1. Dobson 1Betty Dobson LTA 1312 May 6, 2013Baby Lapsit Story Time Library Selection Eufaula Memorial Library does have a nice meeting room that could be used, but from past experience at trying to start an evening story time program at my library and having poor attendance, I am planning on taking my new lapsit program on the road to Creek Nation Day Care Center in Eufaula. As great as it sounds to have an evening program for working parents with babies, I find they are: tired, overworked, afraid of germs, too busy and just reluctant to drive to the library in the evening. Theme, Target Group and Objectives This will be an ongoing weekly program. The theme of each lapsit will not differ significantly and will be somewhat repetitious. I have spoken with the administrator at the day care center and have been granted permission to present this program every Wednesday morning at 9:30. At this time there are six babies under one year old and four toddlers under eighteen months old. My objective is to introduce books, music, rhythm and art to our tiniest patrons.

2. Dobson 2Public RelationsThe Creek Nation Tribe presented the library with a check in the amount of $2,000.00 in February. This money was given to us as thanks for the programs that our library brings to Creek Nation Head Start and to the day care center. The attached picture was published in the Eufaula Indian Journal on February 21, 2013. With the addition of the lapsit program, I now do five programs a week for approximately 100 children for the Creek Nation alone. Earlier this month I attended a training program presented by the Oklahoma Library Association called Bright Beginnings and received some in depth guidance on doing story times with babies as well as scratching the surface of story times with children who fall somewhere under the umbrella of autism. I also attended a daylong seminar given by Dr. Diamante who has done research into the neurological approach of story time with young children. There most likely will not be any public advertising for this program but it is important for the facilities that I am allowed to enter to know that I have been trained, back-ground checked and that I am on the staff of the library with many years of experience. Materials Books I-Pod Speakers Magnetic Board Laminated characters relevant to books 22 Life-like baby doll 3. Dobson 3Bubble blower Rolling cart for supplies Kids songs purchased from Amazon Costs Doll$40.00Magnetic Board18.00Roll 1 magnet tape12.00Bubble blower18.00 $88.00The books will be provided by the library system. The audio equipment and rolling cart are already being used for preschool story time. The library will absorb the cost of color printing and laminating, I will store these pictures in a notebook photo album which I am presently using for felt characters. The transition from felt to lamination is based on two things: the time it takes me to create felt characters and the wear and tear I am seeing on them after just a few years. I estimate that my time involved in planning and presenting will be 1.5 hours per week which will be an approximately $780.00 per year cost to the library. Location and Responsibility This program will be presented in the infant room of the daycare center. During the 20 minute program I will be allowed to have 3 day care staff in the room. The room has a low semi- 4. Dobson 4circle table with 6 booster seats attached, that the children will take turns sitting in. The staff will alternate the babies between sitting on their laps and sitting at the table. The handling of the children will be the staffs responsibility. The speaker is small and battery operated, that and the I-Pod will remain in my lap. The rolling cart will become the stand for the visual board, laminated characters and books. I will sit in one of the rocking chairs in the room. The day care staff will be on the floor with the babies. Emergencies Since I am not on site at the library I will find out in advance, what Creek Nations day care center policies are regarding bad weather, fire, accidents and follow their procedures. This lapsit program will not be administered by anyone else due to Im it! I will be responsible for notifying the administration at the day care center if I cannot be there because of meetings, short staffing at the library or illness and will attempt to re-schedule if possible. Evaluation Week number one: I arrive at Creek Nation Day Care Center on March 27 right at 9:30 a.m. I set up in the toddler room where only three children are because the babies are all sleeping! There is no rocking chair and I only have one teacher to help. Ugh. So I do my first lapsit with two girls that have just learned to walk and an almost 2 year old. They look at me very suspiciously as I play and sing If you are happy and you know it, peek-a-boo and they toddle away as I read the first book. I plow on and then break out the bubbles. They were so delighted with that. I was done in about 10 minutes, so I know I went too fast. I paid attention to the books that seemed to hold their brief attention spans and those that they just ignored. They seemed to like the books that had almost photographic bright images of babies and animals. 5. Dobson 5Week number two: Four toddlers are there and the teachers bring three babies in and place them in bouncy chairs on the floor. There are three teachers in the room with me today. The toddlers seem to trust me a bit more and they sort of sit while we sing, read and do eensy weensy spider and ride the little cowboy. I re-did the books that held their attention the week before. The reaction of the babies really surprised me, they were wide eyed and seemed to be paying attention. I copy catted the teachers as they clapped and said YEA after each little thing we did, the kids loved that. Of course the bubbles were the hit of the day! Week number three: I walk into the toddler room to squeals of pleasure as the kiddos rush to take a seat and get ready for story time. There are no more suspicious looks, just smiles. They participate in the musical part and the finger play and mostly stay seated until we do bubbles! Final Evaluation: I have requested dozens of books from EODLS to preview for lapsit and they are harder to find than I anticipated. They need to be somewhat large and yet have simple bright illustrations and most books in our system for the very young are just small board books. Also some of the books are in poor condition. The most well received books are Peek-aMoo and Whos Baby am I when I get more time I will research Amazon and ask my manager to purchase a dozen similar books just for lapsit. Having the battery operated speakers with the ipod, located inside the magnetic easel is the only way to go with this age group. One time the batteries died and I had to plug the music controls in some distance away, it was very distracting to the kiddos for me to have to get up and down. 6. Dobson 6I dont need to hold the baby doll on my lap the whole time. I was afraid if I sat her down it would tempt the children to want to play with her, but they seem to stay engaged in finger play even if I sit her on the floor beside me. I was concerned about the bubbles for a couple of different reasons. Number one is the possibility that a bubble might get in a childs eyes, number two is the residue they might leave on the floor. The very expensive Gymboree bubbles are simply amazing, they stay afloat and do not pop easily. They are non- irritating and leave no residue on the floor. The multiple bubble blower creates hundreds of bubbles above the kids heads and it is really cool looking! I have been asked to take this program to yet another day care center and I will.after the Summer Reading Program is over! Save (and Sharing) the Program All of the basic supplies for Baby Lapsit will be kept in the labeled rolling cart, in the work room of the library. This has started another issue though, SPACE! I opened my big mouth and complained about the work room, so my manager and the director of my library system have given me the yearly goal of: Redoing the work room. This is a big project with a lot of $$ responsibilities, collaboration and consequence if it is not done to every ones expectations. So saving the program involves more work than I anticipated. As I continue to implement the program I will fill out a sheet (attached) listing the books, visuals, finger play and music that I used in each weeks program. I do not anticipate needing more than ten sheets or programs and I will probably use the same 3 or 4 programs over and over again because of the repetitious quality that little ones thrive on. I will briefly evaluate each program on that sheet and note the most successful ones. All of this will sit on a shelf in a vertical file. After I (hopefully) get good at 7. Dobson 7this, I will ask my manager to attend a lapsit with me and digitally record the process. This will go in the computer folder with the weekly programs and will be uploaded to Google Documents which is Cloud storage. I will also inform all of the children librarians within my library district that this information is theirs to use, why re-invent the wheel? 8. Dobson 8STORY TIME FOR THE VERY YOUNGdate: 3-27-13THEME: Babies and baby animals Opening Song: If you are happy and you know it, Peek-A-Boo Book: Peek-A-Moo Finger Play: Eency Spider Board: blue horse picture Book: The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse Bounce: Ride the little pony up to town, ride the little pony dont fall down. Board: baby picture Book: Ten Little Fingers Finger Play: Where is pointer, where is pointer, here I am, here I am. (put hands behind back and when you sing here I am bring them out with you pointing finger making a bow) Book: Clap Hands Board: baby polar bear picture Book: Whose Baby am I Mother Goose Rhyme: Rock a bye baby Quiet Book: Sleepy Oh So Sleepy Closing song and bubbles: The bye-bye wiggle worm Song 9. Dobson 9All of the children in this photograph have a signed imaging agreement on file with Head Start.My new baby!Best Bubbles Ever! 10. Dobson 9All of the children in this photograph have a signed imaging agreement on file with Head Start.My new baby!Best Bubbles Ever!