by Leah Langby | Aug 13, 2024 | Keeping Up With Kids
Like many of you, I love the content in the Jbrary blog. This blog started as a resource for hundreds of storytime songs, rhymes, and fingerplays. It includes a ton of great resources for people who are new to storytime, along with probing and thoughtful articles...
by Leah Langby | Oct 11, 2018 | Uncategorized
Storytimes! They are the bread-and-butter of what we do as youth services librarians. They are an important tool for sharing early literacy information and skills with kids and parents, they are a ton of fun, and most libraries have one. Now, thanks...
by Leah Langby | May 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
We already have a lot of Jbrary fans here in IFLS-land–I know a lot of people who rely on Dana and Lindsey for friendly demos of rhymes and songs that are great for storytime. They also have a blog full of thoughtful and thought-provoking ideas and...
by Leah Langby | Mar 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
Parachute play in BloomerIt is super cool to have parents and caregivers attend storytime with their kids–it gives us a chance to model excellent early literacy practices, draws their attention to lots of amazing books and activities to share with their...
by Leah Langby | Feb 28, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks so much to the new youth services/programming librarian at Ellsworth, Elise Gregory, for this guest post filled with easy-to-replicate and fun ideas.I’ve been making little grab bags with any of my left-over materials from Preschool Storytime. I also...
