Closed March 26th for Staff Development Day
Closed March 26th for Staff Development Day
We’ll be closed Friday, March 26th for Staff Development Day. No items will be due. As always, the book drop will remain open. Thank you!
Teen Craft: Keyring Dreamcatchers
Teen Craft: Keyring Dreamcatchers
Book Babies: Let’s Go to the Zoo!
Book Babies: Let’s Go to the Zoo!
You only have to go as far as a book to visit the zoo with your baby or toddler! When you read a book with your child, make animals noises and sing nursery rhymes about the animals you find in your “zoo” book . You can find some of these books and rhymes below.
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Ages 2-5
Welcome Songs
Here We Are Together
Here we are together, together, together! Oh, here we are together in our library. There’s (sing names)… Here we are together in our library!
Hello Everybody
Hello everybody let’s clap our hands*, clap our hands, clap our hands. Hello everybody let’s clap our hands today! *pat our head, stretch up high, wiggle our fingers, tickle our knees, kick our feet, bounce up high!
S, T, R, W, P
(Sing while pointing to each finger on your child’s hand.) Sing, talk, read, write, play! Sing, talk, read write, play! Sing, talk, read, write, play! Sing, talk, read, write, play each day!
Sing, Talk, Read, Write, Play
Tip
Watching a light dance across the ceiling, walls, and toys strengthens your baby’s ability to visually track objects. Seeing the light disappear and reappear over and over will delight her.
Activity
Stretch a brightly colored tissue paper or a sheer scarf across a flashlight and attach firmly with tape or a rubber band. Then play the colored circle across the ceiling, baby’s toys, and on the wall. Try turning the light on and off quickly, drawing shapes with the beam, or moving the light slowly back and forth bewtween two objects. Talk as you play, saying, “Where did the light go?” and “Oh my gosh, there it is!” and “It’s on the ball.”
Books Presented
Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell
Answering a child’s request, the zoo keeps sending a wide assortment of animals until they find the perfect pet. On board pages.
Peek-A-Boo Zoo! by Jane Cabrera
Join in the fun with curious Lemur and see who’s hiding behind the cut-out holes. A pair of eyes peeks through each page as Lemur finds out who’s hiding, including a panda, a parrot, a kangaroo, and a monkey.
I Thought I Saw an Elephant! by Lydia Nichols
Push and pull the sliders to find the elephant hiding in the pond, on the slide, and in the tree house.
Songs, Rhymes, and Fingerplays
You Can Hear the Lions Roaring at the Zoo
(to the tune of “If You’re Happy and You Know It”)
You can hear the lions roaring at the zoo, ROAR! ROAR!
You can hear the lions roaring at the zoo, ROAR! ROAR!
You can hear the lions roaring, you can hear the lions roaring
You can hear the lions roaring at the zoo! ROAR! ROAR!
(Elephants trumpeting, zebra braying, monkey eeking)
-Pasadena-library.net
Going to Kentucky
Oh, we’re going to Kentucky, we’re going to the zoo,
To see the baby animals and watch what they can do.
Oh shake it, shake it, shake it,
Shake it if you can.
Shake it like a milkshake,
And do the best you can!
Oh, wobble to the bottom, wobble to the top,
And turn around and turn around until it’s time stop!
– Libraryvillage.blogspot.com
Three Little Monkeys
Three little monkeys swinging from the tree,
(hold up three fingers)
Teasing Mr. Crocodile, “Can’t catch me!”
(wag index finger)
Along came Mr. Crocodile, quiet as can be,
(slowly swim one hand over)
And SNAPPED that monkey right out of that tree!
(clap hands together on “snapped”)
Two little monkeys…
One little monkey…
No little monkeys swinging from the tree,
I’d better watch out or he might catch me!
– Libraryvillage.blogspot.com
We Wiggle and Wiggle and Stop!
We wiggle and wiggle and stop
We wiggle and wiggle and stop
We wiggle and wiggle and wiggle and wiggle
and wiggle and wiggle and stop
Can work with egg shakers: shake, pat, roll.
– Alsc.ala.org
Five Little Monkeys
Additional Books
Roar, Roar, Baby! by Karen Katz
Young readers are invited to lift flaps to reveal such zoo animals as giraffes, hippos, pandas, and tigers.
Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann
An unobservant zookeeper is followed home by all the animals he thinks he has left behind in the zoo.
1-2-3 ZooBorns by Andrew Bleiman
Attention, animal lovers! It’s time to count along with a whole new crew of adorable zoo babies. Featuring irresistible animal photos, bouncy text, and a fact-filled glossary, this just might be the cutest counting book ever to hit the shelves!
Animal Antics ABC! by Jade Maitre
Learn your ABCs with Storyberries’ free alphabet book, filled with animal antics!
More Book Babies
Story Time: Elephantastic Elephants!
Story Time: Elephantastic Elephants!
“E” is for elephant! Elephants are one of the most amazing creatures in the animal kingdom. They are so strong enough to lift 700 pounds, yet they are so gentle they can pick up a tiny leaf without crumpling it. Children love elephants. They are big and have large floppy ears. Try taking this opportunity to learn more about these gentle giants with your child with some of the activities and books below.
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Ages 2-5
Sing, Talk, Read, Write, Play
Tip
Having children act out stories introduces them to the theater arts. Because dramatic play incorporates a variety of senses, it allows children to experience a story in an immediate way and helps them internalize the story.
Activity
Read “Can Somebody Please Scratch My Back?” by Jory John or another book that will be easy to act out. Then have your child portray the elephant while you portray all the others animals and retell the story. Then try switching roles and see the laughter!
Books Presented
Elephants by Kate Riggs
A basic exploration of the appearance, behavior, and habitat of elephants, Earth’s biggest land animals. Also included is a story from folklore explaining why elephants’ trunks are so long.
Can Somebody Please Scratch My Back? by Jory John
Elephant has a massive itch that no one can scratch, so Elephant is forced to help himself–or so he thinks.
I Broke My Trunk! by Mo Willems
Gerald the elephant tells his best friend Piggie a long, crazy story about how he broke his trunk.
Songs, Rhymes, and Fingerplays
Elephant Walk
Right foot, left foot, see me go (step with one foot, then other, sway side to side)
I am gray and big and slow (hold hands out to side on the word “big”)
Right foot, left foot, see me go (step with one foot, then other, sway side to side)
I come walking down the street (keep feet stomping)
With my trunk and four big feet. (Make arm look like a trunk from nose).
– Adapted from Jeninthelibrary.com
Flannel Board: Five Elephants in the Bathtub
1 elephant in the bathtub
going for a swim.
Knock, knock (clap hands for each knock)
Splash, splash (pat lap for each splash)
Come on in! (Wave hand invitingly)
2 elephants in the bathtub
going for a swim.
Knock, knock (clap hands for each knock)
Splash, splash (pat lap for each splash)
Come on in! (Wave hand invitingly)
3 elephants in the bathtub
going for a swim.
Knock, knock (clap hands for each knock)
Splash, splash (pat lap for each splash)
Come on in! (Wave hand invitingly)
4 elephants in the bathtub
going for a swim.
Knock, knock (clap hands for each knock)
Splash, splash (pat lap for each splash)
Come on in! (Wave hand invitingly)
5 elephants in the bathtub
going for a swim.
Knock, knock (clap hands for each knock)
Splash, splash (pat lap for each splash)
And they all fell in! (Knock all the elephants and tub off the flannelboard!)
– Jeninthelibrary.com
Two Elephants
Two little elephants, standing in a row.
Two little trunks, waving hello.
“Oh,” said an elephant.
“It’s time to go.”
One little elephant, standing in a row.
One little trunk, waving hello.
“Hey,” said the elephant.
“Where did he go?”
Two little trunks, waving hello.
“Oh,” said an elephant.
“It’s time to go.”
One little elephant, standing in a row.
One little trunk, waving hello.
“Hey,” said the elephant.
“Where did he go?”
-Barbertonlibrary.org
Crafts and Activities
Coloring Page
Print out this coloring page!
Try this craft from Heidi Songs - or pick up our ready-made kit today.
Additional Books
I Dream of an Elephant by Ami Rubinger
Elephants of many colorful shades are described in couplets that invite the reader to complete the rhyme using color-themed clues.
Near or Far: Where's Eddie? by Daniel Nunn
Books in the Hide and Seek series provide an entertaining introduction to some of the words that tell us where things are. This book looks at “Near” and “Far”, and features an animal character called Eddie the Elephant who is playing hide-and-seek.
Elephant's Story by Tracey Campbell Pearson
Elephant finds a book and then sneezes, mixing up all the letters.
The Elephant Who Cried Mouse! by Jade Maitre
Ronald the Elephant loves to frighten his family by calling “MOUSE!”. But what happens when they stop believing him?
More Story Times
Early March Teen Activities
Early March Teen Activities
Monday, March 1st at 4:00 p.m. in the Community Room.
Have a say in what goes on at the library for teens.
Shower Moments and Other Muses
Monday, March 8th at 4:30 in the Community Room
This month we will watch a webinar from www.teenauthorbootcamp.net called “Shower Moments and Other Muses: Finding Inspiration in a Crazy World with Shelly X. Leonn.” We will also do group critiques.
Join our teen Discord server to chat about writing and more with other teens throughout the month.
Our first teen craft take n’ go kit for March will be keyring dream catchers, available starting Thursday, March 4th. Instructions will be available on our website and our YouTube channel.
March Adult Activities
March Adult Activities
Come join your fellow community members on Thursday, March 18th at 6:30 p.m. for a lively discussion of both classic works and modern masterpieces.
Our book for March is Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel:
An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.
Reading copies are available to check out at the Circulation Desk.
Adult Makers: Diamond Painting
Explore an addictive new hobby. Kits will be available at the circulation desk beginning March 15 with an instructional video Friday, March 19th through our website and/or YouTube channel.
