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StoryTime: Elephant and Piggie

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Hello everyone! Welcome back to story time at the Union Township Branch Library! After a brief break during the month of May to promote Summer Reading we are back!

During the month of June we are talking about our favorite animals, and for our first week Ms. Garria picked Elephants and Piggies (after all, she is a HUGE Mo Willems fan). As always, all three of our story times throughout the week were on the same subject but featured different stories and activities. Between Ms. Garria, Ms. Cheryl and myself we read quite a few!

Mrs. Garria made us a special flannel board about Five Clean and Dirty Pigs, with a rhyme that was sung to the tune of Five Green and Speckled Frogs: (Repeat for numbers 5-1)
Five pigs so squeaky clean
Cleanest you’ve ever seen
Wanted to go outside and play
Oink! Oink!
One jumped into the mud
Landed with a big THUD
Then there were four clean squeaky pigs!

Our kids enjoyed watching the Piggies on our flannel board go from clean to dirty, and they had a great time making their own version for our craft. Everyone got a piggie cut out to make a dirty as they wanted with brown paint and sponges.

Our current StoryTime session will run through July 19. We have All Ages StoryTime Wednesdays at 10:30 and Thursdays at 11:30 and ToddlerTime Thursdays at 10:30 (with a special Gaming session for older kids while their younger siblings are in ToddlerTime!)

Hope we see you soon!

Family Story Time: Stars

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Hello again! While Story Time at the Union Township Branch might have stopped for the month of May, we just started our new series of evening story hours. Family Night meets on the first Tuesday of every month at 6:45. Our goal is to allow families with weekday school and work conflicts a chance to enjoy stories. All ages are welcome at Family Night, and we highly encourage our visitors to wear their pajamas!

Our Summer Reading theme this year is Read: Morning, Noon and Night, so our evening Family Time themes are all about the night.

Our first session met Tuesday May 1st, and we talked about Celestial Bodies (the kids were very interested to learn that bit of fancy, grown-up lingo). We read lots of stories about the stars and moon:

Our last book, Stars had a great idea, which we used for our craft. It suggested that we make a star and keep it in our pockets for days that we don’t feel so shiny. So, all of our attendees got to make and personalize their very own star to keep in their pocket, as well as one to give away to their favorite person. (After all, while you should always share, you don’t want to give away YOUR star, because then you wouldn’t have one anymore!) I made mine a star-shaped magic wand, so that I could banish all bad days that dared to occur in my presence.

Family Night will be happening every month; we’ll meet again June 5, from 6:45-7:30 to talk about Things That go Bump in the Night! Come with the whole family, wear your PJ’s and bring your favorite stuffed friend to hear stories about creepy, crawly, spooky monsters and to make your very on pet monster to take home with you!

Register online here, or call the Union Township Branch at 513-528-1744 to save your spot! Remember to check out all of the awesome events happening at the Clermont County Public Libraries this summer for both children AND adults!

 

 

Union Township Toddlertime à la carte

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Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar? It was the Union Township toddlers at Toddlertime on February 9th and 10th.  We also practiced taking turns feeding shapes to a puppy puppet and building a giant pretend hamburger.  Our puppy feeding game was designed to improve their narrative skills by building on a rhyme we’d just heard.  We danced and listened to stories on a picnic blanket.  Our Wednesday class finished by crafting a necklace of food (Hurray for fine motor skills!) while our Thursday class honed their social skills during playgroup.  Our theme?  Mealtime and Narrative Skills, of course.

Each week we practice different literacy skills.  For example,  acting out stories or parts of them, having young children use their whole bodies, helps them internalize and understand what is happening in the story. We hope they will be able to tell the story back to you, especially their favorites, which they like to hear over and over again.

Drop into the Union Township Toddlertime – no registration required.  We meet Wednesdays and/or Thursdays at 10:30am.      February 16 and 17′s theme is playtime and letter knowledge - out comes the parachute.  On February 23rd and 24th, we celebrate bathtime and print awareness. The toddlers will be helping us give some dolls a bath… (Please wish Miss Garria and me luck!)