Mathematical Storytime Ann Hotta concludes her blog posts on incorporating math into storytime: Why do we do storytime? We’ve long thought of storytime as a way to introduce young children to good books and demonstrate [continue reading]
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Math Storytime, Part 3
Mathematical Storytime, Part 3 Playing games in storytime isn’t just fun and engaging; it isn’t just something that even gets adults to put down their phones. It’s actually a powerful way to teach math. Think [continue reading]
Math Storytime, Part 2
For the next several Mondays, we offer a series of Math storytimes from Ann Hotta, children’s librarian at Berkeley Public Library ACL Blog: Mathematical Storytime. Part 2 Mathematical Storytime, Part 2 Shape recognition is an [continue reading]
Math Storytime, Part 1
For the next several Mondays, we offer a series of Math storytimes from Ann Hotta, children’s librarian at Berkeley Public Library ACL Blog: Mathematical Storytime. Part 1 Recently I watched a free webinar from Zero [continue reading]
Planes for Babies Storytime
Planes for Babies Storytimes for babies and toddlers offer an opportunity to model great read-aloud techniques for parents and gives them the confidence to read to their children every day. A baby-toddler storytime can [continue reading]
Ireland Storytime
Ireland Many of our communities have residents whose families originally came from Ireland. For a craft project, make shamrocks: www.dltk-holidays.com/patrick/mscissor-skills.htm . Or, make these fun stamps out of potatoes: www.thebestideasforkids.com/potato-stamping/ . Bateman, Teresa. Fiona’s Luck. [continue reading]
Denmark Storytime
Denmark Over the next several months, we will be updating our Storytime themes on various countries around the world. The 2020 CLSP Reads summer reading theme “Imagine Your Story” will focus on fairy tales and [continue reading]
Vietnam Storytime
Vietnam Many of our communities have residents whose families originally came from Vietnam. For a craft project, make a craft celebrating elephants, such as this mask: www.dltk-kids.com/animals/mplate-elephant.htm or this puppet: www.dltk-kids.com/animals/mbagelephant.htm . Brereton, Libby. Raven [continue reading]