Alphabet -- 8/4/6

Story Times are held weekly on Monday and Tuesday mornings at 10:00 am. A monthly virtual Story Time is posted the first Tuesday of the month on the library's Facebook page.  It is available to view for one month before the next video is posted.

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Animal ABC by Marcus Pfister
C is for Clown by Stan & Jan Berenstain

Books:
ABC Dream by Kim Krans

The Alphabet of Alphabets by Allan Sanders
B is for Bedtime Bananas by Carrie Tillotson

The Invisible Alphabet by Joshua David Stein
Owls Are Good at Keeping Secrets: An Unusual Alphabet by Sara O'Leary

Sign Language ABC by Lora Heller


Craft: Alphabet Dominoes

- Print template (below) onto cardstock or heavy paper

- Color dominoes

- Cut along lines to get domino cards

Extension Activities:

- Practice letter recognition by asking your child(ren) to point out all of a particular letter from the page you are reading.

- Play the Alphabet Game while in the car by asking your child to find the letters of the alphabet in order on license plates or road signs.

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Virtual Story Time: Learning Concepts -- August 2026

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.)

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Shout! Shout It Out! by Denise Fleming

Books:
Bear in a Square by Stella Blackstone
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin
Dog's Colorful Day by Emma Dodd
Magic Opposites by Patrick George
Mouse Shapes by Ellen Stoll Walsh
Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons by Eric Litwin





Extension Activities:
- Practice letter recognition by asking your child to find all of a particular letter on a book page.
- Play a game of I Spy looking for items of particular colors or shapes.
- Have fun with counting.  Count various things throughout the day such as number of chips eaten with your lunch, number of dogs or cats seen on a walk in the neighborhood, and number of trucks that pass by.

Dinosaurs (Go to School) -- 7/28/26

Story Times are held weekly on Monday and Tuesday mornings at 10:00 am. A monthly virtual Story Time is posted the first Tuesday of the month on the library's Facebook page.  It is available to view for one month before the next video is posted.

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Dinosaur vs. School by Bob Shea
We Don't Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins

Books:
Can I Bring My Pteradactyl to School, Miss Johnson? by Lois Grambling
Dino-School by Lisa Wheeler
How Do Dinosaurs Go to School? by Jane Yolen
My Teacher Is a Dinosaur! by Bill Canterbury
Tiny T.Rex and the First Day Oopsies by Jonathan Stutzman
What the Dinosaurs Did at School by Refe Tuma

Craft: Pteradactyl

- Print template onto cardstock or heavy paper

- Cut out pieces (body, wings)

- Color pieces

- Fold wings at line and glue to either side of body

Extension Activities:

- Start preparing your child for the start of school.  Talk about the activities they will be doing as well as their expected behavior.  If possible, see if you can take a tour of the school they will be attending in the fall.

- We have been reading dinosaur books for two months.  See how many of the books they remember reading.  Which one was their favorite?  Which ones did they not care for?

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Dinosaurs -- 7/14/26

Story Times are held weekly on Monday and Tuesday mornings at 10:00 am. A monthly virtual Story Time is posted the first Tuesday of the month on the library's Facebook page.  It is available to view for one month before the next video is posted.

Click HERE for this month's virtual Story Time.

Tyrannosaurus Wrecks! by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen
What the Dinosaurs Did Last Night by Refe & Amy Tuma

Books:
Chill Chomp Chill by Chris Ayala-Kronos
How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food? by Jane Yolen
The Stompysaurus by Rachel Bright

T Is For Terrible by Peter McCarty
We Don't Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins

Craft: Standing Dinosaur

- Print template onto cardstock or heavy paper

- Cut out pieces (body, legs)

- Color pieces

- Fold legs in half and then cut along dotted line

- Slide body into slit in legs to stand

Extension Activities:

- Have fun with building and wrecking.  Build a block tower as tall as you can before wrecking it.

- Design a Dinosaur Trap that would be able to keep dinosaurs from making trouble.

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Virtual Story Time: America 250 -- July 2026

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.)

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John, Paul, George & Ben by Lane Smith

Books:
America the Beautiful by Katherine Lee Bates
Fireworks by Matthew Burgess

Liberty's Journey by Kelly DiPucchio

My America by Karen Katz
On the Fourth of July by Maggie Rudd

The Scrambled States of America by Laurie Keller

Tulip Sees America by Cynthia Rylant

You're a Grand Old Flag by George M. Cohan

Extension Activities:

- Learn more about American history.  Pick a time frame of American history and check out related books from the library.  There are a lot of great children's information history books at the library.

- Visit the St. Louis Arch and the Museum Under the Gateway Arch to learn more about American history.

- Learn about the history of the American flag before having your child(ren) design their own American flag using the same colors and symbols.