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Story Time Faces
I just saw this post, “What’s Your ‘Storytime Face?’ ” on Miss Mary Liberry’s blog from last fall and had to laugh out loud, because I have seen pictures of myself doing story time and my facial expressions are ridiculous! I always tend to have a hand up in the air,…
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Story Time Theme: Playing
The answer is bubbles. I think that anyone who offers a storytime program should definitely be aware of the power of bubbles. Our focus this week was on the last of the five early literacy skills: play. I read three books all about play, but hands down our favorite was…
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Story Time Theme: Writing
This week we chose to focus on Writing as an early literacy skill in story time. In both of my classes, the kids were bouncing off the walls and the stories didn’t go as well as I had hoped, but we definitely had fun dancing to Stop & Go by…
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Story Time Theme: Reading
I really enjoy having a three-day weekend, I feel like I can get things accomplished at home, run errands, and still have time to relax and hang out with friends. Fireworks, a great cook-out, some pool time and a trip to Home Depot made for a great weekend (and I…
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Story Time Theme: Singing
As I mentioned last week, I’m focusing on the five early literacy skills during my story times this session. I’m choosing one skill for each week, which is really allowing me to focus on the skill and educate the parents as well as fun with the toddlers. Last week we…
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Groundbeaking News… or maybe not!
There is an article in The New York Times today titled “Pediatrics Group to Recommend Reading Aloud to Children From Birth.” The American Academy of Pediatrics is officially weighing in about the importance of early literacy, announcing a new policy today that will encourage doctors to offer advice and become…
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Story Time Theme: Talking
Today began our the first week of storytime for our summer session. As you can see from my notes below, I’m offering a traditional toddler storytime for ages 2 – 3 1/2 and a parachute storytime for the same age group. I decided to focus on the 5 early literacy…
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Story Time Theme: Fruits & Veggies
I just found this blog post that somehow got lost in the shuffle! So even though this is from a few months ago, I’m going to post it so everyone can see the books I used. ____________________________________________________ Although I had a small crowd (only 7!), we had a great time in…
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Story Time Planning
I’m not one to fish for compliments, but I really enjoy when a parent in my story time truly enjoys the 30 minutes we spend together. Because, contrary to what I feel some believe, I actually spend a considerable amount of time planning my story times “lessons.” I’m a “theme…
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Story Time Theme: Green
This was our last week of story time before summer. We tend to end rather early in May because kids get really busy and we do too! We visit a number of schools gearing up for summer reading during the month of May and having a more open schedule allows…
