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Reboot
I was scavenging for books late last week when I realized I had nothing to read for the weekend and came across Reboot on an end cap near the science fiction books. Without giving it a second glance (except to check the publication date), I grabbed it off the shelf…
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Fun Friday Program – Water Experiments & Maker Spaces
We had a lot of fun at our Fun Friday program last week! There were 25 kids from 1st – 4th grade that showed up to experiment with water at the library. We first read the book Who Sank the Boat? by Pamela Allen and then we did some hypothesizing…
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Sensory-Friendly Storytime Theme: Animals
I am lucky to visit a few of the Montgomery County Intermediate Classrooms within our community If you are unfamiliar with this service, these are classrooms for children who have either been diagnosed on the Autism Spectrum and/or have other disabilities that make it difficult for them to attend a “mainstream” preschool…
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Story Time Theme: Karma Wilson
As I continue through my “author study” story times, this week we looked more closely at the work of Karma Wilson. I found that most families were familiar with her popular Bear series, but may not be as familiar with her other work. I chose three books that she wrote…
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Scaredy Squirrel Party!
Last night our library held a Scaredy Squirrel Party in honor of Fire Prevention Week. I was originally going to do a fire safety theme, but decided that Scaredy Squirrel was a lot more fun! We ended up with 22 kids from 1st – 3rd grade in attendance on what…
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Sensory Bag Possibilities…
I was on Pinterest one day and found these really cool sensory bags and thought that they might be an interesting idea to try for story time. Before I decided to make 30 of them, I decided to try it out with my friend’s little girl who is about 2…
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The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Holly Black has a great imagination for all things fantasy, creepy, scary, and different. She is the co-author of The Spiderwick Chronicles series as well as the author of the recently published book, Doll Bones (which I felt was even creepier than this one!). Her most recent book, The Coldest…
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Public Libraries vs. Government Shutdown
This whole government shutdown, to me, is pretty ridiculous, but I am thankful that I am still able to work while all this is going on. I’m not one to argue politics on a regular basis, but when something this big happens, it’s hard to ignore. I’m not sure how…
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Story Time Theme: Eric Carle
This fall, I’ll be presenting story time for toddlers (ages 2 – 3.5 years old) as well as our very popular Yoga Story Time for children ages 2 – 5 years old. Rather than focusing on a specific theme, this six-week session, I plan on focusing on a different author…
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The First Drawing
All I can say is… where was this book during the Summer Reading Program, it would have been perfect for the theme! But nonetheless, this was a very interesting and accessible story about art history for young children. My brother is an archeologist and in my mind he’s Indiana Jones and I…
