Listen, Learn, Create Celebrates Lunar New Year with USC Pacific Asia Museum

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On Monday, we had a visit from Valentina Quezada and other representatives of the USC Pacific Asia Museum for their free art program, Listen, Learn, Create! Each quarter they come and bring stories and art projects to teach kids about Asian arts and cultures. Valentina read a folk tale called […]

December Craft: Jewelry Workshop for Kids

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Monday’s jewelry making workshop for kids had a very special guest instructor. Kaitlyn was once a kid who came to a library craft program where she was introduced to jewelry making skills and equipment, and she was hooked! She checked out this book: and developed a passion for making her […]

Dressing Up: Toddler Storytime

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In my last email, I invited everyone to come to storytime in a costume if they’d like. There were many adorable and creative costumes! Here are some group photos I took: 10 am group: 11 am group: Books We Shared I love the wearable books by Donald Lemke and Bob […]

Dressing Up: Infant Storytime

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In my last email, I invited everyone to come to storytime in a costume if they’d like. There were many adorable and creative costumes! Here are some group photos I took: Books We Shared Our first book for Infant Storytime was one I think I might have bought from the […]

Project Designation: Valentine’s Day Arts and Crafts

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On Saturday, February 9th, high school students from Arcadia High School came and presented a fun and informative workshop on graphic design to kids in grades 5-8. The tween participants learned about color theory and fonts. Then tweens had the opportunity to put that knowledge to use making cards and […]

Thanksgiving: Preschool Storytime

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Books We Shared Flannel Boards We Shared Four Silly Turkeys Based on the book Five Silly Turkeys by Salina Yoon Action Songs & Bounces We Shared We share a lot of songs, bounces & rhymes during storytime! You’ll find lyrics/words to those songs & rhymes we shared without CD accompaniment here. Mr. Turkey […]

Eggs: Preschool Storytime

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For our Easter Weekend Preschool Storytime, we read books about eggs! Books We Shared Our first story, A Friend for Bo by Elisabeth Zuniga, tells about a cute bunny rabbit who tries to make friends with an egg, but finds his new friend isn’t much good at talking, playing or anything […]

Valentine’s Day: Toddler Storytime

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On February 14th, Valentine’s Day, we shared books about love and flannel stories about this American holiday! Books We Shared Did You Know That I Love You? by Christa Pierce – In rhyming text, Bird reminds Fox of the many ways she shows her love for him, reminiscent of the […]

Valentine’s Day: Infant Storytime

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On February 14th, Valentine’s Day, we shared books about love and flannel stories about this American holiday! Books We Shared Did You Know That I Love You? by Christa Pierce – In rhyming text, Bird reminds Fox of the many ways she shows her love for him, reminiscent of the […]

Family Storytime: Using Our Manners

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We started our storytime with the song “The More We Get Together” by Raffi and read stories about the importance of using our manners whenever we have a get together with friends and family during the holidays. We read the book Manners are Not for Monkeys by Heather Tekavec and […]