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Take Apart Day
This is not a new program, I’ve seen it come across on a number blogs (especially for this year’s summer reading theme), but we heard about it from another local library and thought it was a fantastic idea! We gathered up old household appliances, old computers, and a couple things…
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David Lubar Author Visit
Last night, children’s and young adult author, David Lubar came to visit our library where 75 excited patrons got the chance to hear him talk about how he became a writer, great tips for beginning writers, asked some wonderful questions and got books signed by the author himself. This was…
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Story Time Theme: Reading
I really enjoy having a three-day weekend, I feel like I can get things accomplished at home, run errands, and still have time to relax and hang out with friends. Fireworks, a great cook-out, some pool time and a trip to Home Depot made for a great weekend (and I…
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Slime Science Workshop
Our slime science workshop was definitely a lot of fun – so fun in fact, that I took it with me when I visited summer camp today and we had fun there as well! I started each program reading the story The Secret Science Project that Almost Ate the School by…
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Story Time Theme: Singing
As I mentioned last week, I’m focusing on the five early literacy skills during my story times this session. I’m choosing one skill for each week, which is really allowing me to focus on the skill and educate the parents as well as fun with the toddlers. Last week we…
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Story Time Theme: Talking
Today began our the first week of storytime for our summer session. As you can see from my notes below, I’m offering a traditional toddler storytime for ages 2 – 3 1/2 and a parachute storytime for the same age group. I decided to focus on the 5 early literacy…
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Story Time Theme: Fruits & Veggies
I just found this blog post that somehow got lost in the shuffle! So even though this is from a few months ago, I’m going to post it so everyone can see the books I used. ____________________________________________________ Although I had a small crowd (only 7!), we had a great time in…
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Preschool Dance Party
Yesterday I blogged about my Toddler Dance Party, well today I wanted to quickly share my song list for my Preschool Dance Party I held yesterday afternoon. It was very well attended, but I did notice that many more of the preschoolers needed more direction than the toddlers – they…
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Toddler Dance Party
So I just finished my first Toddler Dance Party and I’m happy to say it was a HUGE success and parents are already asking about having a second party. We had over 25 kids, their parents/guardians and even a few babies. It’s so interesting to see how kids interact and…
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Making & Doing This Summer
I read a great article in The New York Times yesterday about allowing kids to make and do things this summer that they don’t normally get the chance to make and do! And I loved the author of the article because her first idea was visit the library! She points…