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Preschool Book Club
Updated 07/10/23 The first Bricks and Books Club I launched in 2021 began with tweens. This popular program combined two of my favorite things: middle grade lit and LEGO® bricks. Originally, our gr…
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Preschool Book Club
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My favorite part of being a school librarian is reading to students. I regularly read to kindergarten and first grade students. Once a month I have storytime with all kindergarten, first, and secon…
Everything you need to know to start a story time program for kids in your community. Book ideas, tips and planning sheets for getting started.
A Kids Book Club can be the perfect motivation for ongoing reading. Keeping kids reading can often be a chore but these fun reading printables will be sure to motivate and keep kids reading all summer long!
Best Storytime Ideas for Preschoolers Do you have daily storytime with a classroom of kids? Do you run story time at your library? Do you just enjoy reading stories and doing book inspired activities and songs with your child? If you answered YES to any of these questions then these ideas are for you! Our […]
Family Dinner Book Clubs that encourage your family to read and spend time together.
We're excited to announce our selection of authors and books that have been chosen for the 2014-2015. We took much time and consideration in selecting and we invite you to follow along and join in
How to save money on books and build friendships by starting a kids book club with BAND. Click for free printable reading log!
Storytime Theme: Outdoor Adventure celebrates the great outdoors with fantastic read aloud picture books, songs, rhymes, and activities!
Meet twelve year-old Kyle who, along with a few of his classmates, has won a chance to spend the night in the town’s new library before it opens to the public. What this group of students doesn’t realize, is that the over-night is really a race against the clock to solve numerous riddles and see […]
Looking for some ideas on Book Club Names? Here you will find listed a good list to help you start thinking about your own Book Club Name.
Are you wanting to inspire your kids to read? Here are over 100 of the best book clubs I've found to inspire your kids to read (and also have a lot of fun!)
One of my most popular posts of all time - Storytime Theme: Imagination Station is a great list of picture book titles to inspire creativity!
The following post is by Lucy Jakub, one of the 36 college students who participated in the Library of Congress 2015 Junior Fellows Summer Intern Program. Jakub is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in creative nonfiction at Columbia University. Her independent work in graphic design led her to her internship with the Library’s Conservation Division, making …
Grab the pasta pot. It's time for the next Family Dinner Book Club! This month we are featuring a chapter book for Family Dinner Book Club . We are reading Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola. Get great ideas to plan
In preparation for this blog, I’ve had a stack of Laurie Halse Anderson books on my desk all week. Talk about over-whelming! I’m awe-struck by the scope of Laurie’s talent and subject matter. The d…
These Doreen Cronin book activities include great ideas for teaching with the books Click Clack Moo, Diary of Worm, Diary of Spider, and Duck for President.
Covid 19, Coronavirus, has had us quarantined at home for 56 days now here in San Diego, California. It is surreal to say that. We are normally a super active, busy, highly scheduled family. Even when we don’t have sport practices or games or lessons or playdates, we still seem to lean towards – “let’s […]
Book club questions for The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes covers major plot points and character arcs in this novel.
Monthly list of Book Extension Activities and Crafts for Preschoolers and School-Aged Kids, brought to you by the bloggers of the Virtual Book Club for Kids!
It's time to announce our January and February Book List for the Weekly Virtual Book Club for Kids ! Join along with monthly books and themes this Winter.
Make storytime even more fun with these easy book crafts you can do with your kids that pair perfectly with their favorite book.
Find book club ideas and discussion questions for your Wings of Fire Homeschool Study. Enjoy this fantasty read with your kids.
Ghost balloons: a fun Halloween science activity
Crafts are a great way to visualize stories! In the classroom or homeschool, use these 25+ crafts that were inspired by children's books!
Books about Chocolate I think I am just torturing myself. I am trying desperately to reduce the amount of sweets my boys and I eat. It is tough because we all have a serious sweet tooth. So instea…
Picture books can carry you off on a daring adventure to new places with exciting characters without leaving your cozy couch. This book list is all about children’s books that offer an adventure. Adventure can mean so many things. My kids and I call our little field trips adventures. Family travel is always an adventure. […]
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Jez Alborough is July's featured author for the Virtual Book Club for Kids.
One of the things I love doing with my younger children is reading picture books and doing story-related activities with them to bring the story to life and create fun memories. We have enjoyed doing
Goodnight Moon Inspired Activities
Storytime Theme: Laughter whether a quick little giggle or a great big guffaw, I love to laugh! Check out these laugh-out-loud stories!
Our November K-2 Book Adventure was a “Mo Willems Author Celebration.” One of the easiest and most fun ones yet. He has a ton of stories that are great for large groups, award-winning videos, and a website with interesting author facts, silly dances, and a cool handout! We started with “Facts About the Author” projected on the screen and used these throughout the program in between stories. Those segments were: “Mo Looks Like This” (plenty of silly photos on the website); “Mo Wins Medals,” talking about his Caldecott,(illustrator); Giesel (author/illustrator); and Carnegie (filmmaker) honors; “Mo Draws on His Walls” featured photos of the butcher paper and chalkboard drawings from his home, with work by family and visitors as well; and “Mo Worked for a TV Show” with a slide of Sesame Street. As far as stories, there were so many to choose from. We started with an “Elephant and Piggie”: Watch Me Throw the Ball, which Brad and I had done for Family Storytime before. Sheila (Piggie) and Terri (Elephant) had way too good of a time winding up for the big throws. Then it was Leonardo the Terrible Monster, with me narrating, Terri as Leonardo, and Sheila as Sam, the boy that Leonardo makes cry (except that’s really not the reason he cries). This was all acted out, pretty much word for word. We did include a few slides on the screen: scans from the book of the other monsters to compare to Leonardo (Tony with all those teeth, Eleanor (she's big), and Hector who's "just plain weird") Next up was Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, which if you’re doing a Mo Willems program you kind of have to do. Like a Lynyrd Skynyrd cover band has to play “Free Bird” every time. Details on our telling are here. My favorite part of the program was City Dog, Country Frog. Details about why I liked it and how we did it are here. We always need something towards the end of these programs to get the kids up and moving, and fortunately Mo’s website provided that too. We linked to the Elephant and Piggie Dance Game. The page asks you to pick three dances for each character and then plays them back, with animated E & P demonstrating the steps. We just told the kids to follow either or both and have fun. We ran it twice and that seemed just right. If this blog entry is going on too long and you need a quick exercise break, the "Funky Trunky" and "Twist and Snout" might be just the thing. As a finisher, we showed the Carnegie winning DVD of Knuffle Bunny. This was the first time we did a straight video for this program, but it fit just right since we had already highlighted his awards. It’s just such a perfect video from the introduction (a perfect model of Dialogic Reading) to the voices of Mo, daughter Trixie, and wife Cher. Here’s a clip that shows the first half of the movie. After that nice ending, we gave out Pigeon Door Hangers and let kids check out books. Which they did! We always get lots of checkouts at our K-2 events, but this time they nearly cleared us out. As always, we visited schools to promote the program the day before. This gave us a chance to do another “Elephant and Piggie” story, since we had such a hard time limiting ourselves to one during the program. We acted out Can I Play, Too with all three of us: I was Elephant, Sheila was Piggie, and Terri was Snake (with a green scarf wrapped around her arms). Again, we used Mo’s words, threw a bunch of balls to Snake (who couldn’t catch them of course), then finally played catch “with” Snake, throwing Terri back and forth between us (well, pretending to throw her, while she flailed about as if being tossed through the air, which you kind of have to see to get, but she made it work!). So we liked this K-2 Book Adventure a lot. So far we've tried to do one "Author Celebration" per quarter, and have done Arnold Lobel and Dr. Seuss in the past. But we're not sure yet who our next one will be. There are many great authors out there, but not that many who have multiple titles that adapt well to acting out, puppetry, and the rest...
Are you planning a camping trip as a homeschool activity this summer? Then this list of best Camping Books for Kids will make them ready and excited!
My go-to themes for May are connected to spring, growing, flowers, gardens, and Mother's Day. Flowers Suggested Books: How to Grow a Friend by Sara Gillingham Alison's Zinnia by Anita Lobel The Rose in My Garden by Anita Lobel Fantastic Flowers by Susan Stockdale This is the Sunflower by Lola M. Schaefer, illustrated by Donald Crews Extension Activities: Five Little Flowers Flowers Tall and Small I'm a Little Daisy You Are My Flower Mothers Suggested Books: Harriet, You'll Drive Me Wild by Mem Fox, illustrated by Marla Frazee Mama, Do You Love Me? by Barbara Joosse, illustrated by Barbara Lavallee Mother, Mother, I Want Another by Maria Polushkin Robbins, illustrated by Jon Goodell My Mom by Anthony Browne The Quilt Story by Tony Johnston, illustrated by Tomie de Paola This Quiet Lady by Charlotte Zolotow, illustrated by Anita Lobel Extension Activities: I Asked My Mother for Fifty Cents Mother and Father and Uncle John Love My Mommy Bugs Suggested Books: Arabella Miller's Tiny Caterpillar by Clare Jarrett Beetle Bop by Denise Fleming Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! by Bob Barner Butterfly Butterfly by Petr Horacek The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle I Love Bugs! by Philemon Sturges Yoo-Hoo Ladybug by Mem Fox, illustrated by Laura Ljungkvist Extension Activities: Four Colorful Flies Ladybugs Fly Butterfly Gals Flutter Flutter Butterfly Gardening Suggested Books: A Garden of Opposites by Nancy Davis In the Garden: Who's Been Here? by Lindsay Barrett George Inch By Inch by David Mallett, illustrated by Ora Eitan My Garden by Kevin Henkes Up, Down, and Around by Katherine Ayres, illustrated by Nadine Bernard Westcott Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt by Kate Messner, illustrated by Christopher Silas Neal Whose Garden Is It? by Mary Ann Hoberman, illustrated by Jane Dyer Extension Activities: African Planting Chant A Garden Game My Garden My May Garden Fruits & Veggies Suggested Books: The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss, illustrated by Crockett Johnson Jamberry by Bruce Degen The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear by Audrey and Don Wood The Pea Patch Jig by Thacher Hurd Rah Rah Radishes by April Pulley Sayre Tops & Bottoms by Janet Stevens Extension Activities: Corn Grows Tall Fruit Salad Salsa Oats and Beans and Barley Grow Picking Fruits and Vegetables
