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Picture Book Month Theme: Under the Sea
You’ll be seeing a lot of picture books on my blog throughout the month of November as we celebrate Picture Book Month. You’ll definitely want to check out the website as picture book authors and illustrators will be posting an essay each day about the importance of picture books! Check…
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Picture Book Month Theme: Pirates
You’ll be seeing a lot of picture books on my blog throughout the month of November as we celebrate Picture Book Month. You’ll definitely want to check out the website as picture book authors and illustrators will be posting an essay each day about the importance of picture books! Check…
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25 Summer Reads from Picture Books to YA Novels
The Raft by Jim LaMarche Come On, Rain! by Karen Hesse Summer Days and Nights by Wong Herbert Yee To the Beach by Linda Ashman The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant Scaredy Squirrel at the Beach by Melanie Watt Pool by Chi-hyŏn Yi One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab by…
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Blogging A to Z: Pirates
During the month of April, I’ll be participating in the Blogging From A to Z Challenge. My theme for the month is Storytime Plans From A to Z. Each plan will have eight stories as well as four songs, fingerplays or rhymes to match the theme! As you can see,…
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Yoga Storytime – Summer Week #3
Storytime was a lot of fun today! The kids in my first group were excellent at paying attention to directions, listening to the stories and interacting. It was a great way to come back from a long weekend. My second group was smaller, but the kids enjoyed it just as…
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The Raft
I’ll be honest, this was another one of those books that piqued my interest just by the cover art. I recently read Unbroken, written by Laura Hillenbrand, a true story about a man whose B-24 bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean, afterward he spent 47 days floating on a raft…
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Story Time Goes to the Beach
This week’s theme for story time was the beach. It’s a quick and easy theme to do because many of our patrons visit the shore during the summer time! We learned the sign language word for ocean, listened to My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean and we shared three beach-themed stories. All You…