11
Jun
Art Storytime
“Everything you can imagine is real.” -Pablo Picasso
The Lawrence Public Library is collaborating with the Lawrence Arts Center for “Summer in the City“, this year’s new summer reading program. So, with that in mind I thought it would be fun to give the Arts Center a shout out with “Art Storytime”.
Even thought I’ve done a similar theme with Starry Night Storytime in the past, choosing books for this storytime was incredibly hard. There are so many great ones to choose from. I also had a hard time narrowing down a craft, so we ended up making two crafts, a Peit Mondrian-Inspired Collage and Wearable Mini-Masterpieces Buttons.
Art Storytime Line-Up:
Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh
The library has a super-size version of this book which is very appealing to use for storytime. It’s also an excellent book use when teaching the color wheel and color mixing. The kids know it and love it. With good reason.
Alphab’art by Anne Guery and Oliver Dussutour
Using famous works, this books asks the reader to find the hidden letters of the alphabet in each famous painting. I did not read this book to the kids, but using that idea we did play an I-Spy game together with a few of the paintings/hidden letters. Peit Mondrain is featured for the letter “F”, so it was a fun way to tie in our artist inspiration behind the storytime craft.
Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse by Eric Carle
Before reading this title, I started out by telling the kids that one of the fun aspects of art is that when you paint a horse it doesn’t have to be brown, or white, or black. It can be any color you can dream it to be.
Jeremy Draws a Monster by Peter McCarty
We are on a Peter McCarty kick in our house, so I couldn’t resist his first Jeremy book. If you liked this book, I encourage you to check out The Monster Returns.
I’m the Best Artist in the Ocean by Kevin Sherry
This is one of L’s favorite books. Kids love Kevin Sherry’s goofy Squid who likes to be the biggest and the best.
Art by Patrick McDonnell
Love this book. Love Patrick McDonnell. Loved using this book to end an art-tastic storytime.
Art Storytime Crafts:
The first craft was a Piet Mondrian-inspired puzzle collage inspired by this post from The Crafty Classroom. I really like that this craft could be as simple or as complex as you make it out to be and that it also teaches shape and primary color recognition.
Materials used: White cardstock, colored cardstock, sharpie, ruler, scissors, and glue.
Pre-storytime, using a ruler and a sharpie, I made two templates inspired by Mr. Mondrian’s work on white cardstock.
A simple version…
And a more complex version for the older kids.
After these were finished I photocopied as many copies I would need to hand out to each child at storytime onto cardstock.
I also photocopied the designs on the colored paper as well.
And cut out the shapes from the colored paper.
Then when it was time for the craft after storytime, the kids were instructed to find like-shapes and to glue them to their template. They could glue as many shapes or as few as they’d like. They are the artists so they’re the ones calling the shots.
I also had washable markers available to them if they wanted to color in any of the spaces.
Like so.
The older kids had a lot of fun sorting through all the different shapes to see which ones worked out in the templates provided.
I wish I had taken pictures of a few of the kids’ creations, because they did a fantastic job with this craft.
For the second craft….
Our library now owns a button maker (Yeee!), which my co-worker generously loaned to Sunday’s Storytime. For our second craft we made what I call “Wearable Mini-Masterpieces”. I sized and printed out mini-Screams and mini-Mona Lisas for the kids to color in. They could also make their own drawing or draw faces on our “Summer in the City” icons. After their masterpiece was pressed, they wore their artwork around like proud little artists.
Next week it’s a day all about dads for “Father’s Day Stortyime”.
Till then!
4
Jun
Summer Storytime
The Lawrence Public Library’s Summer Kick-Off Party of lawn games, moustaches, and old fashioned fun was Saturday. On Sunday, the celebration kept on going with more summertime fun at “Summer Storytime”. We read books about camping, swimming, ice cream, hot days, and ended it with a craft highlighting summer reading- personalized summer reading folders.
Summer Storytime Line-Up:
A Camping Spree with Mr. Magee by Chris Van Dusen
What starts out as a camping vacation turns into quite the wild adventure.
Should I Share My Ice Cream? by Mo Willems
Elephant and Piggie continue to be favorites at our library. This one is about an ice cream sweet tooth and a lesson in sharing.
“Ice Cream Ryme” Flannel Board
After reading Should I Share My Ice Cream?, I followed it with a flannel board rhyme I found on What Happens in Storytime…. Here is the complete version from The Big Book of Stories, Songs, and Sing-Alongs by Beth Maddigan and Stefanie Drennan:
Ice Cream Rhyme
First we need a cone, Nice and crunchy. (Place cone on flannel board.) Then We need some ice cream, Sweet and yummy. Scoop ’em, on, Stack’ em on, Up to the sky. We love ice cream, my oh, my! First comes vanilla, (Place white felt on the cone.) Cold and sweet. Then comes chocolate, (Place brown felt on white.) A delicious treat. Here’s some strawberry, (Place pink felt on brown.) Orange sherbert too. (Place orange on top of pink.) A super-duper ice cream cone Just for you! Once scoop, two scoops, Three scoops, four. We love ice cream, Who want’s more?
Splish, Splash, Splat! by Rob Scotton
Next we read a book about another summer activity… going to the pool, featuring the popular book character Splat the Cat! Our library’s kids love Splat the Cat. Or I should say, they LOOOOVE Splat the Cat!!! This read was an easy win with the crowd.
Rattletrap Car by Phyllis Root, illustrated by Jill Barton
Rattletrap Car was such a fun book to read aloud! I usually have such a wide age range of kids that attend storytime and selecting books everyone will sit through and enjoy can be challenging. This book appealed to every single one of them.
I had also planned to read Bats at the Beach by Brain Lies but decided against reading it at the last minute. Wanted to make sure the kids had enough time making their nifty summer reading folders…
Summer Reading Folder Craft
Throughout the summer, the kids of Lawrence can pick up a reading log from the library or they can print one off online. We have many eager readers participate in extra credit reading and various activities throughout the summer, so I thought it might be fun to create a folder for them to keep everything together.
Materials used: School folders (I reused an old stack of folders from the library), colored paper or cardstock, double-stick tape, scissors, glue stick, labels, foam stickers.
For pre-storytime prep, I taped a sheet of sky blue paper to each folder with double-stick tape.
I cut green cardstock into thirds and trimmed one of the long sides with specialty scissors.
I also cut out clouds from white paper and used leftover sun cut-outs from a previous project. Using a glue stick, the kids glued the green cardstock (the grass), the clouds, and the sun on the blue paper.
I created and printed out a bunch of “My Summer Reading” labels that the kids chose to decorate their folders with.
Summer Reading Folders were then personalized with foam sticker letters.
I also had a bunch of foam stickers left over from various projects that they also used.
Bright and fun.
Just like the summer.
For more info about the Lawrence Public Library’s Summer Reading Program click HERE.
For information on a local library’s summer reading program near you click HERE.
Happy Summer and Happy Reading!
21
May
Bring a Friend Storytime
Yesterday’s storytime was all about FRIENDSHIP. They were encouraged to bring a friend with them to storytime, which also included stuffed animals and imaginary friends. We don’t discriminate.
For storytime, we enjoyed four fantastic books about being and becoming friends. Additionally, Ame Dykeman, author of Boy + Bot, sent goodies galore especially for our library’s storytime kiddos! After a few entertaining reads, the kids made a robot friend of their very own.
Was it fun? Affirmative.
Bring a Friend Storytime Line-up:
Boy + Bot by Ame Dykeman, illustrated by Dan Yaccarino
Had to literally sneak this book out of our house for storytime we’ve been reading it so much at home. A story of how a boy and robot meet one day and become fast friends.
Z is for Moose by Kelly Bingham, Paul O. Zelinsky
The whole room was cracking up while reading this picture book about an eager moose, an alphabet production, and a zebra trying to keep everything in line. Easily my new favorite alphabet book.
Toot and Puddle by Holly Hobbie
The classic story of two best friends and their friendship together and afar.
You Will You Be My Friend! by Peter Brown
Sometimes it takes a few trial and errors before finding the perfect friend. Peter Brown never fails to entertain us!
Robot Buddy Craft:
Since Boy + Bot is such a fun read and you can’t go wrong with robots, I thought it might be fun to make Robot Buddies for the post-storytime craft.
When searching for ideas, I came across this Robot Craft on No Time For Flash Cards. I liked the idea of using glitter or shiny materials and having the kids piece together a robot, but instead of making magnet pieces I altered the craft into making movable robot characters.
Here’s how we made our Robot Buddies…
Materials Used: variety of glitter cardstock (can be found in the scrap booking section of a craft store), a few sheets of adhesive foam sheets, googly eyes, fasteners, hole punch, scissors, and glue.
Pre-storytime prep: I cut out the robot bodies and the limbs out of the glitter cardstock. The robot bodies were about 8×4 inches, the legs were about 4 1/2 inches long, and the arms 3 inches long. In case you were wondering.
Hole-punch the body where you’d like the arms and legs to go. Hole-punch the ends of the arms and legs as well.
Use the fasteners to connect the limbs to the body.
Decorate!
I cut circles, triangles, squares, and rectangles from adhesive foam sheets and the kids used those shapes as stickers. We also used googly eyes, some of which did not have adhesive backs so white school glue was used to connect them.
I don’t know about you, but these Robot Buddies make me want to sing…
That’s going to be stuck in my head the rest of the day.
After making their Robot Buddies (check these kid-made examples out!), the kids took home Boy + Bot bracelets, stickers, and bookmarks compliments of the author.
Thank you Ame Dykeman for being a friend of the library. The kids loved the goodies!
image sources: boy + bot, z is for moose, toot and puddle, you will be my friend
17
May
Adventurs as Annie in EGYPT
This was the last Magic Tree House Adventures session until the school year picks up again in the fall. I now feel that I have a small understanding of how a teacher feels on their last day of school. Going to miss those kids. We didn’t have a crazy 50+ group like in the past few sessions. It was graduation weekend and being a university town, everything is affected by what’s going on with the school. But we did have our tried and true core of 30 kids in attendance.
Off we went to the marvelous and mysterious Ancient Egypt…
Where Are We? Who Are They
Just like in the previous Magic Tree House Adventure sessions, our first activity is “Where Are We? Who Are They?”, a slide show guessing game about the place and time period we’re visiting for the day. We discussed the pyramids, famous pharaohs, the culture, the religion, mummies, tomb raiders, King Tut’s discovery, and so much more. If you’d like the full presentation outline, please feel free to email me.
Mummy Wrap Race
I have to start by saying this did not go as expected.. but the kids still had fun nonetheless.
We divided the group into teams of 5. 1 person was the mummy, 2 were the mummifiers, and 2 were the excavators. We handed out 2 rolls of toilet paper to each mummifer. With the mummies and the mummifiers in each group standing and the excavators sitting we timed how long it took for the mummifiers to wrap their mummy. The toilet paper was thin and kept tearing, but the kids were laughing and didn’t seem to care. The first group to finishing wrapping their mummy won. Then the excavators/tomb robbers were next. Their job was to see own fast they could unwrap the mummy carefully with as few toilet paper tears as possible.
Masks, Cartouches and Gold!
There were so many inspiring crafts for Ancient Egypt, that my partner”Jack” and I decided to make three, so we set up three rotating craft stations around the room in which the kids had 10 minutes at each station.
Cartouche Creations: There was a cartouche station where the kids learned about how to write their name in hieroglyphics. A co-worker found some awesome Egyptian stamps downstairs that we used as well.
Golden Jewels: We made necklaces of “lapis” and “gold” (my favorite of the crafts) were they strung together spray-painted rigatoni noddles on elastic string. I’m pretty sure all the kids ended up wearing their necklaces around.
Mummy Masks: The third station, was King Tut mask making. We pre-made and cut out the masks by tracing an image of King Tut’s mask from a book and enlarging it onto 11×14 paper using our printer. After the copies were printed, we cut the eyes and shape out. All the kids had to do was color! The below image of King Tutankhamun’s burial mask was left up on the projector from “Where Are We? Who Are They?”, so the kids could use it as a guide. We also encouraged them to color their masks in whichever way inspired them. This idea was inspired by Imagine Explore Create.
The crafts were a big hit! They liked making them so much that they didn’t want to stop when time was up. They finally let up on their crafting when I let their parents in to pick them up. As they were leaving, they were allowed to select as many Ancient Egypt books to check out from a table display in the back.
Among them were a couple books we used for the craft ideas:
The Ancient Egyptians by Fiona McDonald
The Egyptians by Ruth Thomson
Magic Tree House Adventure Journal #4:
As always, along with whatever the kids made that day and library books based on the theme, they also took home their Magic Tree House Adventure Journal. Here’s an abbreviated peak at what’s inside. Continuing the learning and the fun.
5 minutes after the kids were supposed to be released from the session they insisted on staying! We had to invite the parents and caregivers to come in the auditorium to collect their children.
I’ll take that as as sign that they liked it.
Looking forward to continuing the adventures in the fall!
image sources: pyramids, king tut
15
May
Waiting For Wings Storytime
Last week, I came across this article in the Lawrence Journal World about an early abundance of caterpillars this year, which will naturally lead to an abundance of butterflies in the Lawrence area.
It was my inspiration behind last Sunday’s caterpillar and butterfly storytime…
Waiting For Wings Storytime Line-up:
Waiting for Wings by Lois Ehlert
A colorful and educational book about the butterfly life cycle.
Butterfly Life Cycle Flannel Board
Adapted from In the Children’s Room
First comes a butterfly and lays an egg And out comes a caterpillar with oh so many legs. See the caterpillar spin and spin, A little chrysalis to sleep in, Now we wait and see, shhh… When out of the cocoon, my oh my, There comes a beautiful butterfly.
The Caterpillow Fight by Sam McBratney, illustrated by Jill Barton
A goofy book about a group of rowdy caterpillars.
Caterpillar, Caterpillar Hand Rhyme
Adapted from Jane Johnson
Caterpillar, Caterpillar brown and furry, (Hold hand out with pointer finger out sideways) Winter’s coming and you’d better hurry. (Move pointer finger in and out) Find a leaf under witch to creep, (Hold out other hand flat like a leaf and move caterpillar linger under it) Spin a chrysalis in which to sleep, (Spin caterpillar pointer finger around leaf hand, then grab caterpillar finger with leaf hand to make a chrysalis) And when warm weather comes your way, (Keep holding caterpillar finger with other hand.) You’ll be a butterfly and fly away! (Lock thumbs and flap hands upward.)
Farfallina & Marcel by Holly Keller
This is such a darling book and the kids really enjoyed it. Had to find extra copies of Farfallina & Marcel for a few families to take home with them that day.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
We ended storytime with everyone’s favorite. I had the kids join in whenever we came to the phrase, “…but he was still hungry!”
Butterfly Crafts:
We made two very similar butterfly crafts. The first one, tissue paper butterfly rings, I thought might be too girly for the boys, so I also had a magazine butterfly station. I don’t know why I thought that would be less girly than the rings and even so, the boys ended up making the rings after all. Lesson learned.
Materials used for both crafts: Colorful magazines, pipe cleaners, tissue paper, and scissors.
Butterfly Ring Craft:
First cut pipe cleaner in half. Save both halves.
Bend one of the pipe cleaner haves into a “v”.
Scrunch a small square or two or three of tissue paper into a bow shape.
Slide bow into pipe cleaner “v”,
Twist the ends of the pipe cleaner a couple times,
And then bend butterfly antennae into desired shape.
Using the other pipe cleaner half for the ring, cut in half again.
Push one of the pieces underneath the bottom of the butterfly.
Wrap into a ring shape.
Voila. Butterfly ring.
Magazine Butterfly Craft:
Found this craft idea here. The magazine butterfly is very similar to the butterfly ring. Only slightly more difficult.
Tear out colorful magazine pages.
Cut into squares about 5×5 inches.
Fold into thin strips.
Using a full length pipe cleaner, shape into a “v” shape, and twist the bottom twice.
Pinch one or two folded magazine pages in the center and slide into pipe cleaner “v” and twist the pipe cleaner ends together two or three times, securing the wings.
Shape antenna.
image sources: waiting for wings, caterpillow fight, farfallina & marcel, the very hungry catterpillar
8
May
Mother’s Day Storytime
Instead of having Mother’s Day Storytime on Mother’s Day this coming Sunday, I planned it a week early so that the kids could make a gift for mom ahead of time. I’ve been saving jars since the beginning of the year and finally found a craft I wanted to use them for… flower vases so cheerful and bright!
Figuring out the craft was easy, but the actuall story time gave me some trouble. A lot of the mother’s day books are (in my opinion) pretty sappy… My mommy loves me even when I’m _____, my mommy loves me no matter what, I miss my mommy when she is away, etc. etc. So to keep storytime on the lighter side, I selected a few books that were not you’re typical Mother’s Day reads.
Mother’s Day Storytime Line-up:
Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman
Started with the classic. I’m pretty sure this was one of my brother’s favorite books growing up. You can’t go wrong with P.D. Eastman.
My monster Mama Loves Me So by Laura Leuck, illustrated by Mark Buehner
I was thinking about using this book for Halloween storytime, but I thought it would be a fun spin to use it for Mother’s Day instead.
Joey by Jack Kent
After reading Round Robin, I’ve become a big fan of Jack Kent books. Joey is a silly book about a mother kangaroo who doesn’t want her joey to stray too far from home. Instead she encourages him to invite his friends over to the pouch, which in no time at all starts to get a wee bit crowded.
Not Inside This House by Kevin Lewis, illustrated by David Ercolini
Another funny mother and child story which starts as Livingstone Columbus Magellan Crouse bringing home a few bugs and turns into an affinity for bringing home all kinds of wilderness and whatnot. Naturally, mom is not pleased. A goofy, light-hearted story about picking and choosing your battles.
Because You’re My Baby by Sherry North, illustrated by Marcellus Hall
This was my lovey dovey pick. From sailing a ship with sails of cotton candy and a crew of penguins, to off-roading on the moon, a mother will do anything for her child.
Flower Vase Craft:
I’ve been a bit of a hoarder with glass jars this year. Anything for a small mustard jar to large 2lb applesauce jars. I used a few for this fairy jar craft back in March, but I’ve finally put the rest to good use! We made these colorful flower vases for Mother’s Day gifts as our craft after storytime.
Materials used: glass jar, tissue paper, scissors, paintbrush, and glue. That’s it!
Before storytime the only thing I did to prep was cut out small squares from tissue paper.
When it was time to make the craft after reading our books, I squirted glue into paper plates.. that way the glue wasn’t drying while I was reading to the kids. Then, each kid selected a jar and a paintbrush and started to paint a single coat of glue around the jar.
Then, they applied the tissue paper squares to the glue.
I liked making an ombre effect with my example jar, but the kids, as usual, were very crafty and made mosaic looking vases, or only used a little bit of tissue paper on the top or bottom which also had a nice effect.
I added another coat of glue over the tissue paper to seal it after I was done, but it isn’t absolutely necessary to do. It does take a little longer to dry that way.
Once dry, they’re flower ready!
Here’s the one L made for me, currently on display in our house.
I love it.
Have a Happy Mother’s Day to all you wonderful, amazing moms out there!
image source: are you my mother, monster mama, joey, not in this house, because you are my baby
7
May
Children’s Book Week
Today is the kick-off of Children’s Book Week, the longest-running literacy initiative in the country! Below is a list of fun ways for kids to celebrate:
- Visit your public or school library and check out a book!
- Check for official CBW events and local events in your neck of the woods.
- Grab FREE bookmarks created by Lane Smith here.
- Encourage kids to write a letter to your favorite author (or illustrator). You can usually find contact information on the publisher’s or author’s website.
- Try making your own book! Kids loved putting together these “Color Poetry Books” a few weeks ago. Also try creating this flip book or this handmade picture book craft.
- Know a Amelia Bedelia fanatic? Or is it Bad Kitty? Have a little make-believe fun by encouraging dress up as a favorite book character. Older kids can go one step further and put on a play.
What are you doing to celebrate?
I’d love to know!
image source: CBW poster,
1
May
Poetry is Music
Yesterday was the last day of April and the last day of National Poetry Month and the day before yesterday was last poetry-themed Sunday Storytime, “Poetry is Music”. We were very fortunate to have a couple special guests, local musician, Michael Bradley and his daughter Eva preforming lyrical songs. I would alternate reading a poem that is also a song/song that is also a poem picture books and they preformed the song sing-a-long style.
Poetry is Music Storytime Line-up:
This Land is Your Land by Woody Guthrie, illustrations by Kathy Jakobsen
I Had a Rooster by Laura Vaccaro Seeger, song by Pete Seeger
Over the Rainbow by Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg, adapted by Judy Collins, illustrations by Eric Puybaret
Eva, Michael’s daughter, sang “Over the Rainbow” and it was gorgeous.
But in case weren’t there to hear Ava… here’s good ol’ Judy.
We also sang “Oh Susanna”
and Cat Steven’s “If You Want To Sing Out Sing Out”
Musical Bean Tambourine Craft:
Since we had a musical storytime, for our craft we made musical instruments… Bean Tamborines! Of course after I prepped my examples for storytime and took pictures of them, I realized I switched the “Music” and “Poetry” on the tambourine. So it should read like so…
But you get the idea.
This was an extremely simple craft to make and really all you need is dried beans, paper plates, and a stapler, but if you want all the bells and whistles, you can add whichever decorations that seem fit! Markers, paint, glitter, ribbon…. We used crepe paper and stickers.
If you’re not adding streamers, go ahead and fill one paper plate with a handful of beans.
If you are adding streamers, go ahead and tape streamers to the inside of the plate and then add beans.
Place another paper plate on top of the one filled with beans and staple together. Make sure the staples are close enough so the beans don’t spill out.
Cut streamers to desired length.
And decorate!
Here is a look back at the other poetry-themed storytimes from April:
I can’t believe it’s over…
Where did April go?
Hope everyone had a wonderful, poetry-filled month! Happy May Day!
image sources: this land is your land sheet music, this land is your land, i had a rooster, over the rainbow
24
Apr
Wordplay
Wordplay(time)!
Came across this idea recently and decided to try it out on the library storytime kids as a “Build-A-Poem” activity during National Poetry Month. I labeled bunches and bunches of legos and left them out after Sunday’s storytime last weekend. It turned out to be more of a Build-A-Verse than the Build-A-Poem activity I had intended it to be, but even so it was all good fun.
23
Apr
Poetry in Nature
Sunday was Earth Day and it’s also National Poetry Month! So, yesterday as a part of the ongoing festivities for poetry month, the storytime theme was “Poetry in Nature”.
After reading a few poetic books about nature and the world, we made a “Plant a Poem, Plant a Flower” craft. One part grown in the library, the other to be cared for and grown at home.
And then we sang “Kumbaya”.
Kidding.
Poetry in Nature Storytime Line-up:
Swirl by Swirl by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Beth Krommes
Read this one in January for the KC Mock Caldecott. Each page I had the kids point out where the swirls were.
This is the Rain by Lola M. Schaefer, illustrated by Jane Wattenberg
A book about the water cycle. With dinosaurs!?
“Worms”, a poem from Outside Your Window: A First Book of Nature by Nicola Davies, illustrated by Mark Hearld
I couldn’t resist sharing my new favorite children’s poetry book with the storytimers yesterday. Nicola Davies is a beautiful writer and Mark Hearld’s illustrations are full of whimsy. I choose to read the poem “Worms”, because earth worms are one of the world’s greatest recyclers.
Blue Sky by Audrey Wood
A fun book for younger kids about the many moods of the sky.
All the World by Liz Garton Scanlon, illustrated by Marla Frazee
A sweet and simple about one day and all the world.
“Plant a Poem, Plant a Flower” Craft:
This was a two part craft. Part one was the plant stake poems that were made at the library and then after the kids were done making their craft, the received a baggie of potting soil, a few flower seeds, and a mini terra cotta pot to take home.
Materials used included flower seeds, potting soil, terra cotta pots, poems, scotch tape, scissors, cardboard box(es), and popsicle sticks. Glue and crayons/markers optional.
Using a flower stencil, I traced and cut out flowers from cracker and cereal boxes.
I also cut out a poem about gardening.
By anonymous.
The above was all done as prep before storytime. When it was time to make a craft after reading, all the kids had to do was tape or glue a flower to a popsicle stick.
And then decorate their flowers whichever way they preferred. They could use the printed side of the cardboard box as the front and glue the poem on OR they could have used the backside of the cardboard box and decorated it with crayons or markers. The finishing touch was taping/gluing the poem in the middle.
After their plant stake poems were finished, I handed out a mini terra cotta pot, a baggie of potting soil, and a baggie with 3-4 marigold or zinnia seeds.
Step two to be continued at home…..
Plant a Poem, Plant a Flower
image sources: swirl by swirl, this is the rain, outside your window, blue sky, all the world
