Mysteries in the Stacks: The Shark Detective -- 5/7/24

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 virtual Story Time.

Shark Detective! by Jessica Olien
Polar Bear's Underwear by Tupera Tupera

Books: 

Arthur Who Wrote Sherlock by Linda Bailey
Detective LaRue: Letters from the Investigation by Mark Teague

Have You Seen My New Blue Socks? by Eve Bunting

Hermelin the Mouse Detective by Mini Grey

Pet Detectives by Betty Ren Wright

Craft:  Shark
- Print template onto cardstock or heavy paper

- Cut out pieces (body, flippers, fin)

- Color pieces

- Glue flippers to sides of body

- Fold fin in half and then on the dotted lines 

- Glue fin to top of shark's body

Extension Activities:

- One of the tools used by detectives is a magnifying glass.  Have your child "play" with a magnifying glass to see fine details of objects.  Use binoculars if you don't have a magnifying glass.

- Check out an I Spy book from the library.  Have your child search for specific items in the pictures.

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Building Block Award Nominees -- Week 4: 9/27/22

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.

Wolfboy by Andy Harkness
Sharky McShark by Alison Murray

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: Shark

- Fold a small paper plate in half and color as shark's body making sure to draw on mouth and eyes

- Cut out a fin and tail from heavy paper or cardstock and color

- Glue fin to top fold of paper plate and tail to back to complete shark

Extension Activities:

- Learn more about sharks by checking out a nonfiction children's book from the library or visiting an aquarium.

- Click HERE to vote for your choice for the 2022 Missouri Building Block Picture Book Award.  

S - Spiders & Snowmen: April 27-28, 2015

Books:
Aaaarrgghh! Spider! by Lydia Monks
I'm a Shark by Bob Shea
I'm the Biggest Thing in the Ocean by Kevin Sherry *
A Pet for Petunia by Paul Schmid *
Snowmen All Year by Caralyn Buehner *
Spots in a Box by Helen Ward
Squirrels on Skis by J. Hamilton Ray

Craft: Shark
Our craft was based on the picture above. Instead of making pictures of sharks, each child was given a cardstock cutout of a shark to color.  They then glued on eyes and teeth.

Literacy Extension:
- Practice letter recognition by having your child point out all the letter "S"s on a page you are reading.
- Talk with your child about how we make words plural.  Most words simply add a letter "S" to the end of the word to make it plural.  However, some words change in other ways. (i.e. foot and feet, hippopotamus and hippopotami, etc.)