Viviane-3/25/10-LINC

Today Naomi and I attended Pj Night!  An event that is supposed to encourage reading before bed time.It was a lot of fun, but unfortunately, Kyla and Nora were in Costa Rica and couldn’t join us.  We met up at the school, took the downtown “F” train one stop, took the”6,” and then finally transferred to the “4” express train, and got off at 125th Street.  When we got out of the station we had to walk under this bridge on Park Avenue.  It was very quiet and almost completely empty, which made it a little scary.  We then walked up two blocks and found the Harlem Branch New York Public Library.

Once we walked up the stairs to the second floor, there saw there were little rooms for small children to read with their parents.  Deborah (the coordinator) read a book aloud and a mother did the same afterwards.  The room was almost empty.  There were three mothers with their toddlers/babies, until the same children from our first visit piled into the room.  We then began singing songs; Old MacDonald, The Wheels on the Bus, and If You’re Happy and You Know It, just to name a few.  Once we were done with that, Deborah introduced our activity of the evening.  The kids would be making their own paper bears.  We were responsible for passing out the supplies and helping the kids use gluesticks.  It really surprised me that five and six year olds weren’t familiar with them.  Overall, I had a good time, but I still wonder why most of the program doesn’t revolve around reading when it’s supposed to.

Helping Evin construct his bear