Help Celebrate the 10th Birthday of 6 by 6!
That’s right, Johnson County Library’s award-winning early literacy program is turning 10!
We want YOU to participate with a short, simple, video! Grab your smart phone, or record from your tablet or laptop!
How? There are 2 easy options!
1) Happy Birthday Message
Script: (feel free to improvise)
“Hi! I’m (insert name here). I want to wish 6 by 6 a Happy Birthday!”
Then, upload it to your favorite social media site: (Facebook, twitter, YouTube) and use the hashtag #6by6
2) Act out one of the 6 by 6 Activities
Script: (again, please feel free to improvise)
“Hi! I’m (insert name here). To help celebrate the 10 birthday of 6 by 6, I encourage you to Have Fun with Books (or substitute the underlined with any of the other 6 by 6 skills numbered below)”
Then, pick one of the suggested actions to demonstrate/act out. For instance, if you choose the skill: Have Fun with Books, you could hold up your Library card and maybe say, “This isn’t just a Library Card. It’s a passport to unimaginable realms!”
OR
Flip through the pages of a wordless picture book and narrate it.
OR
Give a book as a gift to a friend.
Just be sure to take a video of whatever you do.
Then, upload it to your favorite social media site: (Facebook, twitter, YouTube) and use the hashtag #6by6
1. Have Fun with Books
Suggestions:
- Get a library card
- Visit a library.
- Let a child help you select books
- Check-out books
- “Read” a picture book
- Take books wherever you go: doctor’s office, in the car, at the grocery store, in the park
- Give books as gifts
2. Look for Letters Everywhere
Suggestions:
- Look at the picture of the 6 by 6 peacock and find the letters
- Cut sandpaper letters to use for rubbings. Put printer paper on top of the letters and rub over it with the long side of a crayon
- Hold up a letter and point to an object that begins with that letter - “D” point to toy dinosaur
- Point out shapes that look like letters
- Make a letter collage
- Say a sentence with words that all begin with the same letter sound (alliteration) like: the baby bounced bravely by broadway boulevard by Boddington Bay
- Make “alphabet soup” by gluing letters on to paper
- Make letter shapes and letters out of clay, in shaving cream, in fingerpaint
3. Notice Print All Around You
Suggestions:
- Put together a puzzle that has pictures and letters or words
- Let a child help you make a shopping list
- Write, and announce what letter you’re creating
- Have children help read a recipe
- Identify print on t-shirts, boxes and signs
- Hand a book to your child upside down, and see if she turns it around
4. Take Time to Rhyme
Suggestions:
- Name as many words that rhyme with “goat” as you can.
- Sing a rhyming song
- Make silly words that sound alike: Michael Motorcycle, Emily Bemily
- Use these word endings to create rhymes: _ed (red, bed, fed) _at (bat, cat, mat) _ing (bring, sing, ring) _ight (sight, light, fight)
5. Talk, Talk, Talk
Suggestions:
- Talk about the pictures in a book
- Find a real-life item of of something depicted in a book
- Label items in your home or car: doors, chairs, windows, etc. (use sticky notes?)
- Have a child describe the illustrations in a book
- Pick a word and give it’s definition
6. Tell Stories About Everything
Suggestions:
- Put your day into a story!
- Sort items (buttons, blocks, etc.) by size, shape and color
- Ask a child to tell you about his or her day
- Have your child draw a picture. Then let them tell you what is happening in the picture.
- Count common things you see (like clouds)