Rescheduled Steelville and Bourbon Story Time Sessions!

There's still time to get in on one last story time session for the fall season!  If you live in Crawford County, drop by the Steelville Library at 10 am or the Bourbon Library at 1:30 pm this Tuesday, November 18 for our rescheduled giraffe-themed story time (last week we missed due to the Veteran's Day holiday).  Hope to see you then as we close out fall programming!

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Shaen

Wild About Animals- Week #8 Photos

Our giraffe-themed Activity Table featured number placemats, a stick-the-spot-on-the-giraffe game, and animal pattern matching cards (plus, a bonus giraffe book to read!).

A few of our book choices- and a pic of our cute craft!

Our game was giraffe limbo.  We had lots of fun pretending to be giraffes at the watering hole.

For our craft, we patterned our giraffes using fingerprints!

Getting creative with ink stamping.

Working on our craft at the Cuba branch.

At Ste. Genevieve.

One of the most creative giraffes of the week.

Who knew giraffes could stand on their heads??

All of our giraffes were unique- just like our fingerprints!

Wrapping up with some puzzle time.

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Shaen

Wild About Animals- Week #8

Fall Story Time (Week #8)
Weekly Theme: Giraffes

Books: Giraffes Can't Dance by Giles Andreae, A Kiss for Lily by Lia Nirgad

Activity: giraffe limbo

Craft: thumbprint giraffe pictures

Reminder!  All Ozark Regional libraries will be closed on Tuesday, November 11th in observance of Veterans Day.  Story time sessions for the Steelville and Bourbon library branches will be rescheduled for the following Tuesday, November 18, with the same locations and times as normal.

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

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Shaen

Wild About Animals- Week #7 Photos

This week's Activity Table included goldfish cracker counting, snowball tossing, and a "feed the penguin" color game.

A couple of our week's book selections.

Starting off the story time with our animal ABC matching chart.

For our game this week, we learned how to walk like penguins protecting their eggs.

More penguin games at Cuba!

We had a great crowd at Ironton!

Working on our craft at Bourbon.

Using scissor skills at Ste. Genevieve.

The finished product!

All smiles with our paper tube penguins.

What a great day at story time!

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Shaen

Wild About Animals- Week #7

Fall Story Time (Week #7)
Weekly Theme:Penguins

Books: One Cool Friend by Toni Buzzeo, Penguin and Little Blue by Megan McDonald, Tacky and the Emperor by Helen Lester

Activity: penguin/egg game

Craft:paper tube penguin

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

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Shaen

Wild About Animals- Week #6 Photos

A few of our book selections for the week- plus, a sneak peek at the craft.

Playing a lock-and-key color matching game to go along with Good Night, Gorilla.

Coloring our paper gorillas.

Cutting out our gorillas.

Working on the craft at Ste. Genevieve.

Working on the craft at Fredericktown.

The finished product!

Another colorful gorilla!

And now the best part... costumes!  Clark?  Is that you?

Costumes at Ironton.

More costumes at Ironton.

An unlikely pair :)

Power up!

Dr. Seuss is one of our favorites!  Check out that mischievous grin!

Costumed cuties at Steelville.

Costumes at Bourbon.

Strawberry Shortcake, showing us how story time is done.

Costumes at Fredericktown.

Even though you can't see her spider hat, Miss Pat is dressed up as the word-smithing spider Charlotte from Charlotte's Web by E.B. White.

I've been on a Mary Poppins kick lately, so I'm dressed up as the magical and kooky nanny from P.L. Travers' book.

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Shaen

Wild About Animals- Week #6

Fall Story Time (Week #6)
Weekly Theme: Gorillas

Books: Gladys Goes Out to Lunch by Derek Anderson, Goodnight Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann

Activity: lock-and-key zoo color game

Craft: gorilla with bradded arms

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

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Shaen

Wild About Animals- Week #5 Photos

Our Week #5 Activity Table featured a Polar Bear Race, a counting game with a marshmallow igloo, and sensory play with cotton ball puffs.

After reading Kumak's Fish by Michael Bania (a tall tale about ice fishing in the Arctic), we tried ice fishing ourselves!

Using our "hooking stick" to catch fish!

Even more fish!

Aren't we great fisherpeople?

Then we used chalk and markers to color our polar bear pictures.

Grandpas are good at helping out.

Some pictures included aluminum foil icicles.

Pictures at Ste. Genevieve.

More creative pictures.  What a blast!

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Shaen