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Miss Laura's Favorites #3
The weather has been so crazy around here that even though we should be on week five of our six week series, we’ve only had our third storytime. So, needless to say, I haven’t posted many storytime outlines, but we finally had storytime this morning with a large, active crowd…
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Summer Reading Commercial
Tonight’s the big night – we’re filming our Summer Reading Commercial! We are so lucky to have a great working relationship with our government access channel, who is willing to help us film (and edit!) our summer reading commercial! This year we’re even more excited because they are also creating…
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Library Website Design & Management
First of all, if someone has this all figured out, please let me know! A number of years ago our library website was integrated into the township website as we began using a new server/company. As the library, we have complete control over how/what we design and is added to…
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SLJ's Battle of the Books
Each year School Library Journal created a Battle of the Books focusing on 2014 children’s and young adult literature. The 2015 judges have been announced and each battle is judged by a different person. What is really fun (and sometimes frusturating) about Battle of the Kids’ Books is that the…
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Summer Reading School Assemblies
As I type this it’s 31 degrees outside and feels like a heat wave after the temperatures we’ve been getting over the past week. But, as they say in the theatre, “The show must go on.” (The summer reading show, that is) We’ve got most of our entertainment shows booked,…
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2014 CYBILS Awards
The 2014 CYBILS – the Children and Young Adult Bloggers’ Literary Awards were announced on February 14th – a perfect day for some book love! And because it was the weekend, a few days got away from me, but I’m finally posting about it today! For a list of all…
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Stuffed Animal Sleepover Photographs
Our stuffed animal sleepover was so much fun last night! We had three middle school students help out with our storytime, and they each got the chance to read a book and help with all of our songs. They may not be as “polished” holding the book so everyone can…
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Stuffy Sleepover
Tonight is our stuffed animal sleepover for children ages 3 – 6 and their stuffies! We’ve done events like this before and we’ve gotten fairly good at making the plans and being ready for every possible scenario. I’m going to go through each step of our process, in case you haven’t…
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Book Discussion: Lulu and the Brontosaurus
I just finished a small book discussion with six 3rd & 4th graders about Judith Viorst’s book, Lulu and the Brontosaurus. The kids overall found the book very good and enjoyed the comedic approach to Lulu’s tendency for tantrums. Structure I structure my third and fourth grade book discussions a…
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Preschool Parachute Storytime – Week #2
We focused a lot on opposites this week, unfortunately I only had six kids join me, so the adults in the room were kind enough to help shake the parachute. Our first book was called Maria Had a Little Llama and I wanted to use something that was a little different…
