Pasadena Public Library
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. Architecture is the perfect choice for Pasadena’s year of STEAM because it incorporates science, technology, engineering, art and math! For our second session of the year, we covered […]
Today we took our Toddler Storytime to the zoo! Books We Shared In Still a Gorilla by Kim Norman and Chad Geran, a gorilla named Willy imagines that he could be another kind of animal. If he roars like a lion, will Willy be a lion? Will he? We did […]
Today we took our Infant Storytime to the zoo! Books We Shared Roar, Roar Baby by Karen Katz follows Baby around the zoo looking for tiger behind flaps that lift to expose other hidden animals. Anita Bijsterbosch’s Everyone Is Yawning also sports adorable flaps to lift, that show animals yawning […]
We had lots of fun reading about farm animals in Tuesday’s toddler storytime! We even followed a day in the life of a chick! Let’s just say it was an “eye-opening” journey. What follows are the stories, flannel board, action rhymes, songs, activities and video we shared. BOOKS WE SHARED In Chick by […]
We made lots of animals noises while reading about farm animals in Tuesday’s Infant Storytime! We also had a really funny encounter with a little chick. Here are the books, rhymes, songs, bounces and tickle we shared. BOOKS WE SHARED In Chick by Ed Vere, we meet “Chick” – a […]
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. […]
On May 26th we had a delightful program presented by Orange County Opera and sponsored by the Pasadena Opera Guild, giving kids a hilarious introduction to opera by performing a version of Donizetti’s Elixir of Love in English. It was, to my knowledge, our first-ever opera program at Pasadena Public […]
Earlier this month we had a great graphic design workshop taught by teens, for teens and tweens. The instructors are from Arcadia High School and they have created their own nonprofit organization called Project Designation, and they visit schools and libraries teaching kids graphic design concepts and leading them in […]
We had lots of fun reading about things that float up in the sky – clouds, balloons, and even little boys named Ben. Wait! What? IF you want to find out what really happened to Ben, take a look at the books, flannel stories, finger plays and video we shared. […]
In our first storytime for Summer session, we celebrated cats. Books We Shared I had some puppet help while reading Matilda’s Cat by Emily Gravett. The book is about listing all the things that Matilda’s cat supposedly likes to do, but we see in the pictures that the cat is […]