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.)

Click HERE for this month's virtual Story Time.

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.

Ducks Story Time -- 7/12/21 (Outdoors) & 7/13/21 (Virtual)

Outdoor Story Times are held weekly on Monday mornings at 10:00 am and 11:00 am.  (Registration is required to attend.)  Online Story Times will be posted weekly on Tuesday mornings at 10:00 am.  (The video is available to watch for one week before a new one is uploaded.)


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Ducks Don't Wear Socks by John Nedwidek 
5 Little Ducks by Denise Fleming

Books:

Click, Clack, PEEP! by Doreen Cronin

Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Duck Sock Hop by Jane Kohuth

Ducks! by Deborah Underwood

Firefighter Duckies! by Frank Dormer

Grumpy Duck by Joyce Dunbar

John Philip Duck by Patricia Polacco

Just Ducks! by Nicola Davies

Swim, Duck, Swim! by Susan Lurie

Truck Full of Ducks by Ross Burach

What Is Chasing Duck? by Jan Thomas

Craft: Duck Headband

- Cut two wide strips for heavy paper or cardstock. Color yellow and add eyes. Glue together to make a headband.

- Cut out a large triangle and color for a beak.  Glue to front of headband underneath eyes.

- Trace hand three times and cut out for two wings and a tailfeather.  Color.

- Glue wings to sides of headband

- Glue tailfeather to back of headband

Extension Activities:

- Have a rubber duckie race.  Mark the ducks so you know whose is whose.  Then set them free at one end of the tub.  See whose duck will reach the other end first without touching it with any hands.

- Play a game of Duck, Duck, Goose.  (If it is hot outside, play a variation of the game called Duck, Duck, Splash.  Instead of tapping the person who is Goose, you dump a cup of water on them while calling out Splash.)

Virtual Story Time: I Am Going! by Mo Willems -- 10/20/20

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 Going! by Mo Willems

Lunch by Denise Fleming

Books: (Meals)

Badger's Fancy Meal by Keiko Kasza

Before We Eat: From Farm to Table by Pat Brisson

Click, Clack, Quackity-Quack by Doreen Cronin

Froggy Eats Out by Jonathan London

How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food? by Jane Yolen

I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato by Lauren Child

Little Pea by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Soup for One by Ethan Long

Summer Supper by Robin Pfeffer

Worms for Lunch! by Leonid Gore

Craft: Elephant & Piggie Comic Book

- Print template (at left)

- Draw / color the comic panels

- Cut on the lines

- Staple pages together to make a book

Extension Activities:

- Go on a picnic.  Let your child(ren) help prepare the food or gather the supplies.

- Practice color recognition by asking your child to name foods that are certain colors (i.e. - yellow = bananas).

Learning Review Story Time: August 26-27, 2019

Books:
5 Little Ducks by Denise Fleming *
Do You Know Which Ones Will Grow? by Susan A. Shea
Marta! Big & Small by Jen Arena *
Shout! Shout It Out! by Denise Fleming *
Up, Down, and Around by Katherine Ayres

Craft: Megaphone
The children colored the megaphone cutout before gluing it into a cylinder.  A handle was then glued into a circle and taped onto the megaphone.

Extension Activities:
- Take a field trip to a museum for some educational fun (i.e. Magic House (science), Art Museum, History Museum, etc.)
- Find out what your child is interested in learning about.  Check out some books on that topic from the library.


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Art Story Time: August 29-30, 2016

Books:
Bear Sees Colors by Karma Wilson *
The Dot by Peter Reynolds
Go, Shapes, Go! by Denise Fleming *
I Dream of an Elephant by Ami Rubinger
I'm the Best Artist in the Ocean by Kevin Sherry *
Mouse Shapes by Ellen Stoll Walsh

Craft: Whale
This week's craft goes with the book I'm the Best Artist in the Ocean.  The kids drew pictures on a whale cutout and then colored it.

Literacy Extensions:
- Practice color and shape recognition by playing I Spy.
- Tangrams are a great way to play with shapes.  Tangram patterns can be found online.


Notes:
Last week's story times focused on science.  They were covered by another staff member as I was on vacation.

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