Our summer reading program kicks off next week. The theme this year is One World, Many Places. We have lots of guests invited to come share about place they have been to or are from and we will have the puppet and magic shows this summer.
Come join us this summer. Sign up starts on May 31st, there will be a kick off gathering on the 1st at 10:30 at the library for those that can attend. Hope to see you there.
Friday, May 27, 2011
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Where is SUMMER!
What is SUMMER?
Summer was the topic of our storytime today. Perfect day for it as it was snowing!!! This is the tree out front of the library.
We read the following books:
Summer by Acorn
Thumper's Summer Day
and Summer Stink's by Marty Kelley
Craft for the day was to make a paper plate sun.
I took small paper plates and had them painted yellow. I did this in advance to save time. Then you draw a face on the plate.
Take orange and yellow construction paper and trace child hand and cut out. Depending on what size plate you use will determine how many hands you need. I used small plates and figured 4 hands of each color would work. If your child has a very small hand you will need more.
Glue the yellow hands around the back and then the orange ones for the rays for your suns. Let dry and display. Here are pictures of the kids with their suns.
Summer was the topic of our storytime today. Perfect day for it as it was snowing!!! This is the tree out front of the library.We read the following books:
Summer by Acorn
Thumper's Summer Day
and Summer Stink's by Marty Kelley
Craft for the day was to make a paper plate sun.
I took small paper plates and had them painted yellow. I did this in advance to save time. Then you draw a face on the plate.
Take orange and yellow construction paper and trace child hand and cut out. Depending on what size plate you use will determine how many hands you need. I used small plates and figured 4 hands of each color would work. If your child has a very small hand you will need more.
Glue the yellow hands around the back and then the orange ones for the rays for your suns. Let dry and display. Here are pictures of the kids with their suns.
Thanks for coming everyone.Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Water Week at the Library!
Today we talked about water at the library.
We shared stories with the kids about people and things that you do in and around water. Some of the stories we share this week were:
Ladybug Girl at the Beach by David Soman and Jacky Davis
A Cool Drink of Water by Barbara Kerley
A fish out of water
Craft for this week we made water rings. You take a large craft button, 1 piece of pipe cleaner and cut a small piece of sponge. You thread the pipe cleaner through the button and twist it around your finger like a ring, take the piece of sponge and place it over the twist then twist the pipe cleaner around to hold the sponge. Then you take and fold the pipe cleaner down to the sides and and cut of the ends ( you don't want the sharp ends to poke anyone). You may place a jewel type decoration on the top with glue if desired. Then you can wet the sponge, shake hands with someone and get there hand all wet. Kids love them, even boys!
We shared stories with the kids about people and things that you do in and around water. Some of the stories we share this week were:
Ladybug Girl at the Beach by David Soman and Jacky Davis
A Cool Drink of Water by Barbara Kerley
A fish out of water
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
FROGS!!!!!!!
Today we talked about Frogs. The books we read where:
5 Green and Specked Frogs
Frog on a Log
The Wide-Mouthed Frog, by Keith Faulkner - illustrated by Jonathon Lambert
We also showed the kids pictures of different frogs and showed them they could be many different colors than green, from a book by Thomas Marent called frog.
Some other great books that you could share with the kids about frogs are:
There was an old monkey who swallowed a frog by Jennifer Ward, illustred by Steve Gray.
Finklehopper Frog by Irene Livingston
Bye-Bye, Big Bad BullyBug by Ed Emberley
Too Many Frogs! by Sandy Asher
Stick by Steve Breen
Frog Went a-Courtin', pictures by Feodor Rojankosky
Our craft today was to make a frog puppet. Supplies needed are a brown sandwich bag; red, green, black and white contact paper. You can have the kids color or paint the paper bag however they would like. We had them color on them however they wanted.
From the green paper you need 2 large circles and 2 arms. From the red a strip for the tounge and from the white and black 2 circles. The white needs to be a little smaller than the green ones and the black need to be the smallest.
Glue the black circle to the white one and then glue to the green circle. Glue this to the part of the bag that would be the bottom if the bag was opened. Take the red strip and glue it under the flap, you can take a pencil and curl this to make the tounge curl. take the 2 arm peices and glue them to the sides, make sure you don't glue the sides together or it might tear when you place your hands inside the bag to make your puppet move.
I want to thank everyone one for there help today as we had a great turnout. Here are some pictures of the kids and the great time they had.
Thank you kids for making storytime fun!
5 Green and Specked Frogs
Frog on a Log
The Wide-Mouthed Frog, by Keith Faulkner - illustrated by Jonathon Lambert
We also showed the kids pictures of different frogs and showed them they could be many different colors than green, from a book by Thomas Marent called frog.
Some other great books that you could share with the kids about frogs are:
There was an old monkey who swallowed a frog by Jennifer Ward, illustred by Steve Gray.
Finklehopper Frog by Irene Livingston
Bye-Bye, Big Bad BullyBug by Ed Emberley
Too Many Frogs! by Sandy Asher
Stick by Steve Breen
Frog Went a-Courtin', pictures by Feodor Rojankosky
Our craft today was to make a frog puppet. Supplies needed are a brown sandwich bag; red, green, black and white contact paper. You can have the kids color or paint the paper bag however they would like. We had them color on them however they wanted.From the green paper you need 2 large circles and 2 arms. From the red a strip for the tounge and from the white and black 2 circles. The white needs to be a little smaller than the green ones and the black need to be the smallest.
Glue the black circle to the white one and then glue to the green circle. Glue this to the part of the bag that would be the bottom if the bag was opened. Take the red strip and glue it under the flap, you can take a pencil and curl this to make the tounge curl. take the 2 arm peices and glue them to the sides, make sure you don't glue the sides together or it might tear when you place your hands inside the bag to make your puppet move.
Thank you kids for making storytime fun!
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Billy Goats Gruff!!
Today we did our theme of the 3 Billy Goats Gruff. This was sponsored from the Southern Utah Early Childhood Council for the Week of the Young Child.
We had a great time. We read the story and then the kids reenacted the story with stick puppets, masks and finger plays of the 3 Billy Goats. Then we watched a five minute movie of the 3 Billy Goats Gruff.
The kids colored their own Troll and then we sent home cups and grass seed that they could plant to create the hair for the troll. 
Great job kids! Good Luck with growing your troll hair!!!Hope to see you all next week!
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Happy Easter!!
Storytime this week had an Easter Theme.
Books read were: Ollie's Easter Eggs by Olivier Dunrea
Happy Easter!!!
Books read were: Ollie's Easter Eggs by Olivier Dunrea
Happy Easter, Curious George by Margret & H.A. Rey's
We had a great time and had an Easter Egg hunt for the kids. We did this by playing the hot and cold game with the kids, letting them hide and find Easter eggs.
The craft for the week was some easter coloring pages for the kids to color or take home.
Friday, March 18, 2011
March 18, 2011
As most of you are aware, Jessica has moved. I will be trying to continue with this blog, but I have never blogged before so bear with me.
My name is Chris, I will be doing the storytime at the library starting on April 6 at 10:30 AM. We are in the process of planning all of the Summer reading activites and have some fun things planned, including a Magic Show and a Puppet Show.
Stay tuned for updates. Thanks.
My name is Chris, I will be doing the storytime at the library starting on April 6 at 10:30 AM. We are in the process of planning all of the Summer reading activites and have some fun things planned, including a Magic Show and a Puppet Show.
Stay tuned for updates. Thanks.
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