Bring SPL to your classroom! Check out a set of 3D Pens, Sphero coding robots, book sets with full lesson plans, and more with your educator library card. Kits can be requested using the form below and are checked out for four weeks.
Educator Kits
Daycare Kits
These kits are created for little ones before they enter the classroom making them great for daycare providers.
Daycare kits are checked out from the Youth Services Department. Please contact the Head of Youth Services, Amanda, at youthservices@salinapublic.org or 785-833-9220 with questions.
Infant Individual Learning Kit
Recommended Age: 6 months.-36 months.
This kit is filled with essential, age-appropriate material to help each infant reach developmental milestones through play. Plus, everything included is baby-safe and easy to clean.
- Kit Content:
- 4 Explore & play activity rattlers
- 6 soft & washable sensory balls
- 6 touch & feel discovery books
- 16- piece stack & nest sensory toys
- Activity Guide
Toddler Individual Learning Kit
Recommended Age: 18 months – 36 months
This kit is filled with essential, age-appropriate materials to help each toddler reach developmental milestones through play. Plus, everything included is toddler -safe and easy to clean.
- Kit Content:
- 5 Ocean animal board books
- 10 Soft & squeezy ocean animals
- Hide & Seek discovery ball
- 52 toddler bristle builders
- Button size-sorting box
- Activity guide
Storytelling Kit
Recommended Age: 3 years – 7 years
These delightful kits are packed with all the cloth characters and props you need to bring 6 children’s stories to life! Each kit includes all the pieces needed to tell a story. The kit includes a magnetic storytelling board and hardcover books.
- Kit Content:
- 6 Stories with cloth characters & props
- “The Rainbow Fish” by Marcus Pfister
- “It Looked Like Spilt Milk” by Charles G. Shaw
- “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See?” by Bill Martin
- “The Napping House” by Audrey Wood
- “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” by Eric Carle
- “The Snowy Day” by Ezra Jack Keats
- Magnetic storyboard
Classroom Kits
Classroom kits are created with educational standards in mind and can be used as a quick supplement to a teacher’s curriculum.
These kits are checked out from the Technology Department. Please contact the Technology Programs Coordinator, Kristi, at programs.kristi@salinapublic.org or 785-833-9208 with questions.
Sphero Bolt Kit
Recommended Age: All
The Sphero BOLT Power Pack kit comes with 15 Spherical robots that connect to provided tablets via Bluetooth. All chargers are included as well as protractors and tape rolls. Optional equipment of a code mat and activity cards can also be requested.
- Kit Content:
- Power pack case with charging cable
- 15 Sphero BOLT robots
- 15 Protractors
- 2 Maze tape rolls
- Activity cards
- Quick start guide
- 2-sided Sphero code mat
- 15 Tablets with protective cases and chargers
3D Pen Kit
Recommended Age: 6+
This kit comes with 11 3Doodler Start+ Pens and their chargers, plenty of filament and activity cards.
- Kit Content:
- 11 3Doodler pens
- 1 Teacher kit
- 10 Student kits
- 27 Activity cards
- 1 USB Charging hub
- 10 USB Charging cables
- Filament
Book Discussion Kits
Book Discussion Kits come with 20 student copies and a teacher copy (annotated) along with a novel companion and pre-created activity packets with an answer key included. In addition to this, each kit comes with posters of possible activities and at least one creative activity.
“The One and Only Ivan” by Katherine Applegate – Recommended Age: 8-11
“Stuart Little” by E.B. White – Recommended Age: 8-12
“Where the Red Fern Grows” by Wilson Rawls – Recommended Age: 8-12
“Shiloh” by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor – Recommended Age: 9-12 years
- Kit Content
- Teacher copy
- 20 Student copies
- 3 Student packets
- Teacher key
- A packet of example student activities
- Novel companion
- Posters