Children's Events - Week of October 28

Here's what's coming up this week:

Monday, October 28

• Story-Guitar Time with Miss Michelle at Blue Bell at 10:30 AM.

Tuesday, October 29

• Story-Guitar Time with Miss Michelle at Ambler at 10:30 AM. 

 Wednesday, October 30

• Story-Guitar Time at 4:30 PM with Miss Michelle at Blue Bell.

Thursday, October 31

• Story-Guitar Time at 4:30 PM with Miss Michelle at Ambler.

Friday, November 1

• Story-Guitar Time with Miss Michelle at 10:30 AM.

Saturday, November 2

• No events this weekend

For these events and more, visit our Kids Page here! Or follow on Twitter @WVPLYouth

Children's Events - Week of October 21

Here's what's coming up this week:

Monday, October 21

• Story-Guitar Time with Miss Michelle at Blue Bell at 10:30 AM.

Tuesday, October 22

• Story-Guitar Time with Miss Michelle at Ambler at 10:30 AM. 

 Wednesday, October 23

• Story-Guitar Time at 4:30 PM with Miss Michelle at Blue Bell.

Thursday, October 24

• Story-Guitar Time at 4:30 PM with Miss Michelle at Ambler.
• Juggling Show and Halloween Party at 7:00 PM at Ambler.

Friday, October 25

• Story-Guitar Time with Miss Michelle at 10:30 AM.

Saturday, October 26

• Art with Laura at Ambler at 10:30 AM.

For these events and more, visit our Kids Page here! Or follow on Twitter @WVPLYouth

Baby Story Time - October 17 - What Was Read

We've wrapped up the first Fall Baby Story Time session for 2013 with an almost full house! Our second Fall session starts November 7th. At the moment, the session (5-weeks) is full, but please do sign up on our waiting list as spots do open up.

Baby Story Time at Blue Bell is a story time session geared specifically toward babies (ages 6 months to 18 months). We'll read stories, sing songs, chant rhymes, and play with baby! Baby Story Time is also an event for parents and caregivers to learn about early literacy skills to help prepare baby for reading as well as to help foster a love of reading.

Busy Busy Babies was our theme today! Vroom! Zoom!

What Was Read

• Where is Baby's Belly Button? : a lift-the-flap book by Karen Katz.:
• Where are baby's hands, belly button, feet, and more? See where they are hiding.
• Llama Llama Zippity-Zoom by Anna Dewdney.: - JJ BOARD DEW
• Llama Llama of Red Pajama Fame is out and about with his friends, zooming and vrooming and whoosing!
• Busy Chickens by John Schindel and Steven Holt.:  - JJ BOARD SCH
• Chickens are busy doing lots of things! Some things baby can do, while other things are what chickens do 

What We Did

• Sang my favorite opening and closing songs: "If You'd Like to Hear a Story" and "The More We Read Together."  
• Sang "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes" while pointing to the body part.
• Sang "The Wheels on the Bus."
• Recited a bounding rhyme titled "I'm Bouncing!"

 Early Literacy Tip

• One topic we have not covered is letter knowledge. At this age, letters are worth introducing, but it will take time for your child to recognize the letter. Letter knowledge is the ability to identify the first letter in his/her name and to find it in books. Use letter toys as you play, or point out letters as you read, which is today’s tip. 
•  Try to read every day, a few minutes here, a few minutes there. As your baby grows older, s/he will sit for longer stories and start to understand how to use a book. Point out pictures, letters. Gently trace the letter with their finger.

Children's Events - Week of October 14

Here's what's coming up this week:

Monday, October 14

• Story-Guitar Time with Miss Michelle at Blue Bell at 10:30 AM.

Tuesday, October 15

• Story-Guitar Time with Miss Michelle at Ambler at 10:30 AM. 

 Wednesday, October 16

• Story-Guitar Time at 4:30 PM with Miss Michelle at Blue Bell.
• Middle School Book Group at Ambler at 4:30 PM. For those in grades 6-8. Learn more and register here.

Thursday, October 17

• Baby Story Time with Ms. Tegan at 10:00 AM. Learn more and sign up here!
• Story-Guitar Time at 4:30 PM with Miss Michelle at Ambler.
• Blue Bell Lego Club at 4:30 PM at Blue Bell.

Friday, October 18

• Story-Guitar Time with Miss Michelle at 10:30 AM.

Saturday, October 19

• No events this weekend.

For these events and more, visit our Kids Page here! Or follow on Twitter @WVPLYouth

Baby Story Time - October 10 - What Was Read

I'm getting over a cold, which I talked about before we started. I talked about how I couldn't smell because of my cold and guess what? Today's theme was SENSES!

Baby Story Time at Blue Bell is a story time session geared specifically toward babies (ages 6 months to 18 months). We'll read stories, sing songs, chant rhymes, and play with baby! Baby Story Time is also an event for parents and caregivers to learn about early literacy skills to help prepare baby for reading as well as to help foster a love of reading.

What Was Read

• Show me! by Tom Tracy ; pictures by Darcia Labrosse.- JJ BOARD TRA
• Not necessarily a senses book, but Mom points out on baby all the wonderful parts that make up baby. A great interactive book too in that you can mimic the actions in the story.
• I Hear by Helen Oxenbury - (Request from another library)
• What does Baby hear on this particular day?
• I See by Helen Oxenbury. - JJ BOARD OXE
• What does Baby see on this particular day?
• I Touch by Helen Oxenbury. - JJ BOARD OXE
• What does Baby touch on this particular day?
• Baby Happy, Baby Sad by Leslie Patricelli. - (Request for another library)
• Things that make baby happy or baby.

What We Did

• Sang my favorite opening and closing songs: "If You'd Like to Hear a Story" and "The More We Read Together." 
• Recited a rhyme about how two eyes see, two ears hear, one nose smells, and one mouth eats yummy treats.
• Sang "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes" as we pointed to each part.
• Recited a bounce rhyme called "Trot, Trot to Boston."

Early Literacy Tip

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  Background Knowledge: Children are learning through their sense from day 1 and all of that learning is setting up a foundation for them as they grow older. This background knowledge is important for child. While it may not seem they understand the concept of senses, they do recognize that the floor feels different (carpet vs. wood) and that something looks different. Talk to them about their world. Talk about what they may be hearing, seeing, or touching (“Oh, that feels soft”). The descriptors you use help lay the foundation for reading and understanding their world.
• Talk! Talk! Talk! Talk to your baby. Narrate the day or talk about what is going on or think out loud as you make a meal and they watch. Use “I feel,” “I hear,” as jumping off points to introduce new words and reinforce old ones. Talk in specifics in an attempt to identify things. Baby doesn’t always know that “it” means the chair or phone.

Baby Story Time - What Was Read - October 3

We've had a great group coming to Baby Story Time! This week's theme has easily become one of my favorites and I hope your favorite as well. We talked about COLORS!

Baby Story Time at Blue Bell is a story time session geared specifically toward babies (ages 6 months to 18 months). We'll read stories, sing songs, chant rhymes, and play with baby! Baby Story Time is also an event for parents and caregivers to learn about early literacy skills to help prepare baby for reading as well as to help foster a love of reading.

What Was Read

• Flaptastic Colors [text, Charlie Gardner ; U. S. editor, Jennifer Quasha].:  - JJ BOARD GAR
• Bright colors and flaps with pictures of every day objects.
• Blue hat, Green Hat by Sandra Boynton.:- (Request from another library)
• Repeating colors, four animals, but there is a very silly turkey!
• I Love Colors by Margaret Miller.:- (Request from another library)
• Bright photographs, baby faces, and colors!
• Colors by Emily Bolam - JJ BOARD BOL
• A textured book highlighting things of different colors.

What We Did

• Sang my favorite opening and closing songs: "If You'd Like to Hear a Story" and "The More We Read Together." 
• Recited "Baa Baa Black Sheep" using different colors and ending with a ZEBRA.
• Sang "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes" as we pointed to each part.
• Recited a bounce rhyme about "Bumping up and down in my little [color] wagon." We used different colors.

Early Literacy Tip

• Color books are a great way to introduce books to children and bring about print awareness. Use books to show them familiar things and how the picture can represent that familiar thing. Later, they will understand that the printed words represent real things.
• Read! Point in books and talk about what is there. Look at the item and talk about the texture, the color and maybe even introduce the real thing. Or point at the word and talk about the word. You’re helping them to differentiate between things.

Children's Events - Week of October 7

Here's what's coming up this week:

Monday, October 7

• Story-Guitar Time with Miss Michelle at Blue Bell at 10:30 AM.
• The Friends of the WVPL Library Book Sale starts to wrap up.

Tuesday, October 8

• Story Time at Morris Arboretum with Ms. Tegan at 10:30 AM.
• Story-Guitar Time with Miss Michelle at Ambler at 10:30 AM. 
• Middle School Book Group at Blue Bell at 4:30 PM. For those in grades 6-8. Learn more and register here.

 Wednesday, October 9

• Story-Guitar Time at 4:30 PM with Miss Michelle at Blue Bell.

Thursday, October10

• Baby Story Time with Ms. Tegan at 10:00 AM. Learn more and sign up here!
• Story-Guitar Time at 4:30 PM with Miss Michelle at Ambler.
• Blue Bell Lego Club at 4:30 PM at Blue Bell.

Friday, October 11

• Story-Guitar Time with Miss Michelle at 10:30 AM.

Saturday, October 12

• Art with Benita  at 10:30 AM at Ambler.
• 2nd Saturday, Family Matinee Movie at 1:30 PM at Blue Bell.

For these events and more, visit our Kids Page here! Or follow on Twitter @WVPLYouth