Pasadena Public Library
On November 1st, we read books about mice. We watched a cat and mouse play “cat & mouse”, we read about a mouse who was “nobody’s mouse” AND we followed a mouse to his patch. Below are the books, songs & activities we shared. Our Books During our infant storytime, we read Cat & […]
Sad toilets, hungry ghosts, ugly dumplings, and grumpy pets — In today’s storytime, we learned that there’s the perfect time and place for everything. Stories The Saddest Toilet in the World by Sam Apple; illustrated by Sam Ricks: Danny would sit anywhere and everywhere: a comfy couch, a bean bag […]
Today we celebrated scheming, sneaky foxes! Books We Shared The first book we shared was the inspiration for this storytime: Fox and the Jumping Contest by Corey R. Tabor. Fox isn’t the best jumper, but he really wants to win the jumping contest. So, like any scheming fox, he decides […]
This Tuesday we explored books about pumpkins and all things Halloween! We started by following Batty (our library bat) into the storyhour room! At the conclusion of storytime, each of the children picked a “felt” pumpkin from the library’s pumpkin patch and placed it onto the felt board! The end result? A colorful, […]
Last Tuesday we read books about playing and pretending for our Infant and Toddler Storytimes. Here are some of the stories and activities we shared about our theme! Stories During our infant storytime, we read Meeow and the Little Chairs. In Sebastian Braun’s story, Meeow and her friends use their colorful chairs […]
The first meeting of our fall session of Infant and Toddler Storytime was ALL about APPLES – the juicy kind! Here are some of the stories and activities we shared about our theme! Stories During our infant storytime, we read about Pepo and Lolo’s quest to reach a red, juicy apple stuck […]
What happens when you find a giraffe in your soup? When your dog sleepwalks? When you find an elephant and make him your pet? Some very funny shenanigans!!! We read stories about those subjects, sang a song with our egg shakers, participated in some action rhymes, a flannel board story and […]
I started out storytime with a puppet show using a bunch of our Folkmanis puppets of all kinds of birds. I used them to tell the story of Hello, My Name is Ruby by Phillip C. Stead. In my telling, Ruby is a chicken (because I have more chickens than […]
We had fun during our family storytime today! We explored stories about spiders, flies & other creepy crawly creatures. There was even a little bug eating going on…(well we didn’t really eat any bugs, but we did pretend). Below are some of the books, songs & fun activities we shared. BOOKS: Okay…why […]
During preschool storytime a few weeks ago, we shared stories about a type of transportation you make go – Bikes! Books We Shared The first book we read was Bike On, Bear! written by Cynthea Liu, illustrated by Kristyna Litten. Bear is good at almost everything – science, gymastics, helping […]