Earlville Public Library District

 

 

Welcome to our Wednesdays with Harry Program!!

 

This seven week program was aimed for children grades K-5th to experience the magical world of Harry Potter! We met every Wednesday after school from 3:15 p.m - 4:30 p.m. 

 

We read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

This book is written by J.K Rowling.

 

Below we wil go, week by week, giving details on what we did and the supplies needed.  When doing certain things, we seperated by K-2 and 3rd-5th. Things below will be SPECIFIED on what age group did what. 

 

Thank you for being so interested in this program,

lets watch the magic begin. 

 

 

 

 

 

WEEK ONE: GETTING TO KNOW HOGWARTS 

 

 

Walk in Activity: Hogwarts Ties (ALL GRADES)

 

• Print out Hogwarts Ties on Cardstock.

• Hand out one tie to each child. 

• Ask them to think about the different houses (We had banners hanging around in the library) and choose the colors they like best and model their ties after that house. This is a good time to discuss the different traits of each house.

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Together Time: Intro To Hogwarts (ALL GRADES)

 

Take a moment while everyone is together to discuss what Hogwarts is like.

 

• Classes: Herbology, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Transfiguration, Potions...Etc. 

 

• Houses: Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Gryffindor, and Slytherin. 

 

• The Game of Quidditch

 

• Learn how to be a Witch or Wizard   

 

 

 

House Sorting: The Sorting Hat (ALL GRADES) 

 

• Predetermine which participants will be in which houses.

         We wrote their names on the outside of a folded piece of                    paper. Then, on the inside, we listed the house they were                  chosen for and two traits from that house to annouce on                    behalf of The Sorting Hat.

 

• Encourage the audience to clap and encourage participants after they have been sorted.  

 

 

 

Reading Chapters 1-4: (K-2nd) read seperatly from (3rd-5th)

 

• Use the images for the storyboard to describe what happens in chapters 1-3

• Read Chapter 4

• Discuss with participants the opportunity to earn points for their "houses" by completing their reading challenges. Let them know they will have a challenge sheet each week that lists several chapters that they are responsible for reading on their own, or having somone read to them. If they have their reading challenge signed by an adult and returned, he/she will earn 50 points for his/her house! 

 

 

Wizard Craft/Activity: Herbology - planting mandrakes. 

 

• Hand out one knee high stocking to each participant. 

• Set out a few bowls of grass seed, some packets of flower/herb seeds, and some dirt. 

• Ask participants to roll down their stocking so they can get to the toe.

• Instruct students to empty the contents of one seed packet into the toe of their stocking. 

• Then, scoop two scoops of grass seed into the toe of the sock. 

• Next, using a plastic cup, dump 2-ish cup-fulls of potting soil into the toe.

• Press everything firmly into the toe. (It should resemble a little potato)

• Tie the stocking at the base of the dirt.

• Leaving a 3 or 4 inch tail, trin any excess stocking.

• Set the mandrake in the pot so that the knot is on the bottom.

• Glue on some google eyes.

• Water so that mandrake is left standing in 1 inch of water. 

• Keep watered during the weeks so that 1 inch of water is always present. 

 

 

Snack: Trail Mix

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WEEK 2: ROBE CEREMONY

 

 

Walk-In Activity: Tend to Mandrakes (ALL GRADES)

 

• Water your mandrake

• Fill out mandrake caretaker form that requires the following details

  • ​Mandrakes Name

  • Mandrakes state of progress

  • List of daily duties for mandrake

    • ​Water

    • Give encourangement 

 

 

Together Time: House Points

 

Award points to houses for any completed challenges.

 

 

Robe Ceremony: House Official

 

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