With Mother's Day coming in a few days, we read stories about moms (and grandmoms) today at Storytime. In
Llama, Llama Misses Mama by Anna Dewdney, Llama has to go to school and is afraid he's not going to have fun without his mom - but you know that doesn't really happen!
Koala Lou by Mem Fox told about a koala who wonders if her mom still loves her - and you know she does!
I Love You Stinky Face by Lisa Mccourt was about a little boy who comes to realize that his mother will love him no matter how he looks or acts or even smells! And
What! Cried Granny by Kate Lum was about Patrick, who had his first sleepover at the house of his clever, problem-solving grandmother!
For our craft, we made beautiful Mother's Day crowns that said MOM. After we pasted the letters onto a headband, we decorated with drawings, stickers, jewels, stars, and hearts. We knew our mothers would be proud to wear them on their special day!
And finally, here's one of our fathers, wearing the finished crown upside down.
WOW - what a good papa!!
When the Project Promise Literacy Club came to the library this week, we read the fable, The Ugly Duckling, retold by Rachael Isadore. After talking about how a fable is a moral tale, one student suggested the point of this story is that you can't tell how someone is inside by looking at their outside.
Today, at the New Hampton Community School's Project Promise After School Program, I brought several robot-themed books and we read the group's choice. Rabbit and Robot: The Sleepover by CeCe Bell was a funny story in chapters about friends who were trying to follow a plan for a sleepover. After the story, each child cut out and colored a paper robot, then wired it with string in the back to make him slide up and down when attached to a doorknob. 
Recently, we read two fact-based books about gardening. Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt by Kate Messner shows what is going on above and below ground as a grandmother and grandchild plant, tend to, and harvest their garden. Yucky Worms by Vivian French details the importance that earthworms play in keeping a garden healthy. 
With Mother's Day coming in a few days, we read stories about moms (and grandmoms) today at Storytime. In Llama, Llama Misses Mama by Anna Dewdney, Llama has to go to school and is afraid he's not going to have fun without his mom - but you know that doesn't really happen! Koala Lou by Mem Fox told about a koala who wonders if her mom still loves her - and you know she does! I Love You Stinky Face by Lisa Mccourt was about a little boy who comes to realize that his mother will love him no matter how he looks or acts or even smells! And What! Cried Granny by Kate Lum was about Patrick, who had his first sleepover at the house of his clever, problem-solving grandmother!
