Mice Eat Cookies???

For yesterdays' Stories for Young Children* we read A Dog's Life by Caroline Sherman and If You Give A Mouse A Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff. We also created our own mouse with our favorite cookie and glass of milk. Everyone loved their mouse so much that they decided to take them home. But if you would like to learn how to make your own this is where you'll find the instructions.

Hope to see you in one of our story times in the near future! ;o)

*Stories for Young Children is held every Wednesday at 11:00 am. This program is for children birth to 5 years with an adult caregiver. The program includes stories, books, finger plays, nursery rhymes, and songs that promote language development, vocabulary building, and comprehension. Attendance is limited.

And the Cow Says, What?

Mooo! Farm animals was the subject of yesterday's Stories for Young Children.* We read Dog's Noisy Day: A Story to Read Aloud by Emma Dodd and Let's Go Visiting by Sue Williams. Afterward, we created sheep out of a paper plate, construction paper, and some cotton balls. Everyone loved their creation so much that they decided to take their sheep home! So here's mine:

 If you would like to know how to create your own cotton ball sheep, you can find the instructions here.

Oh! By the way, we still have Chameleon Colors from last week on display if you haven't had the chance to stop by. ;o)


*Stories for Young Children is held every Wednesday at 11:00 am. This program is for children birth to 5 years with an adult caregiver. The program includes stories, books, finger plays, nursery rhymes, and songs that promote language development, vocabulary building, and comprehension. Attendance is limited.

Chameleon Colors

Last weeks' Stories for Young Children* we read Leon the Chameleon by Mélanie Watt and Lemons Are Not Red by Laura Vaccaro Seeger. After the stories and the songs, we made our own multicolored chameleons!

Don't forget to stop by and take a look! :o)

*Stories for Young Children is held every Wednesday at 11:00 am. This program is for children birth to 5 years with an adult caregiver. The program includes stories, books, finger plays, nursery rhymes, and songs that promote language development, vocabulary building, and comprehension. Attendance is limited.

Canine Companions

We had special visitors at 11:00 today: Vickie, Matrix, and friends from Canine Companions for Independence. They taught us about the life and skills of an assistance dog and just what it takes to train one. They also demoed some of the dogs commands.

Today's storytime was dog-gone good! Since we were going to have some puppy pals visit, we decided to have a dog theme. The dog in this book is a little bit scary, but little chick saves the day! [Tippy-Toe Chick, GO! by George Shannon and illustrated by Laura Dronzek.

We listened to a feltboard version of Dog's Colorful Day by Emma Dodd.

We learned about colors and got to do some counting--all the way to 10--in that story!

What better way to wrap things up, than to make our own colorful dogs.