If You're Hoppy: Movement Story Time -- 6/6/23

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.

If You're Hoppy by April Pulley Sayre
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed by Eileen Christelow
Is Everyone Ready for Fun? by Jan Thomas

Books: (Movement)
Bounce by Doreen Cronin
From Head to Toe by Eric Carle

If You're a Monster and You Know It by Rebecca Emberley

Leap! by JonArno Lawson

The More the Merrier by David Martin

The Nuts: Sing and Dance in Your Polka Dot Pants by Eric Litwin

Stomp by Ian Aurora

Craft: Hopping Frog

- Print template onto cardstock or heavy paper and cut out

- Color pieces -- plate (lily pad), flower, and frog

- Glue flower to plate to make lily pad

- Cut small strip of paper and accordian fold

- Glue frog to folded strip of paper

- Glue other end of strip to plate

- Frog should "hop" when pressed down

Extension Activities:

- This week's story time is all about movement.  So get outside and move around.  Take a walk in the park.  Some parks have posted movement boards that direct people to do certain exercises or moves.

- Have a jumping contest.  See who can jump the farthest, highest, longest, etc.

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Flowers -- 4/25/23

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.

Bloom Boom! by April Pulley Sayre
Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert
Plant the Tiny Seed by Christie Matheson

Books:
Counting Wildflowers by Bruce McMillan
Dandelion's Dream by Yoko Tanaka
The Happy Day by Ruth Krauss
Have You Ever Seen a Flower? by Shawn Harris
The Hidden Rainbow by Christie Matheson
Sidewalk Flowers by JonArno Lawson

Craft: Flower Clip

- Print template onto heavy paper or cardstock

- Color tulip and leaves before cutting out pieces

- Color clothespin as stem

- Glue tulip to top of clothespin

- Glue leaves to bottom sides of clothespin

Extension Activities:

- Plant a small flower garden with your children.  Purchase plants from garden center or check out some seeds from JCL's seed library to plant and grow.  Let your children be in charge of watering and weeding the flower garden as needed.

- Take a field trip to the Botanical Gardens.  

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Virtual Story Time: I Am Bat by Morag Hood -- 2/2/21

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.

I Am Bat by Morag Hood
Go, Go, Grapes! A Fruit Chant by April Pulley Sayre

Books:  (Fruit)
Blueberry Mouse by Alice Low

Edible Numbers by Jennifer Vogel Bass

Fruit Bowl by Mark Hoffman
Fruit in Suits by Jared Chapman
Hungry Bunny by Claudia Rueda

The Invisible Man by Arthur Yorinks
Ned's New Home by Kevin Tseng

The Starry Giraffe by Andy Bergmann
Tap the Magic Tree by Christie Matheson

The Watermelon Seed by Greg Pizzoli

Craft:  Bat Clip
- Print out template in heavy paper and cut out

- Color pieces of bat

- Glue wings to back of bat's body

- Glue bat to clothespin

Extension Activities:

- While at the grocery store, ask your child to name the different fruits as you pass them in the produce section.

- Make a fruit salad with your child.  Let them wash the fruit and help peel and cut it if older.

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