Feelings and Emotions

Teaching children to learn and recognize their feelings is very important.  This is why we created this storytime. Books: “The Way I feel” by Janan […]

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Hot off the shelves

National Library Week is over, but it did not pass by without some great thoughts of libraries doing good things.  There was this NPR piece […]

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Shadows

Shadows are awesome.  And they are everywhere.  And kids seem to like to talk about them.  At least they did when we introduced our topic […]

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Pandas

Books: “Panda Kindergarten” by Joanne Ryder, photographs by Katherine Feng. “Pi-Shu the Little Panda” by John Butler While reading about Pi-Shu, I held a panda […]

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Robots

I am back to teaching Explorastory this month and have already planned a storytime. Last week I chose the theme of Robots. Books: Books:  “Hello […]

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Libraries

Today’s storytime was about one my favorite places…the library! There are so many fun stories about the library that are excellent to read out loud. Books:My […]

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Reader to Reader

A Family of Readers: The Book Lover’s Guide to Children’s and Young Adult Literature by Roger Sutton and Martha Parravano, editors of The Horn Book […]

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