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Book Review: Born Reading
Born Reading: Bringing Up Bookworms in the Digital Age – From Picture Books to eBooks and Everything in Between by Jason Boog is a great read for new and expecting parents that gives simple ways to encourage young children to learn to love books and reading. And I’m really enjoying…
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Paddington Bear Picnic
We held a Paddington Bear Picnic last night in honor of the new movie being released – Paddington coming to theatres this year. With 12 young kids, in grades Kindergarten – 2nd grade in attendance we had a great picnic! The kids also brought their own adorable teddies to share…
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How I Became a Librarian
I was recently reading the blog, Letters to a Young Librarian and came across a blog post about how the blogger became a librarian and realized I probably never shared my story on my blog. So without further ado, here it goes… I didn’t learn to read at an exceptionally…
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Busy, Busy, Busy
It was a busy holiday weekend with family and friends driving and flying from around the country and across the Atlantic. We had a wonderful time with extended family, but it’s now back to the daily grind. I’m working on my programs for this month including a teddy bear picnic (to promote…
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5 Thanksgiving Books
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Resource Sharing: Boston Children's Museum
Although I don’t live in Boston, I was enough trend to. The amazing resources available from the Boston Children’s Museum, specifically focused on STEM programs and kindergarten readiness programs that require very few materials that can be done in the library or at home! The “Let’s Get Ready for Kindergarten!”…
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Cruise Into Kindergarten
I’m currently on a steering committee to create an early literacy umbrella program for the state of Pennsylvania filled with resources for parents, educators, and librarians to use to prepare young children for school. This is is a really exciting program that will help children’s librarians by offering an umbrella…
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Mock Caldecott 2015
I’m working on trying to get some programming planned before Thanksgiving rolls around next week, so I’m scrambling to come up with some great ideas that are easy to plan and implement. We have one more Fun Friday program before the end of the semester and as it’s on Friday,…
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“Telling the Library Story"
I had the distinct pleasure to hear Jamie LaRue speak at our chapter conference this morning. As he states, his passion for libraries began at an early age and after becoming a director if the worst library in the state of Colorado transformed the library into the best library in…
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Fun Friday: Electricity
Last Friday we ended up with a huge crowd for Fun Friday with a STEM focus on electricity! I had a few kids start the program complaining they didn’t want to do science. But, I like to think we do science in a much more fun and interactive way than…
