2016 Storytime Session Schedule
Session 1- December 28, 2015- February 6, 2016
Session 2- February 14, 2016- March 26, 2016
Session 2- February 14, 2016- March 26, 2016
Session 3- April 3, 2016- May 28, 2016
Session 4- June 5, 2016- July 30, 2016
Session 5- August 7, 2016- September 17, 2016
Session 6- September 25, 2016- November 5, 2016
Session 7- November 13, 2016- December 24, 2016
In the Baby Storytime, early literacy skills such as phonological awareness would be exercised through song repetition and word or number practice. Songs, like Old MacDonald, that practice animal noises, help children early on with skills that they would later use while learning to read by sounding out syllables. Fine motor skills would be exercised through finger play such as the “Itsy Bitsy Spider” that would later develop and aid in correctly holding a pencil or crayon.
In the Toddler and Preschool programs, caregivers would be able to expand on skills learned from the Baby Storytime program. With storytime aides such as a flannel board, a librarian can create stories or teach preschool math skills such as adding and subtracting through these visually guided songs and stories. Helping children with print awareness and letter knowledge through these visual-aides will give a child a great head start in their early literacy journey.
In the Saturday Storytime program, children are given the fun task of exercising their imagination with a flipped story time. “Reading” a wordless book is a fantastic exercise that forces a child to reach deep into their already expansive vocabulary and describe in detail what they think is going on in the story. These are great opportunities to remind parents of the value of the 5 “W’s”, Who, What, When, Where and Why (Whitehouse, 1994). Through dialogic reading, exercises like these can be used throughout a child’s day and gives the parent a valuable opportunity to not only connect with their child, but help them develop their curiosity and build on their growing vocabulary and narrative skills.
Each story time will focus, not just on having fun, but on helping the caregivers educate themselves on the various early literacy skills that will help their child on their reading journey. Many of these skills, they may be already be instilling in their children, but are unaware of it. By incorporating subtle tips into storytime through gentle suggestion (Ghoting, 2006) parents are being offered instruction in a respectful manner.
Coming to story time is a great step in a child’s early literacy education. Learning these skills through fun and silly methods help build a child’s print motivation, and ultimately, their love of reading. Everything that a caregiver can learn from a story time can be reproduced or adapted at home where a child’s education should continue on (Cerny, 2006). Children learn by doing and by observing their environments, so even something as simple as watching a caregiver read, will instill in them the importance of reading and help develop them into lifelong lovers of literature.
2016 Session Weekly Themes
- Session 1: Winter
- Winter Animals
- Snow
- Winter Holidays
- Winter Clothes
- Winter Fun
- Winter Foods
- Session 2: Love & Luck
- Valentine's Day
- Families
- St. Patrick's Day
- Luckiness
- Sharing & Caring
- The Color Green
- Session 3: The Earth & Space
- Astronauts
- Rocket Ships
- Ocean Animals
- Earth Day
- All About Trees
- The Milky Way
- Friendly Aliens
- Wishing on a Star
- Session 4: On Your Mark, Get Set...Read!
- Summer Olympics
- Being a Good Sport
- I Love Books!
- Animals Loving Libraries
- Our Amazing Bodies
- Feats of Strength
- Yoga
- Team Dinosaur
- Session 5: Art
- Rainbows
- Picasso
- Lily Ponds
- Messy Mice
- Imagination
- Crayons
- Session 6: Superheroes
- Marvelous Superheroes
- I AM BATMAN
- Wonder Women
- Police
- Firemen
- Super Daddies
- Session 7: Our Feelings
- Happiness & Sadness
- Love & Anger
- Lonliness & Popularity
- Acts of Kindness
- Lying & The Importance of Telling the Truth
- Hands are Not for Hitting
Marketing & Budget Plan for Storytimes
Like all programs offered at TKML, our storytimes are promoted through the following print and online venues: the TKML Quarterly newsletter and website, facebook.com, twitter.com, macaronikid.com, the Parkland Station Gazette, meetup.com and tumblr.com. Our library staff also performs regular outreach programs at local daycares and at the Parkland Station Elementary and Middle Schools (Go Conductors!). These outreach programs involve book talks, program up-selling and storytimes. Outreach provides our staff with invaluable insight and networking within the Parkland Station community which best ables TKML to position itself in the most effective and helpful way in providing the information needs of this community.
Budgetary needs for storytime programming fall in craft supplies and the occasional refreshment purchase. The estimated costs for 2016 for craft supplies is $1,380.00, or $15.00 per the 92 individual storytimes offering a craft. There is also the cost of replacement musical instruments, scarves, puppets, felt for the flannel board and other educational toys used throughout the year for the four different storytime programs. This cost has averaged to $500.00 in previous years.
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