Preschool Storytime ~ Scary Stories

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WE read some great scary stories for Halloween during today’s Preschool Storytime!  There were monsters, ghosts and even some creepy carrots.  Here are the books, songs, flannel board, prop story, action rhymes and video we shared. Books We Read     Creepy Carrots written by Aaron Reynolds and illustrated by Peter Brown […]

STEAM Careers in Pasadena: I.T. Specialists

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On July 31st, we had a program for kids 8-12 about exploring the work of some of the specialists in our city’s Department of Information Technology. They showed kids how GIS, or Geographic Information Systems, work and how kids already use GIS all the time in their daily life. They […]

Infant Storytime: Ducks

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Books We Shared Flannel Boards We Shared Six Little Ducks Six little ducks That I once knew Fat ones, skinny ones, Fair ones, too But the one little duck With the feather on his back He led the others With a quack, quack, quack Quack, quack, quack, Quack, quack, quack […]

Toddler Storytime: Ducks

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Books We Shared Flannel Boards We Shared Six Little Ducks Six little ducks That I once knew Fat ones, skinny ones, Fair ones, too But the one little duck With the feather on his back He led the others With a quack, quack, quack Quack, quack, quack, Quack, quack, quack […]

Preschool STEAM ~ non-Newtonian Fluid! (aka Slime)

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Preschool STEAM (for children ages 2-6) is all about having fun with science, math and art!  There is no right or wrong way for children to experiment – the fun and learning comes from the doing!  Early childhood research shows us that little hands and minds learn best when at play. […]

Infant Storytime: Trees

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Books We Shared I Spy We got to meet some puppet animals that live in trees, peeking out of my I Spy Box! Flannel Boards We Shared Little Squirrel, Little Squirrel This flannelboard gave kids practice identifying color names, rhyming words, and left-to-right prereading focus. Little squirrel, little squirrel, time […]

Toddler Storytime: Trees

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Books We Shared I Spy We got to meet some puppet animals that live in trees, peeking out of my I Spy Box! Flannel Boards We Shared Little Squirrel, Little Squirrel This flannelboard gave kids practice identifying color names, rhyming words, and left-to-right prereading focus. Little squirrel, little squirrel, time […]

Kids’ Art Salon ~ Bridges

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Kids’ Art Salon is in it’s fourth year!  To celebrate this milestone AND to pay homage to STEAM 2018, we thought we would focus on architecture & engineering.  Architecture is the perfect choice for Pasadena’s year of STEAM because it incorporates science, technology, engineering, art and math! For our third session of the year, we […]

Circus: Infant Storytime

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Last Tuesday, we visited the circus in books! Books We Shared Flannel Boards We Shared Pete the Clown and his Three Bright Balloons (Credit: Story Time Secrets) (We just did three balloons) Pete the Clown bought three bright balloons at the circus. He was so excited about them, he sang […]

Circus: Toddler Storytime

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Last Tuesday, we visited the circus in books! Books We Shared Flannel Boards We Shared Pete the Clown and his Three Bright Balloons (Credit: Story Time Secrets) (We just did three balloons) Pete the Clown bought three bright balloons at the circus. He was so excited about them, he sang […]