• Activities

    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…