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2014 CLEL Bell Award Winner Announcement
Yesterday, February 5, 2014 the winners of the CLEL Bell Picture Book Awards for Early Literacy were announced. If you didn’t even know this award existed, have no fear! CLEL stand for Colorado Libraries for Early Literacy and it’s mission is, “All children deserve the joy of reading and the skills in…
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Story Time Planning
I’m always curious when a new session of story time comes around to see how the adults react in story time. I am much more patient with children in story time, than I am with their caregivers. Children, especially the toddlers I hang out with, (2 – 3 1/2 year…
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Sensory Bag Possibilities…
I was on Pinterest one day and found these really cool sensory bags and thought that they might be an interesting idea to try for story time. Before I decided to make 30 of them, I decided to try it out with my friend’s little girl who is about 2…
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Story Time Theme: Eric Carle
This fall, I’ll be presenting story time for toddlers (ages 2 – 3.5 years old) as well as our very popular Yoga Story Time for children ages 2 – 5 years old. Rather than focusing on a specific theme, this six-week session, I plan on focusing on a different author…
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Yoga Storytime for Toddlers
I know what many of you are thinking… yoga AND toddlers?!?!?! We’ve done one yoga storytime last year and it was so popular, we’re bringing it back again! A few housekeeping things before I explain what we do: I am not a yoga instructor, but I’ve done some yoga in…
