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Story Time Theme: Owls
There are some really great owl books out there and I couldn’t help myself, I just had to do a story time with an owl theme. The great thing about the owl books that I found is that there are a number of great toddler books and some great preschool…
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Story Time Theme: Extreme Interaction
I can see the light at the end of the tunnel! This was my last story time for the spring session and I won’t have story time with these kids in the library again until the end of June. It’s always a little sad to see the kids leave, but…
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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…