• Activities

    Storytime: Lunar New Year

    Chinese Paper Lanterns

    I’m hosting a special, virtual storytime this morning for my library in celebration of Lunar New Year! There aren’t a ton of Lunar New Year books available and most are specifically about Chinese New Year which is only one of many countries that celebrate Lunar New Year! Vietnam, Korea, Tibet…

  • Activities

    Storytime Theme: Lunar New Year

    dragon

    Happy New Year! Today I’m celebrating Lunar New Year by offering a beautiful storytime to ring in the new year. What many used to call Chinese New Year, Lunar New Year is actually celebrated by many Asian countries including China, Korea, Vietnam and more. This year we celebrate the Year…

  • Reviews

    #blogbookaday: Ruby’s Chinese New Year

    Summary:  “In this picture book celebrating Chinese New Year, animals from the Chinese zodiac help a little girl deliver a gift to her grandmother. Ruby has a special card to give to her grandmother for Chinese New Year. But who will help her get to grandmother’s house to deliver it? Will…

  • Lists

    10 Picture Books for Lunar New Year

    I know that Lunar New Year is celebrated in more than just the Chinese culture, unfortunately, it is extremely difficult to find titles for Lunar New Year celebrations in other Asian countries (although I did find one). I will also note that some of these titles are most likely not…

  • Activities

    Family Storytime Theme: Color Red

    Storytime went pretty well today!  The kids definitely got Red by Michael Hall.  I made sure to talk about it a little bit before we started and the older kids picked up on the fact that the crayon itself was blue, but it’s wrapper was red.   We talked about what…

  • Activities

    Toddler Storytime Theme: Color RED

    My storytime was definitely not my favorite today, the kids didn’t really seem to enjoy the books but were really into our scarf song.  I think part of the reason is that we have a little boy in class with a disability who comes with an adult and an aide…

  • Activities

    Fun Friday Program – Tangram Puzzles

    In the school district where I work the elementary school students have a half day on the second Friday of every month.  Over winter break, I decided that this would be a perfect time to create a program for parents to bring their kids to the library!  Last month, our theme…

  • Activities

    Happy (belated) Chinese New Year

    This year our library teamed up with some high school volunteers for a Chinese New Year Celebration.  The volunteers did an amazing job with a short PowerPoint presentation about Chinese New Year, a lesson on Chinese calligraphy, a story, a Chinese dragon craft, and of course a snack. The children…