Alphabet Train- Week #1

Spring Story Time (Week #1)
Weekly Theme: The Letter A

Books: The Apple Pie Tree by Zoe Hall, But I Am an Alligator by Lauren Child, A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Charles Philip C. and Erin Stead, All You Need for a Snowman by Alice Schertle

Activity: stuffed animal toss

Craft: picnicking ants collage

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

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Shaen

Spring Story Time 2013: The Alphabet Train (Letters A-J)

Want to read about bubble gum?  Play a game of hula hoop crocodiles?  Go ice fishing?  Paint... with jam?  Well, get ready, because Spring Story Time for Toddlers and Preschoolers starts Tuesday, February 19 (due to the Presidents' Day holiday, no story time session will be held on Monday the 18th at our Ironton Headquarters)!

Our theme this spring is The Alphabet Train, and each week, Michelle (see our welcome post for Michelle here) and I will be visiting Ozark Regional's eight library branches with a box full of supplies- hello to ten weeks of stories, music, games, activity tables, and craft projects.  Some things to look forward to: making watercolor bubble paintings in week two, reading about dancing hippos in week four, and searching for shipwrecked jewels in week ten!

You can find a complete story time schedule in the left-hand column of this blog or at the library's website under the "Programs and Events" tab.  If you're more of a paper person, you can also stop by your local library in person to pick up a colorful, printed calendar of events.

Stay tuned for info and pictures from our first week of spring story time; we hope to see you there!

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Shaen

An Exciting Announcement!

I have an exciting announcement to share with all of our blog readers!  Beginning this month, you will have not one- but TWO!- staff members in the Youth Department!  In order to have more time at home with my new little boy, I'm going to be going part-time at the library and participating in a job share arrangement with another one of our employees.  You might recognize Michelle Swane's cheerful face if you've visited the front desk at our Ironton library before...

Meet Michelle!

and now, she's going to be working in the Youth Department with me, providing all sorts of fun programs for kids from birth through age eighteen.  And two librarians in the Department means more great stuff for our patrons- more outreach story times, more frequent programs for grade-schoolers, and more opportunities to host library tours (not to mention more fun, glitter, and glue!).

So, how does a job share work?  Well, basically, Michelle will be working the first half of the week (those of you who regularly attend story time on Mondays and Tuesdays will see her!), while I'll be working the last half (Thursdays and Fridays).  We'll both alternate Wednesday shifts.  And in the summer, you'll get to see both of us, since summer programming is such a mixed bag of times and locations.

I hope you'll all help me welcome Michelle to the Youth Department- I can't wait for you to meet her and for her to meet all of the wonderful families and kids I've felt privileged to see every week! :)

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Shaen