Kits for Kids

Kits for Kids is a co-operative project developed by 12 Public Libraries in Lee, Ogle and Whiteside Counties. They were developed through a grant from the Illinois State Library after these Libraries decided that a co-operative effort would solve programming problems for themselves and would them better serve the schools, day care providers and home schools.

Each library has developed three thematic kits; a pre-school level, an elementary level and one devoted to an author.

Kits contain books, videos, a notebook containing reproducibles, realia (games, puppets, puzzles, etc.) to help develop the topic. Also, each kit contains a journal to record classroom activities for sharing with other users. The purpose of each kit is to help children acquire an enjoyment of reading, communication skills and/or expand a science or history lesson. These kits are self-contained in plastic tote boxes.

Contact the library for information about borrowing once of these kits through interlibrary loan.

PRE-SCHOOL/PRIMARY LEVEL

How Do We Get There? (transportation)

Community Helpers

Caterpillar to Butterfly

Making Marvelous Music

If You’re Happy and Your Know It! (feelings)

Farm Animals

It’s About Time!

I Can Count

Mighty Dinos

Fun with the ABC’s

Four-Legged Friends (pets)

Searching the Sea

ELEMENTARY LEVEL

Medieval Life

Penguins on Parade

Here’s the Weather

Chess Challenge

Skin and Bones—Adventures in Human Anatomy

Time

Dive into the Deep Blue Sea

The Two Most Favorite Pets in the Whole Wide World

Hidden Secrets of the Rainforest

Reptiles and Amphibians

Night Sky

Cooking up a What????

AUTHOR KITS

Eve Bunting

The McKissack’s (Patricia and Frederick)

Jean Fritz

All About Tomie DePaola

Patricia Polacco

Lois Ehlert

Beverly Cleary

Eric Carle

Let’s Get Wild : Maurice Sendak

Madeline Mania : Ludwig Bemelman

Jerry Spinelli

Rosemary Wells