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    Passive Programming: Clear Out the Craft Room

    The kids in our school district had the whole week off for spring break so with that in mind, I knew we would need to offer a few programs to keep them busy.  We had a screening of the ever-so-popular Minions with quite a large audience on Tuesday evening and on…

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    Flannel Friday Roundup (3/11/16)

    This is an absolutely adorable flannelboard idea for Counting Ovejas which is a great book to incorporate a little diversity into your stortyime with a bilingual English/Spanish story!  Check it out at Fun with Friends at Storytime! Wendy Gerbi at provided three great ideas!  Check out amazing finger puppets of jungle…

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    Crazy 8s Math Workshop – Math Fun for Everyone!

    We just finished an 8-week session of math classes with Bedtime Math’s Crazy 8s Club for students in 3rd – 5th grades.  I was a little worried that the kids would attend all eight weeks, but we registered 22 kids and had between 16-22 kids every week. The Bedtime Math…

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    Toddler Storytime Theme: Dinosaurs

    This was my last storytime for the session and the kids were so excited by the theme!  They had an awesome time ROARING with Bob Shea’s book and anytime I asked what kind of dinosaur was pictured in Snappy Little Dinosaurs a few of my littlest’s friends would just yell “DINOSAUR!”…

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    Storytime Theme: Cookies

    Although I had a fairly small group this morning, it was a wonderful storytime!  Everyone was very participative (including the grandmas and grandpas).  Of course, how can you not love a storytime based around cookies?  The kids thought a cookie-loving cow was absolutely silly and the adults could tell what…

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    Flannel Friday: The Crazy Traffic Light

    The Crazy Traffic Light by Rob Reid There’s a crazy traffic light On a corner in our town. It has the normal colors, You know, yellow means slow down, And green means go And red means stop. It’s all the other colors That’ll make your mouth drop. Chorus: When you…

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    Toddler Storytime Theme: Cookies

    This storytime made me soooo hungry!  Toddler Storytime Theme: Cookies is definitely a storytime hit for just about everyone! The kids really enjoyed all of the books and were quite interested in figuring out who ate all the cookie dough in Karen Beaumont’s book Who Ate All the Cookie Dough? …

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    Storytime Theme: Winter Clothing

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    I am so impressed with this group of kids, I’ve chosen some longer books and they will sit through them!  The kids were absolutely giggling over Froggy Gets Dessed this morning and love doing our wiggle song, “Zoom, Zoom, Zoom” and really liked jumping to Jim Gills’s “Jumping & Counting”…

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    Flannel Friday: “Bubble Bubble Pop”

    I did this little song during my Saturday storytime and it was so fun!  The kids loved it! – their favorite part was when the bubbles… POPPED!   And the parents picked it up really quickly which made it much more interactive.The fish are made out of felt (cut out…