Hello, Heidi: I have a few thoughts... we definitely all have different comfort levels with covid. At our preschool, all kids and staff are masked - even if the masks are not a perfect fit on younger children. For me, I feel protected with my mask on and 3 vaccines and feel i'm taking an informed low risk in terms of exposure and low level illness if I do get it - perhaps that's a false sense of security but for me, it seems reasonable. But that's once a week, not every day.
I do read stories with my mask on and don't seem to have a problem. I believe you should wear a mask in person or at least a shield. I can generally project well and be animated pretty well even with the mask on but i'm only doing it once a week. I find cloth masks much more comfortable. When I did storytime on zoom last year, I spotlighted my face but pointed an external camera at the book page or used ebooks so that the pictures were nice and close. I also only read for 10-15 minutes, shorter periods of time than in-person. I do not find it as satisfying personally when the camera is not close enough to the illustrations and text when I observe other storytimes, which I would think could be the same for young children unless you are really super dramatic and able to hold the book up to the camera (which i have trouble doing). But for some reason, seeing someone reading while sitting in a chair onscreen - i do not feel a connection. Not sure if that's a helpful suggestion or not. Maybe you can compromise on in-person once a week and zoom the other days. Good luck and happy chanukah! Toby On Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 2:52 PM Heidi Rabinowitz via Hasafran < [email protected]> wrote: > I'm the librarian in a large synagogue preschool and this year I've been > doing storytime with classes over Zoom (I'm in the library, the kids are in > their classrooms). The younger ones are just not connecting with me this > way and the director is asking to have the kids come into the library for > storytime, with me reading to them in a transparent mask. The kids are all > too young for vaccines and many are too young for masks. > > > > I've been super cautious during the whole pandemic, so this makes me > nervous, especially with the new variant on the way. Does anyone have any > thoughts about the safety of spending time with multiple groups of unvaxxed > unmasked kids on a daily basis? Or how I can make it safer, if going > outdoors is not an option? > > > > Thanks for any ideas, > > Heidi > > > > Heidi Rabinowitz > > Feldman Children’s Library > > Congregation B’nai Israel > __ > Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual > author > and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries > (AJL) > ================================== > Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: > [email protected] > To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: > https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran > Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: [email protected] > Ha-Safran Archives: > Current: > > https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran*40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html__;JQ!!KGKeukY!hBCWZfGUvw6EVkplTLsRnv4PD7pp6iUIjBnC9iFk4TPnIvBEyuXrhtTXNtRVoBl5QCM$ > > Earlier Listserver: > > https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran*40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html__;JQ!!KGKeukY!hBCWZfGUvw6EVkplTLsRnv4PD7pp6iUIjBnC9iFk4TPnIvBEyuXrhtTXNtRVANWTzt8$ > > AJL HomePage > https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.JewishLibraries.org__;!!KGKeukY!hBCWZfGUvw6EVkplTLsRnv4PD7pp6iUIjBnC9iFk4TPnIvBEyuXrhtTXNtRVdgyCriw$ > > -- > Hasafran mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran >
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