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Playgroup and storytime is a partnership between parents and library staff.  Staff presents storytime, and parents take turns planning and leading the craft.    

9:30-Parents, caregivers, and children meet in the community room to play and network.  

10:00-Storytime in the library.  

10:20-craft and more playtime back in the community room until 11 or 11:30.

Storytimes include a mix of books, fingerplays, songs, props, games, and other interactive activities.  All sessions incorporate reading readiness activities.  Reading research defines six skills that children should know to be ready to read.  Children who have these skills enter kindergarten ready to have a more successful learning experience.  Skills include:

Print Motivation– a child’s interest and enjoyment of books

Phonological Awareness– the ability to hear and play with smaller sounds of words

Narrative Skills– the ability to describe things and events, and to tell stories
Letter Knowledge – learning to name letters, knowing their sounds, and recognizing them everywhere
Print Awareness – noticing print, knowing how to handle a book, and to follow words on a page
Vocabulary – knowing the names of things