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July 22, 2008 Family Fun-Day Monday Week 3… Ooey Gooey… Librarian
Week 3 of this self-proclaimed lame named (haha fox in socks, sir) story time. This week’s theme was “Ooey Gooey.” The jury’s still out on whether or not the themes make it easier or harder for story time planning… this was kind of a strange theme, so maybe that was it. The program itself was [...]
Tags: Beatrice De Regniers, books, children's crafts, children's librarianship, children's programming, children's songs, children's story times, libraries, Robert Munsch, The Mud Puddle, What Did You Put in Your Pocket
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July 15, 2008 Family Story Time: A lesson in not being cool
Since one of the Children’s part-time library assistants has left (sniff sniff) I’ve taken over a second story time every other week. This week I was too stressed out to come up with an ingenious theme combination for the second story time. So I threw together some funny books that didn’t fit in with any [...]
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July 8, 2008 Family Fun-Day Monday Week 1… Funny Foods. I can haz out in the open?
My very first story time that I have created… planned… and will do for longer than 15 minutes! Hooray! I was really really nervous. This is also Angus Glen’s very first “out in the open” story time ever. Good thing it went much better than expected! The kids were incredibly cute. I’ve found that small [...]
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June 4, 2008 Summer Reading Club… LMAO.
The theme for the TD Summer Reading Club this year is Laugh Out Loud (LOL) / Lire aux Larmes. I guess in French it would be LauxL, haha So for I have some dumb ideas, which are just cheesy enough to work… I’m going to put smiley faces on the wall with the kids names [...]
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April 20, 2008 And that’s what it’s all about…
Hello! My name’s Megan, and I’m a young, idealistic, wet-behind-the-ears, fresh-outta-school children’s librarian. It was actually not an accident to become a children’s librarian – in fact, that has been my plan from the beginning (the beginning being my 2nd year of university in which I began wondering what I would do with this “English [...]
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