Library Director Kathy McSwain poses for a picture with her Baby Chick quilt that she made in honor of the library's baby chicks. She gave the quilt to The Children's Farm in Palos which is the new home of the library's baby chicks.
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
Total Pageviews
Peep Diorama
Peep Diorama
Peep Diorama
Peep Diorama
Peep Diorama
Peep Diorama
Peep Diorama
Peep Diorama
Peep Diorama
Peep Diorama
Peep Diorama
Peep Diorama
Peep Diorama
Peep Diorama
Peep Diorama
Peep Diorama
Peep Diorama
Peep Diorama
Peep Diorama
Peep Diorama
Peep Diorama
Peep Diorama
Peep Diorama
Peep Diorama
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 womendealing 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 wallhanging. We will display your project as long as the chicksare here. Consider donating your project to the gift shop atthe Children’s Farm in Palos Park as a thank you fordonating eggs to the library. Stop by the Adult ServicesDepartment 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 onMay 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 acraft, and give people the opportunity to hold a chick. A signedfood permission slip is required to make the chick cookie craft.All patrons who want to hold a chick must sign a permissionslip. Patrons under the age of 18 must have a parent/guardiansign.
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 thisEggciting Evening! You will be able to hold a chick, makecrafts, have a chance to win raffle prizes, and enjoy food andrefreshments. All children must be accompanied by an adult.All patrons who want to hold a chick must sign a permissionslip. Patrons under the age of 18 must have a parent/guardiansign.
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.
Join our Facebook Page!! See more pictures on our Facebook Fan Page!
Type Chicago Ridge Chicks in the search box on Facebook!
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!
No comments:
Post a Comment