• Activities

    Storytime Theme: Earth Day

    Earth Day storytime header

    It’s time to celebrate this beautiful planet we live on with an Earth Day storytime lesson plan! This lesson plan includes nine (recently) published picture books that make great read alouds. One of which is a nonfiction title. Remember, you are never required to read an entire book cover-to-cover. Sometimes,…

  • Activities

    Storytime Theme: Earth Day

    Earth Day header

    I know, I know, this post is coming extremely early for Earth Day, but I’m doing a disservice to you when I post a themed program the same week it’s being held. There’s no way you can pivot fast enough to incorporate all the great ideas I’m offering. So, you’ll…

  • Lists

    9 Titles to Celebrate Earth Day

    Earth Day

    It’s Earth Day! When you live with a journalist, you never know what new information he’ll come home with. So after a story about a local trash and recycling company, he came home with a lot of information and ever since we’ve been trying to be even more conscious about…

  • Reviews

    #blogbookaday: Kate, Who Tamed the Wind

    Summary:  “A wild wind blows on the tippy-top of a steep hill, turning everything upside down for the man who lives there. Luckily, Kate comes up with a plan to tame the wind. With an old wheelbarrow full of young trees, she journeys up the steep hill to add a little…

  • Activities

    Toddler Storytime – Tap the Magic Tree (Earth Day)

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    We’re in a spring mood here (finally!) It’s been raining a lot, the trees are flowering, leaves are beginning to show and I’m ready for the nice weather of spring! My first group of kids were really into Tap the Magic Tree, but other than that were very fidgety and excited and…