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Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Social Skills -- 8/27/24

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.

Click HERE for this month's online Story Time.

People Don't Bite People by Lisa Wheeler
Share, Big Bear, Share! by Maureen Wright
Don't Hug Doug by Carrie Finison










Books: 
Can I Play Too? by Samantha Cotterill
How Do Dinosaurs Stay Friends? by Jane Yolen
Our Classroom Rules! by Kallie George
Ways to Make Friends by Jairo Buitrago
We Don't Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins
Will You Be My Friend? by Sam McBratney



Craft: Heart Friends
- Print template onto cardstock or heavy paper
- Cut out pieces (two heart halves, two arms)
- Color pieces
- Glue two halves of heart together
- Glue arms onto heart so they are either hugging, high fiving, or waving.


Extension Activities:
- Play a game of charades using emotions.  Have the children act out the different emotions such as happiness, anger, sadness, etc.
- Work on cooperation.  Create a maze using either chalk outside or masking tape on the floor inside.  Then have one person direct another person who is blindfolded through the maze.


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Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Building Block Award Nominees: Week 1 -- 9/6/22

Story Times are held weekly on Monday and Tuesday mornings at 10:00 am.  Online Story Times will be posted weekly on Tuesday mornings.  (The video is available to watch for one week before a new one is uploaded.)

Click HERE for this week's Story Time video.

Don't Hug Doug (He Doesn't Like It) by Carrie Finison
Find Fergus by Mike Boldt












Books: (2022 Building Block nominee books)
Bear Can't Wait by Karma Wilson
Don't Hug Doug (He Doesn't Like It) by Carrie Finison
Find Fergus by Mike Boldt
It Is (Not) Perfect by Anna Kang
One-osaurus, Two-osaurus by Kim Norman
Roar: A Book of Animal Sounds by Katerina Kerouli
Sharky McShark by Alison Murray
Something Stinks by Jonathan Fenske
Swim, Swim, Sink by Jenn Harney
Wolfboy by Andy Harkness



Craft: Bear
- Print out template on heavy paper or cardstock
- Color template (arms, legs, head) and cut out
- Cut a piece of heavy paper or cardstock into quarters.  Color one quarter as the bear's body.
- Roll quarter sheet and glue into a tube
- Glue legs around bottom back of the tube
- Glue arms around center back of the tube
- Glue head to top of the tube





Extension Activities:
- Take a poll of your friends and family to see what their preferred greeting is -- hug, handshake, high five, etc.
- Play a game of Hide & Seek with your bear.


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