Location: Douglass-Truth Library
Time: 5-7
Date: 4/1/2015
For the crafts with the kids we did a photography through
literacy project, which Ivette lead, called My Favorite Place. We all thought
of our favorite place and drew it with oil pastels. Then, we had our pictures
taken from behind so we could glue ourselves, cut out, into our favorite place.
But one thing, we forgot to have them write anything about their favorite
place, so I’m not sure about the literacy goal there. A few kids drew libraries
as their favorite place, which is exciting. After that, since some of the girls
had wanted to do origami last week, we did a little bit of origami. Willa and I
had prepped by practicing a few different shapes. However, they were not as
interested in doing the origami now. Instead they were excited to be in the
library this month, and so we spent an hour in the kids section. We asked the
kids about what they liked to read, but for the most part they browsed through
the books on their own. I noticed the younger girls picked up some princess
books, and I wonder how much that is because gender stereotypes are marketed to
children.
I did not look too much at the books in terms of content or
messages, as I was surprised at how nostalgic I felt looking at all the books I
had read in elementary and middle school. Thinking back, the books I read, such
as the Anne of Green Gables and Little House on the Prairie series, privilege
the story of white American settlers. But it seemed like there were some more
books that showed other perspectives. One of the girls showed me her favorite
book which seemed to deal with modern indigeneity.
