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Storytime Theme: Shapes
This is a fun and important storytime theme! Being able to identify shapes and practicing drawing them helps PreK kids identify and write letters. Think about it, most letters are shapes or parts of shapes. Help kids with early literacy skills by reading some of these great stories, singing some…
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24 Must-Have Books for Toddlers
Last year I created two lists of must-have titles for babies – 0-6 months old and 7-12 months old. Now, as a huge proponent of early literacy and lifelong reading, I’ll let you in on a little secret, these books can be read to kids (and adults) of all ages!…
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24 Must-Have Books for Babies (7-12 Months)
After talking briefly with a new momma/blogging friend, we brainstormed creating a list like this for new parents who may not have any idea where to start when creating a library for their little one. If you’re looking for Goodnight Moon and The Very Hungry Caterpillar, you won’t find them on this…
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14 Picture Books to Introduce Math Concepts
We are often asked at our library for science and math books for young children and while we keep a few workbook style options that families can copy pages from for practice, I much prefer being able to use a great story to introduce math concepts to young children and…
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Picture Book Month: Shapes
This is an adorable story of a perfectly happy, perfect square until it goes on an adventure! Each day of the week the square finds itself changing in color and shape as it is cut, crumpled, ripped and put back together into beautiful illustrations. And in the end, the perfect…
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Toddler Storytime Theme: Balloons
This was probably the first week this summer that went really well in terms of storytime. We cut our storytime schedule down during summer and I’ve had over 30 kids on average for toddler storytime. I know that for some libraries this is all in a day’s work, but I was frazzled,…
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Flannel Friday: Quack and Count
I made some simple ducks using Microsoft Word shapes and the kids had fun adding up the ducks in different ways to always equal seven using the book Quack and Count by Keith Baker. I put them all in a line on our flannel board and I made sure to…
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Storytime Theme: Shapes
Identifying shapes is so important to a child’s development, it’s the beginning of understanding letters and words and an important early literacy skill. My first storytime of the session focused on shapes, but in a much more abstract way than identifying squares, circles, triangles, and more. The kids did a…
