Storytime from the Carver Memorial Library

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Thu, 08/27/2015 - 12:24pm

Storytime at Carver Memorial Library is a half hour monthly children’s show. The show is produced by the Carver Memorial Library in Searsport, Maine and hosted by Library Director Katie Hessler. The program features stories, rhymes, and songs to promote early literacy.

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Storytime from the Carver Memorial Library

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Fri, 11/20/2015 - 1:05pm
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Episode 11's theme is Birds.Join us as we read a book called "Birds" by Kevin Henkes and sing a song "Little Bird Little Bird", Read two more books, "A Snowy Owl Story" by Melissa Kim and "Owl Babies" by Martin Waddell. Sing along with "A Nursery Rhyme from Jane Dyer's book Animal Crackers and read a poem from Tomie dePaola's "Book of Poems". Sing "In The Spring" from Read-Aloud Rhymes for the very young" by Jack Prelutsky and read a poem from "Sing to the Sun" by Ashley Bryan.

Storytime from the Carver Memorial Library

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Wed, 10/21/2015 - 1:33pm
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Episode 10's theme is Frogs. In this episode Ronda will read "One Frog Sang' by Shirley Parenteau Illustrated by Cynthia Jabar. Sing along with the song Ack Gunk Went the Little Green Frog One Day. Read "Too Many Frogs!" by Ann and John Hassett. Read and sing "Five Green and Speckled Frogs" Illustrated by Constanza Basaluzzo. We will discuss three books "All About Frogs" by Jim Arnosky, "Critters of Maine by Wildlife Forever and "Nic Bishop Frogs" by Nic Bishop.

Storytime from the Carver Memorial Library

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Wed, 10/21/2015 - 1:32pm
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Season 2 continues with the theme Hats. in this episode Ronda will read "Jennie's Hats" by Ezra Jack Keats and sing a silly song called "On My Head I Wear My Hat". "The Hat" by Jan Brett and "Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing" by Judi Barrett are the next two books. We will share a short finger play and action rhyme called "My Hat" and a book "Milo's Hat Trick" by Jon Agef. Read a rhyme about a hat from "The Random House Book of Mother Goose".

Storytime from the Carver Memorial Library

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Wed, 10/21/2015 - 1:30pm
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Season 2 starts with the theme Colors. In this episode Ronda will read "Pete the Cat I Love My White Shoes" by James Dean and Eric Litwin. Sing along with the finger play song "Two Little Bluebirds" and read "Harold and the Purple Crayon" by Crockett Johnson. The book called "ART" by Patrick McDonnell and a poem "Crayons" from the book "Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young" by Jack Prelutsky and Marc Brown are next.

Storytime from the Carver Memorial Library

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Wed, 10/21/2015 - 1:29pm
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This episode is devoted to Toys. We will read two books "Corduroy" by Don Freeman and "Me...jane by Patrick McDonnell. Sing "The Marvelous Toy" by Tom Paxton and read "Yellow Ball" by Molly Bang. We will also exercise to the rhyme "Here is a Beach Ball", read "Rub-a-Dub-Sub" by Linda Ashman, and sing "Octopus's Garden" by the Beatles written by Ringo Starr.

Storytime from the Carver Memorial Library

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Wed, 09/09/2015 - 10:10am
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This episode is devoted to Imagination. We will read "The Paper Bag Princess" by Robert Munsch and sing "Puff the Magic Dragon". Read two poems from the book "Eric Carle's DRAGONS DRAGONS" "Pegasus" by Eleanor Farjeon and "The Yeti" by John Gardner. Help us read "Giant Dance Party by Betsy Bird and move to a rhyme called "Three Billy Goats Gruff". "Regards to the Man in the Moon" by Ezra Jack Keats and a Scottish folk song and nursery rhyme called "Aiken Drum" are next. Our last book we will read is "I Can Fly" by Ruth Krauss.

Storytime from the Carver Memorial Library

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Wed, 09/09/2015 - 10:09am
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This episode is devoted to Winter. We will read "The Missing Mitten Mystery" by Steven Kellogg and "Snowmen at Night" by Carolyn Buchner. Sing along with "Frosty the Snowman" and rhyme together "Snowflake, Snowflake Falling to the Ground". Listen to the book "The Snowy Day" by Ezra Jack Keats and "Winter Waits" by Lynn Plourde.

Storytime from the Carver Memorial Library

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Thu, 08/27/2015 - 12:31pm
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This episode is devoted to the Thanksgiving Holiday. We will read "Possum's Harvest Moon" by Anne Hunter, "Joseph Had a Little Overcoat" by Simms Taback, 1,2,3 Thanksgiving" by W. Nikola-Lisa, "The Thankful Book" by Todd Parr. We will rhyme "Betty Botter Bought Some Better Butter" and "5 Little Peas in a Pea Pod Pressed" along with singing "Over the River and Thru the Woods.

Storytime from the Carver Memorial Library

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Thu, 08/27/2015 - 12:30pm
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This episode is devoted to the "Troublemakers on the Farm". In this episode we will read "Hattie the Goat", "Duck on a Bike", "Click Clack Moo Cows That Type" and "Barnyard Dance". Jane sings a song called "The Fox" and everyone sing a book called "Cows in the Kitchen". You can join in with an exercise called "Two Mother Pigs Lived in a Pen"

Storytime from the Carver Memorial Library

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Thu, 08/27/2015 - 12:29pm
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This episode is devoted to the Halloween Holiday. We will read "The Littlest Pumpkin", sing "5 Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Gate", read the book "What a Scare, Jesse Bear", exercise to a rhyme called "Jack-O-Lantern", sing along with "Itsy Bitsy Spider", read Olivia and the Fairy Princes" and read the book "What Was I Scared Of" by Dr. Seuss.