World in Your Hometown – Larry Swenson 2011
The World in Your Hometown by Larry Swenson is a program with music and costumes that teaches young people to be tolerant and accepting of people who may be different than them. It also educates about cultural differences.
- Event Dates, Locations and Attendance at each individual event:
05/17/2011 - Norman County West Elementary School in Hendrum - 152,
Climax School - 136
05/18/2011 - Roosevelt Elementary School in Detroit Lakes - 200, Ada Library - 15
05/23/2011 - St. Joseph's Catholic School in Moorhead - 205, Lake Park Audubon
Elementary School - 350, Moorhead Library - 10
05/24/2011 - Clearbrook-Gonvick Elementary School - 250, McIntosh Library - 23
05/31/2011 - SJ Reinertson Elementary School in Moorhead - 790, Ellen Hopkins
Elementary School in Moorhead - 115
2,246 people attended the Activity programs.
- Partner Organization(s):Lake Agassiz Regional Library
- Partner Organization(s) Contribution/Role in the Program:LARL contributed $500.00 of its operating budget to coordination and development of the program.
Measurable Outcomes may be collected by survey, anecdotal responses, pre-test/post-test, observations; Describe proposed end user change in Behavior, Attitude, Skills, Knowledge, Condition and/or Status.
- Learn why farmers in different countries wear different clothes according to the geography and climate where they live
- Learn respect for people who might look/act/speak "differently," and help prevent bullying
- Gain an understanding of people who are from cultures different than their own
- Dance to high energy songs from the U.S. and other countries Tolerance
- Sing in other languages, in addition to English
- Learn about Diversity in their own community
Survey results:Please rate the quality of this program: (Using 1-5 scale, with 5 being excellent and 1 being poor)Not rated - (0), 1- (5), 2 - (5), 3 - (26), 4 - (35), 5 - (91), Average (4.22) What did you like best about the program?
- The songs, interaction with kids, promoting positive comments
- Everything was great!
- Everything! I really enjoyed the bilingual songs
- The music and actions
- Student involvement
- The control of the children/taught respect/fun
- The restaurant song (6)
- I like the middle
- Seeing the clothes (10)
- Traps (29)
- Singing (9) and dancing (16)
- The songs (37)
- The close
- He was funny
- Student engagement - how the presenter kept the pace...K-6 was a good age range for an audience
- Music and dancing (11)
- It was funny (3)
- I liked it when the teachers danced (5)
- The movement
- Star Wars
- Audience involvement
- The way he involved the students - grades 1-8; his props, costumes, dances
- Interaction (2)
- Active participation
- Learning about costumes (2)
- Participating in the dancing/songs (2)
- Culture differences
- The stuff we learned (2)
- Pizza Hut song
- Music
- Larry is great!
- Exciting - good intro
- Educational
- Larry gets participation from everyone
- It was a program that was geared for all students K-6; all the students participated and enjoyed it, the K's as much as the 6thgraders.
- The kids were able to get up & move
- Kids had some opportunity to move/participate
- Interactive
- Song to start off the program
- I like the students learning about other cultures and the reasons why they dress differently
- The message of acceptance of different cultural practices
- Lessons taught
- Songs/movement
- Cultural exposure
What did you expect to experience or learn from this presentation? Were your expectations met?
- Learn new songs
- New words in Spanish
- I was unsure of what to expect, but was very entertained & learned a lot about different cultures as the students did too!
- I wasn't sure but it definitely went over the expectations
- Learn about our world
- Songs and dances (20)
- Yes (33)
- Bullying others (17)
- To see an animal in the program (3)
- People have lots
- Spanish (5)
- I loved it
- Cultural diversity
- How other people live in the world (2)
- Manners
- Magic
- To learn what farmers wear all over the world
- Expectations were met
- I expected it to be more talking & art work, but it was so much better than I ever expected.The kids loved it!!
- Diverse acceptance
- Saw examples of clothing from foreign countries
- About other cultures/diversity
- Fun
- Jully
- About songs and it met pretty good
- Good music
- It was on cultural diversity and acceptance of others; it consisted of examples of what other countries wear and why they wear these clothes, and how we should accept this and not make fun of them, we also learned songs from other countries (kids loved it)
- I had no idea what it was about (5)
- I didn't know what to expect - other than "motivational activities"
- How we may be a large world far apart from one another yet we have many things in common.We can appreciate our differences too.
What other programs would you like to see offered at the library?
- Anything cultural
- More multi-cultural programs
- Animal tricks
- How to make a mouse trap (10)
- Cooking (2)
- How to grow food
- Dirt bikes (2)
- WW II
- Army
- Sports (2)
- Comedy magic
- Newsboys (2)
- Anything musical
- Sewing
- What do animals eat
- Magicians (4) or animals (17)
- Pep fests
- Magic shows (12)
- Science (7)
- Authors (2)
- About wars (2)
- Crafts
- Dinosaur show (5)
- A play
- Comedian (2)
- About dogs
- Skate boarding
- About spiders and snakes
- People showing books (3)
- More programs about other countries
- Anything educational!
- Great speakers - music - culture
- More of other countries
- More of these types
- Cultural diversity
- Larry was very entertaining & kept the program moved - great crowd control.Anything to do with learning about other countries is good.That covers a lot, traditions, races...
- Puppet shows, dance trooper, magicians, storytellers, folk singers
Prior to this program, have you ever attended a program at the library or sponsored by the library? Yes (74) - No (28) How did you hear about the program?Program flier - 1Information/poster at the library - 3Information/poster in the community - 0Library newsletter - 0Library web site - 2Newspaper/magazine - 5Radio - 1Television - 2From library staff - 10From another person - 137 Check your age range: Birth to 5 (0), 6-17 (139), 18-54 (12), 55 and over (10)What is your zip code? 56548(1) - 56523(5) - 56634(61) - 5667 (2) - 56652(5) - 56601(2) - 56437(1) - 56654(1) - 56542 (1) - 56684(1) - 56644(18) - 56646(5) - 56560(1) - 56511(1) -58102 (2) - 58104(3) - 56656(5) - 56548(1) - 56560 (4) - 58103(1) Do you have a current library card? Yes - 70 No - 85 NA - 9 # of evaluations: 163