Category: early childhood

• Where Do The Teens Go?

  

  Where do the teens go? (saxophone solo) Where do the teens go? I’ve long had a belief that service and programs in the public library, especially Youth Services (if you define Youth Services as 0-18), is a conveyor belt of sorts. We start with children in lapsit storytime, and our ultimate goal should be to create…

  Miss Julie

  January 1, 2016

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• Programming for Preschoolers: Take a Tip from Preschool Centers

  When I was still teaching preschool (oh how I love to talk about when I taught preschool) one of the early literacy tactics we employed was to integrate literature and literacy skills into every center. This meant having books with building themes in the block center, books about nature in the science center, having pads…

  Miss Julie

  January 19, 2014

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• Storytime Opera

  Singing is one of those things that every human can do, but many avoid doing because they think they’re not good at it or that they have bad voices. There is no such thing as a bad voice. There are voices that people prefer to hear, but breaking things down in to good and bad–especially…

  Miss Julie

  March 5, 2013

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• September, I remember

  September, how did you get here so fast? Oh, yeah, summer reading (Ingrid breaks it down for you, animated gifs and all). And, oh, yeah, I have a new job (which makes another Ingrid link relevant). I’m going from being a storytime all the time librarian to a school services coordinator librarian. It’s been hard…

  Miss Julie

  September 7, 2012

  be the best you can be, early childhood, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, outreach, personal experience, professional development, programming, reading programs, storytime, summer reading

  advocacy, books, community, librarian, libraries, outreach

• Play @ your library: Playdough Party

  Want to have one of the most successful library programs ever? Make playdough. We did this program with 3-8 year olds, but I can see this working with even older kids, up through middle school–it’s all how you market it. It’s a great program to do at the library because, sadly, I think a lot…

  Miss Julie

  July 11, 2012

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  child approach, community, k-2, play, playdough, sensory

• Stifled: or, the exact wrong way to think about storytime

  Oh, dear sweet baby Picard Jebus, there’s a rage making thread on pub-yac about a children’s department being forced to do all of their storytimes the same. Here’s a quote: […A]ll the storytimes for one age group should be the same because: Patrons get disappointed when they can’t get into a certain storytime because its…

  Miss Julie

  May 17, 2012

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• Boundtracks: Pete the Cat and “New Shoes”

  Oh, Pete the Cat! I can practically recite you from memory, and there isn’t a group of kids and adults in existence who aren’t magically swept up in your bouncy tale of sloppy shoes. (Although some more savvy color mixers insist that first your shoes should turn pink then purple but I call it a…

  Miss Julie

  May 17, 2012

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• Beginning Reader Storytime, Art Adventure: The Final Countdown

  So now the kids have their backgrounds and their characters. Then they just had to glue them down and voila! Their very own Eric Carle-esque creations! Has anyone else managed to do a long term author/illustrator based program like this one? Ours went off pretty well; for those with attendance concerns, this is a registered…

  Miss Julie

  May 8, 2012

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• Beginning Reader Storytime: The Write Stuff

  During this session of beginning reader storytime, we’ve been focusing on writing. We wrote on dry erase boards, created an alphabet book where we wrote words, made letters out of pretzel twists, and this week we wrote in shaving cream, which was, frankly, just a whole lot of fun in addition to being a great…

  Miss Julie

  May 7, 2012

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• On the Front Lines

  I’m attending a small but mighty conference at the state capital called On the Front Lines this week, and I had the pleasure of presenting Tech for Tots to a lovely group yesterday afternoon. I’ve put together a Pinterest board of all the articles I used while putting the slide show together, so head over…

  Miss Julie

  March 13, 2012

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