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Toddler Storytime – Baby Theme
I don’t think I did it on purpose, but all my books this were were about babies! Both of my storytime groups were fairly small today – 10 kids. But for the most part, the kids really enjoyed the stories and loved the teddy bear song from the wiggles. I…
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Pennsylvania's Cruise Into Kindergarten
I’m currently serving on a committee created by the State Library of Pennsylvania to create a smooth transition into Kindergarten for all children in Pennsylvania focused on what the public library can do. We’ve been working for about a year and a half and I am so excited to see some…
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Toddler Storytime – Themeless and Fun!
I don’t know what was going on this morning, but my kids were absolutely amazing in storytime! They loved Mighty Dads (we created hand movements for each type of truck), loved saying “hello” to the pizza man and really boogied with Shake, Rattle, & Roll. Overall, the kids just did a great…
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Toddler Storytime – Tap the Magic Tree (Earth Day)
We’re in a spring mood here (finally!) It’s been raining a lot, the trees are flowering, leaves are beginning to show and I’m ready for the nice weather of spring! My first group of kids were really into Tap the Magic Tree, but other than that were very fidgety and excited and…
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Family Storytime – Tigers
I must be on some sort of subconscious jungle adventure in my head, as last Saturday I did an elephant theme and today I did a tiger theme. I’m not going to argue as both storytimes have gone really well. Although I didn’t have a large group of kids –…
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Toddler Storytime – PA's One Book
Today’s focus for storytime was around the Pennsylvania One Book, Every Young Child Initiative. “One Book, Every Young Child is made possible through a collaboration of the Pennsylvania Department of Education, Pennsylvania Department of Human Services, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, Please Touch Museum, and State Museum of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Library…
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Miss Laura's Favorites #6
It is finally our last week of storytime (2 or 3 weeks longer than usual due to the weather) and I have two weeks off before starting back again for our spring session. After six weeks of choosing “my favorites” rather than choosing theme-related books, I can say it was…
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Miss Laura's Favorites #5
The kids in storytime this morning, were really great – everyone wanted to help me move things, clean things, distribute things, it was almost too helpful. But, they were very attentive to the stories, loved the music and did a great job participating. I had a request for shaker eggs…
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Miss Laura's Favorites #4
I focused this week’s books on very simple books that the kids could “read” with me. It’s not too much of a theme, but the kids loved it! I don’t know if the kids truly got Duck Duck Moose, but they loved shouting out duck and moose as we read…
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Miss Laura's Favorites #3
The weather has been so crazy around here that even though we should be on week five of our six week series, we’ve only had our third storytime. So, needless to say, I haven’t posted many storytime outlines, but we finally had storytime this morning with a large, active crowd…
