SPECIAL ACTIVITY WEEK #8 (IS OFFICIALLY CLOSED NO WINNER THIS TIME)

Week #8 (July 6th)
Special Activity
I spy ___@ my library!

Hello, hello…
How is everyone doing? Happy Birthday Idaho and Happy 4th of July! I am posting this week’s blog a little earlier because I am not working this Monday due to the holiday!
Have you all been reading eagerly, turning in your reading logs? Here is a reward for you all. This is another special week and this time I want you to find 12 areas/spots in the library that are pictured on the photos below.
I walked around the library and took photos from an unusual perspective or close-up to make it challenging for you. Get to know your library and find these particular areas/spots in your library.

Ok, here are the instructions and rules:

1.Take a good look at the 12 photos posted below this post. This activity requires you to actually go to the library and there you will get another set of photos available at the children’s desk. (It would be super hard trying to memorize 12 photos, huh?) There are a total of 12 photos. Can you figure out where these photos were taken? (ALL photos were taken inside or outside the library – only in locations open to the public of course)

2.Take a trip to the library – stop by at the children’s department – ask at the children’s department front desk for a form and photo sheet (for directions & clues)

3.Take the photo sheet and try to find these areas/spots.

4.Once you found the areas/spots – write down your answers on the form where they’re located (describe the location best you can).

5.Once finished turn the form AND the photo sheet in at the children’s desk. Don’t forget – first one to have all answers right and turns it in first will be the winner! Each photo has a letter assigned (A through L)

6.If you are the first person to turn in all 12 areas/spots correctly you will win a Library “Express yourself” T-Shirt and an Art Poster.

7.As in the previous special activity week it is open for a week only. Hopefully we will have a winner by then.

8.Btw – you may not bribe the library staff, because I made sure that I am the only one that knows the answers... (Yep, I thought it through) : D

I am so excited about this activity. Have fun!

Dominique

QUESTION # 7

Greetings!
Here is an interesting question for this week.

Would you rather lose all your old memories or never be able to make new ones?

I think that is a really insightful question.
Just imagine you would lose all your old memories, you couldn't remember what you did for your last birthday, you couldn't remember your last vacation, or you couldn't remember anything you learned at school...or never be able to make new ones?
If you would never be able to make new ones, you would wake up every morning not remembering what you did the day before, nor could you remember if you made any new friends. This reminds me on the movie "50 first dates". It is a PG 13 movie, but really cute. It is Drew Barrymore who wakes up every morning and doesn't remember a thing that happened to her the day before. So, now your turn? Which one would you rather choose?

Here are some interesting facts and maybe a helpful tool for memorization.


How can we learn to remember better?

Since memory works by association, create an association between the information will enable us to remember better. For example, if you want to remember the following list:

hamburger-refrigerator-car-dictionary-
tiger-chair-radio-pencil

All you have to do is to visualize in your mind:

1. a hamburger shivering inside a refrigerator
2. a refrigerator is put inside a car.
3. a car crashes onto a giant dictionary.
4. a dictionary with pictures of tigers.
5. a tiger is sitting on a chair
6. a chair with a radio hanging on it.
7. turn on the radio with a pencil.

If you can form vivid associations, you will be surprised how easy it is to remember the list. The idea is to be creative and visualize in your mind the associations that connect the information together. Interesting, huh?
Let me see what you think. :)