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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

    mittens

    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…

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    Book Review: The White Book

    I love picture books that change how you look at picture books!  Things like Press Here, Tap the Magic Tree, or the Pigeon and Chester books where the characters break the fourth wall.  Or like A Funny Little Bird by Jennifer Yerkes or The White Book by Silvia Borando, Lorenzo Clerici and Elisabetta Pica where the…

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    Toddler Storytime Theme: Snow

    Storytime was interesting, to say the least!  I have 25 kids registered with 6+ on the waitlist and ended up with at least 25-30 in storytime yesterday.  Considering the number of children in the room, the program went fairly smoothly, although I had a few adults that kept talking while…

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    E-Tots – Digital Literacy for our Littlest Patrons

    I just finished up a quick program this morning using the library iPads to highlight some fun and educational apps for toddlers and preschoolers. We called it E-Tots – Digital Literacy for our Littlest Patrons.  I don’t have any of my own kids, so I know that many parents use…