It has been a long, cold and snowy winter this year. Cabin fever set in at our house early this year. However, one of the activities that helped get us through this winter was going to the Gurnee Library.
The Gurnee Library is huge and has a great selection of books, movies, magazines, CD's, ect. The children's area is great because it is closed off so the kids can read out loud, or be read to and you don't have to worry about disturbing others. We spent hours in this area over the past few months reading books and deciding which ones we wanted to check out. Reese loves that all the shelves are low enough that she can reach the books herself and decide which ones to pull out to read. The other fun activity they have in this area of the library are two phone booths. The kids can pick up the phone and listen to a story recording.
Last Thursday night I took Reese to Family Story time - I had been planning to check it out for awhile and finally had the chance to do so. This is unregistered story time so anyone can come and you do not need to sign up in advance. I was pleasantly surprised at how good it was and how much the kids seemed to love it. The gentleman who did the reading was great with the kids and really kept their attention throughout the 30 minutes. There was a variety of different aged kids, however all seemed to enjoy it just the same.
He started out with the welcome song. Many of the kids knew the song and sang along. The song included different instructions for the kids to follow along with like clapping their hands, stomping their feet, jumping up and down, etc. After that we heard the first book. Each book had a little activity that went along with it after he was done reading. One of the books was about colors and flowers, so after we finished hearing the book, the kids had to take magnetic flowers that were hanging on the wall and bring them up and put them on a board in front when he called out a color there were wearing. The kids had fun with this.
The other great part about story time was that they incorporated a lot of music into it. The person leading it had a guitar and sang several songs with the kids that were tied to the different books he read them. We learned a new song that has really stuck with Reese - Little Bunny Foo Foo. She has been singing this song since Thursday night!
This is the last week for Spring Story Time. It goes Tuesday and Thursday nights at 7pm and Saturday mornings at 10am. There will be a break and than Summer Story Time will begin again in June. We are planning to continue going since we enjoyed it as much as we did.
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The Gurnee Library is huge and has a great selection of books, movies, magazines, CD's, ect. The children's area is great because it is closed off so the kids can read out loud, or be read to and you don't have to worry about disturbing others. We spent hours in this area over the past few months reading books and deciding which ones we wanted to check out. Reese loves that all the shelves are low enough that she can reach the books herself and decide which ones to pull out to read. The other fun activity they have in this area of the library are two phone booths. The kids can pick up the phone and listen to a story recording.
Last Thursday night I took Reese to Family Story time - I had been planning to check it out for awhile and finally had the chance to do so. This is unregistered story time so anyone can come and you do not need to sign up in advance. I was pleasantly surprised at how good it was and how much the kids seemed to love it. The gentleman who did the reading was great with the kids and really kept their attention throughout the 30 minutes. There was a variety of different aged kids, however all seemed to enjoy it just the same.
He started out with the welcome song. Many of the kids knew the song and sang along. The song included different instructions for the kids to follow along with like clapping their hands, stomping their feet, jumping up and down, etc. After that we heard the first book. Each book had a little activity that went along with it after he was done reading. One of the books was about colors and flowers, so after we finished hearing the book, the kids had to take magnetic flowers that were hanging on the wall and bring them up and put them on a board in front when he called out a color there were wearing. The kids had fun with this.
The other great part about story time was that they incorporated a lot of music into it. The person leading it had a guitar and sang several songs with the kids that were tied to the different books he read them. We learned a new song that has really stuck with Reese - Little Bunny Foo Foo. She has been singing this song since Thursday night!
This is the last week for Spring Story Time. It goes Tuesday and Thursday nights at 7pm and Saturday mornings at 10am. There will be a break and than Summer Story Time will begin again in June. We are planning to continue going since we enjoyed it as much as we did.
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Greetings from the Library! We at the Warren-Newport Public Library in Gurnee are so happy that you have discovered our wonderful storytimes and thrilled that you had such a good experience with our great staff. We look forward to seeing you again.
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