Pasadena Public Library
Our theme for the FIFTH storytime of the spring session was PANDAS! We read about Panda’s play date with his friend Fox and we read a rhyming board book about five very hungry pandas. What follows are the books, bounces, nursery rhymes, fingerplays and flannel boards we shared. BOOKS WE SHARED In Play Date for Panda, Panda goes […]
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 first session of the year, we covered […]
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. […]
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 Wednesday April 25, 2018 kids came to Pasadena Library to learn about elastic energy and the Law of Conservation of Energy, and then build a helicopter that would rise up in the air despite its weight. We attached helium balloons to a homemade helicopter that runs on elastic energy, […]
Today we talked about our five senses, played with shakers and bubbles and had an argument with a puppet! Books We Shared Whenever I read Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and illustrated by Tom Lichtenheld, I like to stage an argument with a duck puppet. The duck is convinced that we […]
Our theme for the fourth storytime of the spring session was Birds that Hatch! We read about a little chick, a silly goose and tried to figure out which egg housed Baby Duck! Here are the stories, songs, rhymes, bounces and flannelboard we shared. he first book we read during our storytime […]
For the fourth meeting of our spring session we read books about birds that hatch out of eggs! We read about a silly goose and a little chick and we watched three creatures hatch…one wasn’t exactly what we expected! Here are the books, rhymes, fingerplays, flannel boards, action songs and video we shared. Books […]
Last week we had our Kids’ Writing Workshop Creation Stations program, and celebrated National Poetry Month with Haikubes, Paint Chip Poetry, Reverse Poetry and Blackout Poetry: Kids got to spend 10-15 minutes at a time at each station and then move on to another activity. Their creativity was constantly flowing, […]
By Illyanna Logan Last Thursday we had our April session of the Kids Coding Club, where we did a project that explored using coding to make digital art. We tried an activity from Coding Projects in Scratch by Jon Woodcock, where we used Scratch to create a spiralizer that made […]