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Program: Lapsits
Audience: up through two year olds
Schedule: Monday
at 10 a.m
Description of program: This
program is subtitled called 'Play and Read!' because
children learn through their senses during interactive
play at this age so sessions include action stories, fingerplays, crafts and treats.
Program: Baby Lapsits
Audience: infants up to 12
months
Schedule: Tuesday at 10 a.m.
This program is subtitled "Rock
and Read!" to encourage parents to talk, sing and read to
their babies as they rock and cuddle them each day.
Program: Family Story Time
Audience: preschoolers and their
families
Schedule: Tuesday evenings at 7
p.m.
This evening program is also
called "Pajama Time!" encourages children to come in their
pajamas, bring a stuffed animal and a pillow, and, when
the playtime ends and the program winds down, to settle
down and listen to some sleepy time stories that will get
them ready for bed.
Program: Story Time
Audience: three to five year
olds
Schedule: Wednesday and Thursday at 10 a.m.
This "Ready-to-Read!" program
emphasizes the six pre-reading skills children need to
know to start kindergarten. Sessions include stories,
activities, crafts and treats.
Program: BabyTALK
Audience: new parents
Schedule: Whenever new parents
check out of the St. Francis Medical Center, they receive
library information in gift diaper bags. Parents are
encouraged to read to their new babies and small children
every day, to get a library card for each family member
and to make regular visits to the library for materials
and to join a weekly story time or lapsit group.
Program: Kindercarding
Audience: kindergarten children
Schedule: Children's Department
library staff visits local kindergartens each September
during Library Card Sign-Up Month to tell children about
the library, hand out library card applications and
encourage them to get a library card.
Program: ParenTALK
Audience: parents and caregivers
Schedule: A parenting resource
library available for checkout in book, audiocassette,
VHS, DVD and CD format.
Program: Take 20 (a literacy
awareness campaign)
Audience: parents, grandparents,
teachers and others who work with children
Schedule: Information made
available throughout the community emphasizing the
importance of reading to children for 20 minutes each day.
Posters, window stickers, book marks and 'prescriptions'
from doctors and dentists are part of the program.
Materials also included in BabyTALK packets given to new
parents at the St. Francis Medical Center.
Program: Family Place
Audience: all family members
Schedule: Library materials of
every kind made available to all members of the family,
whatever their informational needs, encouraging them to
make regular visits to the library as a family and to help
them view the library as a 'Family Place.'
Program: Summer Reading Program
Audience: children of all ages
Schedule: Programming in a
variety of formats to meet the individual learning styles
of children. Programs are presented every week day from
the day school ends in May until the end of July. The goal
is to interest children in reading throughout the summer
months so they will maintain and even grow their literacy
skills when school is not in session.
Special Programming:
Program: Read Across America
Audience: children throughout
America
Schedule: Reading celebrations
held each year on or near the beloved Dr. Seuss birth
date in schools and libraries across the country. The
library joins the National Education Association in
promoting reading and learning-to-read activities to
children in our area.
Program: Edith Abbott Birthday/Victorian Tea Party
Audience: local third and fourth
grade girls
Schedule: A tea party is held
annually on a Sunday afternoon near the birthday
(September 26th) of library namesake, Edith
Abbott, to acquaint children with the Victorian childhood
and national importance of this great lady as a social
reformer and to help them understand how her life's work
impacts them personally today.
Program: Prime Time
Audience: local Hispanic
families
Schedule: Prime Time is a
literacy program for bilingual families held at the
library for six weeks each fall. Stories are read in both
English and Spanish followed by a lively discussion.
Family members are encouraged to get library cards and
make frequent visits to the library to continue the
development of their literacy skills.
Program: Bear Fair
Audience: preschool children
Schedule: The Bear Fair, held
annually, is designed to teach preschool children good
health and safety practices through activity stations,
books and other library resources. Each child arrives with
a teddy bear in tow to accompany them through the
stations - all with 'bear' names such as Bearobics, Dress a
Bare Bear, and so on. |
