Promotion “Light green ribbon”.

2017 is the Year of Ecology in Russia. Therefore, much attention is paid to environmental education of children. The goal of environmental education is to teach people to appreciate nature, to get people interested in a range of environmental problems through a book, and to show how extensive the relationship between man and nature is.

For this purpose, a literary game “Earth - a planet of people” was held with children in the Demkinsky rural library. The event began with a dialogue about what it means to protect nature and what the Red Book is. The children were offered statements by famous writers about their native nature: K. G. Paustovsky, I. S. Turgenev, L. N. Leonov, A. M. Gorky, M. A. Sholokhov, etc., the librarian also spoke about beauty native land, reminded about caring for the surrounding world, advised to be observant and notice the beauty in everyday things. The children willingly participated in competitions: “Mysteries of flora and fauna”, where children answered environmental quiz questions, “Remember his name” (they guessed endangered animals from photographs), “It’s not for nothing that the proverb says” (they inserted missing words into proverbs about nature) , “Riddles - deceptions” (solved riddles about animals). At the end of the event, participants placed pictures of animals in their habitats on a large world map.

In the Dubovskaya rural library, an environmental tournament “Riddles in the forest at every step.” The ecological tournament was based on knowledge of the works of naturalist writers. Children from the senior class of Dubovskaya secondary school took part in it. The students, divided into two teams, answered quiz questions, guessed the encrypted names of animals, remembered “which branch are these babies from?”, and unanimously discussed the diversity of these birds. We learned interesting facts from the life of different forest inhabitants. The children got acquainted with materials from the book exhibition “Nature - the Muse of the Great”. The decisive point in the tournament was the competition for captains. At the end of the tournament, the teams were awarded diplomas.

During each event within the framework of the Year of Ecology, the librarian of the Vednovskaya Rural Library Larisa Fedoryuk strives to ensure that each participant realizes that he is a part of the Earth, makes him think about environmental problems, awakens a caring attitude towards every butterfly and dragonfly, every animal and bird, and ultimately in the end - to yourself.

“Take care of these lands, these waters,
I love even a small epic.
Take care of all animals within nature,
Kill only the beasts within you!”
E. Yevtushenko

The quiz game “Ecology and Us” began with these words, in which the children divided into two teams and came up with mottos for themselves. First, we did a warm-up, then moved on to completing competition tasks. The first competition was called “Forest Quiz”, in which children proved themselves to be forest experts. Then the children continued to play in such competitions as “Habitat” and “Pantomime”, where they proved themselves to be talented actors. There were many competitions and the children participated in them with pleasure. The final competition was “Ecological Disaster”. Its participants had to imagine themselves as rescuers and help small animals. The children showed courage, speed, dexterity, ability to handle victims, accuracy and precision. The game ended with the words of the Little Prince from the book of Saint-Exupery: “You got up in the morning, washed your face, put yourself in order - and immediately put the planet in order.” After such an educational event, I would like to hope that the children will take care of nature.

December 21 at the Rainbow Children's Ecological Library with the support of the Department Federal service On supervision in the field of environmental management (Rosprirodnadzor), a conference “The Year of Ecology in Pskov: summing up” was held in the Pskov region. This conference was a report on the environmental education activities carried out during the Year of Ecology. Representatives of environmental organizations and city libraries shared their experience and spoke about the work to increase environmental literacy of the population of the city and region, about their future plans, as well as about solving problematic issues existing in the environmental sphere.

The conference was opened by a performance by student of PTPL No. 22 Anna Pavlova (musical director Svetlana Nikolaevna Dmitrieva). Anna performed the compositions “The Heart of My Earth” and “The Light of Good”.
The acting guests and participants of the conference addressed a welcoming speech. Head of Rosprirodnadzor for the Pskov Region G.N. Polotsky and the head of the Rainbow library, O.V. Neznanova.
During the welcoming speech, certificates and letters of gratitude were presented to the participants and organizers of the conference, and the heroes of the library’s Internet project “Nature Defender’s Calendar” were also separately noted, who were presented with memorable souvenirs as a token of gratitude.

Alexandrova Irina Valentinovna, head of the department of legal, personnel, information-analytical and administrative-economic support of Rosprirodnadzor, said that by order of the Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Natural Resources dated December 30, 2016 No. 33-r, the Plan of Rosprirodnadzor for the implementation of the main activities for the Year was approved ecology in 2017
The Rosprirodnadzor Plan includes measures for the transition to a new system for organizing activities by constituent entities of the Russian Federation for the management of solid municipal waste, the formation of an information system for interaction between society and government bodies to identify, suppress and eliminate unauthorized waste disposal sites, holding the “All-Russian Ecological Subbotnik”, “Green” campaigns. Russia”, holding thematic environmental events, All-Russian environmental lessons, etc.

A significant event of the year was the Lettuce Ribbon festival. The festival was held jointly with the Nature Protection and Conservation Fund environment"Ecoculture". As part of the All-Russian Environmental Festival, the Office of Rosprirodnadzor, together with the Children's Environmental Library "Rainbow" and specialists from Pskov State University, conducted a virtual environmental excursion for schoolchildren around the Botanical Garden of Pskov. An important event was an Environmental lesson with high school students dedicated to International Earth Day. The organizer was the Rainbow Children's Ecological Library.
The purpose of this event was to form an environmental culture among schoolchildren and to foster a caring attitude towards nature.

Among the events important for the formation of environmental culture, Irina Valentinovna also named such events as the “Ecological Mosaic” Festival; Environmental lesson “Protection of water resources in the Pskov region”; Festival of children's museum programs "Pskov Kremlin - 2017"; Regional scientific and practical environmental conference “Wildlife areas of the Pskov region: libraries in the formation of environmental culture”; Round table “Preservation of the natural heritage of Pushkingorye”; Third annual international festival “Great River”; Round table dedicated to the Year of Ecology in Russia; Annual social campaign “Clean banks for water bodies”.

The topic of the speech by the head of the environmental department of ASPO LLC, Pavel Petrovich Shevchuk, was “Waste management in the territory of Pskov.” Pavel Petrovich spoke about the services provided by ASPO LLC, as well as how the technology for collecting, sorting, recycling and recycling waste has changed in recent years. Pavel Petrovich also drew the attention of the conference participants to the importance of city residents realizing the need for separate collection of solid household waste. Currently, according to the international independent non-governmental environmental organization Greenpeace (at the beginning of 2017), our city of Pskov ranks 11th in terms of the population’s accessibility to separate waste collection.

In order to form an environmental culture among city residents, ASPO LLC carries out educational work with city organizations and the media.
Much attention is paid to educational work with students of schools and universities. Employees of ASPO LLC are always welcome guests at the events of the Rainbow Children's Ecological Library. For example, this year the Rainbow Children's Ecological Library and ASPO LLC jointly took part in the network inter-library event “Eco-bag instead of a bag.” Of great interest to children of all ages are excursions to the waste processing complex in the village of Kotovo, which, by prior arrangement, can be visited by anyone.

All conference participants emphasized the importance of environmental education for children. In modern society, environmental culture should become as integral a part of every person’s daily life as compliance with traffic rules or a culture of communication.

The department of water resources of the Nevsko-Ladoga Water Resources Management Institution in the Pskov Region carries out a lot of work to develop children’s environmental culture. At the conference, Deputy Head of the Water Resources Department Ivanova Irina Aleksandrovna spoke about the organization and holding of a drawing competition dedicated to Water Day “The World of Water through the Eyes of Children.”

Irina Vladimirovna Stolova, head of the marketing sector for library and information services at the Rainbow Children's Ecological Library, spoke about environmental studies in libraries during her speech. Environmental education in general and environmental studies in particular are important areas of the library’s work. In 2017, many mass environmental and local history events were held, many of which took place thanks to effective cooperation with environmental organizations of the city and region. A large layer of materials of an environmental and local history nature is posted on the children's local history website “Get to know your native land.” The main content of the site is fascinating local history excursions around Pskov and the Pskov region, during some of which you can get acquainted with the unique flora and fauna of the Pskov region. And in the “Fascinating local history reading” section you can get acquainted with all the new books that, one way or another, relate to environmental issues. The main book of the section is the “Red Book of the Pskov Region”. This year, the staff of the Rainbow Library developed an adapted bibliographic manual with game elements “To the Pskov guys about rare animals”. The manual is available in paper and electronic form; you can get acquainted with the electronic version of the publication in the children's section of the website of the Central Library System of Pskov.

In 2017, the library became a GRAND PRIX laureate of the regional competition “Green Library. In addition to the above-mentioned manual, the winners of the competition in various categories were the series of video materials “Bird of the Year” and the project “Calendar of Nature Defenders”, the participants of which were representatives of environmental and environmental organizations of the city. The project is aimed at improving the status of books and reading among young readers, as well as developing an ecological culture among child readers. Since the project gained great popularity among readers and library users, it was decided to continue it in 2018. Next year, the project will function not only in the virtual space, but will also be embodied in reality in the form of meetings with its heroes. The Rainbow Library invites all interested parties to participate in the project.

Burova Nastasya Georgievna, head of the department of information and communication technologies of the Central City Hospital of Pskov, told conference participants about environmental education in the virtual space of libraries in the city of Pskov. The topic of her speech was “Pskov Libraries - to help environmental education. Electronic guide “Parks, gardens and squares of Pskov”. In her report, Nastasya Georigievna spoke about some of the most interesting and important environmental resources on the website of the Central Library of Pskov, which were created and are being created by employees of libraries in Pskov not only in the Year of Ecology, but also over the past few years. Among them are such resources as a resource about the Polistovsky State Nature Reserve; excursion for the youngest readers “In the footsteps of fairy-tale frogs”; media magazine “Cats and cats under a book cover”; information resource-presentation “Pine is the green symbol of the Pskov region”, etc. Nastasya Georgievna also spoke about what work is being done on the blog “Discover your native land” and what materials posted on the site are the most popular. As part of the Year of Ecology, on the children's interactive website “Reading New Books in a New Way,” Pskov libraries launched the “Reader’s Eco-Calendar” project, within which libraries offered readers to get acquainted with books by modern writers dedicated to nature and its inhabitants. The project won the regional competition “Green Library”, organized by the Pskov Regional Universal Scientific Library in the Year of Ecology, and received a 1st degree Laureate Diploma in the “Web Resource” category. And another important project to which the attention of the conference participants was drawn is the project “Parks, gardens and public gardens of Pskov”, concluding the Year of Ecology. The project was implemented by all 11 libraries of our central library with the support of the Municipal Economy Department of the Pskov City Administration and the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Pskov State University.
Currently, the preliminary result of the project has been the publication of an electronic guide “Parks, gardens and public gardens of the city of Pskov”, which is posted on the main website of the Central Bank and on the official website of the city of Pskov in the section “Hansa-2019”.

Interesting environmental and educational work is carried out by employees of the Federal State Budgetary Institution Sebezhsky National Park. Irina Alekseevna Shutova, a specialist in environmental education and tourism, spoke about the development of ecological tourism in the region using the example of the Sebezhsky National Park. The Ozeryavki Ecological and Educational Center operates on the territory of the national park; Several ecological trails have been developed (“Big Grebel”; “Forest Tale”; transboundary ecological trail “Trade Route of Merchant Novinsky”), which are very popular among tourists; The Visitor Center “Wetlands of Sebezh Poozerie” operates; There are campsites on the territory of the national park.

Great attention is paid to environmental education and dissemination of environmental ideas among the younger generation by the staff of the Polistovsky Reserve. Svetlana Aleksandrovna Nikitina, a specialist in environmental education at the Polistovsky State Nature Reserve, spoke about her rich experience in the field of environmental education. The environmental and educational activities of the reserve include eco-lessons; environmental actions; research activities, as well as interaction with teachers. In 2017, significant events were: “We Clean the World”, “Feed the Birds in Winter”, “Bird Day”, “Save Green Spruce”, “Stop the Plastic Bag”, “Stop Spring Fires”, “Plant a Tree”; Children's hiking trip "Spring"; Conference dedicated to Wetlands Day; eco-holiday “Volunteer Day”. The reserve's staff is open to cooperation and gladly accepts invitations to take part in outdoor events. This year they became guests of our library and had a fascinating virtual tour of the reserve.

All conference participants noted the importance of such events, joint work plans for 2018 were outlined and new partnerships were established.

“Here people stood like rocks / Here life conquered death.”

On December 8, the Rainbow Children's Ecological Library opened a series of events “Here people stood like rocks / Here life defeated death,” dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the defeat of the Nazi troops by Soviet troops in the Battle of Stalingrad. At loud readings "The Burning Pages of Stalingrad" young readers learned the main events of the Battle of Stalingrad of 1942-1943, which became the largest event of the Second World War and marked the beginning of a turning point in the fighting in the Great Patriotic War.

Readers were introduced to two stories by Sergei Alekseev from the series “Great Battles of the Great Patriotic War”: “The Battle of Stalingrad. 1942-1943". The author is a famous children's writer, a participant in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. His works “Danko”, “Not a Step Back!” - evidence of the courage and heroism of Russian soldiers who gave their lives, but did not let the enemy through. The stories and soundtrack to the film “Stalingrad” encouraged listeners to express their views on the war.

At the book exhibition, children got acquainted with various publishing houses of works by S. Alekseev and other authors who describe the events of the Battle of Stalingrad. Readers became interested in book illustrations. It was decided that at the next meeting in January, children will take part in competitions: poems “To the feat of arms of Stalingrad to live through the ages and verses,” drawings and illustrations “I proclaim the glory of Stalingrad.”

Thematic meetings for Mother's Day

Every year on the last Sunday of November a wonderful holiday is celebrated - Mother's Day.

From November 20 to 26, thematic meetings dedicated to Mother's Day were held at the Rainbow Children's Ecological Library. During the week, the library was decorated with a vernissage of children's creative works, “Mom is the most important word in every destiny.” During the program, little readers got acquainted with Irina Tskhai’s book “How a Little Insect Looked for Its Mother.” The children enjoyed listening to the book read, empathized with the main character, and also became acquainted with various types insects At the end of the event, the children read poems dedicated to their mother.

The culmination of the week was a holiday program for mothers who are active users of the library. Two skits were performed for the guests of the holiday - “Family” and “Day of Helping Parents”, and congratulations were performed by young readers of the library. During the event, mothers were invited to take part in fun competitions: “Fun Cooking”, “Car Rally”, “Find the Child on the Palm of Your Hand”. Then the children read Ubayt Rajab’s poem “Mom” in chorus and got acquainted with other works about mother from the book exhibition “Mom is a dear word.”
At the end of the holiday, musical compositions about mothers were performed by the guest of the holiday and letters of gratitude were presented to the most active mothers participating in the life of the library.

Campaign "Week of Kindness"

From November 14 to 21, the “Week of Kindness” was held at the Rainbow Children's Ecological Library. The action was initiated by the Centralized Library System of Yelets. This year our library took part in this All-Russian interlibrary event for the third time. Therefore, participation in the event can be considered a truly good tradition.

The task of the Week of Kindness is to convey to each participant the principles of tolerance, talk about mercy, introduce or remind the rules of etiquette, develop a conscious desire to be kind in the most in a broad sense this word.

Traditionally, each day of Kindness Week in our library was dedicated to a separate topic.

On November 14, on the “Day of Open Hearts”, the library had an open cinema hall, where readers were able to watch and discuss episodes from films that teach empathy, mercy, love (G. Troepolsky “White Beam Black Ear”, E. Porter “Pollyanna”, V. Zheleznyakov “Scarecrow”, J. London “White Fang”).

On November 15, on the “Day of Reader's Joy,” readers and library users were introduced to the virtual exhibition “Kindness, Love and Other Medicines...”, which presented books about the healing power of kindness, joy and love for teenagers. And for the youngest readers there was a game program “Fun Starts with Book Characters.” Young readers took an extraordinary journey through fairy tales, where interesting tasks awaited them. In a playful way, the children had fun helping fairy-tale characters: Pinocchio answer tricky questions, Baba Yaga find her broom, Puss in Boots defeat the cannibal giant.

On the “Day of Responsibility,” November 16, which was held under the motto “To Health with a Book,” an exciting thematic meeting was organized for senior schoolchildren with a volunteer from the public movement “Sober Russia Pskov.” The coordinator of the federal project “Sober Russia” Yakovlev Dmitry Aleksandrovich told the event participants about how health will help you achieve success in life and achieve your goals. During the meeting, Dmitry Alexandrovich also spoke about the creation of the project and explained what their work was. The guys shared their successes in sports and in promoting a healthy lifestyle. There was a viewing of the video film “Sober Russia”, which very clearly and convincingly showed the harmfulness of alcohol and the consequences of its use. The meeting took place in a very positive and friendly atmosphere; it was clear that the guys were not indifferent to what was told and shown to them. The positive attitude was reinforced by joint photography and the presentation of commemorative printed materials to the guests and participants of the event.

November 17 and 20 were held under the motto “Day of Good Deeds!” These days became the days of forgiven books; a pleasant surprise was that on these days the library received books as gifts from its readers.

The final event of the “Week of Kindness” on the “day of miracles and discoveries” and World Greetings Day was a meeting with Pskov writer Tatyana Ryzhova, who introduced young readers to stories from the collection “To the Biology Teacher with Love.”

At the meeting with the guys, Tatyana Semyonovna also talked about how she decided to become a writer, what prompted her to write poems, how poetry and stories are written. The children asked Tatyana Semyonovna many questions; they were interested in everything - from how poems are created to the question of who comes up with illustrations for them. At the end of the event, the author shared with the children her thoughts about good children's books and gave examples of books that she herself liked at their age, among them books by Viktor Dragunsky, Y. Tomin’s book “A Wizard Walked Through the City”, N. Nosov’s “Dunno in Solnechny” city”, James Crews “Tim Thaler, or Sold Laughter”. The event ended with a joint photograph and mutual wishes that this meeting would not be the last. Tatyana Semyonovna also donated several of her books with autographs to the library.

Campaign “Read D.N. Mamin-Sibiryak"

On November 7, the “Rainbow” Children’s Ecological Library held the event “Reading D.N. Mom’s Sibiryak.” “The Parable of Milk, Oatmeal and Murka the Cat” was read to the participants of the event. Loud reading of the work alternated with various interactive tasks - a fairy-tale counting rhyme, attentiveness tasks, thematic physical education minutes using a fairy-tale plot.

After reading, the guys found out what is special about this and other fairy tales by Dmitry Narkisovich. For example, in this work there are no fictional heroes and all heroes - people, animals or objects - are endowed with the properties of animate objects. This is how Mamin-Sibiryak’s ordinary everyday scene turns into a real fairy tale.
The event ended with the creation of thematic bookmarks.

Meeting with specialists from the Polistovsky State Reserve

On October 24, at the Rainbow Children's Environmental Library, a meeting of young readers with environmental education specialists from the Polistovsky State Reserve, Svetlana Alexandrovna Nikitina and her colleague Ekaterina Yuryevna, took place.

Svetlana Aleksandrovna told the children what the reserve is and why people need it, what its functions are. The Polistovsky Nature Reserve protects not just plants and animals - it protects swamps. Some guys were indignant and said that swamps are just unnecessary dirt. But the guest told us what an important role swamps play in nature, how important these protected places are for people. The guys learned that swamps take away harmful carbon dioxide from the air, making it clean, and clean rivers, giving us clean and healthy water. And of course, many species of rare animals, plants, birds and insects are preserved in the reserve. The participants of the event saw with their own eyes how great the diversity of natural resources is in the Polistovsky State Reserve by watching a short film. After him, no one doubted that swamps were useful and necessary for people!

The Red Book of the Pskov Region was also presented to the children. The Red Book of the Pskov Region is a long-awaited gift for our city (30 months (3.5 years) were allotted for the creation of the book. This is the main book that tells about the flora and fauna of the Protected Places of the Pskov Region. The Red Book of the Pskov Region was published in 2014 , this is an official document containing a summary of information about the status, distribution, measures to protect rare and endangered species of wild animals, wild plants and other organisms living in the Pskov region.

Having answered all the children’s questions, the guests presented all participants with small memorable gifts - information booklets about the different inhabitants of the reserve. And they invited everyone to visit - visit the reserve, walk along the ecological trail and see with your own eyes that swamps can also be a wonderful place!

All-Russian Reading Day

The children from the preparatory group of MBDOU "Kindergarten No. 41" got acquainted with new books in the "Hranimir" series, donated by Moscow children's writer Elena Zhurek.

The children were read the second book in the series “Keepers. Big fire."
The children listened very carefully to the fairy tale and each of them imagined themselves in the place of the guardian - a defender of nature. After reading the book, everyone began to discuss the interesting and instructive fairy tale. Preschoolers actively recalled the rules of behavior in nature, environmental problems and what this leads to. The young readers really liked the book and decided to come to the library so that they could read the continuation of the fairy tale about the Khranimirs.

Information and educational hour “Shaggy stories”

On October 4, World Animal Day, the Rainbow Children's Ecological Library held an informational and educational hour “Shaggy Stories” for young readers.

A bibliographic review of fiction about cats and dogs introduced children to famous authors and their works that teach us kindness, sensitivity and friendship. This is the story of Yuri Koval “Scarlet”, the book “Kysh and Dvaportfelya” by Yuz Aleshkovsky, the story of Fyodor Knorre “Salty Dog” and Gabriel Troepolsky “White Bim, Black Ear”, as well as new items of modern literature.

Then young readers became acquainted with the concept of “animal therapy” - treatment with the help of animals, and learned about the healing abilities of animals such as dolphins, horses, dogs and cats.

And the most long-awaited performance was the performance of four-legged friends under the leadership of Elena Balykova, head of the Pskov branch of the Community for the Support and Development of Canis Therapy. The four-legged pets surprised everyone present with various tricks taught by school trainers. The children received a real session of animal therapy. In conclusion, the Rainbow library donated gifts from readers to Zooprotection - collected food for homeless animals.

Book show
"Children's book on the podium"

On September 28, a book defile was held for young readers at the Rainbow Children's Ecological Library, where wonderful books were presented that our grandmothers and mothers read with pleasure. These children's books were included in the IBBY Honor List from 1970 to 2016 as part of the All-Russian campaign “Children's Book on the Pedestal of Honor.”

The campaign is carried out by the Association “Raising Readers” together with the Children's Book Council of Russia (IBBY Russia). The participants in the event were books nominated for an international children's literary award, which definitely speaks to the quality of the books and the high value of their texts, artwork or translation. The organizers of the event tried to draw attention to the award-nominated books written by Russian authors, illustrated by Russian artists, or translated from other languages ​​into Russian by translators from Russia.
The start of the “Children’s book on the podium” campaign took place on June 1, 2017, on International Children’s Day, and the campaign will end on December 1, 2017.

Our “book fashion show” began with an acquaintance with Roman Sef’s book “Brave Flower”. The nice, neat, smart and sonorous poem “The Butterfly and the Bee” took off and disappeared into the souls of young readers.

Then the next book appeared on the “podium” - Sergei Ivanov’s “Winter Girl”. The stories of this author make us kinder, more merciful to people and to all living things. They discover in us a happy ability - the ability to observe nature. Reading aloud an excerpt from the story “The Uncaught Hedgehog” captivated the readers with the story and the children wanted to know how the story would end.

The next book – Stanislav Vostokov’s “Winter Door”, with its miniature stories, opened the door to the wonderful world of rural nature. And various oddities and quiet miracles, without which the village cannot exist. For example, in the story “Cat in a Bucket,” a huge gray cat can live not in the house or in the yard, but in a bucket that hangs on a birch tree. He sleeps during the day, and at night he gets out and goes about his cat business. This story surprised the children.

Marina Moskvina’s book “My Dog Loves Jazz” is simply a fun “Jumble”, which is unusually illustrated by the artist Vladimir Burkin.

The next book is Viktor Golyavkin “Veselchaki”. His funny stories feature ordinary girls and boys with whom various funny stories happen at school and at home. And the artist V. Galdyaev brightly complemented the humorous plots and images of young characters.

Reading aloud the stories “Carousel in the Head” and “How I Wrote Poems” captivated the children so much that they wanted to dramatize them.

At the end of the event, young readers came to the unanimous opinion that all the books presented were worthy of the highest awards and a place of honor on the podium.

Information Day
“Come into the green house, you will see miracles in it”

On September 27, the Rainbow Children's Ecological Library hosted an Information Day “Come into a green house, you will see miracles in it.” It is in September that forest workers – forest rangers – celebrate their professional holiday.

During the event, students of PTPL No. 22 made a correspondence trip to the “green house” and learned how to behave correctly in the forest. To do this, we played the game “You can - you can’t”, listened to and discussed the story by V. Sukhomlinsky “Ashamed before the nightingale.”

The guys also learned what gifts the forest kingdom gives us, read the poem by Samuil Marshak “What are we planting when we plant forests?”, enjoyed the sounds of the forest and beautiful forest landscapes by watching a slide show by photographer Pyotr Kosykh “The Soul of Russia”. And the guys also visited "Glade of Tears", heard the complaints of forest inhabitants and looked at the Red Book of the Pskov region. And, of course, a bibliographic review of books took place - the guys remembered naturalist writers, whose books teach to love and take care of forests, animals, nature: Mikhail Prishvin, Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak , Nikolai Sladkov, Vitaly Bianki. Of particular interest was Boris Vasiliev’s book “Don’t Shoot White Swans", which tells about people who live next to the taiga. But some heroes treat the taiga as a friend, take care of it, while other heroes think only about profit, about profit, they take nature’s gifts, leaving nothing in return.

The event ended with a joint reading of E. Shklovsky’s poem “Take care of us, take care of us!”

Meeting with Tatyana Bering

On September 13, a meeting with Tatyana Bering took place at the Rainbow Children's Ecological Library as part of the All-Russian literary festival “Book Apple Tree”.

Tatyana told the children about the history of the festival, its goals and objectives, and presented in detail the most modern ways of promoting books and reading among children and teenagers. This is the creation of book trailers, video reviews of the book, quest games based on the book and dramatization of the book. The meeting took place in the form of a dialogue, the guys talked about their personal experience of using all the listed methods, and answered Tatyana’s questions about what books they like to read. In response, we learned new interesting facts about our favorite writers - for example, that Natalya Shcherba is not only a writer, but also an athlete, and she practices wushu professionally.

We hope that at our event both children and adults received a charge of inspiration, because reading is tasty and healthy!

Game program “Journey from A to Z”

On September 1, the Rainbow Children's Ecological Library hosted the game program “Journey from A to Z” for library readers.

Today, on Knowledge Day, the library received a magical telegram from the Queen from the Land of Knowledge, addressed to library readers: “Hello, guys! I hasten to congratulate you on your first day of school and invite you on a journey through the Land of Knowledge from “A” to “Z”! Your Queen Lands of Knowledge!"

After reading the telegram, the guys set off on a fun little train from Romashkovo on a journey through the stations. But since this journey is unusual, then we encountered unusual – magical stations. Along the route, all tasks had to be completed, and at the end of the journey, all the children were in for a surprise.

The first station was the “Literary Ring”, here the children were asked to remember stories and fairy tales about school. The second station was “The Magic City of Pskov,” where readers answered questions and played the “Memory” game about Pskov. The third station was “Ecological Riddles”, where the participants of the event guessed riddles on environmental topics.

At the end of the event, the Queen from the Land of Knowledge prepared a surprise for all participants - watching the cartoon “In the Land of Unlearned Lessons” based on the work of art by L. Geraskina “In the Land of Unlearned Lessons”.

Mercy campaign for the Day of Protection of Homeless Animals

Every third Saturday in August is celebrated as International Day for the Protection of Stray Animals. This year the fifth anniversary of the Mercy Action took place. For five years in a row, the Rainbow Children's Ecological Library has been holding a Mercy Action together with the Pskov public organization Zooprotection. The promotion started on August 1 and lasted until August 18.

Library staff created a thematic exhibition entitled “We are responsible for those we have tamed.” These words were once said by the famous French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. During the event, children, their parents and simply concerned citizens brought food, medicine, vitamins, toys, collars, leashes, shampoos, litter, houses and beds. All funds collected during the campaign will be donated to public organization"Zoo protection" Pskov. For the participants of the action, a mini-film “Sawmill” was shown about the Pskov shelter for homeless animals, about the difficult but noble work of the employees of this shelter, and its inhabitants - dogs, cats, who so lack the most important thing - a loving Owner.

The event participants also listened to the story of the Pskov writer Tatyana Ryzhova “The Dog Who Didn’t Want to Live,” which evoked a great emotional response from the children.

The purpose of the action is not only to raise essential funds for homeless dogs and cats, but also to create an environmental culture and popularize books and magazines about animals. And the main thing is to instill in the younger generation a sense of responsibility, love, and mercy. We hope that this action did not pass without a trace for our readers.

Meeting for the 165th anniversary of the Russian writer D. N. Mamin-Sibiryak

This year marks the 165th anniversary of the birth of the wonderful Russian prose writer and playwright Dmitry Narkisovich Mamin-Sibiryak. The children's ecological library "Rainbow" connected this anniversary with the creative workshop "Visiting a Fairy Tale" for young reading friends. The children learned a short biography of Mamin-Sibiryak and the history of writing the most beloved children's works, “Alyonushka's Fairy Tales.”

How are books created? Guest Evgenia Matveeva, a student at the St. Petersburg Art Academy, spoke about this. A young illustrator suggested doing some creative work to create an initial letter for Alyonushka’s Tales. A capital letter, or initial, is a large letter, different from the others, the first letter of a chapter, section or an entire book.

In handwritten books, initial letters were often decorated with miniatures and ornaments. In early printed books, colored initial letters continued to be written in by hand. In ancient printed books, multi-type initial letters were used for a long time to begin a new text, which were replaced by simple letters in the form of ordinary typeface, but with an enlarged size. Children easily identified the initial letters from the texts of children's local history literature, in the fairy tales of Mamin-Sibiryak. Then, based on excerpts from “Alyonushka’s Tales,” we chose templates for future initial letters. The creative process captivated young readers. Everyone showed imagination, artistic ability and hard work.

The creative workshop does not finish its work, because you can create miracles by creating your own books at home. Go ahead, young talents!

Reading marathon "Reading about Pskov"

On July 20, a reading marathon based on the book by Pskov local historian Yuri Stepanov “Legends and Traditions of the Pskov Region” started in children’s libraries in the city of Pskov. The first event as part of the reading marathon took place at the Rainbow Children's Ecological Library, which opened with poems by Pskov poets about their hometown.

A review of the book exhibition “To be a great and glorious city here” introduced participants to local history literature for children and teenagers. During the event, the children got acquainted with the book by Yu. Stepanov “Legends and Traditions of the Pskov Region”. First, young readers discussed the meaning of the term “legend”, and then found answers to the questions: Who was the first to reign in Izborsk? Who founded Pskov and Porkhov? Why is the path of the Pskov-Pechersky Monastery called “Bloody”, and the largest chambers of Pskov are called Pogankins? How were the people of Pskov saved from the wrath of Ivan the Terrible? What is hidden in the underground of the Thundering Tower?..

Legends about Izborsk, Pechory, Pushkinogorye and Pskov in the literary processing of Yuri Stepanov provide answers to all these questions. All of them are presented in accessible literary language, so that even the youngest readers could get acquainted with the history of their native land.

Reading aloud the legend “The Founding of Pskov” gave the children a literary and artistic understanding of how the ancient city, the ancestor of which is considered to be Princess Olga.

The event participants also got acquainted with the illustrations of Sergei Volodin, which vividly complement the epic narrative.

Then, during the discussion, young readers determined where in the legends there is historical fact, and where there is fiction and exaggeration.

At the end of the event, the children completed interactive tasks. In the game “On the Boat”, using a schematic map, we made a water journey from the Gremyachaya Tower to Pokrovskaya. In the game “Pskov Alphabet” the children had to use a book exhibition to find a word for each letter of the alphabet that was connected with the history of Pskov. Each participant in the event was also able to try on different costumes and take a photo as a souvenir.

"Wonderful stories about the Pechora land"

On July 12, at the Rainbow Children's Ecological Library, young readers took a virtual trip “Wonderful stories about the Pechora land.” The journey began with the book exhibition “Milestones in the History of the Pskov Land,” where the children became acquainted with local history literature on the history of their small homeland.

Then the guys continued to travel through the pages of the new book “Wonderful Stories about the Pechora Land” by the Pskov author - candidate of philological sciences, associate professor, member of the Writers' Union of Russia and the International Association of Writers and Publicists, translator Tatyana Semyonovna Ryzhova.

One of the book heroes helped us travel - the Tower of the Lower Grids. With the help of the Tower, the children studied the diagram of the Pechora fortress presented on the book pages. Then young readers learned a brief history of the Pskov-Pechora (Uspensky) Monastery.

Reading aloud a passage from the book captivated me with an interesting legend about the appearance of caves. The children happily leafed through the colorful pages and continued reading on their own. Interactive tasks involved readers in the history of the ancient Pskov land.

Creative workshop "Ekosamodelkin"

On June 23, a creative workshop called “Eco-modelkin” was held at the Rainbow Children's Ecological Library.

In the first part of the event, the children watched with interest a film about the ASPO LLC enterprise and its successful activities in the fight against garbage. While watching the video, the event participants discovered that sorted and recycled plastic bags and film are used in the production of polymer sand paving slabs. Then the children were shown a sample of tiles that are used in the improvement of the city of Pskov.

And in the second part of the event, the children got acquainted with the book exhibition “The Second Life of Things”, where not only books, but also crafts were presented. After all, if you turn on your imagination, then something simple and unnecessary can be turned into a useful and beautiful thing. And the guys were able to verify this by watching the cartoon “It’s All in the Hat,” based on Tove Jannson’s book “The Wizard’s Hat.”

The team of the Rainbow Children's Ecological Library thanks ASPO LLC for providing a video about the process of processing household waste and its recycling, as well as for a sample of paving slabs.

"Visiting the brownie Kuzi"

On June 21, at the Rainbow Children's Ecological Library, a game program “Visiting the Little Brownie Kuzy” was held for readers, dedicated to the 45th anniversary of Tatyana Alexandrova’s book “The Brownie Kuzka.”

During the event, the children visited the brownie and learned that brownies always live in every house, they bring happiness to the house, protect it from all misfortunes, fires, protect the house and support the family hearth. The brownie is a kind creature, but with character, he loves when he is treated like a human being. Domovoy got his name from the place where he was born, lived and worked. He looks different: sometimes he will appear in the guise of the owner of the house - you can’t tell the difference, sometimes he will appear as a gray-haired old man with a face completely overgrown with hair, or even pretend to be a broom or a cat.

Brownie Kuzya loves to play and prepared a game “warm and cold”, “magic chest”, and a video quiz “The book is friends with the cartoon” for the participants of the event.

At the end of the event, the children got acquainted with Tatyana Alexandrova’s books about Kuzya.

Ecological game
"I'm friends with the daisy, the bird and the bug"

On June 16, employees of the Rainbow Children's Ecological Library held an on-site event for children from a health camp at the Municipal Budgetary Educational Institution “Secondary School No. 16 named after Hero of Russia Alexei Vorobyov.”

The guys went on an exciting journey on the magical “locomotive from Romashkovo”. During the journey, the train and the children made four stops at stations. At the first station, “Tsvetochnaya,” the children guessed riddles about the flowers that can be found in courtyards, parks, and public gardens in our city.

The second station is “Medicinal”, where the children collected unusual puzzles that introduced them to the medicinal plants of our region. Also at this station the children were treated to a mini-review of books about plants.

The third station was called "Paws and Tails". Here the children got acquainted with the rules of behavior in nature, learned how to behave correctly so as not to harm animals and birds. To consolidate the acquired knowledge, the children were asked to play the “Yes or No” game; books helped the children find the correct answers.

The last station the guys visited was the Gribnaya station. A fun and energetic game accompanied by music helped the children remember all the mushrooms that can be found in our forests, and also find out which of them can be collected and which cannot.
After this, the children got acquainted with the literature about the flora and fauna of our region presented at the exhibition.

Promotion “Light green ribbon”

June 5, World Ecologist Day, at the Rainbow Children's Ecological Library as part of All-Russian Ecological Children's Festival The “Light Ribbon” campaign took place - this is one of the brightest and largest events of the Year of Ecology in the country. The festival united two big holidays - World Environment Day and Ecologist's Day.

Guests of the event were our long-time partners, employees of Rosprirodnadzor, as well as Associate Professor of the Department of EGP at Pskov State University, Candidate of Biological Sciences Natalya Valerievna Nedospasova. Natalya Valerievna told the event participants about plants that are unconventional for our climate zone and grow in the Pskov Botanical Garden.

During the event, the guys also tried to find answers to the questions:
- What are plants?
- Can plants be called living organisms?
- How do plants differ from animals?
- What do we know about plants?
- Do trees talk?
- What is harmful and what is beneficial for plants?
- What fairy tales are dedicated to plants and what is true and what is fiction in them?

All event participants received a light green ribbon and a bag of seeds as a sign of participation in the event.

A light green ribbon on clothes is a sign that we are trying to live eco-friendly, taking active decisions and actions to preserve the environment. The light green color was chosen for a reason - this bright and rich color of young foliage and summer greenery will charge everyone around with positive emotions, inspiring and encouraging action.
A bag of seeds is a simple and clear way to start helping nature right here and now.

Participation in the “Light Ribbon” campaign is a personal contribution to the conservation of nature and greening of our city.

Bad weather could not ruin our plans and our mood; using the resources of our website, we took a virtual (instead of the planned real) tour of the Botanical Garden.

During the excursion, the guys got acquainted with its history, saw what it looked like in the past, discussed what they would like to see in a modern summer garden, and learned about books that tell about the plants of our Pskov region.

“Book out loud: open the way to the green world!”

On June 5, in the Children's Ecological Library "Rainbow" as part of the Year of Ecology for pupils of MBDOU "Kindergarten No. 41" the event "Book out loud: open the way to a green world!" was held, which was dedicated to World Day environmental protection and Ecologist Day.

An interactive loud reading of M. Gorky’s book “Sparrow” was prepared for the children.

During the event, children got acquainted with the peculiarities of the lifestyle and behavior of sparrows, learned many interesting facts about these permanent inhabitants of our cities, and also got acquainted with the exhibition of books “About feathered friends, birds,” which presented popular science literature about birds for preschoolers .

After reading the work of M. Gorky, the children actively participated in the discussion of the story they had read and answered questions in unison.
The event ended with watching the cartoon “The Disheveled Sparrow” based on the story of the same name by K. Paustovsky.

Game program for Children's Day

On June 1, a festive event dedicated to International Children's Day and the opening of the 2017 summer readings took place in the courtyard of the Rainbow Children's Ecological Library. Pupils of kindergarten No. 41 became guests and active participants in the library game program.

During the game program, our little readers were transported to a magical fairy-tale kingdom, where a fun holiday was waiting for them. But the trouble is, the kingdom turned out to be bewitched by an evil sorceress, and its beautiful princess Smeshinka turned into the disgusting Boredom. But our guys were not at a loss, gathered their courage and saved the holiday. To do this, they had to work hard: the kids guessed riddles about fairy tales and fairy-tale characters, cooked Boredom soup, answered her tricky questions, guessed the contents of the fairy tale bag, did interesting exercises, and even led a circle dance of friendship, which helped to disenchant our princess.

The holiday ended with friendly hugs, poems and congratulations on the holiday on behalf of the library staff and candidate for the City Duma Ivanov Denis Olegovich, who gave the children sweet gifts, which made our holiday even brighter and more fun.

"Visiting the school"

On May 23, as part of the Year of Ecology, an employee of the Children's Ecological Library "Rainbow" visited students of the Osten secondary school (a branch of the MBOU "Piskovskaya secondary school"). At the request of the school administration, two events were prepared and held for elementary and high school students.

Children from primary school took a fascinating journey through the children's universe of Tatyana Rick's books, getting acquainted with book characters - Dozhdinka Inka, Dunyasha the caterpillar, Andrei the Sparrow and the Beehive snail.
The children completed the tasks that the book characters prepared for them - they put things in order in the seasons, correctly composed feathered puzzles, harvested fruits and vegetables, and returned the missing mushrooms to the forest clearing.

High school students learned what animal therapy is and how pets, dogs and cats, can be real healers. During the story about dolphin therapy, students listened to the songs of dolphins; the story about hippotherapy (treatment with horses) was accompanied by a loud reading of an excerpt from the book “Jumping in the Rhythm of the Sun,” as well as a short review of books about horses. The children also learned about such rare types of animal therapy as hirudotherapy (the use of leeches) and apitherapy (treatment with bees).
But the most important healing effect that we experience when communicating with our pets is love, joy and laughter, so the event for high school students ended with a short positive video about our little brothers.

In general, the visit to the Osten secondary school was lively and joyful, the children actively answered all questions and vying with each other asking to complete all the tasks. It was fun and educational.
We will be happy to visit our new friends again!

Literary lounge “Memory for the dead, inheritance for the living”

On May 5, an event dedicated to Victory Day was held at the Rainbow Children's Ecological Library. The literary lounge “Memory for the Dead, Inheritance for the Living” opened with the presentation of the exhibition “Road of Memory” by Pskov photographer Alexander Kalinin.

“Memory Road” is a series of photographs created with the participation of reenactors and search engines from the Ostrovsky Military History Museum. The uniqueness of the photo exhibition is that during its creation props, pillboxes and trenches from the times of the Great Patriotic War were used. Work on the exhibition took place on the Stalin Line in the Ostrovsky district. This exhibition allowed readers to be transported to that terrible and courageous time of heroes, look at the epoch-making event through the eyes of its participants. Alexander Kalinin shared how the idea to take photographs on the theme of the Great Patriotic War began, and what difficulties he had to face during photography. Together with the author of the exhibition, the event was also attended by one of the models who took part in the work on the exhibition, Elina Kalinina. Throughout the year, the author and his like-minded people continued their work on the photo exhibition, filming even in difficult weather conditions, in heat, rain, snow and cold.

During the event, the theme of the struggle for victory, expectation and unquenchable faith in victory was heard in the lines of the front-line poets, into whose destinies the war suddenly burst. Poets Yulia Drunina, Bulat Okudzhava, Konstantin Simonov, Veronika Tushnova, with their lines, are etched in the memory and remain in the souls of readers. Students' heartfelt reading of the lines of these authors makes young hearts listen with excitement to songs written based on the poets' poems. The book exhibition “Books are warriors, books are soldiers” made it possible to introduce readers to modern literature about the Great Patriotic War. All participants received bookmarks with a review of local history literature about the Great Patriotic War and St. George ribbons as a keepsake of the event.

The most emotional moment of the event was the speech of a WWII participant, veteran of the USSR Armed Forces - Ivan Iosifovich Medonchak. His name is included in the first volume of the Pskov regional publication “Soldiers of Victory”.
Ivan Iosifovich spoke about the first days of the war, about his service in the reserve 9th Infantry Division since 1944. The guys gratefully presented flowers to the veteran; congratulations on the Great Victory Day were also addressed to the veteran on behalf of the candidate for deputy of the Pskov City Duma, Ivanov Denis Olegovich, and the library staff.

Creative festival “For a Clean Coast!”

In the Year of Ecology, we continue to delight our readers with new interesting events, exhibitions and competitions. Thus, on April 26, the creative festival “For a Clean Coast!” was held at the Rainbow Children's Ecological Library. During the event, a ceremonial award ceremony for the winners of the environmental poster competition of the same name took place, organized by the Pskov regional environmental public movement “For a Clean Coast” and our library.

From April 20 to 26, an exhibition of works by competition participants was organized within the library. We are pleased to note that a large number of children turned out to be partial to environmental issues and nature conservation. Children from eight schools in our city took part in the competition. These were both students from schools in our microdistrict and students from other microdistricts, these are schools 9, 4, 16, 18, as well as a boarding school.

The most active participants in the competition were students from schools 20, 21 and 18. There were even two kindergartens among the participants. For all guests, poems about the protection of nature were read, the authors of which were children - readers of our library. After the poetic congratulations, Daria Vasilyeva, a representative of the Pskov regional environmental public movement “For a Clean Coast”, spoke about her work, how the competition was held, how difficult it was to choose the jury best works out of 76 submitted to the competition, and why it is so important and necessary for children to participate in events and competitions whose theme is ecology and nature conservation. Then the most pleasant part of the festival took place - the ceremonial awarding of the winners of the environmental poster competition “For a Clean Coast!”

3. Zharinov Dmitry 18 school. 4A
2. Martynova Daria 9 school. 3B
1. Smirnov Danila 16 school. 3A

Also, 2 works were additionally awarded: for artistic expressiveness - Angelov Kirill, 1B class. EML No. 20, for the originality of the presentation of the material - Mikhail Borisov, 3A class. 21 shk.

As it turned out during the conversation, the guys love not only to draw, but also to read. They recognized their favorite books from excerpts from cartoons, and easily named the full names of the books and their authors - this is how the cartoon quiz took place, which ended the creative festival. And at the very end, another surprise awaited all the guests - sweet gifts from the candidate for deputy of the Pskov City Duma, Ivanov Denis Olegovich. He thanked all the festival participants, advised them to read more books, participate in new competitions, help nature, and presented sweet gifts.