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My New Ukulele
Probably six months ago, I mentioned to my boyfriend that I thought it would be cool to buy a ukulele and learn how to play it for storytime. It was one of those things I mentioned, somewhat in passing and at the time didn’t have the money to spend. Lo…
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Preschoool Storytime
For the winter session, I’m getting the chance to offer a parachute preschool storytime for children ages 3.5 – 5 years old. I’m really excited to be given the opportunity to work with a little bit of an older group of kids – I normally am in charge of toddler…
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Cruise Into Kindergarten
I’m currently on a steering committee to create an early literacy umbrella program for the state of Pennsylvania filled with resources for parents, educators, and librarians to use to prepare young children for school. This is is a really exciting program that will help children’s librarians by offering an umbrella…
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Story Time Theme: Red
Today was our last storytime of the session and although I absolutely love storytime, this session has been rough! I don’t know what it was – the kids, adults, some combination of the two, but it seemed out of control each and every week. We’re changing the schedule a little…
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Storytime Theme: Orange
I don’t know what’s been going on, but my story times have been absolutely crazy all season long! Last week, I had eight kids – it was absolutely nuts! This week, I probably had close to 20 kids, and even crazier. I think the biggest issue in this session is…
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Diwali Celebration
We had a HUGE crowd to celebrate Diwali last night! We have a large Indian population in our community and although Diwali is celebrated in different ways (across India), we had a wonderful time last night! For our youngest patrons we hosted a brief storytime with a beautiful Diwali book The…
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Story Time Theme: Yellow
We are continuing our color-themed story times this week with the color yellow! With only eight kids in attendance, I thought we’d be able to whiz through a lot of things, but the kids were very squirmy! Even so, I was able finally to use the nursery rhyme cube, but…
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Story Time Theme: Green
I think the universe finally saw it fit to provide me with a really great storytime (finally)! The past few weeks have been very busy, chaotic and not always the best storytimes I’ve offered. But today, it was awesome! We focused on the color green today and boy did we…
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Story Time Theme: Blue
Following in last week’s footsteps, this week’s theme is the color BLUE! Although I had a much smaller crowd this week, we had a great time learning about the color blue. I still haven’t gotten a chance to use my nursery rhyme cube, but we were able to get through…
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Sensory-Friendly Storytime Theme: Polka-Dots
Today I have four storytimes at the Montgomery County Intermediate Unit where children with disabilities go to preschool. I see a wide range of disabilities, so the best thing for me to do is bring great tried and true storytime books that are interactive and fun! The kids really loved…
