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Storytime Theme: Winter Solstice
While the winter solstice is still quite a few months away, I know what’s its like to try and plan programming in advance! Today’s storytime theme: winter solstice celebrates the shortest day of the year with really great picture books that make wonderful read alouds, some fun winter-themed songs and…
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Storytime Theme: Lost & Found
Today was such a fun book list to pull together for a lost and found storytime! There are so many great books that go along with this theme and while it was a little trickier to find crafts and activities to go along with this theme, I think I found…
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Storytime Theme: Drums
I started this lesson plan focusing on musical instruments and as I began selecting books, I found a lot of drum books, so I switched gears and focused just on drums. This is a great storytime to talk to kids about rhythm and patterns and to practice those ideas with…
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Storytime Theme: Sisters
My sister is a few years younger than I am, but we shared a room growing up and we talk on the phone twice a week now that we live across the country from each other. She’s definitely one of my best friends and someone I can count on in…
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Storytime Theme: Unexpected
Sometimes it’s fun to create a surprising and unexpected storytime theme for toddlers and preschoolers! Today’s lesson plan is all about surprising or unexpected storylines, characters, and settings! Whether you’re trying to get a certain bear’s hat back or being brave even if you’re not quite sure what a mouse…
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Storytime Theme: Thanksgiving
It’s time for another holiday storytime! And this time we’re focusing on Thanksgiving. And while I know Thanksgiving is fraught with a difficult past, I wanted to create a storytime that shared both the importance of learning history and also sharing some fun stories that are just silly. I found…
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Nonfiction Storytime Theme: Wild Animals
I’m working on something new by offering a storytime with strictly nonfiction titles for kids to learn all about animals! Animals are easy because kids love them and you can find all sorts of amazing nonfiction books for young kids about animals. But, if you wanted to, you could also…
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Storytime Theme: Stars
Sometimes I’ve created a storytime theme years ago and it’s one that I like a lot, but it needs an update. Usually, it’s because there are always new books coming out about the subject, so while you’ll already find a star storytime theme from 2013 and 2019, it’s time for…
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Storytime Theme: I Can Do It!
Teaching kids perseverance is an important tool for the future as giving up when something is hard is no way to go through life. Teaching kids a growth mindset or to have a “bubble gum” brain is so important and it’s something that can be started early. Seeing characters struggle…
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Storytime Theme: Feelings
Little kids may be small, but they often have big feelings and sometimes don’t quite know what to do with those big feelings. This storytime theme is a great tool to use to help parents and caregivers help kids. The first step is helping kids to understand about all the…
