Jump and Jive: Storytimes for Two to Five-Year-Olds (Oct. 26 - Nov. 25, 2010)

Date, Location

Tue, 10/26/2010 - 11:00am to Tue, 10/26/2010 - 3:00pm

Online

Cost: $75 for those in the California library community and Infopeople Partners, $150 for all others.

To Register:

To view a complete description of "Jump and Jive: Storytimes for Two to Five-Year-Olds" and to register, go to http://infopeople.org/workshop/462

Event Website

Jump and Jive: Storytimes for Two to Five-Year Olds

About the Event

In this four-week online course you will learn how to plan and deliver age-appropriate, literacy-based storytimes for two to five-year-olds and their parents/caregivers. You will be able to incorporate "parent patter" and concept understanding into your programs, as well as puppets, music, and poetry, with the goal of enhancing child development and early literacy skills. Through video demonstrations, music samples, and discussion forums, we will explore and share a wide variety of storytime components. By the end of the course, you will have puppet show scripts, song sheets, fingerplays, booklists, equipment suggestions, and recommended websites that will help stimulate the exploration of language and literature in your storytimes.

Presented by: Colleen Willis

Colleen has spent the last eleven years working as a children’s librarian for the Anaheim Public Library. She got her start in storytelling because she can imitate a pig snort that can be heard all the way from the back of the room. That and her excellent puppetry skills were enough to hook her on children's storytimes. Her main objective as an instructor is to motivate her fellow storytellers to inspire families with the joys of storytelling and to help them to become life-long library users.