Category: storytime

• 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

• Review: It’s a Tiger!

  It’s a Tiger! by David LaRochelle My rating: 5 of 5 stars Fans of Grumpy Bird will love the Tankard illustrations in this new picture book, which easily pairs with classics such as Head to Toe, I Went Walking, Brown Bear Brown Bear, Going on a Bear Hunt, or Walking in the Jungle. The bold […]

  Miss Julie

  July 11, 2012

  minimovers, music, preschool, programming, reviews, storytime, toddlers, Uncategorized

• 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

  awesomeness, be the best you can be, early childhood, ethics, kids, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, libraries now!, library school vs. real libraries, OPINIONS!, participation, professional development, programming, stories, storytime

  community, creativity, culture, education, literature, politics

• 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

  authors, awesomeness, be the best you can be, books, boundtracks, different ways to read, early childhood, early literacy, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, OPINIONS!, participation, picture books, preschool, programming, reading, stories, storytime, toddlers

• 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

  artsncrafts, authors, awesomeness, be the best you can be, beginningreaderstorytime, books, classic picture books, early childhood, early literacy, kids, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, picture books, programming, storytime

• 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

  artsncrafts, awesomeness, beginningreaderstorytime, early childhood, early literacy, kids, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, preschool, storytime

  literacy activity, writing

• Let’s Get Digital

  I’m using Digital Storytime and the CYBILS site to curate a collection of early literacy apps for my library’s iPad. I’d really like to offer these apps to my patrons who are interested in items such as Your Baby Can Read and Hooked on Phonics, but I’m not sure of the best way to circulate […]

  Miss Julie

  March 1, 2012

  apps, early literacy, easy readers, literacy, picture books, preschool, professional development, programming, storytime, technology

  books, gadgets, harold and the purple crayon, iphone, literature, technology

• Colorlicious Tea Party Storytime Special

  Want to cash in on the super-popularity of Pinkalicious but don’t want to alienate boys (or, more likely, the parents of boys)? Then throw a Colorlicious party instead! Fans will still get to enjoy the sublime Pinkalicious, but with a bit of variety to cut the cloying gender paradigm. Here’s the program we presented at […]

  Miss Julie

  February 9, 2012

  awesomeness, be the best you can be, cake, classic picture books, color, early literacy, events, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, marketing, music, picture books, professional development, programming, storytime

  flannel board, mouse paint, mouse puppet, robot voice

• Roll With It

  We got a new alligator puppet. Our previous alligator puppet was a head and torso model only, whereas our new one is a full body model. I use this alligator to eat the monkeys from our monkey mitt during the song “Five Little Monkeys Swinging In The Tree”, which is really just Battle Royale/Hunger Games […]

  Miss Julie

  February 8, 2012

  awesomeness, be the best you can be, Librarians, librarians…for TEENS!, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, OPINIONS!, personal experience, professional development, storytime, weirdnesss for the sake of weirdness

  battle royale, bloodlust, five little monkeys, hysterical laughter

• Beginning Reader Storytime: Art Adventure, Stage Two

  For the second stage of our Eric Carle Art Adventure, we used watercolors on heavy paper. I gave kids the choice to draw something first, or just paint and draw and cut out a creature next week. Most of the kids just went ahead and painted. We talked a bit about how the watercolors were […]

  Miss Julie

  February 2, 2012

  artsncrafts, beginningreaderstorytime, early literacy, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, programming, storytime

  art, art adventure, colored pencils, eric carle, k-2, watercolor, watercolors