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Audiobooks & Playaway Display
Our first summer display is up and will stick around for just about 2 weeks before our Summer Reading Program begins and the table display changes every week! I often like to acknowledge our audiobooks during the beginning of the summer to remind our families of the great resources we have…
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Making & Doing This Summer
I read a great article in The New York Times yesterday about allowing kids to make and do things this summer that they don’t normally get the chance to make and do! And I loved the author of the article because her first idea was visit the library! She points…
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Children’s Book Discussions
I have been working for the past few weeks on getting many of my book discussions finished before the onslaught of summer reading is upon us. I’ve found that if I have everything ready to go, all I need to do is print out the questions, review the story and…
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The Shadow Throne
It’s been awhile since I posted a book review, but I finally got a chance to finish this trilogy! I absolutely loved The False Prince and plan on using it as a suggestion all summer long for summer reading. But, I personally, don’t find trilogies to be very strong. I…
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Fun Friday Theme: The Orchestra
This is our last Fun Friday program before the school years ends and I know the kids are getting antsy for the end of the year, the nice weather, and summer break, so I tried to create a fun (and very loud!) program about the orchestra. I borrowed parts of…
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Princess Posey and the First Grade Parade
I’ve finally begun working on my New Year’s resolution to find more books for beginning chapter book readers (i.e. early elementary school). Princess Posey definitely fits the bill – in length of chapters and the book in its entirety, in vocabulary, and in content. The first in the series is…
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Fun Friday: Financial Literacy
Our Fun Friday program was (of course!) a lot of FUN! Last week we focused on financial literacy – important information that even young kids should start discussing with their adults. In Pennsylvania, the state library has created 5 literacies they have labeled as PA Forward. These initiatives are to…
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Environmental Jeopardy
During April we try to provide a few events focused around Earth Day – this year we’re offering a story time, a recycled jewelry program, a story stroll at the park during the Park & Rec Department Earth Day celebration, and Environmental Jeopardy for the middle schoolers. We give the…
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Fun Friday: Extreme Animals
We had a great time at our Fun Friday program yesterday, 22 kids from 1st – 4th grade came to the library to learn about animals, camouflage and to use their imaginations to create their own extreme animal. We began with finding camouflaged animals in the book, Where in the…
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Rosie Revere, Engineer
Another amazing option for this year’s summer reading program – Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty and David Roberts. Rosie like to creates quiet and shy in class, but at night loves to create “gadgets and gizmos.” But when Rosie’s Uncle Zookeeper Fred laughs at one of her inventions, Rosie…
