Childrens Services Minutes - April 10, 2024

What is SoonerStart?: SoonerStart is Oklahoma’s early intervention program designed to meet the needs of families with infants or toddlers (ages birth to 3 years old) with developmental delays and/or disabilities in accordance with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). The program builds upon and provides support and resources to assist family members to enhance infants or toddler’s learning and development through everyday learning opportunities. Another link: https://oklahoma.gov/ohca/individuals/soonerstart.html  

Sensational Kids, Inc. is a sensory rich environment designed to enhance the performance of each child through play-based activities and individualized care. Our facility provides a combination of sensorimotor gyms and one-on-one treatment rooms. The gyms are designed to replicate natural environments such as playing with other children on a playground or participating in a gymnastics class. Although the children have lots of fun, activities are specially designed to address individualized treatment goals while in the gyms or when working one-on-one. Let us help your child develop to his or her fullest potential!   

ParentTV Janeal has been working with ParentTV to ensure that it meets our state requirements. ParentTV has been unable to verify that all services, resources and data they provide will comply with all requirements of the provisions of the statute. At this time we are unable to move forward with adding them as a resource, until this requirement has been met. 

Summer Reading Training – Some staff accounts may have been reset in Beanstack. Please contact OES if you are no longer able to access the Admin side of Beanstack. 

3 in-person training courses are taking place this month. These trainings are mandatory for managers and new staff, but everyone is welcomed 

Read it Forward – If our 12 million points goal is met, we will give books to the Latino Community Development Agency   

SUMMER READING INTRANET PAGES ARE UP 

Teen volunteers are coming – over 300 for this year  

Early childhood drawing prize: Melissa and Doug Grand Canyon National Park Hiking Gear Play set, 1 (ONE) 10-day pass to YMCA. Adults, Teens, Children prize: Wireless Headphones, 1 (ONE) 10-day pass to YMCA 

Rack cards coming soon 

Be sure to LOOK ON THE INTRANET if you have any questions. If there is something not answered on there, please email OES! 

IHOP has offered to sponsor 20,000 coupons for every participant that registers to receive a free short stack of pancake at all restaurants in our service area. We do not have the coupons in hand yet. Once we receive them, the reward will be added to Beanstack to trigger a message when participants register and staff can then go in and mark the coupon as awarded in Beanstack. 

Ordering more giveaway books  

200 book limit is coming back soon so coordinate with your team about the quantities ordered.  

5 different FLAT SPOTICUS designs on the Intranet 

Meant for everyone to take their favorite library mascot, Spoticus, with them on adventures during the summer.  

Encourage guests to use the hashtag #FlatSpoticus when sharing their photos on social media. 

All information on Discovery Backpacks are located in the Library of Things Collection Overview (Intranet).  

https://claude.ai/ - Claude uses natural language better than Chat GPT 

Use it to write program descriptions or come up with program names. 

May need to edit down or give additional instructions to shorten/clarify descriptions. 

Great time saver. 

Coding club, Kits Nature Club (do something outside – mud day, wanting a large parachute for JULY 

Positive tomorrow – weekly maker sessions with John Rex on Wednesdays, Spanish story times on Mondays, baby Storytime 

Singing music with Ginger, weekly Storytime, monthly scavenger hunt, teddy bear picnic, Storytime outside, tea party 

Read with a ranger, summer kickoff, 123PWM 

Early child program Friday and Saturdays, coding club, STEM club, bubble party  

Do you know any good kids' music? Contact Chelsee with recommendations 

Dramatic play programs, Gold Dome Coffee partnership (what it's like to own a coffee shop), gardening theme next month, hairstyling theme after that 

Storytimes, Sensory themed programs, Foam Wednesdays, Spring crafternoon (100+ in attendance), rock garden at the front of library, kickoff on June 1st, Momma Cusses (300+ people) 

Lego club, Saturday morning cartoon program, Star War program on May 4th 

May 15th grand opening, summer reading kickoff party, focusing on outreach and getting out in the community,  

Cupcake decorating class, (70 attendees) Eclipse party, financial literacy take-home kit, planning a lot of school outreach for Summer Reading 

Makerspace programs going on, poetry tree in the middle of library 

Monthly ASL Storytime (NW) 

Neighborhood Arts at NW will also have ASL Interpretation 

Sensory bags – talking points coming soon, and Kristin will send email when they are ready to go