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Story Time Theme: Karma Wilson
As I continue through my “author study” story times, this week we looked more closely at the work of Karma Wilson. I found that most families were familiar with her popular Bear series, but may not be as familiar with her other work. I chose three books that she wrote…
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Story Time Theme: Eric Carle
This fall, I’ll be presenting story time for toddlers (ages 2 – 3.5 years old) as well as our very popular Yoga Story Time for children ages 2 – 5 years old. Rather than focusing on a specific theme, this six-week session, I plan on focusing on a different author…
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Story Time Theme: Library Love
In retrospect, this would have made a great story time at the very beginning of the story time session, with a book on library manners and all the fun things to do at the library! But the kids still had a lot of fun with the theme (and hopefully they…
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Story Time Theme: Stars
STORY TIME – Stars ASL Sign: Stars (using “g” fingers point to the sky and shift hands back and forth) Opening Traditional: Put Your Hands Up In the Air & Open Shut Them Parachute: Parachute Bop (Shakin’ the Chute) Book 1: Stars by, Mary Lyn Ray *** I loved this story! …
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Story Time Theme: Seahorses
I wanted to do a beach/ocean theme for summer, but I’ve done something similar each summer for the past couple of years, so I thought I’d mix it up a little. My traditional story time on Monday was pretty wild (I have a number of children who have trouble sitting…
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Story Time Theme: Camping
This week I focused on camping and hiking, hoping to encourage parents to enjoy the great outdoors with their children. Many of the children had never been camping or hiking before but we also talked about fishing (which many children were familiar with). I also mentioned that the walk down…
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Story Time Theme: Opposites
This week’s story times were a little rough, I caught a doozy of a cold late last week and had laryngitis for story time yesterday morning and couldn’t stop coughing this morning. Thankfully the parents in my story times (for the most part) are very understanding and tried to keep…
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Storytime Theme: Sunflowers
This was our first week back to storytime after a relatively long break and it was so busy! Summer is always really interesting because so many people take a vacation, a lot of families are around that I don’t see very often during the school year and I seem to…
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Story Time Theme: Owls
There are some really great owl books out there and I couldn’t help myself, I just had to do a story time with an owl theme. The great thing about the owl books that I found is that there are a number of great toddler books and some great preschool…
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Story Time Theme: Extreme Interaction
I can see the light at the end of the tunnel! This was my last story time for the spring session and I won’t have story time with these kids in the library again until the end of June. It’s always a little sad to see the kids leave, but…
