No Story Time This Week at the Fredericktown Branch!

Please pass along the word to all your friends and family... there will be no Thursday story time this week at the Fredericktown branch.  The branch will be closed all week, as the staff works on some changes to the interior.  This notification will also be up on our Fredericktown Facebook page.

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Shaen

Wild About Animals- Week #4

Fall Story Time (Week #4)
Weekly Theme: Lions

Books: Lion by William Pene du Bois, We're Going on a Lion Hunt by David Axtell, Library Lion by Michelle Knudson

Activity: circus hoop jumping game

Craft: fork-painted lions

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

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Shaen

Wild About Animals- Week #3 Photos

Our elephant Activity Table featured elephant movement cards, a dry-erase connect-the-dots picture, and more.

Miss Pat reading to a great group at Ironton!

This week's activity was a science experiment: making elephant toothpaste!

The elephant toothpaste experiment was a success!

Sensory tub play with elephant toothpaste.

Elephant toothpaste at Recklein Memorial.

For our craft, we colored and cut cute tagboard elephants.

Our elephants had noisemaker trunks!

Trumpeting like elephants at Ironton.



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Shaen

Wild About Animals- Week #3

Fall Story Time (Week #3)
Weekly Theme:Elephants

Books: Meet Me at the Moon by Gianna Morino, Tiny and Hercules by Amy Schwartz, Elephants Cannot Dance! by Mo Willems, Where Is My Friend? by Simms Taback, Kidogo by Anik McGrory, Emma Kate by Patricia Polacco

Activity: "elephant toothpaste" science experiment

Craft: noisemaker elephants

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

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Shaen

Wild About Animals- Week #2 Photos

Our monkey-themed activity table included a puppet, a counting game with pompoms, a clothespin number match game, and animal movement cards.

Working at the activity table before story time begins.

Matching animals and alphabet letters before our first book.

A couple of our reading selections this week.

Getting ready to play our weekly game.

We went "bananas" for this week's game!

Playing "pin-the-banana-on-the-tree"!

Working on the craft at Cuba.

Working on the craft at Ste. Genevieve.

Working on the craft at Fredericktown.

A finished pipecleaner monkey, just hanging out!

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Shaen

Wild About Animals- Week #2

Fall Story Time (Week #2)
Weekly Theme: Monkeys

Books: Count the Monkeys by Mac Barnett, Banana! by Ed Vere, Monkey and Me by Emily Gravett, Never Smile at a Monkey... by Steve Jenkins, Ten Monkey Jamboree by Dianne Ochiltree

Activity: pin-the-banana-to-the-tree game

Craft: pipe cleaner monkeys

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

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Shaen

Wild About Animals- Week #1 Photos

Our Week #1 Activity Table featured bear books, a stuffed animal, a gummy bear color matching mat, and a bear-and-cave game that helped teach the kids about prepositions.

A couple of our story time selections for the week: Big Smelly Bear by Britta Teckentrup and Orange Pear Apple Bear by Emily Gravett.

For our game, we searched for hidden honeycomb!

Then we set to work on our craft.

Working at the Bourbon branch.

Working at the Fredericktown branch.

We made coffee bears (complete with "bear-y" cute grins!).

A finished coffee bear.

Look!  It's a whole sleuth of bears (and you wondered what a group of grizzlies was called!).

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Shaen

Wild About Animals- Week #1

Fall Story Time (Week #1)
Weekly Theme: Bears

Books: A Visitor for Bear by Bonny Becker, Old Bear by Kevin Henkes, Bear Feels Sick by Karma Wilson, Big Smelly Bear by Britta Teckentrup, A Story for Bear by Dennis Haseley, My Friend Bear by Jez Alborough

Activity: honeycomb hunt

Craft: textured coffee bears

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

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Shaen

Wild About Animals- Fall 2014 Story Time Is Around the Corner!

Take a trip to the zoo this fall with Ozark Regional Library!  Our theme this season is Wild About Animals, and each week, Miss Pat and I will be visiting Ozark Regional's eight library branches with a box full of supplies- hello to eight weeks of stories, music, games, activity tables, and craft projects! 

Story Time begins THIS MONDAY, the week of September 8th.  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 fall story time; we hope to see YOU there!

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Shaen

Juvenile Fiction Picks

Looking for a good book?

Book cover images and summaries from Goodreads.

A Hero for WondLa by Toni DiTerlizzi- Eva Nine has finally found what she has always been looking for: other human beings. Having been rescued by Hailey, Eva couldn't be happier, and now Hailey is taking Eva and her friends to the human colony New Attica, where humans of all shapes and sizes live in apparent peace and harmony. But all is not as idyllic as it seems.

Ungifted by Gordon Korman- The word gifted has never been applied to a kid like Donovan Curtis. It's usually more like Don't try this at home. So when the troublemaker pulls a major prank at his middle school, he thinks he's finally gone too far. But thanks to a mix-up by one of the administrators, instead of getting in trouble, Donovan is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction (ASD), a special program for gifted and talented students.

The Miniature World of Marvin & James by Elise Broach- In this Masterpiece Adventure from bestselling author Elise Broach, James is going on vacation for a week. His best friend, Marvin the beetle, has to stay at home. Without James to keep him company, Marvin has to play with his annoying cousin, Elaine. Marvin and Elaine quickly find themselves getting into all sorts of trouble—even getting trapped inside a pencil sharpener! But more importantly, will James still be Marvin's friend when he gets home or will he have found a new best friend?

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Shaen

Picture Book Picks

Looking for a good book?

Book cover images and summaries from Goodreads.

Creepy Carrots! by Aaron Reynolds- The Twilight Zone comes to the carrot patch in this clever picture book parable about a rabbit who fears his favorite treats are out to get him.

I Need My Own Country! by Rick Walton- When in the course of childhood events, it becomes necessary for one (small) person to create a separate and equal hiding spot to which the laws of growing up entitle them, the truth will be self-evident: they should declare their very own country!

Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson- Chloe and her friends won't play with the new girl, Maya. Maya is different--she wears hand-me-downs and plays with old-fashioned toys. Every time Maya tries to join Chloe and her gang, they reject her. Eventually, Maya plays alone, and then stops coming to school altogether. When Chloe's teacher gives a lesson about how even small acts of kindness can change the world, Chloe is stung by the lost opportunity for friendship, and thinks about how much better it could have been if she'd shown a little kindness toward Maya.

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Shaen