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STORYTIME @ HOME
Youth Services staff has created special resources to help facilitate a fun storytime experience in your home. We’ve outlined early literacy activities to help keep kids reading, singing, playing, writing, and talking every day.
1) Animal naps
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Examines the sleeping habits and habitats of baby animals, including koalas, monkeys, seals, hedgehogs, foxes, and others.
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"All science classrooms discuss animals that hibernate during winter months, but few know about animals that estivate--a prolonged sleep during hot or dry periods. Dual layers of text awaken readers to the reasons estivating animals become dormant--whether it's because warm weather threatens food supply or to avoid increased body temperatures."--
10) Animals sleeping
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[2004]
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Simple text explains the varied ways in which such animals as flamingos, ball pythons, dolphins, and horses sleep.
12) How birds sleep
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[2023]
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"Every night, birds all over the world settle down for a good night's sleep. But how on earth do they do it? Some are rocked to sleep on the surface of choppy seas. Others nap high in the air, gliding on warm air currents. Still other doze off standing up--on one leg. Take a journey around the world to peek into the bedtime habits of many species of birds." --|cinside front jacket flap.
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2022.
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"Mama and Mommy would like Sweet Pea to settle into bed, but it's not quite time. Even though the bed is fluffy, it's not as snuggly as curling up like a pig in the mud, or as spacious as sleeping in the wide ocean like a blue whale. It's not as fun as sleeping high up in a tree like a koala, or hanging upside down like a bat. And it's definitely not as relaxing as sleeping standing up, like an emperor penguin. But after mimicking all the ways different...
15) Sleepyheads
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In this lovely Classic Board Book, the moon is out and sleepyheads across the land are tucked into the coziest, snuggliest, softest sleeping spots you'll ever see. All except one little sleepyhead. Where, oh where, could that little one be?
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[2020]
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In the new 2020 high-definition program, learn all about hibernation. What is hibernation? Why do animals hibernate? How do animals prepare to hibernate? What happens to animals during hibernation? What are some examples of animals that hibernate? How has studying hibernation helped humans? The answers to all of these questions and more are covered in-depth with detailed graphics and exciting video.
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"Do you know why humans snore? Or how a cat sees in the dark? Have you ever heard of a flower that blooms only at night? The answers to these nighttime mysteries and more are revealed in this entertaining non-fiction introduction to the science of night. There's a whole world of activity going on in the world in the dark, and even inside us, when our bodies and brains seem to be quiet and still. In the Dark investigates the big questions about what...
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