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Storytime Theme: Winter Animals
It’s been ten years(!) since I last posted a Winter Animals storytime lesson plan. I wanted to create an updated book list, add some new songs, and a couple of crafts for a refresh. This would be a great storytime to incorporate some nonfiction text into storytime in a really…
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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: Chalk
I love the excitement of opening some new sidewalk chalk and having a large “canvas” to work on! Or when you’re taking a walk and you get to pass some fun sidewalk chalk drawings and messages – it just makes me smile! Today’s storytime is all about the possibilities of…
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Storytime Theme: Día de los Muertos
The next holiday to celebrate this fall is Día de los Muertos, a holiday to remember, celebrate, and pay respect to family and friends who have passed away. This holiday is celebrated on November 1st and 2nd, traditionally by Mexican families. Kids may have some understanding of this holiday because…
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Storytime Theme: Halloween
I promised a bunch of fall holiday storytime lesson plans, and of course I had to include Halloween! I purposely created this book list with recently published titles that you may or may not have used yet. There are some amazing Halloween picture book classics, but I’m always on the…
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Storytime Theme: Fall
I know it’s still way too early for most people to be thinking about fall! Schools just let out for the summer, vacations have yet to be taken, but I also know that librarians and teachers are notorious for planning early! So, I wanted to make sure this was available…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books With Springy Covers
Spring is here and today’s a nice and easy Top Ten Tuesday theme – books with springy covers! I love spring, in fact, I took myself on a little spring trek through the neighborhood and took photos of all the new flowers and buds that were opening up! It’s so…
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Storytime Theme: Camping
I loved camping when I was little. We had a cute little pop-up camper and we’d all squish inside. My parents would take us to Allegheny National Forest and we’d hike, explore, swim, float, and camp all over the area. We even took the camper all the way out to…
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Storytime Theme: Trains
Whoo whoo! All aboard! My whole plan was to focus on transportation as a whole, but I found some really great train books and decided to pivot and focus solely on trains for this storytime. For some reason, trains are a super popular toddler interest, so this sure to be…
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Storytime Theme: Baseball
It’s officially baseball season and I’m surprised that I’ve never written a storytime lesson plan for baseball! It was much harder than I expected to find baseball geared toward toddlers and preschoolers. I found a lot more for an elementary school-age audience, but I think you’d be able to pull…
