Also included are flannel-board stories and puppets. Following the stories, children may color a nursery rhyme or theme of the week picture. Weekly Story and Craft Time for ages 4 to 6. Children listen to picture book stories, sing songs, participate in fingerplays, simple craft activities and enjoy stories told using a flannel board or chalk board. Weekly Easy Reader Club for grades 1-2 Children in first and second grade are encouraged to borrow a minimum of five easy readers each week to read at home.
Children log in their reading each week and receive stickers and other incentives.
At weekly programs children are encouraged to read an easy reader to the group or jokes and riddles. Children will also play word bingo, hangman and other games to promote reading. Children listen to jokes, riddles, sophisticated picture books, folk tales and poems, exciting and funny chapters from juvenile novels and participate in drawing and craft activities. Children listen weekly to chapters from a mystery or fantasy novel, fairy and folk tales and participate in secret codes, magic tricks and a craft activity. Children listen to stories with food as the central theme and participate in making snacks without the use of a stove.