Fun & Games Recorded Events
Watch and listen to recordings of story times with our Children's Librarians, early learning programs and more. Recordings are available in english, español (Spanish), 官话 (Mandarin), 廣東話 (Cantonese) and tiếng Việt (Vietnamese).
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Early Learning Together with Betsy: Looking for Birds
Join Betsy for THREE activities that bring birds into focus for your young one. We’ll make a simple bird feeder, some binoculars, and talk about starting a bird watching journal.
View Video (00:18:09) | Posted June 2021
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Early Learning Together with Betsy: Fun with Cornstarch Goo
Betsy will demonstrate how fun it is to play with cornstarch and water as it makes a goo that is crunchy solid and gooey liquid, depending on how you hold it. Science in action and great way to build vocabulary. C
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Early Learning Together with Miss Amanda: Celebrating Differences
Miss Amanda shares tips on using books to talk to your children about differences.
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Early Learning Together with Erica: Peanut Butter & Jelly
Join Erica as she shows how you can play, read, sing, talk and write, all while making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with your kids.
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Early Learning Together with Betsy: Balloon Batting/Social Skills
Join Betsy as she demonstrates how to tweak any fun activity so that kids can practice waiting, taking turns, self-control and following instructions: key skills to have before entering school/childcare/camp settings.
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Early Learning Together with Miss Bea: Phonological Awareness Game
Before young children learn how to read, one of the skills they need is phonological awareness. Here’s a simple game you can do anywhere, no props necessary, to help preschoolers hear the smaller parts of words.
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Early Learning Together with Erica: Our Five Senses
Join Erica as she shares tips on exploring our five senses and how checking in with our senses can help our kids (and adults) during times when we feel overwhelmed.
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Early Learning Together with Miss Amanda: Sharing is Caring
Miss Amanda has a few tips on how to encourage share and practice early literacy at the same time.
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Early Learning Together with Miss Nancy: Sharing Stories
Everyone is a storyteller! Join Miss Nancy as she shares stories and songs, including “The Itsy Bitsy Spider,” “The Wheels on the Bus,” and “The Gingerbread Man.” Learn how you can make these stories your own.
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Early Learning Together with Erica: Dance Party
Join Erica for a Dance Party! We’ll explore how dance and movement is important for early literacy, dance to some music from Nancy Stewart and Amanda Hua, and make up our own dances so you can host your own dance parties whenever you want to move.