like showed you everything we do have green grass, but we don't have any.
- Sherry Scheline: Anything else blooming quite yet we have some cameras and some dandelions, but we do have snow and the potential of snow, most of the year, so it did snow yesterday um, but we are expecting 70 on Thursday so.
- Sherry Scheline: hi Alice she just said um it's her hometown from the chat but I was so the first slide and we do have a picture of some snow that was in January and.
- Sherry Scheline: We have to just adapt.
- Sherry Scheline: We have an after school program that goes Monday through Friday and it runs 15 to 20 kids a day, and the reason that we started That was because don Lee did not have anything we're as.
- Sherry Scheline: Jennifer said we're nestled in between McCall and then cascaded to the south of us, and both of those communities have a fully funded after school program they both have a 21st century grant money, and so the two elementary schools that surround us.
- Sherry Scheline: had full after school programs and donley is a title one school that nestled in the middle and had no options for kids and the unfortunate thing for donley kids is they also don't get to participate, like after school sports.
- Sherry Scheline: And that's primarily, not just because.
- Sherry Scheline: it's not that they don't have access, they could go and play in McCall or cascade it's the parents don't.
- Sherry Scheline: have the time to drive them to and from those places, so there was really no other option, so we stepped in and we developed an after school program and.
- Sherry Scheline: So to start my family, we have this guilty pleasure, we watch SWAT together and a slot the Leader hondo is always stay saying stay liquid and if I could give you one takeaway.
- Sherry Scheline: It would be to stay liquid, for your after school programming, so we always have to adapt make changes the weather always changes.
- Sherry Scheline: We do not have the option of going inside for after school program so we're forced to be outside and so adapting is really, really important.
- Sherry Scheline: And so we have to be ready for everything, so our biggest problems that we have our seasons, the weather attendance and Tuesdays and the reason I put seasons and weather differently is.
- Sherry Scheline: Here we have summer reading, which is a totally different thing that we can adapt to differently, and then the school year, which is winter.
- Sherry Scheline: We don't really have a spring at all we joke that we have like 19 winters so there's spring, one day, and then it's back to winter so and then the weather so anytime.
- Sherry Scheline: that the most difficult thing with the weather, for us, is this it's not the snow it's the rain and the wind so on a day when there's five feet of snow on the ground we're totally fine it's just the wind is the problem attendances or other problem.
- Sherry Scheline: So the way that we're set up parents can do some drop in, and so we could go anywhere from having six kids to having a day when we have 30 kids and so Those are some of our outdoor problems.
- Sherry Scheline: And then we put tuesday's because it's a big joke, that if anything goes wrong here, it is always on a Tuesday and so on the pictures, this is me I was actually reading a story.
- Sherry Scheline: The one in the upper left, I was reading a story and I fell through the snow and it was legit deeper than that, but one of the kids had to come out pull me out eventually we had to dig me out because I could not get out.
- Sherry Scheline: So my biggest things about.
- Sherry Scheline: outdoor programming is your seating seating is super important, and I know that she talked about our tables.
- Sherry Scheline: We because of the snow we built on like actual benches in our snow because we didn't want kids like setting, so the kids you can see, one of these photos they're they're actually setting on benches that we made in the snow.
- Sherry Scheline: Not having the kids on the ground is super important for us and it just helps because when they're on the ground it's they're so distracted so we purchased some bean bags and then, this year we got.
- Sherry Scheline: The super cool spider web bounce teachers and my desk gold, which is perpetual now purchase them for us um The other thing is our waiting period.
- Sherry Scheline: So one of the problems outside is we got to figure out what activities we're going to allow the kids to do during their waiting period so when we're switching activities and we want them to run, we want them to stay stationary.
- Sherry Scheline: And so we always plan for our waiting period as well, and then the activities we always make sure that whatever game we're playing or.
- Sherry Scheline: Anything also has one other thing that we plan to throughout the day that we don't necessarily plan on doing.
- Sherry Scheline: But we have it, as our backup because after school programming goes so fast, and we want the kids engaged, most of the time.
- Sherry Scheline: And we don't want them, leaving the property line so our activities are like tear this summer we built this summer, this winter we built amazed for the snow and so it was like a hit kidneys all through the snow and I wish I had pictures of it from.
- Sherry Scheline: The air, but I did not get them and next is our outdoor tech, so our kids still use devices outside so we got I CFL provided us with super great wi fi so we have a wi fi.
- Sherry Scheline: Just right behind me, so it works throughout the entire yard it actually goes about 300 yards from the the actual library and.
- Sherry Scheline: The next thing is everything's.
- Sherry Scheline: We make so many mistakes and we had to realize that.
- Sherry Scheline: Not everything when we're doing outdoor programming.
- Sherry Scheline: is going to be successful, but it's also not all going up and smoke, and so we learn that wisdom comes from our mistakes and we adapt to the changing needs and.
- Sherry Scheline: That, in the end, when I just told you that tech was important, we still have tech outside, we also realize that it's not important.
- Sherry Scheline: So on the days that it doesn't work for some reason we just adapt we do after school snacks and when I say up in smoke, we have a fire pit.
- Sherry Scheline: And we cook most of our after school snacks on the fire bed, and I know some people are like, how is that usda, how is that it's things like hot dogs the kids roast hot dogs a lot we have hot dogs all the time.
- Sherry Scheline: We we cook we just did 80 days around the world and we had road snacks from all over and we will.
- Sherry Scheline: We have a cook them in a pot on the on the fire pit we do everything on our little tiny fire pit.
- Sherry Scheline: And there's lots of mistakes we burn a lot of.
- Sherry Scheline: kids burn a lot of.
- Sherry Scheline: So we just adapt to our changes and forgive ourselves for mistakes my biggest advice for after school programming.
- Sherry Scheline: is also to be brave try something that you.
- Sherry Scheline: Is unconventional think outside of the normal box and enjoy the programming aspects we just celebrated holy, which is a.
- Sherry Scheline: holiday because we're doing 80 days around the world and that's why the kids have colored powder all over their faces.
- Sherry Scheline: It was a wonderful experience for the kids they had a great time.
- Sherry Scheline: Also i'm being brave we have chickens, so the kids asked to raise chickens and we contacted the city and made sure that it was Okay, if we had a chicken coop in the city limits, and so the kids have incubated chickens and are raising chickens and they built their own chicken coop.
- Sherry Scheline: which was wonderful for them they're responsible for cleaning it they're responsible for making sure the chickens are fed and I do absolutely nothing with it, I.
- Sherry Scheline: Allow the kids to do do that lastest stay liquid liquid is just adapting to all of the changes that come with the day, so our biggest changes or whether the seasons.
- Sherry Scheline: Our attendance and, of course, the problematic Tuesdays and that's about it for programming wise, we always create our own curriculum.
- Sherry Scheline: For campus for summer reading this year we actually do a summer camp that goes from eight to five Monday through Friday.
- Sherry Scheline: And the reason that we do, that is when we ask our parents, we did a survey of what they wanted for summer reading and the biggest thing was childcare.
- Sherry Scheline: And unfortunately valley county as a whole has a child care crisis and we just don't have that as an opportunity, and so we actually charge.
- Sherry Scheline: For our summer camp and we have an outdoor summer camp that goes Monday through Friday.
- Sherry Scheline: And one week each month, and once it fails, then we offer a second week, so we are two weeks in June, right now, and still in two weeks in August and just one in July so everything we do is outside we just adapt and we utilize all of our Community partners so for a.
- Sherry Scheline: We utilize we utilize the vacation rental place next door we use their refrigerator.
- Sherry Scheline: All the time and the school, we also have an outdoorsy which was purchased during forbid, which was actually one of our best purchases that we could have made during coven.
- Sherry Scheline: In the beginning, we had it right in front of the door the library and so before people would even come into the library, we just asked them to wash their hands.
- Sherry Scheline: And then the masks were sitting right next to it, so we didn't have that mask bottle that a lot of people had because, once they wash their hands, they would just grab a mask it was just like.
- Sherry Scheline: kind of like a force of habit there wasn't a habit you just reached over and we're like oh just wash my hands i'm going to take a mask and it worked great.
- Sherry Scheline: outdoors think was purchased from home depot and was like 20 $500 and it works wonderful.
- Sherry Scheline: We move it all around the yard now so it's usually pretty close to where the chicken coop that so we could make sure the kids wash their hands before and after they touch the chickens.
- Sherry Scheline: And the sink has soap and water and everything I do recommend that the wonderful thing for us is our indoor sink is super tiny it's like a.
- Sherry Scheline: very weird bathroom sink that's really small, and so we can't wash out paint pots or anything like that, but our outdoor think is really deep and so we can wash like paints and.
- Sherry Scheline: oftentimes Clean Clothes and things like that i'm also brilliant at getting free things so as you can see from this front picture.
- Sherry Scheline: The library's rock shirts that was from the Idaho libraries association Conference a few years ago, it was the leftover shirts and they were all like smalls and.
- Sherry Scheline: The lady at the table said, would you like these, and I was like yes, I would and four years later, I am still using the same paint shirts and the kids use them all the time.
- Sherry Scheline: So anytime I can get things for free, I will take them, I will be the first one to sign up also our library budget, just so people know just because I know that that's a good comparison our library budgets only 65,000 a year, so we do a lot of things by beg borrowing and pleading.
- Sherry Scheline: And like Alice is on right now, a few years ago, our summer reading prizes were all from the library leftovers so anytime we can get things for free in our little library we totally.
- Sherry Scheline: seize that opportunity and I encourage even libraries that are well funded to still take that opportunity and that's it.
- Jennifer Redford: Thanks sherry, and I think that's a your library is just such a great example of when you have the advantage of a smaller community, you can really build those relationships with your kids and.
- Jennifer Redford: Do projects that don't last just the one library session like making a chicken coop and taking care of the chickens it's really advantage to being in kind of a closer knit community and a smaller community.
- Jennifer Redford: yeah great job.
- Jennifer Redford: that's fantastic, and so I hope many of you have questions for sherry or are looking up how to buy your own outdoors think as we speak.
- Jennifer Redford: And before we even move on to Michelle I would encourage everyone to follow the Donnelly library and the library on social media because they both are really great about posting a lot of these outdoor activities and there's if you're looking for ideas.
- Jennifer Redford: just go through the back comment or the back posts.
- Jennifer Redford: archives, for both their social media is well worth your time.
- Jennifer Redford: Okay we're going to switch gears now and move on to Michelle young class from project learning tree and she's going to expand our resources, a little bit more and talk about what her organization that Michelle.
- Michelle Youngquist: Great thanks Jenny.
- Michelle Youngquist: it's so nice to be here i'm just always in the office of librarian so i'm just honored to be able to be in your midst today I find Librarians to be the most adaptable Now I know, to say the most liquid.
- Michelle Youngquist: Creative energetic optimistic people and that you spread joy Everywhere you go on with everything you do so, thank you for what you do and i'm thrilled to be here to share a little bit about what we have to.
- Michelle Youngquist: help you with that project learning tree in the Idaho forest products Commission so is everyone let's see switch the view.
- Michelle Youngquist: Seeing my slide.
- Jennifer Redford: No, not yet it's it says, Michelle has started screen sharing, but nothing is sharing.
- Michelle Youngquist: well.
- Jennifer Redford: Here you go lies or issue it's there now.
- Michelle Youngquist: Okay, I really need sherry's connections with the Internet, I want her to have someone install that wonderful wi fi for me.
- Michelle Youngquist: Alright, so I am Michelle custom, the education program manager for the Idaho forest products Commission, and that includes being the state coordinator for Idaho project learning tree and.
- Michelle Youngquist: I will put these these links in the chat after I finish, but we have lots and lots of things to share with you and.
- Michelle Youngquist: could just scratch the surface, today, so we have free activities and support from project learning tree we've got information and materials from the forest products, Commission.
- Michelle Youngquist: We have an array of professional development opportunities for you both short courses long courses in person virtual we can tailor training specifically to your needs.
- Michelle Youngquist: We have the award winning project learning to materials we have some youth opportunities through the forest products, Commission.
- Michelle Youngquist: We have some forest education grants through forest products Commission that are available to anybody who helps learn.
- Michelle Youngquist: About trees and for us helps you third really anyone learn about trees him for us, and so we.
- Michelle Youngquist: it's not just teachers and we are pretty flexible and we want to help you do all the important things you do so, please call on us.
- Michelle Youngquist: Both of the things that i'm going to talk about today are really, really comprehensive programs with an awful lot of stuff that I would love to share with you, but today is just going to be about giving you some shortcuts to the lowest hanging fruit.
- Michelle Youngquist: And Jennifer is this showing screens, or is it long delay.
- Jennifer Redford: I think you're good if you want to you could maybe turn off your video sometimes that helps with bandwidth.
- Michelle Youngquist: And plan.
- Michelle Youngquist: Great alright so project learning tree is a national and international program so those of you who are here, I saw someone from maine and I don't know if there's other people from other states, but you have project learning tree in your state too.
- Michelle Youngquist: So it is a national program of the sustainable forestry initiative and then each State has its own program under that.
- Michelle Youngquist: Big national umbrella and in Idaho our project learning to program is that the Idaho for US products Commission but project learning tree has been around.
- Michelle Youngquist: Since the mid 1970s so it's going on almost 50 years of being a leader in the field of environmental education and it has done, that by keeping up, so it is really good at.
- Michelle Youngquist: Continuing to figure out, what are the best ways to teach and what are the current issues of the current topics and all the thing.
- Michelle Youngquist: And then, providing really high quality materials and trainings that helped to get those into people's hands that work with you so.
- Michelle Youngquist: Essentially project learning to provides activities and resources to engage youth and learning about the environment and it uses the lens of trees and for us so.
- Michelle Youngquist: Our most low hanging fruit is that you have libraries, full of books and you have outdoor space that hopefully is accessible to you and so trees in books naturally go together and.
- Michelle Youngquist: Just taking a book out and reading to a tree or reading near a tree or exploring a tree with the book in hand all of those are.
- Michelle Youngquist: really very easy to do and don't take anything special to add to that and i'm just so amazed at the things that I learned from cassie and from sherry day that you're already doing.
- Michelle Youngquist: For the low hanging fruit of project learning tree, I was sent you to the national plt website, which is plt.org and you see the landing page Hopefully there and there's.
- Michelle Youngquist: The menu across the top i've pulled out the resources drop down menu, and I would suggest that you start there, and when you have more time than today.
- Michelle Youngquist: I would encourage you to explore every single one of those items under the resources drop down menu, because each of them is going to take you on a little deep dive of.
- Michelle Youngquist: lots and lots of resources it's sort of like going underground and going through tunnels and finding all kinds of good stuff so keep track of things that you find that you like.
- Michelle Youngquist: so that you know how to get back to them, but the thing that i'm going to send you to today is the free activities for family, so you would select that.
- Michelle Youngquist: out the bottom of the resources drop down menu, and when you get to that page, you will see links to more pages divided by types of activities so whether you're walking in a forest exploring a local park.
- Michelle Youngquist: In your own back here or whatnot all US inside you'll find over 50 activities available to you all of them free.
- Michelle Youngquist: And, essentially, most of them are shortened versions of the more comprehensive activities that are in the project learning tree activity guides and the instructions for doing the activity and any.
- Michelle Youngquist: visuals that you need will be on that website and often they will link a book or two to those activities.
- Michelle Youngquist: But if you want them to be portable or something that you send home with kids or families, they are also downloadable as pdfs and often are also in Spanish.
- Michelle Youngquist: So that you get there at the resources tab drop down to free family activities or you can just go to the link that I have shown you.
- Michelle Youngquist: Another great way to find some of the massive wealth of stuff that is on this website is to just use the search function so here I just put in the word reading and it popped up with these things.
- Michelle Youngquist: So when you click on any one of those you're going to get a long list of books were recommended reading, for example, for grades K through two.
- Michelle Youngquist: And they it'll highlight the books that will highlight some activities that you can do with the books that will connect to any project learning tree activities that go well with it and.
- Michelle Youngquist: it's just a great way to go, find what you need at this website another a couple good words were just books and books and literacy or literature helped me to find all kinds of things that I wasn't finding through the extensive menus.
- Michelle Youngquist: In addition to the free things there are things that are not free through project learning tree so there's a comprehensive amount of.
- Michelle Youngquist: Of curriculum materials really so teachers and classrooms have been the primary audience for project learning tree, but over the years.
- Michelle Youngquist: Many, many, many non formal educators have found that they really can use what project learning tree has to offer so i'm just showing you a few of the the core sort of.
- Michelle Youngquist: materials that we have just released this spring, was the new early childhood approach, which is treason me and it's for exploring nature with young children.
- Michelle Youngquist: aimed at families and teachers of kids that are ages one through six the explorer environment K eight activity guide was released last year that's the big comprehensive.
- Michelle Youngquist: Book of 50 activities for kindergarten through eighth grade with a lot of variations in between those and.
- Michelle Youngquist: Then the green jobs, exploring for us careers, is aimed for middle school and high school man too early college lovable.
- Michelle Youngquist: Looking at different types of green jobs for us related and otherwise.
- Michelle Youngquist: And then on the left is the forest literacy framework that one's not something you have to purchase it's free at the plt.org website, but it's a.
- Michelle Youngquist: listing of 100 concepts that are helpful for people to know to be literate about for us, so the way that you get the curriculum materials is you can take trainings through us through Idaho project learning tree or they're available just for purchased from the national plt website.
- Michelle Youngquist: If you choose to come to a product learning tree training or have us do one with you.
- Michelle Youngquist: That sorry we have that will we've got a whole menu of different kinds of things that you can take so.
- Michelle Youngquist: The place that i'm going to send you for your low hanging fruit for the forest products Commission resources, and I should back up and say the forest products Commission is a State Agency in Idaho that's funded by.
- Michelle Youngquist: assessments on people who work in the forest products industry, so if they cut trees health trees or a process trees, they by law have to pay into the Commission and then we work with a.
- Michelle Youngquist: lot.
- Michelle Youngquist: of partners who all contribute to make sure that we've got a broad base of support to get these materials and opportunities out to people in Idaho.
- Michelle Youngquist: So I will recommend that you start on our website Idaho for us.org at the education tab and there's so much on there that I broke it into a few slides so.
- Michelle Youngquist: The learning at home resources we put together in response to cove it and it still has a lot of stuff that I would recommend you take some time to look at.
- Michelle Youngquist: Lots of resources, not just from us, but other agencies and organizations that can help you, with your outdoor explorations or to support the knowledge that kids are learning when they go outside.
- Michelle Youngquist: The virtual and in person person PD that's where you'll find their list of project learning tree workshops that K 12 grade level learning resources are.
- Michelle Youngquist: Just ways to help you narrow down if you've got specific grade levels that you want to look at.
- Michelle Youngquist: I mentioned earlier that we have some opportunities for us, and one of those has our photo contest every year for arbor day and.
- Michelle Youngquist: you'll want to go to that part of the website to see the very nice photos that were awarded.
- Michelle Youngquist: awards just this last month for our per day, we had five first place winners in 19 Honorable mentions and they're all from fifth through 12th grade students in Idaho there's also a high school video contest about highlighting for us careers and all of these things are things that.
- Michelle Youngquist: We would really welcome the help of Librarians to help kids know about these opportunities they don't have to be connected to a school in order to code to participate in the contest.
- Michelle Youngquist: So anything you can do to help them like, if you want to take kids out and have them be doing their photographs for.
- Michelle Youngquist: getting ready to submit to the arbor day photo contest that would be great the three that's trees video kind of stuff is contest is actually for four states, it is.
- Michelle Youngquist: Idaho Oregon Washington and Montana, and this year, the first place team that one was from victory middle school and meridian so that was exciting.
- Michelle Youngquist: I already mentioned, the first education grants, we have funded some things that libraries and we'd love to fund more.
- Michelle Youngquist: they're small grants only $250, but we know what you guys can do with a little bit of money.
- Michelle Youngquist: tree cookies is one of our information pages written at good kid level but good for everybody, and that is one of our best hands on teaching tools or treat cookies.
- Michelle Youngquist: And then another feature about lots of Idaho people who work in for us related jobs, so if you are helping kids learn about what they might be able to do in the future that.
- Michelle Youngquist: We are we have both print and electronic newsletters that we'd be happy to add you to the list for our forest history supplement is about.
- Michelle Youngquist: For us history, so it looks like a scrapbook and has very visual and we're happy to get you sets of printed guides or all of them are as pdfs on our website.
- Michelle Youngquist: The teaching resources will come back to, and we have a forest tour that we take teachers and counselors on a couple more of the.
- Michelle Youngquist: info sorts of pages, one on for us insects and diseases, one on all the amazing stuff that we get from trees, besides.
- Michelle Youngquist: Just what in paper and then our most popular is how paper is made that's a great resource if you're going to do hands on paper, making we do have paper making lending kits that we can send you.
- Michelle Youngquist: That have the screens and some pulp and other sorts of things, but you can find the videos on our website that show.
- Michelle Youngquist: The process that we use in our kid as well as show videos of how paper is made in Idaho Idaho paper mill in clearwater or clearwater in lewiston.
- Michelle Youngquist: And then one more opportunity to do for kids is we've got a fall essay contest for K through 12 and we'd love for Librarians to help us get the word out about that.
- Michelle Youngquist: We also have lots of free materials we can send you posted bookmarks cheese brochures all kinds of different things trees of Idaho booklets to use when you're having kids be outside and explore.
- Michelle Youngquist: You just go to our website and set put in your order or just asked me, and I have a special gift for Idaho libraries, while the supplies last and you guys are the first to know.
- Michelle Youngquist: So if you guys take them all, then I won't put out a big call to everybody else through Jennifer but, as I mentioned, we have brand new from national plt the brand new.
- Michelle Youngquist: trees and me early childhood died, and that means I have some supplies of our previous early childhood materials, which was environmental experiences for early childhood.
- Michelle Youngquist: comes with a book full of about 100 little activities and supporting CD the CD isn't so much music, as it is sounds that go along with the.
- Michelle Youngquist: Different activities and, if you would like to have one or more of those to either put in your collection or to use for you and your staff or whoever.
- Michelle Youngquist: email me at plt at Idaho for us.org with that information and I will get them out, I probably won't do it until July, though, so don't panic, if you don't see it right away.
- Michelle Youngquist: So i'm very thankful to have had some time to share with you and hope there's time for some questions I encourage you to.
- Michelle Youngquist: dive into both of the websites plt.org for national plt Idaho for us at org for the forest products Commission swim around in their birth bookmark what you find.
- Michelle Youngquist: Keep continuing to connect youth with nature in Idaho is amazing backyard request free materials from me if they can help you.
- Michelle Youngquist: Take plt workshops or arrange to have us do one specifically for library folks and if you are just so confused by the amazing amount of stuff that there is just asked me and i'm i'm happy to help.
- Michelle Youngquist: help you find what it is that you need so thanks thanks for letting me be here today, and I look forward to questions.
- Jennifer Redford: Thank you so much, Michelle that was that was a lot of resources, I am I definitely didn't realize you had that much stuff and i've looked around on your page quite frequently so um wow i'm really glad we had you here to talk about that.
- Jennifer Redford: All right, and we have about 12 or 13 minutes.
- Jennifer Redford: left in our hour together so i'm going to open it up for any questions for.
- Jennifer Redford: cassie sherry or Michelle if you have questions about the programs the library and shared or some of the resources that Michelle shared.
- Jennifer Redford: And you can either put them in the chat Andy are they able to unmute and ask a question as well nope you're not able to unmute and ask a question, you have to write it in the chat.
- Jennifer Redford: So while you're doing that i'll just throw it back to cassie really quickly cassie do you have a favorite program you've done or one that you will never ever do again.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: um I love mud buys, that is, I think my favorite nature very is so fun every part of nature brain is so fun of us for once i'll never do again.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: I don't know I I did son Prince one time with the little kids and for some prints you have to wait and I just hated how like hands on for me that was and how much waiting there was.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: I like them to be pretty independent I have I haven't really had any big disasters.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: When she was talking about whether I mean.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: we're in the desert we're really dry we don't really have any precipitation, but we do have wind, so I have jars that I have filled with like oil and water and glitter so they're pretty and I use those to hold everything.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: We do sometimes have wind issues, but I mean I always tell parents like you're raising an Idaho and.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: it's part of it so.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: They just have to like wins.
- Jennifer Redford: yeah I love the jars idea that's a great idea yeah so many little tidbits we're getting here yeah.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: And then i've learned to that like parents are usually a little more fairweather than I am.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: Like we just had a walk and that morning it was like 40 degrees and I thought it was no big deal for our stroller Bray program and I only got like five families, it was like like look at what he's doing you can come for 40 degrees sunny.
- Jennifer Redford: I mean, every time I see the dumbly library do their programs in like January.
- Like.
- Jennifer Redford: that's bold sherry sherry I don't know how you do it.
- Jennifer Redford: And so Karen says that she's looking for sources and activities for older kids and adults and seniors any suggestions.
- Sherry Scheline: So I had.
- Sherry Scheline: My take hi can you hear me.
- Jennifer Redford: Yes, yes, you.
- Sherry Scheline: Just took my earphones off, so I had these two books out here this morning, but.
- Sherry Scheline: I do a lot of activities from these two books, one is let the kid guide and the activities in here are good for adults, as well as children.
- Sherry Scheline: But for the older kids This is like my go to because I really like the kids to be in charge.
- Sherry Scheline: I let the kids run their activities, a lot of the time, and this method kid guide it's by margo engstrom.
- Sherry Scheline: it's putting nature back into our lives, it has activities in it, it also talks about the importance of letting the kids take control and I recommend this for older kids and then also um.
- Sherry Scheline: Last child in the woods, I have out here, and I also recommend this book.
- Sherry Scheline: It talks about the importance of learning outside and saving our children from nature deficit disorder and.
- Sherry Scheline: i'm a big learner in nature itself like I love when the kids explore outside and the older kids love it, so I let the older kids use Apps like I seek nature.
- Sherry Scheline: Which is a picture APP and we have phones at the library, that the kids get to use in addition to ipads the phones are were surplus from the state of Idaho.
- Sherry Scheline: Idaho Commission for library surplus and I was like I need these to make real use robots.
- Sherry Scheline: But that I seek nature APP allows them to identify flowers outside so we'll just be outside and with the older kids I have them identify at least 10 new items.
- Sherry Scheline: With the kids with the little kids so they become the teachers and I, I find that, when they are the teachers, they learn more and it's a it's a program for them in and of itself.
- Sherry Scheline: And I can put both of these books down in the chat.
- Jennifer Redford: Thanks sherry, please do and that's a great example of you know, really empowering children, giving and cassie programs as well, giving you the choice and voice and what they're learning and how they're experiencing nature.
- Jennifer Redford: that's fantastic.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: I was also just going to those books are great I can't wait to look at to I was also going to add the let's move in libraries newsletter and website.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: No, it is a wealth of information on the mostly talking about physical physical programming, but a lot of that programming happens outside so you know.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: Libraries from across the cut actually its international libraries everywhere doing gardens and yoga courses and lots of outdoor stuff and physical stuff for all ages so kids and adults.
- Jennifer Redford: awesome.
- Jennifer Redford: I love let's move in libraries.
- Jennifer Redford: need to it's good it's a good way to connect with other people from around the country as well, and so we've had a couple of questions about story walks in the chat.
- Jennifer Redford: And, in case you haven't done a story walk before the way that it works is that you actually buy a book and then cut it up.
- Jennifer Redford: and use the actual pages of the book and post them usually in some sort of protected.
- Jennifer Redford: pedestal or podium or something.
- Jennifer Redford: So it's protected from the weather so it's usually covered in like plexiglass or something like that, and you.
- Jennifer Redford: Space the pages out along the trail so that as families walk together they read the first page together and see the pictures and talk about it, and then they move on to the second one, and there is an official story walk website where you can purchase things and.
- Jennifer Redford: You can purchase the like pre made books but you're limited to the books that they have available.
- Jennifer Redford: As well and let's see Alice said that she has been doing story walks for a long time and she's happy to share so Alice if you don't mind when Annie does her I think she usually does a follow up email.
- Jennifer Redford: With resources, we might just include a note that, if you would like pointers from the emmett public library email Alice.
- Jennifer Redford: Obviously, and he said, you can do that, thank you.
- Jennifer Redford: and sharing the books in the chat awesome.
- Michelle Youngquist: He will respond to karen's question about older kids project learning tree has.
- A couple of.
- Michelle Youngquist: More free things but I didn't mentioned there's one called teaching with I tree and I tree is an urban forestry sort of.
- Michelle Youngquist: connection and it's a way for people to identify the trees in their yard or school yard or library yard and.
- Michelle Youngquist: measure them and then put them in an in an APP that helps to calculate the value of the ecosystem services that that tree provides so you can find.
- Michelle Youngquist: You know what kind of energy savings, it gives you if you place it on which side of your House will it do better.
- Michelle Youngquist: Does it make a difference if it's in a public space or a private space and it will give you, you know how much charisma tree is holding all kinds of great things and it's just really.
- Michelle Youngquist: eye opening to look at that and and usually kids I think will run with it once they've done one or adults.
- Michelle Youngquist: And then another one, is that I would suggest you check out is the green schools program in project learning tree.
- Michelle Youngquist: Not so much for the becoming a green school, but for the lessons that are in there, so there are green school investigations that investigate five different.
- Michelle Youngquist: elements and it would be something like For those of you who have ongoing programs, with the same.
- Michelle Youngquist: Saying youth would be something that they could even study about the library itself and how to make it a more sustainable space.
- Michelle Youngquist: And last but not least, this is just something that I thought of well sherry was showing the picture of the kids on their on their snow seeds and.
- Michelle Youngquist: You probably already use these, but my favorite teaching tool is an insult but pad and it is just taking those cheapest of the thin insulate pads for us, you know back when you were young and could sleep on those kinds of things when you can't.
- Michelle Youngquist: cut them up into about one foot swearing size pieces give each kid one they can send on wet stuff they can kneel and wet stuff they can send on snow up there, but stays warm.
- Michelle Youngquist: And it makes a huge difference with what you can do you can lie down under a tree on those things and sketch or write poetry or read or whatever, and you are safe from becoming went cold so thanks.
- Jennifer Redford: Thank you for those resources, Michelle I love all the.
- Jennifer Redford: The citizen science happening there and.
- Jennifer Redford: there's just so much you can do.
- Jennifer Redford: I love it and I love.
- Jennifer Redford: The technology that some of you have incorporated to learn more I recently found out that.
- Jennifer Redford: An iPhone when you take a picture of a plant, you can take a picture of the plant and then, when you go and look at the picture and your photos there's a little I at the bottom, and if you click on that.
- Jennifer Redford: It will give you all of the like data that you could will tell you what planted is first of all, so we'll identify it for you, and it will tell you, like the scientific name for it and where it grows and similar plants and.
- Jennifer Redford: my mind has been blown.
- Jennifer Redford: And Alice, we will look up there there's like an official story walk.
- Jennifer Redford: website, I will try to find it before we end today, but I don't know if i'll be able to.
- Jennifer Redford: Oh, maybe.
- Annie Gaines: I found a couple.
- Jennifer Redford: there's a couple.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: um do you mind if I talk for a second about book displays.
- Jennifer Redford: Please do.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: So we do outdoor book displays all of our programs, we set up a table with books that are relevant so.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: Like if we're doing nature rearing, we might have books about seeds, or you know, whatever and then we do an outdoor checkout station, so if you have like an outreach.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: Campaign computer that like we have one on our book mobile and so that's what we use and we just check out books outside, but that I think.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: For my when I was kind of selling the idea of outdoor programs, I think that helped me sell that that idea because.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: You know you want people in the building, because you want them checking things out you want them interacting with materials, but.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: I think, bringing them materials to them outside helped kind of sell that and those items check out like crazy so we've had a lot of luck with doing those outdoor displays and I highly recommend that if you're trying to sell out or programming to your administration.
- Jennifer Redford: Yes, because we know the universal language of libraries is statistics and we need to count how many people come to the programs, how many people check the check out the things.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: And you signed up a lot of people for library cards those programs to and that's another big statistic.
- Kasi Allen- Twin Falls Public Library: yeah.
- Jennifer Redford: that's fantastic.
- Jennifer Redford: Alright, my friends, it is one to the hour so we're coming to the end of our time together Thank you so much for.
- Jennifer Redford: being with us today if you're watching the recording thanks for hanging in there and learning all this great stuff with us and.
- Jennifer Redford: sherry and cassie thanks for sharing what you're doing in your libraries that always blows me away how much you can do.
- Jennifer Redford: With your own internal creativity and also with such limited resources so.
- Jennifer Redford: Both of you are like I said at the beginning, complete pros at this and thanks Michelle for sharing all the great resources available from project learning tree.
- Jennifer Redford: and always always so much like it so much to to mind there, so thank you Andy do you have some last housekeeping items for us.
- Annie Gaines: i'm not really just to say thank you so much for joining us today, and you will be prompted to complete an evaluation as you exit the webinar and we always appreciate your honest feedback, but other than that, I hope you have a great afternoon and I will end the recording now.
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Annie Gaines: So hello, and welcome to today's and Info2Go! webinar my name is Annie Gaines and I am the continuing education consultant here at the Idaho Commission for libraries located and sunny Boise Idaho.
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