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    Storytime Theme: Imagination Station

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    This is the second Saturday storytime I’ve tried this fall and it’s great to see some regular faces, but also some new faces who can’t come in during the week! I had about 20 kids show up which worked really well and before we began I explained to parents the…

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    Story Time Theme: Mo Willems

    This week was probably one of my favorites – Mo Willems Week for story time!  Willems is an amazing author/illustrator in the children’s literature world and his books are geared perfectly to my crowd of 2 – 3.5 year olds.  We shared Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus with…

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    Tea Party Rules

    Ame Dyckman has done it again, Tea Party Rules is an adorable story of friendship in the most unlikely place. Cub smells something delicious and before he knows it, he has found a tea party…complete with cookies! When the little girl shows up, she teaches Cub the (many) rules one…

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    Story Time Theme – Amy Krouse Rosenthal

    This week’s story time author/illustrator was Amy Krouse Rosenthal – another favorite author of mine whose books are funny, poignant, and can help children learn valuable life lessons.  Again, I think these books may have faired better with a little older audience (I’m thinking preschool age), but they are still…

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    Pumpkin Trouble

    It’s that time of year!  No, not Christmas (yet!), but Halloween and there are some great books out there for the holiday.  Kids around here are ready to go trick-or-treating and have been talking about costumes for awhile now.  I thought I’d post this great holiday book as it fits…

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    Story Time Theme – Paul Schmid

    This week our story time author/illustrator was Paul Schmid.  He writes and illustrates absolutely beautiful and adorable stories for little ones.  Unfortunately, these stories were a little too long for my crowd, but would most likely work for an older audience in preschool.  I did blowup balloons for the kids…

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    Sensory-Friendly Storytime Theme: Animals

    I am lucky to visit a few of the Montgomery County Intermediate Classrooms within our community  If you are unfamiliar with this service, these are classrooms for children who have either been diagnosed on the Autism Spectrum and/or have other disabilities that make it difficult for them to attend a “mainstream” preschool…

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    Sensory Bag Possibilities…

    I was on Pinterest one day and found these really cool sensory bags and thought that they might be an interesting idea to try for story time.  Before I decided to make 30 of them, I decided to try it out with my friend’s little girl who is about 2…

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    Story Time Theme: Eric Carle

    This fall, I’ll be presenting story time for toddlers (ages 2 – 3.5 years old) as well as our very popular Yoga Story Time for children ages 2 – 5 years old.  Rather than focusing on a specific theme, this six-week session, I plan on focusing on a different author…

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    Secret Pizza Party

    If you love pizza, then you’ll love this book!  Poor Raccoon, he loves pizza so much!  But no one will give him even one little slice, so the narrator helps out by suggesting a secret pizza party where Raccoon can eat all the pizza he wants!  The party involves Raccoon…