{"id":5936,"date":"2013-02-07T00:01:07","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T05:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=5936"},"modified":"2013-02-07T00:01:28","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T05:01:28","slug":"valentine-storytime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/valentine-storytime\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentine Storytime"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my favorite storytime themes is Valentine\u2019s Day because it is a way to share stories about love with children.\u00a0 I use popular favorites that we keep in our librarian\u2019s collection along with new books to keep things interesting and fun.\u00a0 We dance to music, do finger plays and I share Ipad apps with each class along with reading stories.\u00a0 At the end of every class we read a book from the website We Give Books<\/a>. The children enjoy seeing the books up on the big screen via our projector.\u00a0 We count the images, identify colors and the older ones love to go up and point things out to the class.\u00a0\u00a0 The following are books and apps I recommend for Valentine storytimes.<\/p>\n

12 to 24 months<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Flannel \"Hug\"
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\nMaisy Loves You<\/span> by Lucy Cousins<\/p>\n

My Little Valentine<\/span> by Carol Roth<\/p>\n

Baby Max and Ruby: Love<\/span> by Rosemary Wells<\/p>\n

Spot Loves His Daddy<\/span> by Eric Hill<\/p>\n

They are a special crowd who need quick stories with lots of music and movement to keep their attention.\u00a0 Board books are perfect for this age along with short picture books that have a few words on each page.\u00a0 I read two books to this group one in the beginning of class after a few songs and one at the end. The app I like for this class is Flannel Animals.<\/p>\n

2 and 3 year olds<\/b><\/p>\n

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A Splendid Friend Indeed<\/span> by Suzanne Bloom<\/p>\n

Llama Llama Red Pajama<\/span> by Anna Dewdney<\/p>\n

The Duckling Gets a Cookie!?<\/span> By Mo Willems<\/p>\n

Biscuit\u2019s Valentine\u2019s Day<\/span> by Alyssa Capucilli<\/p>\n

These children are very excited about being with other children.\u00a0 They love the bells and egg shakers used along with the music and movement. The app I use for this class is I Can Hear Ewe. It is fun to see how many toddlers start out glued to their caregiver, but by the end they are up front and involved with the stories and the action. I move up to using three books for this class.\u00a0 These children are starting to have a longer attention span therefore simple rhyming; animal noises and funny books are interesting to them.<\/p>\n

3 1\/2, 4 and 5 year olds<\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0\"Polar \"Hugless<\/b><\/p>\n

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\nWho is Your Favorite Monster Mama?<\/span>\u00a0 by Barbara Shook Hazen<\/p>\n

Froggy\u2019s First Kiss<\/span> by Jonathan London<\/p>\n

A Giant Crush<\/span> by Melissa Sweet<\/p>\n

Too Small for Honey Cake<\/span> by Gillian Lobel<\/p>\n

This group is my favorite because they really listen to all three stories.\u00a0 They participate and have wonderful questions and great answers to mine! The parachute games and hokey pokey keep the energy high. The apps I use with them are Make a Scene Polar Adventure and Make a Scene Farm Adventure.<\/p>\n

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Our guest blogger today is Shelley Black Holley, M.L.S. Shelley has worked in library services since 2001. She has been a Children\u2019s Librarian for six years at Southington Library in Southington, Connecticut. Her blog is <\/em>http:\/\/shellibrary.wordpress.com\/<\/i><\/a>
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If you\u2019d like to write a guest post for the ALSC Blog, please contact Mary Voors, ALSC Blog manager, at alscblog@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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One of my favorite storytime themes is Valentine\u2019s Day because it is a way to share stories about love with children.\u00a0 I use popular favorites that we keep in our librarian\u2019s collection along with new books to keep things interesting and fun.\u00a0 We dance to music, do finger plays and I share Ipad apps with each class along with reading stories.\u00a0 At the end of every class we read a book from the website We Give Books. The children enjoy seeing the books up on the big screen via our projector.\u00a0 We count the images, identify colors and the older ones love to go up and point things out to the class.\u00a0\u00a0 The following are books and apps I recommend for Valentine storytimes. 12 to 24 months       Maisy Loves You by Lucy Cousins My Little Valentine by Carol Roth Baby Max and Ruby: Love by Rosemary Wells…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[134,136],"tags":[350],"class_list":["post-5936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-blogger","category-storytime-2","tag-valentines-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}