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Do you have a pet? If not, what kind of pet would you get if you could? Some of us can't have furry pets because we're allergic. There are some great books about those kinds of situations ; ) and also books to help you pick a pet. There are books with very silly stories about pets (like the one we read today!) and books about when pets pass away :( so hard...! But it will happen. There are books about that, too.
Here's what we read today:

Food...big eater or picky eater? Loves her veg or hates her veg? One thing we can almost all agree on: pizza is the best! But rhyming is also big fun, so we have books about both, as well as all kinds of food books for every type of eater :) Check out the book list at the end of the post!
Here's what we read today:

Food...it's one of my favorite subjects! I'll use it at Thanksgiving time most years, but who can limit a food theme to just once a year?? (Not me, apparently :) Hah! Let's see what we got into today on the subject of food......
Here are the books:

Today we celebrated The African Arts Festival with our families and caregivers at Family Storytime! We had special songs and stories, and extra felt board extensions to share with our friends, and a special guest, Jessica Custer-Bindel, who came to share an extra special story about how storytelling began. The perfect story for storytime, if you ask me!

Continuing on the Africa theme, we celebrated the African Arts Festival that's going on in our community this month and next at storytime today. I kept it simple with books about African animals, a felt board showcasing a fun book about a boy in an African village and his exceptional chicken, and a song from Swaziland :)
Here's what we read:

We had a big, happy group this morning! It was wonderful to be back. I missed you all! After our hello songs and rhymes, we read...

Splish, Splash, Ducky! by Lucy Cousins

This week is school break week, so I was hoping for extra kids today, and we got them! It's always fun when older siblings come to see what their younger counterparts are up to in Toddler & Preschool Storytime - especially when they used to come when they were little, too :)
Here's what we read today:

Science rules!!! And for me, it's just so much fun to think about what's out there in the cosmos :) We did just that today with our Space-themed Family Storytime! What a riot - we had a wonderful crowd today!
Here's what we read:

I love to watch the birds that stay here in the northeast in the winter time. At our feeders we see house sparrows, cheerful chickadees, loud blue jays, mourning doves, dark-eyed juncos, finches, woodpeckers, and many more. If we're lucky, we'll see some bright red cardinals!

In the middle of winter, it's nice to think about the birds that stay, here in the Northeast. We may see chickadees, crows, blue jays, finches, cardinals, house sparrows, dark-eyed juncos, woodpeckers, nuthatches, titmice...the list goes on! Life isn't easy for the birds this time of year. They need more food to stay strong and healthy through these cold months when snow often covers the seeds, and food is scarce.

We had a wild morning with a big group of babies! What fun! Here are books and some of the songs and fingerplays we shared today!:

So great to be back! Learning about shapes is so much fun! It's amazing what you can create with shapes, and there are many, many excellent books to help get your creative juices flowing.
Here's what we read today:

It's great to be back!! So nice to see familiar and new faces :)

There are more wonderful shapes books than you can shake a square at! (Oh my, that was an awful joke! However, I'm leaving it in ; ) But I can only pick a few books for storytime, so here's what we read today:

It was a dreadfully cold and windy morning but my goodness, lots of lovely babies makes everything better! It was wonderful to see you all!