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Story Time Theme: Red
Today was our last storytime of the session and although I absolutely love storytime, this session has been rough! I don’t know what it was – the kids, adults, some combination of the two, but it seemed out of control each and every week. We’re changing the schedule a little…
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Storytime Theme: Orange
I don’t know what’s been going on, but my story times have been absolutely crazy all season long! Last week, I had eight kids – it was absolutely nuts! This week, I probably had close to 20 kids, and even crazier. I think the biggest issue in this session is…
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Story Time Theme: Yellow
We are continuing our color-themed story times this week with the color yellow! With only eight kids in attendance, I thought we’d be able to whiz through a lot of things, but the kids were very squirmy! Even so, I was able finally to use the nursery rhyme cube, but…
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Story Time Theme: Green
I think the universe finally saw it fit to provide me with a really great storytime (finally)! The past few weeks have been very busy, chaotic and not always the best storytimes I’ve offered. But today, it was awesome! We focused on the color green today and boy did we…
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One of Those Days…
It’s been a fairly busy week for us – Life-Size Board Games on Monday, story times, Enchanted Library rehearsal, meetings and more. But today was our last Parent/Child Workshop for our fall series. It started off as a great morning, even without our usual extra help we were able to…
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Story Time Theme: Blue
Following in last week’s footsteps, this week’s theme is the color BLUE! Although I had a much smaller crowd this week, we had a great time learning about the color blue. I still haven’t gotten a chance to use my nursery rhyme cube, but we were able to get through…
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Storytime Theme: Purple
This was the first storytime of the fall session and I had far, far too much planned. Because it was the first one, I had to explain a lot of who I was, how storytime works, and our storytime rules. This took up so much time that we didn’t even…
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Early Literacy Enhanced Storytime
I’m lucky to be a part of another online class presented by Saroj Ghoting, an early childhood literacy consultant. I’ve been lucky enough to hear Saroj speak in public a number of times and this is my second online course I am taking with her, the first being “Early Literacy and…
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Story Time Nursery Rhyme Cube
I’ll say this right up front, I can’t remember where I found this fun idea! If it’s your genius at work, please let me know so that I can give you credit. There is so much research in the story time world about the importance of nursery rhymes and singing…
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Story Time Theme: Playing
The answer is bubbles. I think that anyone who offers a storytime program should definitely be aware of the power of bubbles. Our focus this week was on the last of the five early literacy skills: play. I read three books all about play, but hands down our favorite was…
