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    Preschool Storytime

    I really liked my book choices this week – fun stories that the kids giggled over all storytime!  I think they’re favorite was Robot Zombie Frankenstein which also happens to be one of my favorites – they thought all the costumes were so silly!  I also chose to use a lot…

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    Theme-less Toddler Storytime

    My storytimes this morning were a little crazy – the first one probably has double the people registered than my second one, but fewer people show up.  My second storytime had some walk-ins which made the group bounce off the walls a little.  You always end up with one kid…

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    Family Storytime – Tigers

    I must be on some sort of subconscious jungle adventure in my head, as last Saturday I did an elephant theme and today I did a tiger theme.  I’m not going to argue as both storytimes have gone really well.  Although I didn’t have a large group of kids –…

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    Storytime Theme: Elephants

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    I had a storytime on Saturday morning, a fairly new adventure for us as we have shied away from Saturday programming for a long time.  But, we’ve been testing the waters this winter/spring and have gotten great responses by offering a storytime on Saturday mornings for families that work.  It…

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    Preschool Storytime – PA's One Book

    Like my toddler storytime yesterday morning, this week we presented Pennsylvania’s One Book, Every Young Child choice for 2015.  But, unlike the toddler storytime, I also added a number of different elements to really connect with these older children.  I’ve been doing a toddler storytime for the past seven years…

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    Toddler Storytime – PA's One Book

    Today’s focus for storytime was around the Pennsylvania One Book, Every Young Child Initiative.  “One Book, Every Young Child is made possible through a collaboration of the Pennsylvania Department of Education, Pennsylvania Department of Human Services, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, Please Touch Museum, and State Museum of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Library…

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    iPads for Us!

    We were lucky enough last year to have a little extra money to be able to purchase 10 iPads for the library (and Otterbox Defender cases).  I am now (finally!) getting around to setting them up.  I spent the morning pulling them all out of the boxes and after watching…

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    Miss Laura's Favorites #6

    It is finally our last week of storytime (2 or 3 weeks longer than usual due to the weather) and I have two weeks off before starting back again for our spring session.  After six weeks of choosing “my favorites” rather than choosing theme-related books, I can say it was…

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    Miss Laura's Favorites #5

    The kids in storytime this morning, were really great – everyone wanted to help me move things, clean things, distribute things, it was almost too helpful.  But, they were very attentive to the stories, loved the music and did a great job participating.  I had a request for shaker eggs…

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    Miss Laura's Favorites #4

    I focused this week’s books on very simple books that the kids could “read” with me.  It’s not too much of a theme, but the kids loved it!  I don’t know if the kids truly got Duck Duck Moose, but they loved shouting out duck and moose as we read…