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Preschool Parachute Storytime
My preschool parachute storytime has 25 children registered with four on the waiting list and this is my third week in storytime… with only 5-8 kids. I have no idea where everyone else is?!?!?! The kids that did show up had a lot of fun with our construction themed storytime…
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E-Reading with Toddlers – Screen Time or Storytime?
This is not necessarily a new article, but I just found it and thought it was interesting enough to share. The New York Times published an article last October discussing whether or not using e-readers and tablets constitutes reading together (storytime) or is it just screen time (which the AAP…
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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…