Wednesday, February 18, 2009

laissez les bons temp roulez!


Pronounced: la-zay le bon tau roolay

(Let the good times roll)

This Saturday we will have us a parade, make masks (and of course read some F.U.N. stories!

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Happy Valentine Mardi Gras!



This Saturday the Mad Professor & co will celebrate Valentine's Day with fun, games (and candy!).

This coming Monday the wee ones will learn about parades with stories, feltboard and some Mardi gras crafts. Afterwards.... a parade!

Thursday, February 5, 2009

January Coloring Contest Winners announced!

The Mad Professor is proud to announce (and show) January's coloring contest winners:

Drum roll, please...



Katie's pic (2-5 years old group)



Nikita's pic (6-12 years old group)

Congratulations! You may pick up your prizes any time now.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

He's baaack!

The Mad Professor is finally posting his blog again!

During an extremely busy January, the Mad Professor and his lab assistants (ie story-time crew) created a funny little booklet, to be made available soon at the Gulfport Temporary Library.

This is the cover page:



Special thanks go out to: Caleb, Carolyn, Christian, Destiny, Donald, Gaines, Hannah, Ian, Ivan, Jonathan, Lena, Nelson, and Rachel!

After two weeks of hard work on this booklet, we did story time about the Guiness Book of World Records. Various contests were held, including one to see who could chew the most gum (ugh!). Congratulation again to all those who won. (Christian, Destiny, Jonathan and Rachel!)

Last week also was lots of F.U.N. We celebrated National Backwards Day (Jan. 31) by doing everything backwards, including wearing our clothes backwards, greetings etc etc. Everybody did awesomely, esp. Hannah, who read one complete stanza of Shel Silverstein's poem "Backwards Bill" backwards. Literally!

Next week (Feb. 7) we will kick off Black History month with a reading of "Rosa", a Caldecott Honor Book, written by Nikki Giovanni. It's about the life of Rosa Parks, sn African American woman who refused to give up her bus seat and helped start the Civil Rights movement.

Afterwards, we will have Dr Martin Luther King scavenger hunt (using the computer).
Other games will follow.