Summer Storytimes: Stories in the Park
Every summer my library takes storytime out to two local parks for eight weeks. It’s so nice to be outdoors! There isn’t any grassy space right at our library so it is great to get out to places where...
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Prompted by Abby the Librarian’s Summer Reading posts, here’s a description of how summer reading works at my library. We kick off the first Sunday in June with Children’s Day on the Ped Mall....
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Weekly Roundup: Kids’ Tech Sites, Dec 4
Make Music Controlled Christmas Lights from Instructables – I’m sure there’s some way our youth puppeteers could incorporate these, right? Egallery for the Australian Summer Reading Program. It’s...
View ArticleWeekly Roundup: Kids Tech Sites February 5
The second session of Kids Tech Club started this week and, wow! I love this part of my job. Sixteen kids are registered for this session so I was both exhausted and exhilarated after our first hour. I...
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Flannel Friday: Spaceships Flannel & Template
I’ve been busy pinning summer reading program ideas and loved the idea of a Pin the Spaceship on the Planet game at BuboBlog. I made Saturn since it’s the snazziest planet and a simple spaceship...
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Flannel Friday: Nocturnal Animals Flannelboard
A storytime theme sure to come up at some point during the Summer Reading Program is nocturnal animals. Beginning with one of the owls I made from Sunflower Storytime’s template, I made animals to...
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Summer Switch: From Tech Club to Tech Camp
During the school year, Kids Tech Club met once a week for six weeks. Knowledge builds from one week to the next week so it works best for the kids that don’t miss many weeks. During the summer that...
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Flannel Friday: Night Background and The Moon
The main flannelboard at my library is red with a magnetic background. It’s on wheels with a magnetic whiteboard and works really well, but the red is just not a good fit for some flannel stories and...
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Nocturnal Animals Storytime
A Nocturnal Animals storytime was inevitable this summer with the flannels I’ve created for the summer reading theme, Dream Big Read. The children were attentive and picked up on things like the...
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