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.

Template --

Animals in Winter Story Time: January 6-7, 2020

Books:
Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson
First Snow by Bernette Ford
Moon Glowing by Elizabeth Partridge
Sleep, Big Bear, Sleep! by Maureen Wright *
Snow Rabbit, Spring Rabbit by Il Sung Na *
When Winter Comes by Nancy Van Laan *

Craft: Winter Animals Picture
The kids colored a winter animals coloring sheet.  They then glued on snowflake sequins.

Extension Activities:
- Add some interaction into your reading of stories.  Ask your child what they think will happen on the next page.  Ask them to find items in the pictures as you read.
- Take a nature walk in the winter.  See what animals, plants, etc. you can spot on your walk.  Discuss with your child how things look different on winter walks vs. summer walks.

Snowmen Story Time: January 28-29, 2018

Books:
100 Snowmen by Jen Arena *
All You Need for a Snowman by Alice Schertle *
Sneezy the Snowman by Maureen Wright *
Snowballs by Lois Ehlert
Snowmen All Year by Caralyn Buehner
Snowmen At Night by Caralyn Buehner


Craft: Melting Snowman Picture
This week's craft is pictured to the left.  Children glued squares of white paper to colored paper to make a melted snowman.  They then could color and glue a hat, two eyes, a nose, and two branch arms to the picture.

Extension Activities --
- Build a snowman.  If you do not have snow outside, you can do a human snowman with plastic trash bags or toilet paper.
- Snowmen at Night and Snowman All Year imagines what snowmen might do for fun.  Ask your child to imagine what their snowman might do throughout the day.

Snowmen Story Time: January 25-26, 2016

Books:
100 Snowmen by Jen Arena
All You Need for a Snowman by Alice Schertle *
Sneezy the Snowman by Maureen Wright *
Snowballs by Lois Ehlert *
Snowzilla by Janet Lawler

Craft: Name Snowman
This week's craft was based on the picture at right.  Each child was given enough paper circle snowballs to write out their name.  They also got a snowman's head to color.  All the snowballs were then glued onto a long strip of paper.

Literacy Extension:
- Practice spelling by having your child spell the names of their family members.
- After reading Snowballs and looking at the back of the book at the various items used to make their snowmen, ask your child to gather a bag's worth of items to use for snowmen.


Template for Snowman's Head --

Winter Animals Story Time: January 19, 2016

Books:
Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson *
Chaucer's First Winter by Stephen Krensky
Sleep, Big Bear, Sleep! by Maureen Wright *
Snow Rabbit, Spring Rabbit by An Na *

Craft: Sleeping Bear Picture
The children colored a picture of a bear sleeping in the woods before gluing half a small paper plate ring (just the outer ring, the middle was cut out) over the bear to make it look like a cave.

Literacy Extensions:
- Learn about which animals hibernate through the winter and which stay awake.
- Sleep, Big Bear, Sleep! uses rhyming words.  Practice your rhyming by trying to end all of your sentences with rhymes.

Notes:
Story Time was not held on Monday, January 18 as the library was closed in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.