Library・読み聞かせ

It may have existed on the cursed forums？

Aww it must be nice to have real 依頼 from people...must make you feel so wanted and useful ;___;

Thanks for the rundown of your 事業！

Thank you so much karuru! Sorry I didn't see this til just now

This is very helpful information I often bring a picture book to read at my kindy visits (I visit each kindergarten in the city 2-3 times a year) but it's part of a larger program and the main focus is not on 読み聞かせ. But I effin love 読み聞かせ so it'd be so cool to convince my city to come bring their kids and listen to me read books.

I was wondering if you took this job over from your pred and/or if you have any information on the 企画書 or a document detailing the 詳細 of your event (time, place, how participant signup/advertising for it works, benefits of such an event, etc.) Obviously don't write anything up on my behalf but if you had any documents you'd be willing to share with me? :>

I know I'd be more likely to convince my office that this was a worthwhile expenditure of my time and abilities if I had a concrete example of how it works in another area! It sucks that I never get requests from anyone in the city to do these kinds of events... I've probably been 依頼されたed for a 国際交流 event twice since getting here in summer 2014. Even my kindy visits were initiated by a previous CIR and we have to send 照会文 to them to reach out to any schools who are interested/have time for me ;_;

Also my supervisor seemed interested in reaching out to the elementary schools and seeing if any of them would be interested in me coming for 読み聞かせ visits so if you have some spare time I'd love to hear how those differ from the younger group as well!

hey sacchan i am sorry to take so freaking long to get back to you but here is a basic run down of how ours typically go


-IRAI comes from library for us (5 CIRS) to do EHON YOMI KIKASE
---IRAI is usually for >2 events with 2 CIRs each (so either 4 of us go and one gets left out or we all go and one person goes twice, that person is usually me)
-tanto and IRAISHA gather availability and decide dates (usually at least a few months in advance). they typically aim for school breaks, our last two were doing the summer holidays
-then we have a meeting (per date) with all involved. usually this means 2 cirs, 2 cir tantos, 2 library tantos. we go over dates, times, TAISHO ages, what books we are thinking, what other activities to do, etc
-We finalize activities and book choices (if we didnt during the meeting)
-during which the library TANTO create the CHIRASHI and have us check it
-as soon as we decide what to read, we arrange for the books (including their giant counterparts if they have it) to be checked out (this often means we hog these books for WEEKS... oops)
-practice reading (we go page by page, reading the GAIKOKGO version followed by japanese. this usually requires some coordination because the J and E versions will vary slightly)
-have 1 practice of the whole event in order, including our activity
-then we have a dress rehearsal the few days before
-have the event
-asap after the event, we have a HANSEIKAI to go over what went well and what could have gone better
-take a nap

we usually pick 2 books each and try to have at least one OOKATA book version for each person (they are easier for the group of kiddos to see). when we dont have the giant book, we both hold out our books so the kids can look at whichever one is closer to them

the books are typically for younger kids when possible. this means that there's usually one sentence per page spread. either way, something with simple language in short chunks (though we have chosen a range from baby books up to middle elementary age level by native speaker standards). we incorporate actions (that correspond to a phrase in the book) when possible.

schedule for an example EHON reading event for 3-12 year olds
10:30 start, JIKO SHOKAI
10:35 KCIR reads two books
10:50 KCIR and I do our "animal sounds" activity. we teach the sounds then we test them
11:00 I read my two books
11:15 closing remarks and announcements

some books we read include (i will add more when i remember):
the very hungry caterpillar
papa, please get the moon for mechug chug train
time for a hug (stupidly cute)
little mouse's red vest
where the wild things are
elphee's walk

Update - Sounds like my 読み聞かせ/craft workshop events might get approved. But there is still an issue.

I asked my soup if I could ask applicants to contact me via email or phone by advertising the events in our 広報. This way, they can ask me any questions about the event and share if they wish to apply. But soup said no 広報 application stuff. : |

How do you all promote your CIR events if you don't use the 広報 to encourage people to apply? How do people apply for your events?

If you're able to post fliers you could set up a QR code to a survey form to track applicants. 
We usually post flyers around town with the BOE's phone number for ppl to call for more info or to apply for the event. 

Otherwise, I suggest using some kind of social media.