{"id":6176,"date":"2016-03-29T06:26:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T12:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/?p=6176"},"modified":"2016-03-28T22:32:34","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T04:32:34","slug":"20-years-of-storytime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/20-years-of-storytime\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Years of Storytime"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BugsPlanning\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In January I posted this pic in Instagram with the caption “2016 = twenty years of planning storytime.” <\/p>\n

In 1995 I graduated library school, and in early 1996 I landed my first library job and was given a weekly storytime, so that’s where I’m starting my official count. Unlike a lot of librarians, I had NO experience with storytime before I went to library school. So my children’s services class was the first chance I had to put together a storytime agenda. <\/p>\n

Guess what? <\/p>\n

It was pretty mediocre. <\/p>\n

How do I know? <\/p>\n

I still have it! <\/p>\n

\"FirstStorytime\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I look at this plan and I think of ALL THE THINGS I have learned about storytime, and kids, and presenting, and cognitive & physical development, and group dynamics, and early literacy, and children’s literature, and ten other things I am forgetting at the moment, over the thousand storytimes I have shared. <\/p>\n

I would grade myself much more harshly than my professor did! \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n

Out of this entire list, I would, maybe, keep The More We Get Together, Where’s My Teddy, and Teddy Bear Teddy Bear in a storytime I planned now. I put storytimes together in a completely different way. I look for different qualities in my rhymes and fingerplays. My time is more evenly balanced between books and activities. This doesn’t even feel like one of “my” storytimes! <\/p>\n

I love that I can look back and see how far I’ve come. I can’t wait to do another 10 or 15 years of storytime and see where I end up!<\/p>\n

What have you learned since you’ve started storytime? What’s different about your storytimes now? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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