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55379 Dear Mayor Tabke, Thanks for your support back in March when we made our 1st attempt at the grant from the Minnesota Childrens Museum. We werent chosen at that time so over the summer, staff reapplied for the Smart Play Spot grant. With funding from the Minnesota Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment, Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and matching community funds ($20,000), the Minnesota Childrens Museum partners with community libraries to create and install an early literacy environment. The early literacy Smart Play Spot area promotes dramatic play, storytelling, playing with letters and sounds, expanding vocabulary and a love for reading and literature. These early literacy environments foster caregiver and child engagement in pre-literacy activities in an understandable and accessible manner for all community members. The Shakopee branch of the Scott County Library System is proud to announce that it has been chosen for the creation of a Smart Play Spot. We are excited for the opportunity to partner with the Minnesota Childrens Museum to design a learning environment that reects the heritage of the Shakopee community and its diverse members. We wished to inform you of our exciting news and look forward to your understanding and support of the grant process as we seek to expand our services to the Shakopee community. Please do not hesitate to contact us. Cordially, Barb Hegfors Shakopee Branch Manager 235 S. Lewis St. Shakopee, MN 55379 952-233-9590 Ext. 5 bhegfors@co.scott.mn.us Melissa Smith msmith@co.scott.mn.us
Minnesota Childrens Museum Smart Play Spot Early Literacy Environment Opportunity Minnesota Childrens Museum is a premier early childhood learning institution with a history of creating exciting learning opportunities for young children, their parents and other signicant adults in their lives through fun, educational exhibits and programs that promote and enrich early childhood development. In 2010, in collaboration with Dakota County, Hennepin County, and Saint Paul Public libraries, and with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Museum transformed the childrens areas of three libraries into immersive, interactive, early literacy environments. Combining the best elements of childrens museum learning environments and libraries intentional interactions, these model early literacy environments advance childrens literacy development through three-dimensional, hands-on, multi-sensory learning. The environments are designed around the six prereading skills dened by the Public Library Association and the Association for Library Service to Children. Playful environments engage children in dramatic play, storytelling, playing with letters and sounds, vocabulary development and high quality literature, all designed to promote a love of reading and build pre-reading skills. Engaging adults in childrens early literacy learning is also of primary importance in the environments, with the goal of making early literacy development and the pre-reading skills more understandable and accessible for a broad audience. To that end, graphic messages throughout the environments encourage adults in specic ways they can support children's early literacy development
The new Smart Play Spot at the Grand Rapids Area Children's Library features a replica of the Peter Pan Tree which once stood at Central School and was a popular children's play spot.