Today’s Infant Storytime was full of bathtime fun! We sang our opening song, “Clap Everybody and Say Hello.” Then everybody got a scarf, and we did our songs One Bright Scarf and Peekaboo. Then we read a cute book about a small elephant who does NOT like bathtime, and how […]
Kids’ Writing Workshop: What’s your TRUE name?
Published on :To help kids brainstorm for our Young Readers’ League writing contest, we did writing exercises from the book Leap Write In! by Karen Benke, writing poem sentences and answering writing prompts about what our name means or what an ideal name would be for us. Here is what the kids came […]
Creative Writing for Beginning Readers: Flipping Out Over Alliteration
Published on :In today’s Creative Writing for Beginning Readers workshop, we created funny flip books with very random, strange characters whose traits were based on silly alliterations. We learned that alliteration means that all of the words in a sentence or phrase begin with the same letter sound. So we had animals like […]
Toddler Storytime: Trucks
Published on :Today’s Toddler Storytime was a celebration of noisy, hardworking, fun-to-ride-in trucks! Everybody got a truck to hold and then we sang a song about the colors to the tune of “If You’re Happy And You Know It”: If you’ve got a blue truck, hold it up If you’ve got a blue […]
Infant Storytime: Trucks
Published on :Today’s Infant Storytime was a celebration of noisy, hardworking, fun-to-ride-in trucks! Everybody got a truck to hold and then we sang a song about the colors to the tune of “If You’re Happy And You Know It”: If you’ve got a blue truck, hold it up If you’ve got a […]
Toddler Storytime: Hats
Published on :On Tuesday our Toddler Storytime was all about hats! We gave each child a silly animal hat (though some kids may not like hats and in that case their caregivers donned the hats instead). We sang our opening song, then sang Open Shut Them, Peekaboo and then read the book Whose Hat Is That? […]
Infant Storytime: Hats
Published on :On Tuesday our Infant Storytime was all about hats! We gave each child a silly animal hat (though some babies may not like hats and in that case their caregivers donned the hats instead). We sang our opening song, then did Peekaboo and then read the book Whose Hat Is That? by Anita Bijsterbosch, […]
Family Storytime – Happy Halloween – October 31
Published on :[It was ALL about Halloween during today’s storytime – pumpkins, ghosts, monsters & witches came out of the woodwork. Here are some of the books, action rhymes & flannel/prop stories we shared: OPENING SONG: Clap Everybody and Say Hello! ACTION RHYME: Open Shut Them FIRST BOOK Little Boo by Steven Wunderly Little […]
Infant Storytime: Dressing Up
Published on :At today’s storytime many of the babies came dressed up as cute little pumpkins, animals or movie characters in celebration of Halloween this week! Our theme was stories about dressing up, appropriate to the occasion. First we distributed colorful scarves to everyone, and we learned a song: One bright scarf […]
Toddler Storytime: Dressing Up
Published on :At today’s storytime most of the kids came dressed up as cute little pirates, princesses, TV characters and animals in celebration of Halloween this week! Our theme was stories about dressing up, appropriate to the occasion. First we distributed colorful scarves to everyone, and we learned a song: One bright […]