Pasadena Public Library
It was all about apples and animals in today’s preschool storytime. We read about a mouse in search of a house big enough to “house” his huge, red apple AND we met a hedgehog hijacked by a falling apple. It was a crunchy, prickly storytime! Here are the books, songs, […]
We had fun this morning with Angie Donkin, dancing with scarves, playing shaker eggs, singing with finger puppets and a little purple puppet named Monster! Dance and Play: Old King Cole: Don Alfredo: If you’d like to find more of Angie’s music for little ones, please check out her YouTube […]
It was all about trees and the seasons in today’s preschool storytime. We read about a very selfish tree and we played along with a magical tree. There was also a draw and tell story we shared called The Sheltering Tree and a flannel board with a green palm tree […]
Today our theme was intended to be about audience participation and recapping past songs and rhymes. I printed out some of the songs we’ve done in the past, and put a couple of new ones on there. I put up a display of some of the books we read in […]
Last Saturday we read some great stories about cats AND helped find a missing kitty named Tippy Toes. We also acted out a story about a dog and a cat who were best friends. Here are the books, songs, flannel board, mini play, action rhymes and video we shared. Books We […]
Today we met a turkey, and then met all of his friends from the farm! Books We Shared I Spy on the Farm by Edward Gibbs invites kids to guess each animal with three clues: the color of the animal, the first letter of its name, and the sound the […]
Books We Shared Breakfast… Uh-oh! Bathtime… Uh-oh! An adorable toddler finds all kinds of occasions for using the phrase in Rachel Isadora’s Uh-oh! Wild Baby by Cori Doerrfeld is a new book, and since it was a bit long for our purposes I just abridged it a little. A baby […]
In last Saturday’s storytime, we shared some great stories and flannel rhymes about DRAGONS – FIRE BREATHING DRAGONS! We also lost a dragon in New York City. That was scary! Here are the books, songs, flannel boards, action rhymes and video we shared. Our Library Dragon – Percy. Books We […]
Books We Shared Ten Tiny Babies features Karen Katz’s adorable illustrations of rolly-polly bouncy babies, and we count them from 1 to 10. Nancy Tafuri is one of the best author/illustrators for babies and toddlers, and in Five Little Chicks some baby chicks and their mother hen have fun exploring […]
Books We Shared Animal Shapes by Christopher Silas Neal was a big hit! Using animals, shapes and lots of creative wordplay, Neal takes the names of shapes and turns them into puns– two giraffes plus a rectangle become a NECK-tangle, and two kittens plus a circle become a PURRR-cle! I […]