Pasadena Public Library
“If a child can’t learn the way we teach, than maybe we should teach the way they learn” ~ Ignacio Estrada Sensory Storytime is a fun, interactive, educational storytime designed for preschool age children with autism and/or sensory challenges. It involves books, songs, movement and therapeutic play that incorporate the five senses. Sensory […]
At today’s storytime all the infants got hats! Stories Whose Hat is That? by Anita Bijsterbosch — A hat is blown by the wind from this animal to that animal, until finally a dog brings it to its rightful owner. We took our hats and waved them in the air […]
At today’s storytime all the toddlers got hats! Stories Whose Hat is That? by Anita Bijsterbosch — A hat is blown by the wind from this animal to that animal, until finally a dog brings it to its rightful owner. We took our hats and waved them in the air […]
This weekend we shared stories about art and creativity, and children did some art of their own! Stories Louise Loves Art by Kelly Light – After drawing a picture of her cat, a young girl searches for the perfect place to hang her masterpiece. Meanwhile, her little brother creates his […]
With our first Toddler Storytime of the Winter 2017 session, we all said Hello! to one another and Hello! during all the stories we read. It was a great way to kick off what is sure to be a wonderful ten weeks. Books We Shared There are lots of […]
Today was the first storytime of our Winter Session, and what a better way to kick things off than with a big HELLO! All our stories today were about different ways of greeting each other and saying hi. Books We Shared We began infant storytime with Hello Baby! by […]
Yesterday, our Creative Writing for Beginning Readers Workshop was inspired by the picture book Little Red Writing, written by Joan Holub and illustrated by Melissa Sweet. In the story, Little Red (a pencil in pencil school) goes on a journey to find words that she can put in her word […]
This week we shared stories about apples–troubles with apples, the shape and simple perfection of apples, and mystery apples. Stories Letting Go by Janet Morgan Stoeke: Pip, Midge, and Dot are enjoying the shade under an apple tree when fruit starts falling around them, causing the hens to suspect […]
We had some great guest scorekeepers at our Lucha Libros battle last night. One of them was our new Library Director, Michelle Perera! She stopped by after work to check out the event and when she saw we were short on people, she jumped in and lent a hand! A parent […]
Our Fall Toddler Storytime Groups! Shiver me timbers! We had some pirate fun during our final Toddler Storytimes of the fall session – AARRRGH! After reading a book about some little pirates taking a bubble bath, we blew some bubbles and tried to catch them while listening to the Gymboree song: Bubbles, […]