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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…
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Frozen Party
Yesterday was complete madness as I finished getting ready for our Frozen party last night. It ended up being a huge hit with about 45 kids showing up and at least the same number of adults. I am so thankful that we have a great group of middle school students…
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Miss Laura's Favorites #5
The kids in storytime this morning, were really great – everyone wanted to help me move things, clean things, distribute things, it was almost too helpful. But, they were very attentive to the stories, loved the music and did a great job participating. I had a request for shaker eggs…
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Miss Laura's Favorites #4
I focused this week’s books on very simple books that the kids could “read” with me. It’s not too much of a theme, but the kids loved it! I don’t know if the kids truly got Duck Duck Moose, but they loved shouting out duck and moose as we read…
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DINO-Mite Party!
Last night we held a very successful dinosaur party for Kindergarten through 2nd grade students who were very excited to share their dinosaur knowledge with myself and each other. We started our program with a dinosaur craft with penne pasta creating fossils. The kids did really well and although I…
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Preschool Parachute Storytime
My preschool parachute storytime has 25 children registered with four on the waiting list and this is my third week in storytime… with only 5-8 kids. I have no idea where everyone else is?!?!?! The kids that did show up had a lot of fun with our construction themed storytime…
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Miss Laura's Favorites #3
The weather has been so crazy around here that even though we should be on week five of our six week series, we’ve only had our third storytime. So, needless to say, I haven’t posted many storytime outlines, but we finally had storytime this morning with a large, active crowd…
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Summer Reading School Assemblies
As I type this it’s 31 degrees outside and feels like a heat wave after the temperatures we’ve been getting over the past week. But, as they say in the theatre, “The show must go on.” (The summer reading show, that is) We’ve got most of our entertainment shows booked,…
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Stuffed Animal Sleepover Photographs
Our stuffed animal sleepover was so much fun last night! We had three middle school students help out with our storytime, and they each got the chance to read a book and help with all of our songs. They may not be as “polished” holding the book so everyone can…