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April 22, 2009 I’m on the Intertubes… Sort of.
Someone made a video of (part of) my Baby Goose story time, and now I’m famous! Let the internet dollars start rolling in! Well, you can’t really see me through the sea of infants, but I’m there, holding my stuffed baby-placebo monkey and singing. The songs are “Here We Go Up, Up, Up!” (good activity [...]
Tags: Baby Goose, Here We Go Up Up Up, libraries, songs, story time
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January 13, 2009 Winter Baby Goose 1: A tentative new beginning
Ah, another season, another round of Story Times. I’m still fighting the good fight with Baby Goose, our story time for 0-2 years. Although now with our new out in the open story time design that usually means I’ll get kids from newborn on up. This bother some people – with my 0-5 story time, [...]
Tags: babies, children, children's books, librarianship, rhymes and songs, story time, winter rhymes
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October 14, 2008 Baby Goose: Welcome to My World of Inadequacy…
This fall brings about a whole new challenge: BABIES. After MPL’s new “out in the open” mandate, we have two separate baby times, Baby Goose (out in the open) and Books and Babies (the closed-off original version of the program). Lois, the full-time library assistant at Angus Glen, is the source of all this programming [...]
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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 [...]
Tags: children's crafts, children's librarianship, children's programming, libraries, Robert Munsch, story telling, story time
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