Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Monday, May 28, 2012

Saturday, May 26, 2012

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Last Chance- Read From the Start Workshop

You can still earn free books through Read From the Start!  The last workshop kicks off at the Ironton Library tonight from 5:30 to 7 pm in the conference room.  We'll also have refreshments, and the library will be hosting a Parenting Resources table, packed with tons of helpful books to check out and lots of useful handouts. 



Hope to see you there!

Keep reading!
Shaen

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Friday, May 18, 2012

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Read From the Start Workshop TONIGHT!

Don't forget!  Read From the Start kicks off at the Ironton Library TONIGHT!  Stop by the library from 5:30 to 7 pm this Tuesday (the 15th), as well as next Tuesday (May 22) to earn seven FREE picture books for your home library!  How sweet a deal is that?! 




We'll also have refreshements, and the library will be hosting a Parenting Resources table, packed with tons of helpful books to check out and lots of useful handouts.  From the main blog page, click on the orange RFTS button in the left-hand column for more information about the program.  Hope to see you there!

Keep reading!
Shaen

Monday, May 14, 2012

Saturday, May 12, 2012

Take-n-Make #1: The Color Red

Well, we've wrapped up Spring Story Time and are gearing up for tons of fun summer programming (you can check out the summer schedule in the left-hand column of this blog, or pick up a paper copy at your local library to hang on the fridge!).  Until things kick off on June 1, though, I'm going to give our readers who didn't make it to Spring Story Time a chance to view a season's worth of Take-&-Make craft sheets- just the thing to keep the kiddos entertained over these next few weeks! 

Check out today's Take-&-Make, focused on "The Color Red".



Keep reading!

Shaen

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Colors- Week #10 Photos

Several of our colorful story time books:
Mouse Mess by Linnea Riley, The Mixed-Up
Chameleon by Eric Carle, and I Ain't Gonna
Paint No More! by Karen Beaumont and David
Catrow.

Hunting for gold coins in a sensory bin
of rainbow rice.

Crafting our colorful cereal rainbows
(I think only about half of the cereal got
eaten- the rest made it to the page :P ) 

A nearly finished rainbow (in
ROY G BIV order!).


Keep reading!

Shaen

Monday, May 7, 2012

Colors- Week #10

Spring Story Time (Week #10)

Weekly Theme: Color Mix-Up!

Books: A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni, Mouse Mess by Linnea Riley, Lunch by Denise Fleming, and I Ain't Gonna Paint No More! by Karen Beaumont and David Catrow

Activity: searching for lost coins in "rainbow" rice

Craft: colorful cereal rainbow

Pictures of the last week of story time are up in the next post, so... 

Keep reading!

Shaen

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Colors- Week #9 Photos

Our two book picks for the week: Freight
Train by Donald Crews (an oldie but a goodie!)
and The Three Little Fish and the Big, Bad
Shark by Ken Geist and Julia Gorton (a cute
underwater riff on the familiar Three Little
Pigs tale!).

Working hard on our nighttime
pictures during craft time.

Some of our beautiful, finished chalk
pictures, complete with peekaboo fireflies!


Keep reading!

Shaen