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Junior Friends Party
Yesterday marked the end of the school year meetings for our Junior Friends of the Library. We used to try to have our parties later in May, but the kids have so many banquets, parties, sporting events, and activities that we moved it up this year to accommodate everyone’s schedule and…
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Stop, Drop, & Read!
Our library partnered with the middle school on this really fun idea called “Stop, Drop, and Read!” We encouraged the middle school students to meet at the mall on Saturday afternoon for a Flash Mob event, but rather than singing, dancing, or the surprise engagement, we asked the kids to…
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Story Time Theme: Growing a Garden
I have been very remiss in posting for the past week, but I’m back and have a great new story time theme, plus a lot of program updates from the past week. This week we talked about growing a garden during story time and read some really fun and interactive…
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Fun Friday Program – Haikus
I have been remiss in blogging about last Friday’s Fun Friday program at the library. As many of you know, it is National Poetry Month and as such, our porgram centered around haikus. I began the program discussing the master haiku poet, Matsuo Basho, a Japanese man from the 17th…
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Story Time Theme: Bunny Rabbits
I know many librarians who cringe when they have to work around a “theme” for story time. I find it easier to focus on a theme and find great books surrounding an idea, color, letter, number, or object. Most of my themes this session really focus on spring and what…
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Story Time Theme – PA’s One Book, Every Young Child
Each year, Pennsylvania highlights the importance of early literacy skills for children ages 3 – 6 by choosing a book that is then distributed to libraries, head start programs, child care centers, and preschools. Author visits, a traveling trunk with fun manipulatives and toys and activities and booklists to share with families with…
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Story Time Theme: The Color Green
Story time is back in full swing here at my library and although I didn’t have a packed house on Monday (I’m blaming the holiday weekend), my Yoga Story Time was chock full with 14 out of 15 kids present. I was very excited to hear one 4-year old boy,…
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Family Place – Parent/Child Workshop
Back in October of last year, I posted about going to training to become a Family Place Library. After six months, numerous meetings, and spending our grant money, I’m happy to report our first Parent/Child Workshop went beautifully. For those of you unfamiliar with the Family Place Libraries is a…
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Read! Build! Play! Lego Duplo Story Time
My library participated in the Read! Build! Play! Project back in October and we received a library toolkit from the Lego company with a box full of Duplos and 10 kits and a big book of Grow Caterpillar Grow. You can see the kit from Amazon, here. This afternoon I…
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Summer Book Discussion Group for Middle School Students (Grades 5-8)
The job of a children’s librarian is never done. Just as I’ve finally caught my breath with a number of programs and projects, the summer planning is looming ahead of me. Each year we offer our rising 5th – 8th graders two different book discussion opportunities. The first is called…