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Sensory-Friendly Storytime: Cars Go Vroom!
I don’t care who you are or how great your voice is, children definitely respond to singing. Anytime I do a sing-a-long book, it works like a charm, kids who normally can’t stop moving, stop and pay attention, some start tapping their feet or clapping their hands mimicking the rhythm of the song,…
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Preschool Storytime
I really liked my book choices this week – fun stories that the kids giggled over all storytime! I think they’re favorite was Robot Zombie Frankenstein which also happens to be one of my favorites – they thought all the costumes were so silly! I also chose to use a lot…
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Theme-less Toddler Storytime
My storytimes this morning were a little crazy – the first one probably has double the people registered than my second one, but fewer people show up. My second storytime had some walk-ins which made the group bounce off the walls a little. You always end up with one kid…
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Family Storytime – Tigers
I must be on some sort of subconscious jungle adventure in my head, as last Saturday I did an elephant theme and today I did a tiger theme. I’m not going to argue as both storytimes have gone really well. Although I didn’t have a large group of kids –…
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Storytime Theme: Elephants
I had a storytime on Saturday morning, a fairly new adventure for us as we have shied away from Saturday programming for a long time. But, we’ve been testing the waters this winter/spring and have gotten great responses by offering a storytime on Saturday mornings for families that work. It…
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Preschool Storytime – PA's One Book
Like my toddler storytime yesterday morning, this week we presented Pennsylvania’s One Book, Every Young Child choice for 2015. But, unlike the toddler storytime, I also added a number of different elements to really connect with these older children. I’ve been doing a toddler storytime for the past seven years…
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Toddler Storytime – PA's One Book
Today’s focus for storytime was around the Pennsylvania One Book, Every Young Child Initiative. “One Book, Every Young Child is made possible through a collaboration of the Pennsylvania Department of Education, Pennsylvania Department of Human Services, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, Please Touch Museum, and State Museum of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Library…
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Don't Let the Pigeon… Party
Yesterday we had a fun Pigeon party at the library for our young elementary school kids (Kindergarten – 2nd Grade)! Sadly we only ended up with 12 kids in attendance, but they definitely had fun! I made this program really easy by using the Pigeon’s 10th Birthday Celebration Activity Kit.…
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Dance Party + New Music = More FUN
We had our BEST dance party yet! I intermixed some oldies, but goodies into my children’s music playlist and had a number of parents comment about how much they really enjoyed the music selection. And for anyone who has never done this before… after 45 minutes of dancing the kids…
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Miss Laura's Favorites #6
It is finally our last week of storytime (2 or 3 weeks longer than usual due to the weather) and I have two weeks off before starting back again for our spring session. After six weeks of choosing “my favorites” rather than choosing theme-related books, I can say it was…
