Story Time ... all about Fall!

Nearing the end of October already and it's been a busy Fall so far! During September and October our Storytime sessions haven't been very crowded, as everyone is still settling into new school schedules and routines. Our Thursday storytimes, for ages 3-6, have been focusing on Fall themes like Back-to-School, Apples, Leaves, Changing Seasons and Pumpkins.


We will be sharing some Halloween stories this week, and then moving on to Thanksgiving and Hibernation in November!

Friday mornings have been getting more and more popular as people tell their friends about all the fun we have at TinyTots LapSit StoryTime! This week, I expect to see lots of little pumpkins, black cats and who-knows-what else as the babies like to get dressed up!

Click here for some pictures from last year's Halloween session of TinyTots!

Happy Thanksgiving ...

These are some of the books from Storytime this week:

and some others that you may want to check out:




The Magic Tree House series has a Thanksgiving book:
and also a non-fiction Research Guide:

Just a reminder that there will be NO STORYTIME sessions held next week, as the Library will be CLOSED on both THURSDAY & FRIDAY, Nov 27-28, 2008. The Library will be open on Saturday, November 29. See you in December!

Hibernation ...

At last week's PreSchool StoryTime sessions, we read stories about Bears getting ready for Winter .... and learned about HIBERNATION!

After the stories, the kids made a little craft to take home, using a brown pompom, a cardboard tube and some brown paper: A bear sleeping in his cave!

For some coloring/activity pages that go with one of the books, Bear Snores On, visit the author's website: http://www.karmawilson.com/teachers.htm#bear

The books we read:

• Time to Sleep by Denise Fleming
• Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson
• Old Bear by Kevin Henkes

We will be reading some more books by Kevin Henkes this week, since that author's birthday is later this month ...

Please remember to wear something purple-ish!

Fall Fun at the Library!

Children at today's storytime were busy making Autumn trees, by tracing their hand and forearm onto brown paper, cutting out the shape (a tree trunk & bare branches) and pasting it onto light blue paper. Colorful scraps of tissue paper were added for the Autumn leaves!

Books read today:

• When Autumn Falls by Kelly Nidey (Morton Grove, Ill. : Albert Whitman & Co., 2004)
• Who Loves the Fall? by Bob Raczka; illus. by Judy Stead (Morton Grove, Ill. : Albert Whitman, 2007)
• I Know It's Autumn by Eileen Spinelli (New York : HarperCollins, 2004)
• Fall Is Not Easy by Marty Kelley (Madison, WI : Zino Press Children's Books, 1998)

October StoryTime!

and time to Fall into Reading!

Register now for our Autumn-themed story times in October!

The planned schedule includes:

• October 2: Squirrels

• October 9: Hibernation

• October 16: Leaves

• October 23: Pumpkins

• October 30: Halloween
  

To sign-up for either the morning or afternoon session, please call the library at 508-529-6272 or email Lisa, the Children's/Young Adult Librarian: UptonStoryTime@yahoo.com

(Weekly themes are subject to change without notice. Books pictured here aren't guaranteed to be the ones read. Please register in advance, for either the 10:30 or 1:30 session, for the entire month.)