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*Ride the wave* of ocean celebrations throughout the year!
Do you want to replicate any of the ocean-themed activities from this summer in the future? Did your activities make a huge *splash*
with your community members?
Take
this 2-min survey
to let us know how it’s going and
how we can keep supporting you!
Throughout the year
The
Ocean Project supports thousands of event coordinators across the globe to continue celebrations and
collective action for our one shared ocean. If there’s a resource you found useful, additional support you want, or ideas you’re willing to share with other ocean enthusiasts and advocates – we want to know!
Take
the short survey to help us help you and others keep celebrating our ocean on and around World Ocean
Day, 8 June and all throughout the year.
As a reminder, the
World
Ocean Day
World Map and Events Calendar is a year-round resource for you to publicize your conservation-themed efforts, simply
use this submission
form.
From everyone at The Ocean Project and World Ocean Day: “THANK YOU” for your efforts this summer to protect our blue planet. If
you have any additional questions or suggestions please reach out to Samantha Gibb, World Ocean Day Manager:
sgibb@worldoceanday.org
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Public libraries feed hungry bodies as well as hungry minds during the summer – and throughout the year. The CSLP’s
Child and Community Well-Being committee encourages library involvement in activities that support wellness, from summer and afterschool meals, to well-being programming, to support for basic needs, all to help children, teens, and communities stay nourished,
active, and healthy when school is out. Resources include the
Libraries and Summer Food page on the CSLP website; a
Facebook group for news, support, and resource-sharing; and an ongoing series of stories showcasing the experiences of libraries around the country.
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Mindfulness and Movement
Gretchen Andrews, MLIS, RYT, Youth Services Librarian, Hawaii
Are you looking for a new theme for your story time program toolbox? Combining yoga with story time is a great way to introduce both mindfulness and movement into your library program. Adding the element of mindful motion is creative and engaging.
Being a certified yoga teacher is not necessarily required when introducing yoga into a story time plan. There are a vast array of picture book titles that can be read aloud, and the movement instruction can be taken directly from the text. An excellent example
is the book “You Are A Lion! And Other Fun Yoga Poses” by Taeeun Yoo. There are also many books that do not have yoga directly in the title or as a theme. A couple of my favorites that I keep in rotation are “Stretch”, by Doreen Cronin and “Bark George”, by
Jules Feiffer. Both titles have animal poses that correlate with movements such as cat, cow, and dog pose that are a part of the traditional yoga sequences.
One of the key benefits for anyone who practices yoga is the breath work and meditation. Teaching children to slow down, stop, and take a deep breath is an indispensable life skill to carry on into adult-hood. “Moody Cow Meditates”, by Kerry Lee MacClean is
a great example of a children’s picture book that couples SEL (Social Emotional Learning) and mindfulness. In today’s hectic world these are two great elements to introduce to both young readers and their accompanying adults.
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