Virtual Story Time: Color Our World -- July 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.) 

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Color the Sky by David Elliott
My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss

Books:

Dr. Seuss's Book of Colors by Dr. Seuss

Green on Green by Dianne White

Mix It Up by Herve Tullet
The Rainbow Snail by Karin Akesson

Red Sings for Treetops by Joyce Sidman

Remixed: A Blended Family by Arree Chung

Extension Activities:

- Have fun decorating cookies or cupcakes with different colored icing.  Let the kids mix their own colored icing using food coloring and plain white icing.

- Play a game of I Spy using color clues.

- Ask your child to organize things by color (ex - their clothes in the closet, books on a shelf, etc).

April is Punny: Tongue Twisters -- 4/9/24

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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The Cat and the Hat and the Rat by Em Lynas
Fox in Socks by Dr. Seuss

Books:

A Greyhound, A Groundhog by Emily Jenkins

Orangutan Tongues by Jon Agee

Six Sheep Sip Thick Shakes by Brian Cleary

There's a Hole in the Log on the Bottom of the Lake by Loren Long

Craft: Fox in Socks

- Print out a fox template from the internet onto cardstock or heavy paper and cut out

- Cut out four sock shapes from cardstock or heavy paper

- Color pieces (fox, socks)

- Glue socks to fox for feet and hands

Extension Activities:

- Limber up your tongue by seeing if you and/or your child can roll it.

- Practice tongue twisters with your child.  Start with an easier one such as Peter Piper and work your way up to harder tongue twisters.

Fall Story Times -- Apples: October 7-8, 2013

Books:
Ducking for Apples by Lynne Berry
Johnny Appleseed by Jodie Shepherd
Max & Mo Go Apple Picking by Patricia Lakin
Ned's New Home by Kevin Tseng *
Ten Apples Up on Top by Theo. LeSieg (Dr. Seuss) *
Ten Red Apples by Pat Hutchins *

Craft: Paper Plate Apple
Children were given a small paper plate, a craft stick, and a paper leaf to color.  The paper plate had a small slit cut in it.  The paper plate was colored as an apple with the leaf glued to the top.  The craft stick was colored as a worm and stuck through the slit in the paper plate.

Literacy Extensions:
- Discuss all the different ways apples can be prepared to be eaten (i.e. - pie, applesauce, etc).  See which is your family's favorite way to eat them.
- Try to extend the story Ten Red Apples by coming up with ten more animals that might steal the apples.  Fit the animals and their sounds into the text.