West End
Neighborhood Library

Early Literacy Tip
Making book sharing times enjoyable times helps to develop your child’s print motivation, enjoyment of books and reading. Research shows that children who have had enjoyable experiences around books are more likely to stick with learning to read, when that time comes.

Books We Read

Bugtown Boogie by Warren Hanson
The Boy Who Cried Wolf retold by B.G. Hennessy

Songs We Sang
"Mexican Jumping Bean"
"Skidamarink"

Early Literacy Tip:
Naming the letters and pointing to them is a first step to developing your child’s letter knowledge, one of the six early literacy skills. Remember to keep it enjoyable and stop when your child has had enough. No need to quiz your child on the letters, just expose them to the letters.

Books We Read:

The Deep Blue Sea: A Book of Colors
by Audrey Wood

Fiddle-i-fee
by Jakki Wood

Piggies
By Audrey Wood

Songs We Sang:

Wheels on the Bus on the Toddler Favorites CD
Where is Thumbkin? on the Toddler Favorites CD
Birthday Song on Birthday Songs CD

Activities:
Parachuette time

The Music and Movement program is cancelled permanently.

Sorry for the inconvenience. 

Please join us for the scheduled talk on Philip Roth’s The Human Stain to be held Wednesday, June 2, at 6:30 p.m. in the small meeting room on the 2nd floor. The talk is last in the series on the theme of life and strife in literature, sponsored by the West End Library Friends. The presenter is Ori Z. Soltes, resident scholar in theology and fine arts at Georgetown University.  Discussion questions are as follows:

1 How does our theme—life and strife—engage the matter of self as the latter intersects that of family and community?

2 What is the relationship between history and personal memory in the shaping of this story?

3 What is the relationship between fact and truth as this story plays out?