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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…
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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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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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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…
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Preschool Parachute Storytime – Week #2
We focused a lot on opposites this week, unfortunately I only had six kids join me, so the adults in the room were kind enough to help shake the parachute. Our first book was called Maria Had a Little Llama and I wanted to use something that was a little different…
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Toddler Storytime: Miss Laura's Favorites #2
I had a great storytime this morning! We had so much fun with all of our stories and music! Between this new group of storytime families and doing books and music I love, I can see a complete change from last fall to this session. We yelled out colors with…
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CLEL Bell Awards
CLEL is short for Colorado Libraries for Early Literacy and offers resources focused on early literacy skills. Each year they announce the CLEL Bell Awards which includes one picture book winner for each of the ECRR 2’s early literacy skills – read, write, talk, sing, and play. This year’s awards…
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Preschool Parachute Storytime – Week #1
This is my first opportunity to offer a storytime for preschoolers! And it’s definitely my first time offering a parachute storytime for this age group. I was excited because this age group allows me to do more with the parachute because they can follow more directions than the toddlers. And…