4/23/13: We listened to stories about chickens and pretended

to hatch out of eggs. Then Ms. Kim brought

five real baby chicks for us to see!

4/16/13:Carissa Tenorio from “Camp Kiowa” visited today.

She read stories about making new friends. Then

 we colored butterfly pictures with our storyhour friends.

4/9/13: "Rain, Rain, Go Away..." We talked about rain and spring today.

Ms. Jane Dane from Lavender Ridge Farm read to us. Then we
made the pitter patter sound of rain with Ms. Kim.

We made umbrellas and raindrops for our craft.

4/2/13: We celebrated National Poetry Month by reading

poetry books about fish and animals. We sang nursery
rhymes with Ms. Kim and made hand-print fish.

 3/26/13: Gainesville High School Librarian, Deri David, brought her bunny

friends with her and read about bunnies. We sang

 "Little Bunny Foo Foo" with  Ms. Kim and made bunny

ears for our craft. Ms. Kim gave us bunny

rubber duckies to take home.

3/19/13: We talked about leprechauns, shamrocks, and the color

 green with Ms. Kim to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.

 We even read "Green Eggs and Ham."

Then we made green shamrock people.

3/12/13: Grant Wilson was our guest today. He read stories

about sheep, pigeons and St. Patrick's Day.

Then we colored pictures with Ms. Kim. The boys wanted to

 draw monsters while the girls drew flowers.

3/5/13: Ms. Kim read "Giraffe's Can't Dance."

 Then the Dhooghe family performed traditional

 Irish dances for us. They even taught us a

 few steps. Then we colored an Irish dancers.

 2/26/13: We celebrated Dr. Seuss's birthday with Juana Rodriguez

& Kendall Evins from Gainesville's "Reading Red Book Club."

Then we sang "If You're Happy and you Know It"

with Ms. Kim and our special visitor, Cat in the Hat.

 Finally we made Cat in the Hat masks.

2/19/13: We learned about Presidents' Day and money

today with Ms. Kim. We played a penny toss game

and we each got to take a shiny penny home.

2/12/13: Today was a day of holiday celebrations.

We talked about the Chinese New Year and

Valentine's Day. We did a traditional Chinese dance

 with ribbons and made "Valentine Mice" Valentine cards.

2/5/13: Happy Birthday Ms. Kim!

We celebrated Ms. Kim's birthday by reading stories

about birthdays and playing with the parachute.

Ms. Kim gave each of us a birthday

rubber duck and brought a birthday cake.

1/29/13: We had SNOW much fun today! We did

 "The Snowkey Pokey" with Ms. Kim and she read to us

about snowmen. Then we helped her find the pieces to

build our own lifesize snowman! We sang

"Ring Around the Snowman" and made

snowmen out of stickers. To top of the great

day we had a snowball fight!

1/22/13: We watched an old time movie today!

We watched "The Napping House."

 Then Ms. Kim read about Russel,

a sheep who couldn't sleep.

 We used popcorn to decorate

a sheep for our craft.

1/15/13: We discovered penguins with

Ms. Kim today. She read a story to us and then

 for a special treat we got to listen to the audiobook, 

"If You Were a Penguin." We did a penguin dance,

colored penguins and painted

 a penguin with our footprint!

1/8/13: Today we rang in 2013

a little late by reading about

New Year's Eve tradtions.

We had our own ball

dropping & threw confetti!

But before we had our

celebration, we each made

a snowflake for Project Snowflake.

This project was to create a winter

wonderland in memory of

those lost in Newton, CT. Our

display is located on 1 of the

library's outside doors.

12/18/12: The Cooke County Ballet Academy

performed for us at the State Theater!

There were 3 different age groups of dancers.

Ms. Kim read "Twas the Night Before Christmas."

We love this yearly event! Thanks to

Ms. Stephanie Stoffels, all

the dancers, Ms. Tamera Broyles

and David & Susie Jones!

Merry Christmas!

12/11/12: Liz Gonzales &

Vanessa Miranda of the

Gainesville High School

Reading Red Book Club were

our special guests. They read

 stories about Christmas.

We made Santa Claus masks

for our craft. Plus took

pictures by our "faux" fireplace

& in our Elf cutout. 

12/4/12: What an adventurous day we

had at storyhour! We sang songs,

& Ms. Kim read us stories on 

winter themes like Christmas

& snow. The big surprise was

Ms. Laura Eastman helping

with our crafts. She showed

us how to recycle Christmas

cards by lacing them with string.

Our second craft was a homemade

snowglobe! We used small bottles

of water & got to pick all the items

that went in the bottle. Thanks

Ms. Eastman for sharing your ideas &

time with us!

11/27/12: Minnie Mouse's big sister,

Sissie visited us. She read us

stories about mice. We got to interact

with 1 story by making noises. We took

home our own paper mouse.

11/20/12: Today we had our annual

storyhour visit from the

Gainesville Fire Department.

They taught us about fire

safety, read us a story about

the equipment they use, gave us

our own fire hat, a tour of Engine #3 & a

visit from Sparky the Fire Safety Dog.

Thanks Gainesville Fire Department!

11/13/12: Gainesville High School's

Reading Red Book Club students

Vicky Moreno & Marcy Ruiz were

our special guests. They read stories

about what dinosaurs do when they

say good night & eat their food.

To celebrate Thanksgiving next week,

Ms. Kim had us launch a paperbag

turkey on a parachute & pin hats

on a turkey. We also colored

turkeys to take home. 

11/6/12: It was pumpkin time with Ms. Kim

at storyhour. We read stories about pumpkins,

got to see what's inside a pumpkin &

how it feels .Next we played pin the leaf on the

pumpkin & made our own

paper pumpkins to take home.

10/30/12: State Trooper Mark Tackett visited today.

He talked to us about staying safe on Halloween

 and read a Halloween story to us. He gave us

Tex & Dot coloring books to color and take home.

10/23/12: It was apple picking time with Ms. Kim today. 

We got to pick apples from an apple tree

and we listened to stories about apples. 

Then we colored apples with popsicle stick worms. 

10/16/12: Colors were our theme

in storyhour today. Ms. Karen

brought some special guests

& they read books about

different colors to us. They

also brought objects that

were different colors.

10/9/12: We had a special

puppet show, "3 Little Fishes".

In the puppet show, the fish wiggle

so Ms. Kim read us 2 other books

about "wiggling". We got to use the

fish puppets too! Then we went outside

& used chalk to color on the sidewalk!

10/2/12:  Today our storyhour guest

was Ms. Tania. She & Ms. Kim

read stories to us about  animals.

Our craft was leaf animals.

9/25/12: Sue from the Hagerman National Wildlife

Refuge Foundation was our special guest today.

She told us about the refuge and why it is important to

 keep a safe, clean environment for our animals.

We learned facts about fish and Sue read to us about fish.

 Then we traced our shoes to make fish pictures.

9/18/12: We celebrated National Play-Doh

Day at storyhour. Since we were sharing

the Play-Doh, Ms Jennifer read

us books about sharing & having good

manners. We created all kinds of

things with our homemade Play-Doh.

Things like inch worms, pizzas,

snowmen, butterflies & grapes.

Each of us got to take home a

bag of the homemade Play-Doh.

Thanks Ms. Kim for making it!

9/11/12: Yeah it's International Chocolate Day!

Ms. Kim read us stories about how chocolate

is made & Curious George's adventure

at the chocolate factory. Afterwards we

made paper chocolate kisses to take home.

9/4/12: This Sunday, 9/9/12 is

Grandparents' Day so today

we had Granny Nell read.

She read stories about grandparents

& we made cards to give our

grandparents this Sunday.

Happy Grandparents' Day!

8/28/12:On Monday, most of

the schools in Cooke County

started.  So today at

storyhour Ms Kim read

books to us about school.

We sang "Wheels on

the Bus" & got to color

a school bus to take home.

8/21/12: Who's faster than a speeding bullet?

More powerful than a locomotive?

Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound?

It's Superman! It was Superhero day

with Ms. Irma! We read stories about

all types of superheroes, had to save stuffed

animal victims from an obstacle course & 

made our own Superhero to take home.

8/14/12: Learning our ABCs was

the theme for Ms. Kim & the

younger kids today. They sang

songs, read stories & colored.

With the Olympics ending this past

Sunday, Ms. Suzanne & the older

kids learned historical facts about

 how the Olympics began. They

even held competitions & 

made medals!

8/7/12: Ms. Suzanne & the younger kids

read stories about all types of animals.

They made frog faces to take home.

The older kids & Ms. Kim read

about inventors like Benjamin Franklin. 

7/31/12: Imma Sleuth made a visit to

the Cooke County Library's

storyhour.  We helped

solve mysteries with her.

Thank you to David & Susie Jones

for letting us use the State Theater!

 Sponsored with funding from the     

7/24/12: The theme for today's storyhours

was "safari". Ms. Kim & the younger kids

went on a safari with the stories they read.

They made paper plate elephants to take

home & played jungle dominoes. The

older kids explored a Science Safari

with Ms. Susan Campbell. On their

exploration they learned about

electricity & how it's created.

They created small electric

lightbulbs to take home.

7/17/12: The library's Ms. Kim

taught the younger kids about

different kinds of bugs. They

created their own "paper"

bug jar to take home.

Ms. Kit Chase read her story,

"Lady Q Makes Quintessence" 

to the older kids.

7/10/12: Ms. Kim Bradley read the younger

kids stories about all kinds of monsters. Some of the

monsters were green monsters, Elmo the monster, & 5 little

monsters. They got to make green monsters to take home.

Ms. Suzie & the older kids read about scavenger hunts.

They had their own scavenger hunt in the

library to find all kinds of things, like magazines,

the water fountain & DVDs.

7/3/12: Today we celebrated the USA's

birthday! The younger kids celebrated with

Ms. Sara & Ms. Scheana by reading stories

about July 4th & made firework pictures to take home.

The older kids read a story about the 1st flag &

then guessed the names of national monuments.

Happy 236th Birthday America!

6/26/12: Our special guest today was Ronald McDonald.

The show he shared with us was,

"It's Book Time with Ronald McDonald".

Some of us got to help him out. Thanks for

coming Ronald! We enjoyed the show.

Thank you to David & Susie Jones

for letting us use the State Theater!

6/19/12: "Peter Rabbit & the Mysterious Magic Hat"

was a our special treat. This was the true story of

what really happened in Farmer Brown's garden.

This play was perfomed by The Story Time Theater.

Thank you to David & Susie Jones for

letting us use the State Theater!

6/12/12: The younger kids went camping

with Ms. Kim at storyhour. They read stories,

roasted marshmallows on pretzel rods

& made racoon puppets to take home.

The older kids & Ms. Jennifer played the

mystery of the community helpers.

Then did a search a word puzzle

that included words about

the community helpers.

6/5/12: It was the first storyhour of

the Library's Summer Reading Program.

The theme is "Get a Clue...at the Library".

Ms. Kim took us on a visit to the beach.

Ms Jennifer & Ms. Kim read us books about the

beach. We got to reach into a big bag &

guess what it was that we'd find at the beach.

We played a beach game by bouncing a beach

ball on a parachute. Then we decorated

beach pictures to take home.

5/29/12: How big are you? That

was the common question in

all the books Ms. Tamera read to us.

We colored a sheet & measured ourselves

just to see how big we are.

5/22/12: Our guest, Grant Wilson

read books to us about

parrots and bugs.

We sang songs with Ms. Tamera and

 she gave us frog stickers.

5/15/12: Ms. Tamera

sang songs with us

& read stories to us

about loosing our teeth.

We got special stickers

to wear home.

5/8/12: Animals, animals

everywhere at storyhour!

Ms. Ashley brought her

guitar & we sang songs!

Then she read us stories

about all kinds of animals.

We even got rubber duckies to

take home on this rainy Tuesday.

5/1/12: Our special guest

was Ms. Jane from

Lavender Ridge Farms.

We sang songs, & she

read stories about Springtime

& gardening.

4/24/12: All the books that Ms. Tamera

read to us were about kite flying. Our

craft was to decorate & put together our

own kite picture. 

4/17/12: Our special storyhour guest

was Grant Wilson. In keeping

with the National Poetry Month

theme, Grant read & dramatized

a variety of poetry books.

 We colored butterflies to take home.

4/10/12: April is National Poetry Month

so today we read poems by poet Shel

Silverstein. We sang songs, shook

animal eggs & danced.

3/27/12:   It was a pajama party with

Ms. Tamera! We read stories about

pajamas, going to bed & night time

rituals. Besides the stories,

our special treat was cookies!

3/20/12: Dancing with the Dhooges was a treat!

This is the second year that this family

has come & shown us traditional

Irish dances. They even teach us

some basic steps. Ms. Tamera read us 

books about dancing too

3/13/12: Happy Saint Patrick's Day! We read stories

 about leprechauns and shamrocks with Ms. Tamera

and sang "I'm a Little Shamrock." We got lucky

shamrock pencils to take home. 

3/6/12: Bucky the Cowgirl and her friends 

showed up for Texas & Women's History Month.

She performed her show  "Wild About the West." 

She read, did magic tricks & even give us

our own Bucky the Cowgirl trading card.

We sure had a good time!

Sponsored in part with funding

2/28/12: Ms. Sandy Geyer was our special

guest for today's storyhour. She

& Ms. Tamera sang & read stories about

being grump & having bad days.

2/21/12: Our theme today was dinosaurs.

Ms. Tamera read us lots of stories

about them. We went on a dinosaur hunt,

& dug for dinosaur bones. Thanks

for the fun filled storyhour Ms. Tamera!

2/14/12: The Gainesville High Schoolers,

Kenzee Nickerson & Mailyn Rocha

helped us celebrate Valentine's Day!

We read stories about the holiday

& played pass the Teddy.

Then we decorated our Valentine's Day

bags to take home our treats from

the library.

2/7/12: February is Black History Month.

So we had Decee Cornish as our

special guest! He told us African stories

& taught us about many new

instruments. We even got to

play some of them. Thanks

for coming to see us again

Decee!

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1/31/12: Mittens! Mittens!

Who's got mittens?

Ms. Tamera read us a mitten poem,

that  we acted out. Plus

several stories about mittens.

We made paper mittens

stuffed with animals to take home.

1/24/12: Happy Chinese New Year!

2012 is the year of the dragon.

We learned & celebrated it! Our

artwork project was dragons which

will be on display in the Library from

1/27/12 - 2/10/12.

1/17/12: Ms. Sonia visited & read stories

about all kinds of animals: frogs, pigs, rats

& sharks. We laughed at the stories.

We colored pictures of the main

animal characters.

1/10/12: Um Um good! Soup was our theme.

Ms. Tamera read to us & we ate homemade

veggie soup on this cold wintry day.

1/3/12: Let it Snow! Let it Snow!

First we wiggly our wiggles out &

then it's time for wintery stories.

We made snowmen to take home.

And last but not least our

January snowball fight!

12/27/11: Happy New Year!

Ms. Kim read stories about New Year's

Eve to us. We celebrated by toasting,

shooting off poppers

& our traditional countdown

& confetti throwing.

12/20/11: Ms. Tamera taught us

about "Weihnachten"or

German Christmas. We sat out

our shoes out to see if

there would surprises.

After reading Christmas stories, we

checked our shoes & had surprises!

12/13/11: Cooke County Ballet Academy

performed their annual Christmas

show at Butterfield Stage Playhouse.

Ms. Tamera read "There Was An Old

Lady Who Swallowed a Bell" to us.

12/6/11: Miranda and Katelyn from the

Gainesville High School Reading Club

read "How the Grinch Stole Christmas''

 and "The Polar Express."

Then we all colored a stocking

 to hang up by the fireplace.

11/29/11: Storyteller Unleashed, Ms. Dru and her puppets

told us Native American Tales to celebrate Native

American History month. During some of the

stories she even let us tell the stories with her.

Thanks to Lizzy, Ben, and Grant Wilson

for helping with the puppets!

We all had a great time.

11/22/11: We celebrated

Thanksgiving with the Leachs.

We read stories about the

holiday, played pin the

hat on the turkey &

made pilgrim & indian hats

to wear at home on Thanksgiving.

11/15/11: The Gainesville Fire Department

 read  to us, showed us their fire

equipment & talked to us

about safety. We love having

them come every year

to remind us about fire safety.

Thanks!

11/8/11: The Gainesville Fire

 Department was suppose to come

teach us fire safety. However, they

had a "fire call" so are hoping to be

here next Tuesday, 11/15/11.

So instead Ms. Kim read us a

story about Firemen & we

sang & colored with Ms. LaDean.

11/1/11: Gainesville High Schoolers

Margaret Stogner & Ashley Lumphin

were our special guests. They

sang & read 3 stories to us.

Even though we were a small group,

we had a wonderful time!

10/25/11: We celebrated pumpkins

& Halloween with

Ms. Jane from

Lavender Ridge Farms.

Thanks for the pumpkins!

10/18/11: We were definitely ready for fun, just

like one of the stories Ms. Kim read to us.

Then we found out why bears are trouble &

why cows love cookies. Plus we 

got to have some cookies too!

10/11/11: State Trooper Tackett

talked to us about safety.

He read us a story about car safety,

but we also discussed street safety.

Plus we each got to take home

a backpack of safety goodies!

10/4/11: Ms. Angel from AgriLife Extension

read "Tops & Bottoms" to us.

We learned about hardwork, laziness

& gardening, specifically

carrots & celery.

9/27/11: We had two guests today from

the Gainesville High School Reading Club.

 Collen and Wesley each read us a story.

We heard "The Frog Prince" and

 "Boomer Goes to School." We also

 sang "The Wheels on the Bus,"

& found Boomer on our coloring page.

9/20/11: Ms. Kit Chase was

our special reader today. She

read us her story "Lady Q

Makes Quintessence."

Thanks Ms. Kit for

being our guest!

9/13/11: Today we had fun with

Ms. LaDean & Ms. Kim. We

sang with Ms. LaDean. Then Ms. Kim

used a storyboard to tell us 2 stories,

"The 3 Little Pigs" & "Henry Builds a Cabin."

We got to be a part of the stories by

helping put together the storyboards.

9/6/11: Ms. LaDean read

"Llama, llama red pajamas".

We sang several songs

& just had a good

time together.

8/30/11: Marching bands

& music were our themes

at storyhour. We marched

& sang songs. Then to

end our Summer,

we had sno cones

thanks to Ms. Sandy Geyer!

8/23/11: Mother Goose

shared songs  &

nursery rhymes with us.

We heard stories like

"Little Miss Muffet", &

"Mary Had a Little Lamb".

We sang "Twinkle, Twinkle,

Little Star." We just had fun!

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8/16/11: Turbo & Max visited

with their trainers,

Ms. Pat & Ms. Marli.  

We talked watch them

do tricks & learned about

their job as therapy dogs.

Best of all we all got

lots of doggie love!

8/9/11: Ms. LaDean read us

stories about  ducklings

& crayons. We sang

some of our favorite songs!

Plus we decorated our favorite

book cover to take home.

8/2/11: What a time we had!

Storyteller Unleashed, Ms. Dru

brought all her friends!

We learned how to work marionettes,

puppets & put on a variety of shows!

Sponsored in part with funding from   

7/26/11: We went to the beach

& the zoo in the books

that Ms. LaDean read to us.

The books were brought

to life by listening to seashells

& stuffed animals that

Ms. LaDean supplied.

7/19/11: Ronald McDonald & his friend

Mark entertained us with

"It's Reading Time with Ronald McDonald"

at storyhour today. He talked to us

about reading, taking care of books,

& how to read for entertainment.

He also did magic tricks, sang

with us & made us laugh!

Thanks for coming

Ronald & Mark!

7/12/11: Ms. LaDean & the younger kids

read about lost treasures,

sang songs & colored

their own treasure chest.

Susannah Cord came

& read her book,

"Fenella : A Fable of a Fairy

Afraid to Fly"  to the

older kids. They discussed

why & how she wrote it.

7/5/11: It was picnic & marionette time

with Ms. LaDean & the younger kids.

While inside the older kids &

Ms. Susan explored fossils & a snake

 in their Science Safari workshop.

6/28/11: The younger kids read with

 Ms. Jill Linnell.  They danced and

sang. They also held up pictures

to help her tell her story.

The older kids started reading

"Mummies in the Morning" and "digs."

They look forward to finding

out what happens next. 

6/21/11: The Story Time Theater

was our special guest today.

They performed "Rumpelstiltskin

& the Princess."

6/14/11: The clowns are here!!

The clowns are here!!

Kelly the Clown was our

special storyhour.

 He came & talked to

us about the circus, 

Summer Reading Program &

performed "clown tricks". 

He made us laugh!

6/7/11: Today was the storyhour

kick off to the 2011 Summer

Reading Program. We

read stories & sang songs

with Ms. Jennifer & Ms. LaDean.

Ms. LaDean & the younger kids

danced, read & made

thier own book cover.

Ms. Jennifer & the older kids

decided what topic/books they

were going to read this Summer.

By voting of hands, it was

decided Mummies & Egypt & "Digs".

5/31/11: What a special treat we had

at Storyhour! Mr. De Cee Cornish

was our guest. He is a storyteller

& he entertained us with stories

& songs about birds, frogs &

friendship. We can't wait to

have him come back!

Sponsored with funds fromn    

5/24/11: Ms. Cathy from

the Morton Museum was

our guest. She bought

special items from the

museum. These items

were used by our local

Gainesville Community Circus.

She even wore one of the

clown costumes!

We read a story about circus

parades & sang some

of our favorite songs.

5/17/11: Lolly Pop the clown was

our special treat for storyhour!

She read Dr. Seuss's

"If I Ran the Circus". We

played with a parachute

& bean bags. Of

course we colored clowns.

5/10/11: "Boys & Girls of all ages-

Gather round & see what's

in store for you today!"

Ms. LaDean created our

own circus at the library.

We read about circuses,

created our own circus acts,

played circus games,

got to buy prizes 

& watched a circus DVD.

5/3/11: Dance was our theme today.

Ms. LaDean read a book

about dancing. The

McTeggart Irish Dancers

group came & performed for us! 

The performers were, Liam, Patrick

& Aaron Dhooghe. They have been

dancing since they were small.

After they danced for us we

learned a few steps too.

4/23/11: "The Ugly Duckling"

was the story presented by

Story Time Theater.

We really enjoyed

the performance!

Funding is sponsored by  

4/19/11: Happy Easter

everyone! today we celebrated

Spring & Easter. We read "Time to

Say Goodnight", sang

all kinds of songs &

had an Easter egg hunt.

4/12/11: Spring was in the

air at storyhour!

Jane from

Lavender Ridge Farms 

read us stories

about hungry caterpillars

& raindrops.  We sang

songs about butterflies

& making friends.

4/5/11: April is National Poetry Month,

so today we celebrated by

reading Mother Goose Rhymes.

We jumped over the candlestick &

colored 3 Little Kittens.

For a special treat we had a

dance lesson with 1 of the Moms.

 3/29/11: "The  Mask in the

Moonlight Goes to a Party"

was out special treat

at storyhour today!

Funding is sponsored by  

3/22/11: We learned our ABC's with

Ms. Kit Chase. She read "The Cowboy

ABC's" and drew each letter

for us. Then we colored our

 own cowboy boots.

3/15/11: We had a lot of fun

singing Texas songs with

Nanny Annie.  We sang

"Home on the Range" and

rode  a stick horse.

3/8/11:"Caps for sale, Caps for sale!"

Hats were today's theme.

We sang "Yankee Doodle

Dandy" & made our own

hat with feather to take home.

3/1/11: We "kicked" off

Texas History month

with songs about Texas

& a visit from the

Stanford House line

dancing group.  

Ms. LaDean read us

a story about pancakes

as we celebrate International

Pancake Day this month too.

2/22/11:  Our special guest

was local children's author,

Mr. Blake Davis.  He read his

book, "Santa Fe Santa".

We sang songs, colored pictures &

had a good time.

2/15/11: This week we learned

about Presidents' Day and

why we celebrate it .

We sang & played

instruments to

Etta James songs.

2/8/11: Today we celebrated

Valentine's Day early &

learned about Harriet

Tubman for African American

History month.  We sang

songs about love & trains

& made Valentines to take home.

1/25/11: Ms. Kelly from Butterfield

Stage Players shared

the fairytale of

Jack & the Beanstalk with us.

We each got to take

home "magic beans"

packets.

1/18/11: Brrrrrr! Today was the

annual snowball  fight at the Library!

Ms. Karen, Lydia & Samuel read

winter stories to us.

We made snowmen.

1/11/11: Under cozy blankets, Ms. Angel

read "Something From Nothing".

This story talked about  quilts

that are made by hand & love.

She brought a homemade quilt

to show us the details.

We each got a piece of fabric

to take home, so we could

start one of our own.

1/4/11: At our first storyhour of 2011,

we read stories about mittens,

played a game about losing our mittens,

& colored winter scenes & mittens

to take home.