Holiday story time

Every Wednesday in January we have been hosting a story time at Work. Each week I had a specific theme and two stories were read each week.

First week our theme was animals. I read all set for the big wet - an aussie version of the ants go marching one by one....

2nd book was the very funny "Thank you for looking after our pets". The kids loved this book about some very strange pets - like elephants and penguins and a bonus houseplant, a Venus fly trap.

& my gorgeous story time kids.

2nd weeks theme was "My favourite story". I read "Each Peach Pear PLum", this was my very favourite story to read to my children when they were littlies.

Then Haylee, my daughter, read her favourite book that she reads to her pre school children, The very Hungry Caterpillar. Haylee then retold the story again and used a felt board with little felt piccies of each part of the story. Each child had at least one picture to put on the board. the enjoyed this immensely.

Haylee & I with our story time children.

Week three - beach fun. I read Looking for Crab & Magic Beach. We then had a ball throwing two beach balls around the story time area, trying as hard as we could to keep the beach balls off the floor.

We forgot to have a photo with all the children there, half had left b4 I was reminded.












And lastly this weeks story time theme was Australia. I read "The wheels on the ute" and "Are we there yet". Are we there yet was a very long story and I had to stop a couple of times to bring kids attention back, but we got there.

Only a very small group this week.

Life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! part 2 work

Work has kept me very very busy - here's a little of what has happened in the last 4 months.

just last week we had a major event in our lil indy book store. Ray Martin made in in store appearance. we had over 60 people. Just a few had their piccy taken with Ray.

He was so lovey, he spent quite a bit of time talking to every customer, making them all feel very special.

he even had time to have a few photos with staff members. We even got a kiss goodbye.

Remembrance day display. also an entry in a competition.

This month we farewelled one of our long time staff members Sue with a dinner out at Red Raven. we also celebrated her 60Th birthday.

Am still loving my story times.

warm up for Novembers story - we are pretending to be trees growing.

November Story time - one of my favourite. we read "Little mouses big secret".

After our story about the mouse sharing his apples with others, we all wrote our name on our apple cut out and put it on our apple tree.

We then shared a basket of apples. We all sat around for a little while as we chatted and ate our little apples. No one wanted to leave.

October Story time - Possum magic

September story time - If you're happy and you know it - Australian edition

August story time - 5 minutes peace.