Pasadena Public Library
We had lots of fun during our preschool storytime last Saturday! Whales snuck into each of our stories – whales that grew too large to keep in the bathtub, whales with advice and whales that appeared in a great “messterpiece” created by an “ocean” artist. Sound strange? Maybe. But remember, nothing’s impossible […]
WHOOOOO loves owls? We did, in Saturday’s preschool storytime! Books We Shared Everyone ones that owls are wise, but in Sean Taylor’s Hoot Owl Master of Disguise, illustrated by Jean Jullien, Hoot Owl shows us some other… skills that he has. Flying through the cover of darkness, Hoot Owl hunts […]
In July we launched a new program: “Art & Play” for children ages 2-6. One Monday morning each month, we’ll focus on a process-based art project. With process art, the fun is all in the doing, and you happen to end up with an art piece at the end! For […]
At today’s storytime we talked about the moon, one of the key players in Monday’s solar eclipse! Books We Shared Our first story, Mae and the Moon by Jami Gigot, is about a girl who thinks of the moon as her friend, and feels sad when the moon seems to dwindle […]
Our 7th storytime of the summer session was all about Fish! Fish sure are slippery! Here are the stories, songs, rhymes, flannel boards, activities and video we explored about our topic. Books We Shared In Hooray for Fish by Lucy Cousins we run into a variety of fish! This is a colorful, boldly illustrated book that captures […]
Our 6th storytime of the summer session was all about Food! We also had a visit from Max the Mouse and he ate all of our strawberries!! I guess mice really do love to eat! Here are the stories, songs, rhymes, flannel boards, activities and video we explored about our topic. Max the Mouse Books […]
Our fifth storytime of the summer session was all about Butterflies! We even got a visit from Mary Mariposa, our Monarch butterfly. (See below). She charmed us as she flitted about the room to prepare us for the stories, songs, rhymes, flannels and video we shared. Books We Shared In Julie Sebastien’s Where’s […]
Last Saturday’s Sensory Art & Craft Making program at Lamanda Park Branch Library made a BIG SPLASH (pun intended). Over 20 young artists and their families set out to make “sandpaper” starfish, “squiggly” jellyfish and “squirmy” octopuses (just to name a few). An entire wall of Lamanda Park’s meeting room was turned into an […]
Our fourth storytime of the summer session was all about colors! Here are the books, songs, rhymes, flannel activity and video we shared. Books We Shared In Sebastien Braun’s Meeow and the Blue Table, we are introduced to Meeow. Meeow is a black cat. Meeow invites his friends over to play but it’s raining. What […]
We had lots of fun during our preschool storytime last Saturday! We read books about bears, listened to a little flannel story about 10 teddy bears, sang songs and partook in some finger plays. All that and a video too. Here is a listing of what we shared. Books We Shared In […]