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Are looking for that perfect book or a great website? Let us help.
We can post your assignments and booklists, and hold books for assignments. Use the Online Request form to let us know about your assignments. Or use Snail Mail. Or come in to see us. Or call us. We will help find books on topics for units of study. Let us know what your summer reading plan is. We can post your reading lists and check whether we own the books. There are always suggested reading lists for each grade in the Children's Library and on this site. Encourage your students to participate in the Library's summer reading program.
For Preschool, PreK and Early Elementary teachers, consider our Bag-A-Tales. You can check our holdings online.
Bring your class for a tour or a demo of our online resources, and register all your students for library cards. (link to Groups) Tell your students about our Online Homework Help and our Teacher-In-The-Library program.
Each spring, the White Plains Public Schools and the White Plains Public Library cooperate on the Reader's Fair. The Children's Services staff can speak at faculty meetings and parent meetings. We love to come to book fairs and other events with our Library banner and informational give-aways.
Try these sites:
Internet Resources for Storytime
Alphabet Soup - Designed for young people, this site is divided into seasonal and other themes. Book lists, poems, fingerplays and other chants, along with patterns for art ideas are available.
Childfun.com: Activity Themes - Free Crafts for Kids, Preschool Themes, Songs, Poems, Fingerplays, Flannelboard Activities, Art Activities - This is a large site with a great many themes. For each theme, there are craft, songs, poems, fingerplays, and flannelboard activities.
DLTK's Printable Crafts for Kids - Featured are a variety of easy crafts for young children. Age ratings are given for each of the crafts. Many include templates for use in preparing materials.
EnchantedLearning.com's Crafts for Kids - Included are ideas for a wide variety of crafts using materials found around the house, like egg cartons, cardboard, paper, boxes, string, crayons, paint and glue.
Gayle's Preschool Rainbow - Activity Central - Listed are new and classic picture books along with fingerplays, action plays, nursery rhymes, songs, craft ideas and other activities according to a variety of themes.
Hummingbird educational resources - Rhymes, many of them set to music, are interspersed with theme-based activities, crafts and book suggestions. There are more rhymes than other items at this site.
KIDiddles - Mojo's Musical Mouseum - Songs are indexed alphabetically and by subject. A site search engine is available to find a song if you only know a few of the lyrics. Music is included for many of the songs.
Preschool Education: Discover the Fun in Learning - Many ideas are offered for use with preschool age children, including books, crafts, felt boards, music, songs, and more. Site can be browsed by idea category and/or theme topic.
Preschool Express by Jean Warren - Preschool activities in a variety of areas are offered. Of particular use in storytimes are the art, music and rhyme, and story activities. Art patterns and ideas for their use are also available.
Step By Step Childcare - A suggested curriculum of storytime themes is presented. Included with the themes are book lists, songs and fingerplays, arts and crafts, recipes and other activities.
Storytimes and Crafts! - An alphabetical listing of over 200 storytime topics is provided. Each topic includes related books and craft projects. The craft pages include templates for preparing materials and photographs of the finished products.