Virtual Story Time: Jewish American Heritage Month -- May 2025

Each month, Miss Amy records a virtual Story Time that goes along with the monthly theme.  It will be posted monthly in the morning of the first Tuesday of the month.  (The video is available to watch for one month before a new one is uploaded.) 

Click HERE for this month's virtual Story Time.

Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats
Chicken Soup with Rice by Maurice Sendak

Books:
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight by Jane Yolen
It Could Always Be Worse by Margot Zemach
Ketzel, the Cat Who Composed by Leslea Newman
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak


Extension Activities:
- Have a whistling contest.  Who can whistle the loudest? longest? like a bird?
- Make a pot of chicken soup with rice (or noodles).
- Visit jewishamericanheritage.org for activities for Jewish American Heritage Month for all ages.

Virtual Story Time: Snow Play! -- 1/19/21

Join us weekly for an online story time featuring a book read by Miss Amy on Tuesdays at 10:00 am.  The video is available to watch for one week before a new one is uploaded.

Click HERE to view the latest video. 

The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats

Snowball Fight! by Jimmy Fallon

Books:  (Snow Play)

Dinos in the Snow by Karma Wilson

Geraldine's Big Snow by Holly Keller

If It's Snowy and You Know It, Clap Your Paws! by Kim Norman

Peep and Ducky: It's Snowing! by David Martin

Penny and Her Sled by Kevin Henkes

Red Sled by Lita Judge

Snowbots by Aaron Reynolds

Snow Day! by Pat Lakin

Snow Day by Lynn Plourde

Snow Happy! by Patricia Hubbell

Craft: Snowball Drop Game

- Drop snowballs (cotton balls) onto ground

- Try to pick up snowballs using the straws like chopsticks

- See who can pick up all the snowballs the quickest

Extension Activities:

- Have a snowball fight.  If you currently don't have snow outside, then have an indoor snowball fight using wadded up paper as snowballs.

- Do some snow painting.  Fill a large plastic container/storage bin with snow.  Paint with dyed water (just a few drops of food coloring in a cup of water).  If you don't have snow, paint with colored ice cubes (freeze water with food coloring) onto thick, heavy paper.

Snow Play Story Time: January 22, 2019

Books:
Bear & Hare: Snow! by Emily Gravett *
Hello, Snow! by Hope Vestergaard
Snowball Fight! by Jimmy Fallon
Snowbots by Aaron Reynolds
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats *
Winter Woes by Marty Kelley *

Craft: Snowy Day Picture
This week's craft was based on The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats.  Kids were given a sheet of blue paper to glue on cotton balls for snow.  They then colored a child in a snowsuit cutout and glued it onto the picture.

Extension Activities:
- Go out and play in the snow!  Use this opportunity to talk about why we have to bundle up to go outside.
- If it's too cold to play outside, have an indoor snowball fight.  Crumple up used paper into wadded up paper snowballs and then have fun.


Notes --
- When gluing on cotton balls, remind your child to put the glue on the paper not the cotton balls.  This saves the glue for future use.
- Story Time was not held on Monday, January 23, 2019 as the library was closed in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.