Programs

Halloween Crafts for Lil’ Hands

Strap your biscuits to your butts, everybody, I have been doing Hands-On Ones & Twos programs for one full year.Maybe this 1 year mark is not quite as impressive as other fellow librarians entering 15+ years of storytime or classroom service, but I'm pretty proud of this little program. I inherited it from my predecessor… Continue reading Halloween Crafts for Lil’ Hands

Programs

Pinkalicious and the Pinktastic Program

Have you ever read Pinkalicious before? Well, lemme tell you. It's another one of those stories that doesn't have rhythmic oomph and tends to exclude a lot of "explanation" filler. Things just happen. And children gobble it up. When I first read it, I was all: And when I read it at the Pinkalicious program… Continue reading Pinkalicious and the Pinktastic Program

Early Childhood Literacy · Technology · Youth Materials · Youth Services

Early Literacy iPads–Implementation, Public Response, & Upkeep

And she looked upon her creature, all the potential good and all the bad it might bring, and she screamed, "IT'S ALIVE!" and then she went to the settings and couldn't find the restrictions and when she finally had she forgot the password and then found some wrinkled, discarded post-it note with the password then… Continue reading Early Literacy iPads–Implementation, Public Response, & Upkeep

Programs · STEAM

Curious Kitties: My Body’s a Pretty Cool Thing

Bi-monthly I present a super-fantastic science and math storytime called Curious Kitties for ages 2-5. I provide two unusual times so families that cannot make our typical storytimes have a chance to come to a program. There is one on Thursday night and one on Friday morning. You know when you do a program for… Continue reading Curious Kitties: My Body’s a Pretty Cool Thing