Children's Programs

Family Story Time

Family Story Times are held once monthly on Saturdays for kids ages birth through 10 and their families. Featuring a longer Story Time and a bigger activity or craft, Family Story Time is a great way to spend time together as a family — reading, creating, and getting to know your local library.

Our next family time will be April 26 AT the Chainsaw Carvers Rendezvous.

RHYME TIME: FOR BABIES & TODDLERS

Download our program's bookmark, filled with reading tips and ideas for your youngsters (below). Hardcopies available at the library.

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Every Wednesday at 10:30am, will be hosting an early literacy program with our youngest learners in mind. This program is intended for babies, toddlers, and young children at that developmental level. We encourage caregivers to come prepared to sit with your child on your lap (or bring a blanket for your baby to lay on!) and participate in the sessions with your child.

Weekly Rhyme Time sessions will include:

Short, interactive stories that get babies and toddlers engaging with books in a fun way.
Sensory play including sensory bins, creation stations, and big body movement to help get the wiggles out.
Songs and action rhymes to help your child learn to hear words being broken into smaller parts, an essential building block to sounding out words and, eventually, reading!

Participants can expect sessions to last 30 minutes or less, so that they can manage nap and feeding schedules. Children are welcome to participate in both our Rhyme Time *and* Story Time Programs (Tuesdays). During Rhyme Time, we will have big kid play areas set up to accommodate older siblings/friends (hello Lego tables!), so feel free to bring the whole family for a morning at the library!

STORY TIME

Tuesdays at 10:30AM we offer our almost-famous Story Time programs, designed for children under 6. Story Times help introduce children (and their grown ups) to books and promote a lifelong love of reading through sensory exploration, art, movement, and play! Story Times feature stories, projects, and other early literacy activities designed to promote healthy social-emotional development, expand vocabulary, and grow your imagination!

Weekly Story Time programs will include:

Developmentally-appropriate narrative stories that help children to develop early literacy skills including phonological awareness, print awareness, and alphabet knowledge.
Art and STEM projects designed to help children to make connections between the real world and literature, as well as promote narrative comprehension.
Practice with social, concentration, and communication skills.

Attendees can expect our weekly Story Time programs to last 45 minutes to an hour. Children are welcome to participate in both our Story Time and Rhyme Time programs (Wednesdays). Remember – reading is important at every age and every stage of early childhood development!

All programs and events at the Ridgway Public Library are free unless otherwise noted.

Click here to learn more about this early literacy program.

ONLINE RESOURCES FOR CHILDREN AND PARENTS

Power Library resources are made possible in part by Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services and through Library Access Funds administered by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, Department of Education, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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