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Toddler Storytime Theme: I Like Me!
In a world where kids (and adults!) are constantly being pushed to do their best and beyond, I think it’s so important to teach kids to have good self-confidence and to like who they are. We did a few of my favorite books including The OK Book by the dynamite duo…
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Parachute Storytime Theme: Zoo Animals
These are some of my favorite books! And unfortunately, I had a very small crowd to share them, I only ended up with seven kids, and I think I’m picking books that are too advanced for them. These books would probably work really well with preschool age kids, but my…
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Storytime Theme: Fall
As I had last week, this week’s crowd was quite large and for the most part, they were all really well behaved! Unfortunately, with that many kids and caregivers, the general room noise is much louder making it difficult to be heard. But, the kids absolutely LOVED Ol’ Mama Squirrel and…
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Parachute Storytime Theme: Emotions
I think overall, my books were a little too old for the group I had for parachute storytime. But, they did enjoy telling David, “NO!” and were quick to tell me what all the characters were doing that was wrong and how to act correctly, so I took that as…
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Toddler Storytime Theme: Socks & Shoes
Storytime was a handful yesterday. I have 27 registered and with probably ten nametags not claimed at the end of storytime, I still had 29 kids (plus adults and babies) in the room! The kids did really well, especially with that many – they were attentive, engaged, and excited. The…
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Parachute Storytime Theme: Construction
I had a great sized crowd for my parachute storytime on Monday. The kids were really attentive to the stories and pointed out little details that I hadn’t even noticed. They definitely loved the construction theme and really enjoyed yelling out the colors in It’s an Orange Aardvark. And as for…
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Sunday Storytime Challenge #4
I got a chance to spend last week at two separate conferences which means I spent a lot of time sharing ideas with fellow youth services librarians. I spent Sunday – Wednesday at our state conference – PaLA. I got the chance to present an elementary school age program that…
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Sensory-Friendly Storytime Theme: Sheep
This month for outreach I focused on sheep… for no particular reason, except there are some really cute sheep books available! For this group of kids, I end up seeing eight classrooms that are combined into four storytimes with a range of ages and disabilities. And the group changes throughout…
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Toddler Storytime Theme: Imagination & Pretend Play
One of my most viewed posts is my Imagination Station storytime theme, so I decided to give the people what they want and did another storytime theme this week about imagination and pretend play. These are some of my most favorite themes because the research shows (and I strongly believe)…
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Parachute Storytime – Alligators and Crocodiles
Storytime is back! This session, I’ll have a parachute storytime for ages 2 – 5 as well as a toddler storytime for ages 2 – 3.5. For my parachute storytime, we use the paracture at every transition between books as well as the opening and closing. The kids do a…
