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Flannel Friday
I use the flannel board for my story time usually for 5 Little Monkeys, and sometimes I’ll use it for other songs like Old McDonald or The Itsy Bitsy Spider, but I haven’t used it very often for storytelling. I can’t quite figure out how to hold a book, put up…
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Sensory Friendly Story Times
I think I’ve finally got my toddler story time plans finished and my yoga plans as well, now it’s on to planning for the sensory friendly storytimes, both here at the library as well as the outreach classrooms. As part of grant for the county, we offered 6 sensory friendly…
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Summer Theatre
We had an amazing group of 8th graders that graduated out of our Junior Friends program this spring and offered to direct, produce, and run practices for a summer play. I love empowering tweens and teens that have the initiative to create new programs for kids. We’ve had a Chinese New…
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Story Time Nursery Rhyme Cube
I’ll say this right up front, I can’t remember where I found this fun idea! If it’s your genius at work, please let me know so that I can give you credit. There is so much research in the story time world about the importance of nursery rhymes and singing…
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American Helicopter Museum Visit
Last night was our last big program of the summer (yay!) where we invited the American Helicopter Museum to give the kids some brief information about helicopters and then the kids got the chance to sit in a helicopter, push some buttons and take some photos. For the event, we…
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Edible Book Contest
This is such a great event to encourage getting children into the kitchen! We’ve had an annual Edible Book Contest for the past six years and although we don’t get many submissions (usually between 10 – 15) the kids that do submit edible books are amazingly creative and their submissions…
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1,000 Books Before Kindergarten Celebration
Last night we had a celebratory party for all the families who have completed the 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten program and it was so much fun! I wanted to make sure that it was very different from our typical story time and that the kids knew we were celebrating them! …
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3rd & 4th Grade Book Discussion
We started our 3rd & 4th grade book discussion last summer and had some great experiences and the kids who attended all read the books! This is particularly amazing because I can’t always get our middle school students to read the book (which can make a book discussion difficult), but…
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Fall Programming Ideas
Although in our area children do not go back to school until after Labor Day, I’m already hard at work finalizing fall programming dates and times as well as beginning to promote events that are upcoming in September. Our summer reading program doesn’t even end until the 29th, so we…
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Summer Camp Outreach – Shrinky Dinks
This week at summer camp we made Shrinky Dinks! If you’re unfamiliar with Shrinky Dinks you can get Shrinky Dink paper from Amazon. It’s basically a sheet of plastic that can be decorated using colored pencils and shrinks when you put it in the oven (or in our case –…
