Monday, April 28, 2014

Get Creative- Week #9

Spring Story Time (Week #9)
Weekly Theme: Get Creative... with Gardening!

Books: Don't Worry, Bear! by Greg Foley; Up, Down, and Around by Katherine Ayres, Flower Garden by Eve Bunting, Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert, My Garden by Kevin Henkes, Grandpa Green by Lane Smith

Activity: "bugs-in-the-beans" sensory tub search

Craft: pipe cleaner flowers

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

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Shaen

Friday, April 25, 2014

Ironton Open House Summer Prize Pack Winner!

Congratulations to Brianne Cooper, the winner of our Summer Prize Pack at the Ironton Headquarter's Open House held last week.  For correctly guessing the number of pompoms in our guessing jar, Brianne earned a new tote bag emblazoned with the updated ORL logo and stuffed to the brim with tons of goodies, including magnetic bookmarks, giant bubble wands, beach balls, a prize book, and more!

Brianne with her Summer Prize Pack!

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Shaen

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Get Creative- Week #8 Photos

The week's Activity Table featured jingle sticks, a bucket drum, and loads of musical instruments to try out!
Hmm... which is our favorite?
A few of our book picks: Charlie Parker Played Be Bop, Banjo Granny, and Max Found Two Sticks.
We had lots of fun clapping and stomping through our opening song.
Reading books.
Freeze dancing to music for our game.
Making our craft- paper tube kazoos!

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Shaen

Monday, April 21, 2014

Get Creative- Week #8

Spring Story Time (Week #8)
Weekly Theme: Get Creative... with Music!

Books: Jazz on a Saturday Night by Leo and Diane Dillon, Charlie Parker Played Be-Bop by Chris Raschka, Banjo Granny by Sarah Martin Busse, I Know a Shy Fellow Who Swallowed a Cello by Barbara Garriel

Activity: freeze dancing to music

Craft: cardboard tube kazoo

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

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Shaen

Friday, April 18, 2014

Open House- We're Automated!

We're automated!!!  Check out a few of the pictures from Monday's Open House celebration at Ironton Headquarters below.

Patrons updated their library cards with one of six new designs.  Kids competed to win a summer prize pack.
Patrons enjoyed fun refreshments: fresh popcorn, punch, and cookies.
Staff members busy at the new checkout stations!
Free balloons added to the fun!

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Shaen

Get Creative- Week #7 Photos

This week was all about food!  We read books about pizza and cake.
We held an ice cream cone relay race for one of our games...
And tried to be pizza makers, tossing pepperoni and olives onto our pizza slices.
Then we made scent-sational apple pie pictures sprinkled with real cinnamon!
More perfect pies!
What a week!  We had a special guest hop by to visit us at our Fredericktown branch- the Easter Bunny!

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Shaen

Monday, April 14, 2014

Get Creative- Week #7

Spring Story Time (Week #7)
Weekly Theme: Get Creative... with Food!

Books: Whopper Cake by Karma Wilson, Pete's a Pizza by William Steig, Yoko by Rosemary Wells, Daddy Makes the Best Spaghetti by Anna Grossnickle Hines

Activity: ice cream cone relay

Craft: scented apple pie pictures

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

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Shaen

Friday, April 11, 2014

Get Creative- Week #6 Photos

The Week #6 Activity Table included animal movement cards, movement dice, and ribbon rings.
A few book choices for the week- we got our exercise dancing and grooving!
Reading Giraffes Can't Dance by Giles Andreae and Guy Parker-Rees.
Reading Dancing Feet by Lindsey Craig and Marc Brown.
The kids helped decorate our seasonal wall tree at Recklein Memorial Library at Cuba.
We did parachute play for our game.
We had a blast working together to bounce the pompoms off the parachute!
We used magnets and paint-dipped paper clips to create fun swirl art for our craft.
See ya next week!

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Shaen

Monday, April 7, 2014

Get Creative- Week #6

Spring Story Time (Week #6)
Weekly Theme: Get Creative... with Movement!

Books: Hilda Must Be Dancing by Karma Wilson, Dancing Feet by Lindsey Craig, Giraffes Can't Dance by Giles Andreae, Beetle Bop by Denise Fleming

Activity: parachute play

Craft: magnet painting

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

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Shaen