1. 2016 Summer Reading Workshops

2. Pinterest North Dakota State Library
Child Growth and Development from Child Care Aware of North Dakota
Birth-3 Physical and Motor Development
3-5 Health and Physical Development
CSLP On Your Mark Get Set Read
Crafts from the Manual
Leach Public Library
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3. Discussion Topics Promotion Registration Programming Evaluation
Progress – Will you count minutes, pages, or books? There are pros and cons to each.
Advertising is key – even regular library users won’t participate if they don’t know about the program! Print bookmarks, put up a display, decorate.
Advertise outside the library – people who are not regular library users the rest of the year may participate during the summer. Ask businesses to display posters. If they are donating, have a special “We support summer reading” sign. Use community bulletin boards, marquees, etc.
Schools are crucial – if you can’t make a classroom visit, see if they will send home flyers. There are school visit ideas in the manual.
Put it in the paper, put it on Facebook, on your website. There are special graphics on the disc for online promotions.
Reach out to target groups – scouts, day cares, camps, homeschoolers, sports teams, churches.
PSAs – see if you can get local radio/cable access to play them; NDSL also distributes them statewide
Registration – How will you track participants? Will they be able to register at any time? How do you track goals?
Write it down – you will not remember the details of this year next year.
Share data with the community – library board, sponsors, etc. Personalize it. You don’t have to give names, but share stories about the difference it made, as well as statistics.

4. Prizes Weekly trinkets and/or end of program prizes
Drawings for big prizes
Activity kits
Social events
Intangible – measuring collective progress
Donations (sponsored by Friends group)
Intrinsic motivation/no prizes

5. Kinetic/Physical Literacy
Physical literacy is the development of fundamental movement skills that permit a person to move with confidence and control in a wide range of actions — such as throwing, skipping or balancing — and environments, like on snow, grass, water, in the air or on ice.
Movement, especially rhythmic activity, creates neural connections across multiple pathways in the brain. It teaches children self-discipline and stress-management.
The library can be an alternative to organized sports but still encourage movement.

6. Bullying Prevention through Exercise
Increases self-confidence, making a child less vulnerable to being picked on in the first place and more likely to stand up for herself and report the bullying, if it does happen
Lowers suicide attempts and ideation in teens by 23 percent
Releases the pent-up anger and shame that often leads children to be bullies in the first place
In a group, it promotes friendships and bonding through shared experience
“Recent studies have shown that involving children in exercise programs significantly increases a child's resilience to bullying.”

7. Physical Activity Resources
Resources for Educators from Nemours
Play Prop Ideas from Choosy Kids
Downloadable music from Color Me Healthy
Physical Education lesson plans from SPARK
Yoga in the Library
Lesson plans from PE Central
Lesson plans from electriKIDS
Play 60 Teacher Guide from the American Heart Association
Play 60 Lesson Plans from the American Heart Association
Activity break ideas from the American Heart Association

8. STEM and Sports STEM in Sports from Connect a Million Minds
Sport Science from Exploratorium
Sports Science for Kids from Science Kids
STEM Fitness Training from SPARK

9. Games Zoom Games from PBS Kids Lead Up Games from Shape America
Jump rope skills from the American Heart Association
Basketball skills from the American Heart Association
Smart Heart stations from the American Heart Association

10. Healthy Eating Summer Food Service Program from USDA
Eat Play Grow Curriculum from the Children’s Museum of Manhattan
School Garden Lesson Plans from the American Heart Association

11. Healthy Living Healthy Living resources from 4-H
Nutrition and Activity ideas from NDSU Extension
Healthy Habits for Life from Sesame Street
Moving More, Eating Smarter from Healthy ND
Lesson plans from the American Heart Association
Health and Medicine lesson plans from Science NetLinks

12. Early Literacy Shape America Early Childhood Resources Book to Boogie
Storytime Stretching
Get Up & Move Dice
Adding Movement to Storytime

13. Questions?
Sarah Matusz