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Fun Friday: Windblown
Whoosh! This month’s Fun Friday was a wind theme (I’m sick of snow and winter!). We talk about wind, especially about how the wind is created and the kids had some great answers to my questions! Afterward, I gave them the Windblown activity paper and had them cut out the seven shapes…
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What’s Black and White and Read All Over?
I’m over at the ALSC blog today posting about a great program I did with middle school students. It’s a simple program involving old newspapers, some scissors, glue and scrap paper… and of course some imagination!
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Story Time Theme: Winter & Snow
I was able to get to work today!!! It probably snowed about 8 inches yesterday with more snow expected tomorrow and a Nor’easter expected to tear through our area on Sunday. I’m tired of the snow, but couldn’t help but have a snow themed story time for my kids in…
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Preschool Expo
A preschool expo works really well in a community like mine that has a number of preschool and childcare options available for parents and caregivers. This is the second time we’ve provided this program to area residents and it’s a big hit! We partner with the Mom’s Club in our…
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid Event
There’s not much to say about the phenomenon of The Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. Jeff Kinney has created a series of books that kids are dying to read; epseically boys and that’s awesome! We decided to host an event at this time of the year because the last…
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Storytime Theme: Shapes
Identifying shapes is so important to a child’s development, it’s the beginning of understanding letters and words and an important early literacy skill. My first storytime of the session focused on shapes, but in a much more abstract way than identifying squares, circles, triangles, and more. The kids did a…
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Sensory-Friendly Story Time Theme: Down on the Farm
Today was our first try at providing a sensory-friendly story time at the library. Unfortunately, no one showed up. I’m not giving up though, sometimes this happens – especially for a brand new program targeting a specific part of the community. Many families that have children with disabilities do not frequent…
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Sensory-Friendly Story Time Theme: Sing-a-long Books
I was finally able to get back out into the community this week and stop by four classrooms of young children with disabilities. The kids I see are 3 – 5 years old and have a variety of disabilities from autism spectrum to vision, language, intellectual, or some combination of…
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Story Time Planning
I’m always curious when a new session of story time comes around to see how the adults react in story time. I am much more patient with children in story time, than I am with their caregivers. Children, especially the toddlers I hang out with, (2 – 3 1/2 year…
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Fun Friday – Informational Text
Last week I offered our last “Fun Friday” program of the year. We started this brand-new program in January. Because once a month our elementary school students have a half day of school. Geared toward kids in 1st – 4th grades, 25 students descend on the library from 2:00 –…
