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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.
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Shapes are an essential part of the elementary mathematics curriculum, a standard upon which students build their knowledge of geometry. It's important to recognize both two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes and their attributes. This beneficial and entertaining volume uses a high-interest animal, sheep, to introduce and review shape concepts, with the help of questions and an answer key. It encourages readers to see shapes in the world around...
42) Turkeys
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Turkeys are social creatures. They stay together on the farm and gobble to communicate. This book introduces children to the look and behavior of turkeys.
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Readers will love learning about a farm's most majestic animal-the horse. In this bilingual book, readers will explore horses through exciting text and fun facts meant to spark their interest. Readers will delight in discovering the different breeds farmers raise for racing and riding. Using clear language and color photographs, this book also explains where horses live and what they're called. This high-interest topic is supported by eye-catching...
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Prizzy the piglet is a story about a pig who dislikes mud. She lives on a farm owned by Mr. McDonald. Prizzy follows Mr. McDonald around the farm while he does his chores each day. He notices Prizzy doesn't like to play in the mud holes with all the other piglets in the litter.
So, one-day Mr. McDonald decides he has to do something very special for Prizzy. Mr. McDonald tells Prizzy he has a surprise for her. Prizzy's eyes are filled with delight....
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Readers will discover what life is like on a farm for goats and about how they provide milk to make cheese and wool to make clothes. Readers learn what goats look like, what they eat, and even what their babies are called. Accessible text allows readers to learn these fun facts on their own, and a picture glossary helps clarify new words and strengthen vocabulary skills. Bright photographs illustrate the world of these smart animals and the farms...
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Taking care of pigs can be so much fun. That's exactly what children will learn in this delightful book about tending to pigs on a farm. Readers are introduced to the lovable pigs Dudley and Tulip as the narrator and her sister feed, water, and play with them. The familiar and endearing characters and appealing subject matter are sure to hold the attention of beginning readers. Each page is made complete by playful illustrations.
49) Simon the Sheep
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Stealing food from his friends, Simon wasn't the most popular sheep on the farm.
Follow Simon, Frank the pig and many more down on the farm, and help Simon learn a very valuable lesson in sharing.
Will Simon share in the end and become a better friend?
50) Las cabras
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¿Sabías que las cabras son excelentes trepadoras? Se sabe que las cabras se trepan a los árboles para buscar bayas y hojas. Aprende más sobre estos fascinantes animales en Las cabras, un libro Animales de granja.
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This is a little tale of barnyard animals and the fun they have twiddling their tails on the Cranky Cricket Ranch. Everyone is not, created the same, and this book is an enjoyable illustration of the fact that it is okay to be a little different. All the animals learn a special lesson that will influence them for the rest of their days.
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Ten-year-old Toby helps his grandfather on his emu farm, but the business is going badly. No-one wants to buy emus any more, especially not the tiny ones the farm is producing that are no bigger than chickens. In a desperate attempt to save the farm, Toby starts an animal photography business, selling pictures of the little emus. The family is in big trouble when just the right person buys a photo of Midget, Toby's pet, and then wants to buy an emu...
54) Lucas The Lamb
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The true story of a little lamb and that was the sole survivor of an amazing quadruplet birth. And how, in spite of his issues at birth, he found a purpose bringing joy and laughter to the visitors and volunteers at the Restoration Farm.
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55) Chickens
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Did you know that there are more than 175 kinds of chickens? A female chicken can lay more than 300 eggs in a year. Learn more about these fascinating farm animals in Chickens, a Farm Animals book. This is an AV2 media enhanced book. A unique book code printed on page 2 unlocks multimedia content. This book comes alive with video, audio, weblinks, slide shows, activities, hands-on experiments, and much more.
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Dive into this heart-warming tale about three little livestock pigs, Budro, Hattie, and Becky. They find themselves on a new farm and set out to perform their very best at the county livestock show. With encouragement from the other barnyard animals and Sadie, the energetic young girl who takes care of them, they embark on a journey that captures the essence of finding oneself in a new environment and overcoming adversity through perseverance, love,...
57) Pigs
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A simple look at the physical characteristics, behavior, and life cycle of farm-raised pigs. Additional features to aid comprehension include fact-filled callouts, detailed photographs, a table of contents, a phonetic glossary, sources for further research, and an introduction to the author. Author/Illustrator biography Index Informative sidebars Sources for further research Suggested websites Table of contents Glossary of key words Welcome to the...
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The summer morning on the farm had started out peaceful and quiet, until two of the farm's residents, Lucy and Prissy Hen, decided that living in the chicken yard was too safe and too boring. So the two silly hens flew over the fence surrounding the chicken pen and dashed off to see the rest of the world! But being so young and inexperienced, the two hens had no way of knowing that leaving the safety of home to seek out more excitement and adventure...
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As kids love the outdoors, there's no better way to draw their interest in reading than a book about farm life. This type of book would teach kids about how humans produce foods from plants and animals and the types of foods that are generated on farms. It would also explain how some foods like cheese and flour are created.
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Bella and Noah had a big farm and many animals on that farm. They loved all their animals and could tell stories about each animal on their farm. In this story they tell you about the naughty pig. He was tiny and very pink compared to the other pigs at the farm. He was always in trouble and needed rescuing from all his mischief. On this day he went missing and Bella could not find him. Can you guess what he did and where Bella found him?
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