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Storytime Theme: Five Senses
Here’s another great STEM storytime theme about the five senses. You can do one storytime for all of the senses together or break this out into a series of storytimes focusing on each sense individually. I’ve pulled together a few books about all the senses and one book for each…
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Storytime Theme: Imaginary Creatures
This was so fun to pull together! These picture books about imaginary creatures are absolutely adorable and great read alouds. What I love is that this can be just one storytime with a wide variety of imaginary creatures or you can choose just one creature and find a few more…
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Storytime Theme: Art
Art is something that everyone can do! These wonderful titles are a great way to encourage kids’ imagination and creativity with an emphasis on process rather than product. Pair these titles with songs, rhymes, and activities for a very simple storytime that works so well for toddlers and preschoolers. Disclosure:…
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Family Book Club: Spooky Titles
For my second-ever Family Book Club (check out my first one), I’m sharing some spooky titles for the fall season. Now, I’ll be the first to admit, that I am the biggest scaredy-cat out there! I don’t like haunted houses, I don’t like scary movies, and even scary middle grade…
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Family Book Club: Icky, Sticky, Slimy, Gross & Gooey
I’m launching something completely new today and I’m so excited about it! I’ve created family book club kit that is prepped and ready to go, all you need are some family members or friends! Today’s theme is Icky, Sticky, Slimy, Gross & Gooey. I figured that a theme that would…
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Activity Corner: National Llama Day
It’s National Llama Day! Last year I created an entire llama book list last year, so I’m definitely not going to repeat that. But, I thought I’d share the link again and offer you a few adorable crafts to go along with these fun books! What I love about llama…
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What’s New? Literacious Updates and Changes
I started this blog eight years ago with, I think, my first post at the very tail-end of 2010. Since then I’ve gained (many) more followers, found my voice and better figured out where I see this blog going in the future. I hope by now, you’ll see it’s been…
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Summer Camp Outreach – Week #2
This week as I traveled back to camp, I brought with me a few favorite books and some really fun activities to try. For the little ones (ages 5 & 6), I read The Book With No Pictures by B. J. Novak. If you haven’t used this book yet, please, please,…
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Summer Camp Outreach
We provide outreach to a couple of different summer camps in our area. Adventure Day Camp is provided by the township’s Parks & Recreation Department whom we partner with to provide services to camp throughout the summer. The camp actually has two sites which I visit for the six weeks…
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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…
