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Story Time Theme – Paul Schmid
This week our story time author/illustrator was Paul Schmid. He writes and illustrates absolutely beautiful and adorable stories for little ones. Unfortunately, these stories were a little too long for my crowd, but would most likely work for an older audience in preschool. I did blowup balloons for the kids…
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Story Time Theme: Kevin Henkes
This week I focused on books written and illustrated by Kevin Henkes. And for some reason I had a lot of interest checking out the books after story time, Henkes books, I think, might work better in a one-on-one setting as many of his books are quiet books that can…
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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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Sensory Bag Possibilities…
I was on Pinterest one day and found these really cool sensory bags and thought that they might be an interesting idea to try for story time. Before I decided to make 30 of them, I decided to try it out with my friend’s little girl who is about 2…
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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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Storytime Theme: Jungle
We haven’t planned many weekend programs for our library, I work so much during the week, I’m hesitant to work some more on the weekend! But, I do work a couple of Saturdays throughout the year. We’re beginning to think about offering more on the weekends so we did a…
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Flora and the Flamingo
This is an adorable wordless picture book about a little who wants nothing more than to be as graceful as the flamingo she sees. She is decked out in a yellow swimming cap and flippers with a pink bathing suit. She begins by copying exactly what the flamingo is doing…
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Apps in the Library
I’ve been wrestling with this idea for awhile now, apps in the library, but I’ve finally figured out my personal viewpoint on them. For a long time it was advised to keep young children (under the age of 2) from screens, but in today’s screen-needy world, that’s almost impossible. And…
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Yes, Let’s
I wish I would have seen this book before I did a camping themed story time this summer! Yes, Let’s with its rhyming couplets and repetitive “let’s” shows how much fun spending the day outdoors can be! The illustrations are also a lot of fun with things to find and…
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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…