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Homeschoolers, get ready to tell the world about your favorite book! Prepare a creative book report at home and present it informally to other families in a science fair-style format. What you create to represent your book is up to you. Build a diorama, design a game based on the plot and characters, or make a poster for the movie version. Or you might create a book in a bag project, make a clothes hanger mobile, or draw the story in a comic book format. The possibilities are endless! For homeschool students in grades K – 8.
Registration opens on Fri., Nov. 3 at 10 a.m. and closes on Thu., Dec. 7 at 1 p.m. Register here to be a book presenter. Please make sure that each participating student registers separately.
If you aren’t ready to present a book report yourself, drop by to support other homeschoolers by browsing the projects and discover your next favorite book!
When: Fri., Dec. 8 from 1 - 2 p.m.
Where: East Library
Need ideas to help you get started? Take a look at our idea file.
Poetry creates opportunities for children to explore a variety of topics and emotions through writing, and Pikes Peak Library District’s annual Jean Ciavonne Poetry Contest engages 4th and 5th-grade writers. 2024's theme was Lost & Found: Poems of Importance. Young poets reflected on something they had lost or found in the last few years as they worked with poetic devices like imagery, form, meter, and rich vocabulary to create an original poem for a chance to win a prize. This contest continues Jean Ciavonne’s legacy of connecting children with poetry and writing.
Congratulations to our 2024 winners!
- Elsie Byrne, 5th Grade, Homeschool - "Overlooked"
- Lilia Gerber, 5th Grade, Gerber Homeschool - “Black and Brown Again”
- Enray Liu, 4th Grade, The Classical Academy Central Elementary - “Melody of Courage”
- Clara Pavri, 5th Grade, Colorado International Language Academy - “Figures on a Crinkled Map”
- Sara Schmidt, 5th Grade, Thomas Maclaren School - “My Lost Heart”
- Sienna Shafer, 5th Grade, Monument Academy - “The Best Dream”
Jean Ciavonne Remembered from PPLD TV on Vimeo.
Materials for this December Take and Make will be available at area PPLD libraries beginning December 8, 2023. For more pictures with instructions see pdf file link below.
Materials provided:
paper
Materials you provide:
crayons or markers, scissors, glue, ruler, black marker
Pablo Picasso is a famous artist from the 20th century. He’s known for co-founding the Cubist movement. In Cubism, subjects and artists are broken up and rearranged in an abstract form. The name Cubism comes from the cubes and other geometric shapes contained in the artwork. Picasso combined different pieces of his subject to make things look very fragmented, often using geometric shapes. ‘A head’, said Picasso, ‘is a matter of eyes, nose, mouth, which can be distributed in any way you like’. He had different styles of Cubism during his life.
Directions:
Papers 1 & 2:
Draw a self-portrait using bright colors. Cut it up and glue it to another paper in an abstract way.
Paper 3:
Use the ruler to divide your paper in quarters – draw a vertical linein the center of your paper and also a horizontal line in the center.
Divide your paper into 4 quadrants again – this time drawing lines from corner to corner, both directions.
Using only straight lines, draw facial features.
Color with crayons or markers. Outline the features with a black marker.