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Bonus! Book Review & Resource
Today you, my reader, are getting a Bonus! Book Review & Resource! I thought that I Am Yoga was done in the best possible way! The text is beautiful and the illustrations are gorgeous with washes of color and poses that kids will be able to do at home with their…
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Thrive Thursday: Fun Friday
We offer a lot of programming at our library and I’m lucky enough to plan and implement much of it! One of our most popular program is called “Fun Friday” which I’ve talked about often on my blog. Fun Friday is offered once a month on the Friday that the…
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Preschool Storytime – PA's One Book
Like my toddler storytime yesterday morning, this week we presented Pennsylvania’s One Book, Every Young Child choice for 2015. But, unlike the toddler storytime, I also added a number of different elements to really connect with these older children. I’ve been doing a toddler storytime for the past seven years…
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Dance Party + New Music = More FUN
We had our BEST dance party yet! I intermixed some oldies, but goodies into my children’s music playlist and had a number of parents comment about how much they really enjoyed the music selection. And for anyone who has never done this before… after 45 minutes of dancing the kids…
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Miss Laura's Favorites #3
The weather has been so crazy around here that even though we should be on week five of our six week series, we’ve only had our third storytime. So, needless to say, I haven’t posted many storytime outlines, but we finally had storytime this morning with a large, active crowd…
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#SaturdayLibrarian + Programming = Crazy
We haven’t provided very many Saturday programs in the past, but with more and more patrons requesting Saturday story times, we’ve decided to offer something once a month when a storyteller is working a Saturday shift. If today’s crowd was any indication, we’ll be doing something a lot more on…
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Awesome New Resource!
This is too good not to post! A great new resources focused on music for kid! Check out Song Catchers’ Library I’m excited to find some new music for storytime as this is always the most difficult part, I find. Have some great music to add to the list? They have…
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My New Ukulele
Probably six months ago, I mentioned to my boyfriend that I thought it would be cool to buy a ukulele and learn how to play it for storytime. It was one of those things I mentioned, somewhat in passing and at the time didn’t have the money to spend. Lo…
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Fun Friday: Dance Party
I was going to go with a mock Caldecott event for my Fun Friday program last week. But at the last minute, decided to change the plan to have a dance party… The kids are at that point in the school year where they need a break and don’t want…
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Preschool Dance Party
I only ended up with six kids for this afternoon’s program (19 were registered), but we had a great time! The kids were super energetic, ready to dance and didn’t stop for over 30 minutes. We took one reading break and with only six kids we spent a lot of time…