Pasadena Public Library
Our Family Storytime started with a hoot and a holler! Well, maybe not a holler but a hoot! Sorry, couldn’t resist the “owl” humor. We read books about some very eccentric owls. We also watched as a few bits of paper (blown around by the wind) were transformed into various creatures. […]
In Infant Storytime on Tuesday we did some bedtime stories, and talked about going to sleep and waking up. We started with our Opening Song Clap Everybody and Say Hello, and our Scarf Song. We also waved our scarves gently to the rhythm of the nursery rhyme Rockabye Baby. Then […]
We started our storytime today with scarves, and sang a song: One bright scarf waiting for the wind to blow Toss it up high and wave it down low Wiggle it fast and wiggle it slow (hide the scarf) Hey! Where did it go? (Source: adapted from a song found […]
Today we did a lot of animal talk–woof, meow, ribbit, roar, quack, and oink! We all put on animal hats and played Peekaboo: We read I Can Roar! by Frank Asch, with large holes in each page of this board book so you can stick your face in and “be” […]
Today’s theme was food, and our tactile thing was shaker eggs. They’re shaped like eggs, and they have beans inside, so…. yeah! I did more books this time than usual. Some themes suggest so many good books I just can’t pick only two! We sang “Clap Everybody and Say Hello” […]
Today we made the story room into an ice cream shop, and made “ice cream cones” out of coffee filters and colorful plastic balls! We counted scoops, talked about flavors and colors, and made it into a game emphasizing early literacy. We sang a song called “You Be The Ice […]
We read some fun BOOKS about bears! THERE was a bear bored with his surroundings who visited his friends in their natural habitats, a bear who loves red, ripe strawberries and STOMPS through the forest when he smells one, and a bear who remembers a wondrous place that is now only a distant dream until a little girl […]
I love to start storytimes with some kind of sensory activity, after our opening song. So today we did a “science” experiment — what rolls, and what doesn’t? (Many thanks to the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives for this idea which I found in their Cars storytime resources!) We […]
We started out today’s Infant and Toddler Storytimes with some real seashells for the kids to hold. We talked about how they felt and what colors they were. Then we sang “Clap Everybody and Say Hello” and met my friend Mr. Octopus who was hiding in our I Spy Box! […]
What’s black and white and lots of fun? Storytime about Pandas, of course! Books We Shared In infant storytime, we began with a book about two bears that could not seem more different: Panda Big and Panda Small by Jane Cabrera. This book highlights a lot of fun opposites, […]