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Penny
Severns Summer Family Literacy Example
Regional Office of Education - Hamilton/Jefferson
Counties, Mt. Vernon
A single mom attended GED classes at the
Regional Office of Education in Hamilton County, McLeansboro,
IL and persevered until she passed the test in December
2001. She has become more self-confident and independent.
In fact, she now lives on her own with her daughter. Both
mom and daughter attend sessions offered through the Secretary
of State's (SOS) Family Literacy Program. They have been
on several field trips which have afforded them opportunities
otherwise unavailable to them. They both go to the library
to check out books. The mom is now involved with her daughter's
education and her daughter is doing very well in school.
They attended SOS events faithfully and have participated
enthusiastically in Parent and Child Together (PACT) time.
This program has enriched their lives and has been an asset
to the family. The mom currently attends classes at Rend
Lake College with plans to become a nurse.
T-Rex Activity
Mercer-Carnegie Public Library District,
Aledo
Penny Severns Summer Family Literacy Activity, Summer 2002
(Activity provided by Barb Milburn, Coordinator, Mercer-Carnegie
Library)
Digging up Tyrannosaurus Rex by John Horner & Don Lessem
was purchased for each family that attended the summer program.
To make the T-Rex bones:
Make a bone pattern free hand on a queen size sheet.
Examples of bones to use as a pattern are available in
various books. You may want to put a letter on each bone
on the sheet and on each bone you make to make it easier
to match up the bones plus learn the letters of the alphabet.
Fill a child's swimming pool with sand.
Make depressions in the sand to match the bones drawn
on the sheet. It's best to do the head first and design
teeth to fit your pattern. Use a Styrofoam cup to make
an eye socket. There is not enough room for all bones
to be made at the same time.
Fill your depressions with Quickcrete and let dry all
day or over night.
Remove dry bones, smooth out sand and make new depressions
from your pattern. Continue this process until all bones
are made. Add a letter to each bone.
Find a location to bury the bones.
Prior to the activity time, staff members bury the
bones and mark locations with Styrofoam cups.
Give each child a small house paintbrush to brush
away sand in their bone search.
When a bone is found, the child takes it to where
the skeleton is being put together, brushes it off with
a toothbrush (donated by local dentists), and matches it
to the correct outline drawn on the bed sheet that also
has the same letter.
Continue doing this until the T-Rex skeleton is completed.
Parents participate at all times with their children
during the activity.
After the skeleton activity is over, you may want
to donate the bones to a local children's museum.
The completed skeleton.
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