For the STEM science experiment at story time for the Y and Z week I wanted to do something with the word “zoom!” So basically I got an inclined plane (a large triangle that is part of our library furniture). Then I got some balls and had the kids put them at the top of…
For the Y and Z story time I used an app called “Animal World: Circus Zoo” to play with the kids. Basically there are little circus train cars that have doors that open just a little bit. The kids then have to figure out just exactly what animal is shown in the train car. And…
The last week of story time we did two letters: Y and Z. Of course I wanted to do a literacy game that had to do with the zoo and letters. So the kids had to figure out what animals would go to certain areas of the zoo (and of course the “Y” and “Z”…
There is one major science thing that I think of when I think of the letter “X”…X-Rays! Thankfully we had some x-rays left over from our teen part of the summer reading program last year. Thankfully I nabbed them before the teens threw them all away. The kids could look at the animal x-rays and…
For story time this week I had the kids play the “At a Party” app from PBS Kids. I liked how this fit with the “x” week because the kids had to “box” up gifts and “boxes” have a letter “x” in them. First the game shows an object and two boxes. Kids then have…
Last week I did the letter “X” at story time. Years ago when I first started doing alphabet letters for story time I thought this would be one of the hardest letters to do. But when I decided I could do anything that had a letter “x” in it, I realized that this was one…
For last week’s science experiment we learned about weight. We had some scales and some shape bean bags that I got out. Then the kids would put the different bean bags in the different sides of the scales and see which bean bags weighed more or less. I wish I had more scales and more…
I love, LOVE the PBS Kids app. There are multiple games. And it is free. The one that I had the kiddos play in story time this last week was the playtime game. Basically for this app the kids have to sort the different toys into different colored bins. I kept asking “where” do the…
Last week was “W” week for the A to Z Story Time. This week happens to have quite a lot of fun books, so it was hard to choose. I also wanted to talk about how to “write” for the literacy game. So the chant had them talking about how to “write” and that they…
For last week’s story time science experiment I wanted to do something with vinegar…since one of the letters was “V” this week. So I got some scientific looking test tubes and put some oil and some vinegar in them. Then we shook them up… And then watched them go back to oil being on top…