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Story Time Mission

Our mission is to promote early literacy, pre-reading, and pre-school readiness for children of all ages. We encourage grown ups to sit with their children, participating in the activities as able. Storytime is lots of fun and children actively learn by watching modeled behavior. So, jump in and have fun with us!

Melting Snowmen

2/27/2019

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Books Shared:

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Sneezy the Snowman
Maureen Wright
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All You Need for a Snowman
​Alice Schertle
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Snowmen All Year
Caralyn Buehner
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Literacy Tip:

Encourage vocabulary development by taking a main word from the book you are sharing and exploring it further.  Before sharing the books this week, we talked about the word "snowman" and how it is made up of 2 smaller words - "snow" and "man."  The children discovered that the word defines the object as it is a "man" made out of "snow."  We then took it a step further and came up with different ending, like "woman" "dog" "baby", and "boy" to name a few. This simple activity, with no preparation needed, introduced compound words to an audience you might not think ready to learn about this concept.

Songs & Activities:

Song/Movement
The Snowman Pokey
(Sung to the tune of "The Hokey Pokey")
You put your twig arm in,
You put your twig arm out,
You put your twig arm in,
And you shake it all about.

You do the snowman pokey and you turn yourself around,
That's what it's all about. (clap to the beat)

Continue with other snowman parts:
top hat
carrot nose
buttons
bottom snowball
​cold self
Activity
Snowman Sensory Bags
Partially fill a Ziploc baggie with shaving cream and add 6 black buttons and a carrot nose (we used fun foam, but you can even use a mini carrot) Seal the bag on all 4 sides with packing tape.  Start by exploring the sense of touch, encouraging your child to squish the bag, then using a finger, "draw" on the bag, and once they are ready for a challenge, have your child try to move the buttons and carrot nose around to create a snowman!
Craft
Melting Snowmen
Cut three snowballs out of white cardstock (small, medium, and large)
Attach with brads
Add features like buttons, twig arms, top hat, nose, eyes, and a mouth using materials you have around your house. 
Your child can now "melt" his/her snowman by twisting the snowballs into the middle!

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Sweet Winter Treat

2/20/2019

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Books Shared:

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Winter Woes
​Marty Kelley
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Snowball Fight!
Jimmy Fallon
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Literacy Tip:

Develop your child's vocabulary by reading a wide variety of titles.  When you come across a word you know your child has not encountered, use the word, and immediately follow it with a more common synonym.  Another way to increase vocabulary is to encourage your child to share words that come to his/her mind when they he/she hears a particular word.  An example used in storytime was the word: "cocoa."  When asked what the children think of, they came up with words like "hot", "yummy", and "chocolate". Taking this exercise a step further, the children were encouraged to think of another word that was like "yummy" and they came up with "delicious!" 

Songs & Activities

Song
​Hot Chocolate
(sung to the tune of "On Top of Old Smokey")
​
Do you like hot chocolate?
Marshmallows on top.
It's warm & delicious,
Marshmallows on top.

Whenever it's cold out,
I like it a lot!
And do you know the best part?
Marshmallows on top!
Craft Idea
Cocoa Cozies
​Purchase paper coffee mugs with cardboard sleeves. Provide stickers and other fun craft materials to decorate the cozie. Fill the cup with lukewarm cocoa and give your child the chance to add marshmallows (of course)!
Activity
Indoor Snowball FIght
​Use large white pom poms to create some indoor fun on a cold, dreary day. Set safety boundaries and use a safe space, then jump in and have fun with the kids!  This is as much fun for adults as it is for children. Other things to try include: making forts with shipping boxes, wearing mittens during the game, and trying other fun snowball activities, like the ones below from Pinterest.

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Shoes & Socks

2/6/2019

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Books Shared:

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Bear Needs Help
Sarah S. Brannen
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I Have a Balloon
Ariel Bernstein
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Literacy Tip:

Children benefit from noticing and talking about similarities and differences in shapes, colors, and sizes.  In the story I Have a Balloon, monkey tries to keep owl from realizing his balloon popped by offering other red things as substitutes. This is a great opportunity to discuss the differences in size and shape of similar colored items. This kind of activity is a precursor to learning to recognize letters (which children learn based on their shape), and developing skills necessary for learning to read.

Songs & Activities

This Is What My Feet Can Do

This is what my feet can do, feet can do, feet can do.
This is what my feet can do, can you do it too?

Let your feet go hop, hop, hop; hop, hop, hop; hop, hop, hop
Let your feet go hop, hop,.hop, all around the room.

Continue with other foot motions like:
slide, slide, slide
moonwalk, moonwalk, moonwalk
shuffle, shuffle, shuffle
skip, skip, skip
heel walk, heel walk, heel walk
dance, dance, dance
run in place, run in place, run in place
tap your toes, tap your toes, tap your toes
do the twist, do the twist, do the twist
march, march, march
etc.
Borrowed from - Source: ACLA Youth Services

Shoe Bingo

Create a fun game for your children easily following the following instructions:
1) Cut themed photos from old magazines or print and cut images from the web.
2) Glue images to a heavy piece of paper/cardstock.
3) Cut a second set of images or write a corresponding word on separate slips of paper. Create extra images so not every call is a match.
4) Provide your children with paint daubers or large trinkets like jumbo buttons, checkers, etc.
5) Show a picture or call out a word & guide your children to cover the image if they have one.
6) The first one to cover a straight line of images, or the whole sheet depending on how you want to play the game, is the winner.

Shoe Craft

Provide your child with an outline image of a sneaker or other shoe.  Encourage your child to use paint, crayons, stickers, pom poms, buttons, string, etc., to design a fun pair of shoes.  Cut around the images, add yarn to the tops of both and hang them over a piece of string.

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    Hello Song
    Hello friends,
    Hello friends,
    Hello friends,
    It's time to say hello.
    Goodbye Song
    Goodbye friends,
    Goodbye friends
    ​Goodbye friends,
    It's time to say goodbye

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  • HOME
  • CATALOG
    • CATALOG TUTORIAL
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    • BOOKLIST READER
    • LIBRARY APPS >
      • UDEMY
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    • YOUTH EVENTS
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