John M. Olguin Auditorium earlier in the evening, I couldn't help but chuckle when these little silver fellers slid up the beach.
Here's our latest installment of "From Head-to-Tome," featuring Mo Willems's Leonardo, the Terrible Monster. Got some fun photos of kidlit book/body blends? Send them to the Corpus Libris Blog, run by Emily Pullen of Skylight Books.
Shoes off! It's time for "Yoga Storytime!!"
Vivienne Khan, Children's Librarian at the L.A.P.L.'s
El Sereno Branch Library, has begun an exciting "Yoga Storytime" program on Tuesday afternoons (twice a month) for 2-5 year olds.
Using a
"Storybook Yoga" CD to structure the hour-long session with soothing music and verbal instructions, Vivienne also selects an appropriate picture book to inspire animal-based poses.
Warming-up.
Vivienne reads from Denise Fleming's
Barnyard Banter. I love over-sized picture books, so that everyone can see!
As the story is read, children listen to the sounds made by different barnyard animals. When the story ends, children do poses of some of the characters in the story, including the mouse, cat, cow, frog, donkey, chicken, and pigeon.
Vivienne and another library employee demonstrate a familiar asana to yoga practitioners, the child's pose. In the context of "Storytime Yoga" and
Barnyard Banter, however, it becomes known as the "mouse pose." Adapting yoga for use with children and books can be as simple as renaming a pose.
Here is the "donkey pose," before the right leg is extended backwards into a "kick."
Working on the "donkey pose."
Barnsdall Park Junior Art Center's "Art Stories & Pictures" class, taught by art instructor Victoria Howard, has just finished an exciting six weeks together. In this class, designed for 3-5 year olds and their parents, picture books spring to life.
In the above photo, a very familiar Power Ranger constructs his own "Happy Tree," inspired by the gorgeous beech in When Sophie Gets Angry, Really, Really Angry by Molly Bang.
Victoria encouraged students to decorate their trees with objects that would bring them happiness, especially useful for those difficult, dark days that can pop-up out of nowhere.
Crockett Johnson's classic, Harold and the Purple Crayon, formed the framework for an amazing art activity, "Crayon Room Drawings."
Classroom surfaces were covered with blank white paper, until students transformed them with the help of purple crayons and their own imaginations.
Victoria Howard looks on as a student makes busy with her own purple crayon.
As imaginative as Harold's imagination.
Notice the train tracks on the floor. Harold would be proud.
On the last day of class, Victoria Howard prepares a watercolor painting activity in connection with a reading of Eric Carle's
The Very Busy Spider.
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CONGRATULATIONS CANDACE!!!! So proud of you and all your hard work and patience for delivering this "baby" is finally here! Can't wait to get a copy for the kids, they'll be so excited!
Thanks so much, Risa!!!! I appreciate the shout-out and can't wait to get you guys a copy!