My Birthday Book Storytime Day 2

The children enjoyed the stories and the movie but were really excited about coloring their very own My Birthday Book . Ingvild, Children's Librarian hands out the sheets and helps them finish their book to take home and share with their families.

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My Birthday Coloring Book

Today after the stories and the movie the children were able to make a book all of their own. It was called My Birthday Book and was as unique as each of the children.

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Two Author's Birthdays

Robert McCloskey (September 15, 1914 – June 30, 2003) wrote and illustrated eight books, the most famous of which was Make Way for Ducklings, the 1942 Caldecott Medal winner.

Make Way for Ducklings, published in 1941, tells of a mallard family that comes to live in a pond in the Public Garden in the center of Boston, Massachusetts and how a friendly policeman stops traffic when the mother takes her eight ducklings across the street. This story has become an institution in Boston, and in 2003, it was named the official children's book of Massachusetts. In 1987, sculptor Nancy Schon created a bronze version of Mrs. Mallard and the ducklings in the Public Garden, which are climbed on by thousands of children every year. The park is also the site of an annual Make Way for Ducklings Mother's Day parade, featuring hundreds of children dressed in the costumes of their favorite characters.

Tomie A. dePaola (Thomas Anthony dePaola) (born September 15, 1934), US author and illustrator of many books for children and adults, including Strega Nona, 26 Fairmount Avenue and Christmas Remembered. dePaola has illustrated over 200 books, and of these books, he has written over 100 stories.

Strega Nona who is seeking help from someone in both outdoor and indoor chores. The first to respond to her advertisement is tall, clumsy Big Anthony.
Strega Nona assigns Big Anthony to various chores around her house, but she also warns him not to touch her magic pasta pot, an enchanted pot that produces pasta at the command of a spell. In the middle of one of his chores, Anthony spies on Strega Nona conjuring pasta from the pasta pot. He also watches as she commands the pot to stop producing pasta. Anthony does not observe Strega Nona blow three kisses after commanding the pasta pot to stop producing pasta.

Three Traits You’d Want People to Remember You By

While searching for something to say about how I was feeling about yesterday and Patriots' Day. I checked On Simplicity (http://www.onsimplicity.net/) and came across the Three Traits You Want To Be Remembered By.
WOW! Something to really think about!

Taking the time to realize what we want to leave behind is key. Once that’s done, it’s easier to cut out all of the behaviors and habits that simply don’t jive with our hoped-for legacy. We start becoming the people we always hoped we might be.

After much thought I think mine would be:
Faithful
Passionate For What I Believe In
Kind To Animals


So what do you want your legacy to be?

Color Crayons Storytime Day 2

Children heard the stories Harold and the Purple Crayon and The Color Crayons That Talked and watched a video The Pig's Wedding. In this video pigs painted their clothes on for the wedding and what happpened when it rained.

The children colored a sheet of crayons using their favoirte color.

Color Crayons Storytime

Today at storytime we read about colors.

Harold and the Purple Crayon and The Color Crayons That Talked) and watched a video The Pig's Wedding and how they painted their clothes on after they got clean and what happened when it rained.

We then glued our favorite color name on a coloring sheet and wrote our names and then colored the sheet to take home.


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September is Library Card Sign-up Month

A reminder to parents and kids that a library card is the most important school supply of all.