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Flannel Friday Roundup (3/11/16)
This is an absolutely adorable flannelboard idea for Counting Ovejas which is a great book to incorporate a little diversity into your stortyime with a bilingual English/Spanish story! Check it out at Fun with Friends at Storytime! Wendy Gerbi at provided three great ideas! Check out amazing finger puppets of jungle…
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Toddler Storytime Theme: Dinosaurs
This was my last storytime for the session and the kids were so excited by the theme! They had an awesome time ROARING with Bob Shea’s book and anytime I asked what kind of dinosaur was pictured in Snappy Little Dinosaurs a few of my littlest’s friends would just yell “DINOSAUR!”…
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Storytime Theme: Cookies
Although I had a fairly small group this morning, it was a wonderful storytime! Everyone was very participative (including the grandmas and grandpas). Of course, how can you not love a storytime based around cookies? The kids thought a cookie-loving cow was absolutely silly and the adults could tell what…
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Flannel Friday: The Crazy Traffic Light
The Crazy Traffic Light by Rob Reid There’s a crazy traffic light On a corner in our town. It has the normal colors, You know, yellow means slow down, And green means go And red means stop. It’s all the other colors That’ll make your mouth drop. Chorus: When you…
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Toddler Storytime Theme: Cookies
This storytime made me soooo hungry! Toddler Storytime Theme: Cookies is definitely a storytime hit for just about everyone! The kids really enjoyed all of the books and were quite interested in figuring out who ate all the cookie dough in Karen Beaumont’s book Who Ate All the Cookie Dough? …
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Storytime Theme: Winter Clothing
I am so impressed with this group of kids, I’ve chosen some longer books and they will sit through them! The kids were absolutely giggling over Froggy Gets Dessed this morning and love doing our wiggle song, “Zoom, Zoom, Zoom” and really liked jumping to Jim Gills’s “Jumping & Counting”…
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Toddler Storytime Theme: Mittens
I had a really good storytime this week! It was a full house, but the kids were fairly well behaved and loved talking about mittens! Unfortunately, it’s raining and not snowing here… but, oh well! It was still fun to talk about! The kids love doing Once Upon a Snowman (probably because…
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Family Storytime Theme: Colorful Chameleons
This storytime was awesome! I enjoy my Saturday crowds because they are a lot of families that I don’t see during the week and are usually very into participating. The kids LOVED the fish song and (once they figured it out) the “Mmm Ahh” song too! They were also captivated…
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Toddler Storytime Theme: Winter Animals
We had a really heavy downpour this morning, after a two-hour school delay so needless to say I only had six little ones in my storytime. The show must go on and the kids that were there got a little more individualized attention which they all really liked. They really…
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Family Storytime Theme: Color Red
Storytime went pretty well today! The kids definitely got Red by Michael Hall. I made sure to talk about it a little bit before we started and the older kids picked up on the fact that the crayon itself was blue, but it’s wrapper was red. We talked about what…
