Family Tree Storytime

We held a special storytime based on families in conjunction with the 'Caring for Family Treasure' Exhibit.  Panels containing tips on how to preserve heirlooms such as textiles, family videos, jewelry, clocks and watches, photographs, paintings and paper items such as books, letters, certificates and maps are on display.  The exhibit, designed by collections care professionals, offers helpful hints on the proper display, storage and handling of items, as well as expert advice on things not to do.  It will be available for viewing during library business hours.


On Saturday, Jan. 4, at 1-3 p.m., DeLano and library volunteer Theo Yoast will present a class designed to help beginners learn how to start researching their family genealogy.  The first part of the session will introduce participants to the resources available in the library, throughout town and on the web.  The second part will introduce the library’s online genealogy databases, Heritage Quest and Ancestry.com.

On Saturday, Jan. 11 at 1 p.m., Aimee Bryant, director of the Sheerar Museum of Stillwater History, and Registrar Ashlie J. Hight will present “Family Heirloom Preservation.”  The presentation will go into more depth on caring for the types of items displayed in the exhibit.

Opening Song: The More We Get Together 

*We sing and clap to our opening song.  All Stillwater Public Library story times start with this song and the children learn that song means story time is starting.

 

Book: Homeplace by Anne Shelby

Fingerplay:  "Finger Family"
(Hands up, fingers pointing up)
This is my father (point to a finger for each member of the family)
This is my mother
This is my brother
This is my sister
This is the baby (Baby is the little finger)
Oh! How I love them all. (Clasp hands together, hold to chest)

Book: I am me by Karla Kuskin

Fingerplay: "Grandparents"
Here are Grandma's spectacles (circle eyes with thumb & index finger)
and here is Grandma's hat. (Circle hands on head)
Grandma claps her hands like this, (clap)
and folds them in her lap. (Lay hands in lap)
Here are Grandpa's spectacles(circle eyes with thumb & index finger)
and here is Grandpa's hat. (Circle hands on head)
Here's the way he folds his arms. (fold arms)
And takes a little nap. (lower head, close eyes, snore)

Book: Harris finds his feet by Catherine Rayner

Craft: Family Tree.  We created family trees by gluing pictures of family members on a tree.  At home you could make a similar tree using photographs of families members. 

 

Beyond Storytime: http://kids.familytreemagazine.com/kids/default.asp

Other books to checkout:

Beginnings: How Families Come to be by Virginia Kroll

Shanghai Messenger by Andrea Cheng
When We're Together by Claire Freedman