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Chick-It-Out @ Chicago Ridge Public Library

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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Pictures from Wednesday

Posted by Ms. Irene at 12:32 PM

5 comments:

AnonymousApril 29, 2009 at 4:21 PM
The baby chicks are so cute!
Great job Chicago Ridge Library!
We appreciate all that you do for the community!
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AnonymousApril 29, 2009 at 6:34 PM
o my gosh!!!! thet are soooo cute!!! i cant wait to hold 'em!!!!
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AnonymousApril 29, 2009 at 6:44 PM
WOW! This "Chick-It-Out" project at the library is awesome!! Way to go staff at Chicago Ridge Library for another wonderful adventure and opportunity for the whole community to learn something new! We have the BEST library!!
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samaraApril 29, 2009 at 6:55 PM
the baby chicks are cute
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AnonymousApril 29, 2009 at 8:56 PM
the baby chicks are cute ..........
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Countdown to Chick Eggs Arrive

Chick It Out Reading Program

Have you signed up yet?

How many eggs will we have this year?

Read a book about Chickens!

Chicken Big E GRA
Chicken Butt's Back E PER
Chicken Dance E SAU
Chicken Little E MY
Chicken Scratches: Grade A Poultry Poetry and Rooster Rhymes E SHA
Egg to Chicken J 636.5 DE
Interrupting Chicken E STE
Little Chicken Finger Puppet Book B.B. PUT
Pirate Penguin vs. Ninja Chicken J IN FRI
Super Chicken B.B. PUR
Super Chicken Nugget Boy and the Pizza Planet People J LEW

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Peep Diorama

Thank You to the Friends of the Library!

Thank You to the Friends of the Library for purchasing the Egg Incubator! We appreciate your help & support in making the incubation project EGGstremely successful!

2010 Youth Services

Visit us every day from April 7 to
late May, 3:30-4:30 p.m., to make
a craft and join an activity.

2010 Youth Services Drop-In Story Times

Drop-In Story Times
Wednesdays, April 7, 14, 21 & 28, 6:30 p.m.
Fun for the whole family! For preschoolers up to grade 3,
parents invited.

2010 Teen Chick-It-Out Programs

*April 6 – Eggciting Tournament
Join your friends in the ultimate board game challenge.
You’ll be Sorry™ if you miss this gaming event!

*April 13 – All Cracked Up
Celebrate National Humor Month at the library!

*April 20 – Eggstreme Craft
Help your creative ideas hatch at the library! Join us to
make your very own baby chick! All ages program.

*April 27 – Eggstreme Gaming
The baby chicks will begin to hatch today, celebrate their
hatching with some eggstreme video & board games.

*May 4 – Sketching and Drawing 101
Draw your own baby chick!

*May 11 – Eggstreme Gaming Tournament
Wii games / Playstation 2 games

2010 Adult Chick Lit Program

Chick Lit
One of the fastest growing types of fiction, Chick Lit revolves around women dealing with relationships, jobs, marriage, raising children, and of course, the single life. These books are fun, diverse, and bold! The following Wednesdays at 7 p.m.
April 14: The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton
May 12: Anybody Out There by Marian Keyes

2010 Eggstreme Craft

Eggstreme Craft
Tuesday, April 20, 7 p.m.
Sew a cute baby chick that will brighten up your Spring!
Materials provided. All ages are welcome.

2010 Chicken Chronicles

Chicken Chronicles
Do you have any stories about
raising chickens when you were a
kid? Did your grandparents raise chickens
and you had an interesting experience?
Stop by the Adult Services Department to
scratch out your memory of coming faceto-
beak with a chicken!

2010 Quilting Challenge

Block of the Month members can become part of the
“2010 Chick-It-Out Quilters Challenge.” Purchase a
pattern at the library for $1.25 and let your creative
juices and quilting talents get to work to make a quilt or wall hanging. We will display your project as long as the chicks are here. Consider donating your project to the gift shop at the Children’s Farm in Palos Park as a thank you for donating eggs to the library. Stop by the Adult Services Department for more information.

2010 Needlemania Challenge

Needlemania members can be part of Chick-It-Out!
Grab a pattern at the April meeting to knit or crochet
a cute chick and donate your creation to the Youth
Services Department for their Afternoon with the Chicks
program.

2010 Peep Diorama Contest

Peep Diorama Contest
(All Ages Welcome to Join!)
Bring your diorama to the Youth Services Department April 19- 23. Winners will be announced at Afternoon with the Chicks on May 15. See an example of one in the library’s display case!

2010 Afternoon with the Chicks!

Afternoon with the Chicks!
Saturday, May 15, 1 p.m.
The Youth Services Department will show a movie, make a craft, and give people the opportunity to hold a chick. A signed food permission slip is required to make the chick cookie craft. All patrons who want to hold a chick must sign a permission slip. Patrons under the age of 18 must have a parent/guardian sign.

2010 Friday Night with the Chicks!

Friends Night with the Chicks!
Friday, May 14, 6 p.m., $5 fee, tickets available
beginning Monday, April 12
Support the Friends of the Library by joining us for this Eggciting Evening! You will be able to hold a chick, make crafts, have a chance to win raffle prizes, and enjoy food and refreshments. All children must be accompanied by an adult. All patrons who want to hold a chick must sign a permission slip. Patrons under the age of 18 must have a parent/guardian sign.

Thank You!

Thank you to all of our library families who helped make our
Chick –It –Out project successful! From helping to find fertile eggs to setting up the incubator to building the brooder box
and much much more. We thank each & everyone of our patrons! Without your help & support the Chick – It – Out project would not have been this Eggtastic!

Thank you to our generous sponsors for helping make our Embryology Project possible!

Cook County Farm Bureau - incubator & egg kits
The Children's Farm - fertile eggs
Independent Farmer - fertile eggs
Home Depot - plexiglass for the brooder box

Chicago Ridge School District PTA meeting at Ridge Lawn on April 22nd

Ms. Irene & her mom Sharon Ciciora (the chicken!)

Incubator viewing area

Ms. Irene putting the eggs in the incubator.

The incubator

We can't have a real Mama Hen to sit on the eggs in the library, so we have an incubator to keep the eggs warm. An incubator is a heated container used to hatch eggs.

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The eggs!

The eggs were laid by a hen. The eggs are fertile..meaning a baby chick could hatch from them. They are different then the eggs that you would buy at a store. The eggs that you buy from a store are not fertile.

More eggs!

38 Eggs Total

The incubator with the eggs.

The incubator keeps the eggs warm while the baby chicks grows inside the egg. The temperature inside the incubator is 100 degrees!

Mama Hen watching over her eggs.

Life Cycle of a Chicken

View the eggs during the 3:30 to 4:30 daily session.

Meet the hen during the 3:30 to 4:30 daily story & craft time!

Mrs. Van holding the book Tillie Lays An Egg

Mrs. Van contacted author Terry Golson who donated a copy of Tillie Lays An Egg to the library for a raffle prize in exchange for a Chick-It-Out t-shirt. The autographed copy of the book will be given away at our special Chick-It-Out program on May 2nd at 1 p.m.

Peep Diorama Contest

All Ages- Create a diorama (a box with a scene in it) using Peeps & other materials. Use your creativity & imagination!! Drop off dioramas during the week of April 20 -25. Winners will be announced at the Afternoon with the Chicks on May 2nd.

The library's reading area has turned into a barn!

The staff at the library is so eggcited that we had a special Chick-It-Out lunch to celebrate!

Yum! Chicken Cookies

Library Director Kathy McSwain had a Chick-It-Out Luncheon for the staff because she is so Eggcited about the Embryology Project!