by Leah Langby | Sep 24, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids, Uncategorized
Young kids need opportunities to develop their fine motor skills. Many of you incorporate letting kids develop those skills at storytime with art project–kids practice cutting, drawing, painting, picking up small objects, etc. I found a fun post at...
by Leah Langby | Aug 1, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
This year’s ALA Annual Conference was the site of a Guerrilla Storytime Action–youth services librarians gathering in a public place to talk about storytime–sharing ideas about early literacy strategies, methods for getting kids and adults back on...
by Leah Langby | Jul 22, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
Ann Clark at So Tomorrow has a terrific blog post about some of her favorite music to use in a storytime for kids. It not only enriches storytime, it allows caregivers and kids to learn about some great new music to take home with them. Check out the...
by Leah Langby | Apr 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
I can’t believe I forgot to take photos at the Storytime Bonanza Workshop! I find I’m always too interested in what is going on to take time to remember things like taking pictures–especially when we have such great presenters as all those IFLS...
by Leah Langby | Mar 20, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
File This Under The Value of Storytime, from Becky Arenivar, Programming Specialist at the Prescott Public Library:Last week a local mom stopped into the library just to tell us that her 3rd grade son had won the elementary school Spelling Bee (beating 4th and 5th...