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Thrive Thursday: Fun Friday
We offer a lot of programming at our library and I’m lucky enough to plan and implement much of it! One of our most popular program is called “Fun Friday” which I’ve talked about often on my blog. Fun Friday is offered once a month on the Friday that the…
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Yoga Storytime – Summer Week #4
I didn’t see as many kids in my storytime yesterday as I normally do. I’m wondering if it’s a popular week for vacation. Otherwise, the kids seemed to enjoy the books this week – we talked a lot about different types of animals and I was able to introduce parents/caregivers…
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Preschool Storytime – PA's One Book
Like my toddler storytime yesterday morning, this week we presented Pennsylvania’s One Book, Every Young Child choice for 2015. But, unlike the toddler storytime, I also added a number of different elements to really connect with these older children. I’ve been doing a toddler storytime for the past seven years…
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Dance Party + New Music = More FUN
We had our BEST dance party yet! I intermixed some oldies, but goodies into my children’s music playlist and had a number of parents comment about how much they really enjoyed the music selection. And for anyone who has never done this before… after 45 minutes of dancing the kids…
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My New Ukulele
Probably six months ago, I mentioned to my boyfriend that I thought it would be cool to buy a ukulele and learn how to play it for storytime. It was one of those things I mentioned, somewhat in passing and at the time didn’t have the money to spend. Lo…
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Preschoool Storytime
For the winter session, I’m getting the chance to offer a parachute preschool storytime for children ages 3.5 – 5 years old. I’m really excited to be given the opportunity to work with a little bit of an older group of kids – I normally am in charge of toddler…
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Fun Friday: Dance Party
I was going to go with a mock Caldecott event for my Fun Friday program last week. But at the last minute, decided to change the plan to have a dance party… The kids are at that point in the school year where they need a break and don’t want…
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Preschool Dance Party
I only ended up with six kids for this afternoon’s program (19 were registered), but we had a great time! The kids were super energetic, ready to dance and didn’t stop for over 30 minutes. We took one reading break and with only six kids we spent a lot of time…
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Toddler Dance Party
We had a lot of fun at our toddler dance party this morning. It’s so interesting to see what kids do – some come in ready to dance, others take a while to warm up, but end up dancing in the end. Our program lasted about 45 minutes with some…
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Movement & Play
My mom just sent me an article written in The Washington Post about ADHD and children in school. The article states that diagnosis for ADHD is up to 11% in 2011 from just 7.8% in 2003. There are a number of theories about the reason for this rise in fidgeting…