Preschool Storytime
Designed for 3-5 years accompanied by a caregiver, Preschool Storytime is offered each week on Wednesdays from 10:30-11:15 am. This program involves stories, songs, flannel board activities, fingerplays, movement, and art activities.
Registration is not required September through June. During the summer months, registration is required as part of the Summer Reading Program.
Preschool Storytime will pause in June 2024 as we get ready for our July 2024 Summer Library Program. In the interim, you may revisit past Storytimes below!
For more information contact Valerie at 315-386-3712 ext. 3 or vwhite@ncls.org.
Virtual Preschool Program Storytimes
April 6, 2022 Theme: Rainy Day
April 13, 2022 Theme: Spring Has Sprung!
April 20, 2022 Theme: Spring Stories
March 2, 2022 Theme: In Like a Lion
March 9, 2022 Theme: Out Like a Lamb
March 16, 2022 Theme: Green Things
March 23, 2022 Theme: Cats! Cats! Cats!
March 30, 2022 Theme: Oh Baby!
February 2022
February 9, 2022 Theme: Penguins
February 16, 2022 Theme: Just Great New Books!
February 23, 2022 Theme: More Great New Books!
January 2022
January 5, 2022 Theme: Winter Wonder
January 12, 2022 Theme: Bundle Up!
January 19, 2022 Theme: Wow! Winter!
January 26, 2022 Theme: Snowpeople
December 2021
December 8, 2021 Theme: Snow!
December 15, 2021 Theme: A Long Winter’s Nap (Hibernation)
December 22, 2021 Theme : Hello Winter!
October 2021
October 6, 2021 Theme: Things That Go
September 2021
September 15, 2021 Theme: Dinosaurs
September 22, 2021 Theme: Cats! Cats! Cats!
September 29, 2021 Theme: All About Mice
July 2021
Summer Reading Program
July 7, 2021 Theme: Down on the Farm
July 14, 2021 Theme: Pets, Pets, Pets!
July 21, 2021 Theme: Wild Animals
July 28, 2021 Theme: Under the Sea
May 2021
May 12. 2021 – Themes: birthdays, families, parties, rhyming, anthropomorphic tales, patience, surprises, friendship
May 19, 2021 – Themes: emotions and feelings, monsters, participatory stories, storytelling, rhyming, families, imagination, pretending
May 26. 2021 – Themes: rhyming, monsters, voyages and travels, anthropomorphic tales, absent-mindedness, embarrassment, friendship
April 2021
April 7, 2021 – Themes: alliteration, seasons, spring, waiting, anthropomorphic tales, rhyming, animals, mother and child
April 14, 2021 – Themes: animals, spring, awakening, biological rhythms, hibernation, anthropomorphic tales, change, rhyming, seasons, singing
April 21, 2021 – Themes: determination, spring, waiting, rhyming, poetry, family outings, farm animals, grandmothers, cumulative tales
March 2021
March 3, 2021 – Themes: fear of darkness, rhyming, nocturnal animals, flight, animals, food chains, night, onomatopoeia
March 10, 2021 – Themes: fear, dreams, families, imagination, optimism, anthropomorphic tales, courageous, homes, runaways, voyages and travels, determination, patience, responsibility
March 17, 2021 – Themes: animals, pets, hibernation, mothers and sons, play, repetition in stories, seasons, sounds, winter, folklore, grandmothers, lost articles
March 25, 2021 – Themes: seasons, spring, animals, misunderstanding, friendship, misadventures, rhyming, imagination, patience, visualization, wishing, waiting, nature
March 31, 2021 – Themes: meditation, mindfulness, relaxation, stress management, tranquility, celebrating identity, compromise, friendship, imagination, play, animals, biography, interpersonal relations, personal conduct, Fred Rogers
February 2021
February 3, 2021 – Themes: friendship, size, loneliness, lost things, voyages and travels, animal babies, companionship, anthropomorphic tales, forests, separated friends/relatives
February 17, 2021 – Themes: animals, voyages and travels, questions and answers, rhyming, animal sounds, brothers, families, new baby in the family, sharing, sibling rivalry, annoyance, friendship, individuality, interrupting
February 27, 2021 – Themes: friendship, love, sympathy, Valentine’s Day, compassion, kindness, self-esteem, familial love, parent and child
January 2021
January 5, 2021 – Themes: animals, winter, fables, folklore, friendship, generosity, neighbors, sharing, self-confidence, sisters, size, perspective, seasons, senses
January 19, 2021 – Themes: blizzards, work vehicles, forests, individuality, observing things, winter, rhyming, anthropomorphic tales, determination, size
January 27, 2021 – Themes: infants, mother and child, winter, African American children, friendship, imagination, pretending, sharing, urban children, animals, homes
December 2020
December 9, 2020 – Themes: African American fiction, celebrating identity, unlikely friendships, apartment house life, gratitude, generosity, intergenerational friendship, neighborliness, best friends, anthropomorphic tales, criticism
December 16, 2020 – Themes: anthropomorphic tales, blended families, friendship, hibernation, nature, cumulative tales, seasons
December 21, 2020 – Themes: forest animals, winter, Christmas, Santa Claus, cold-blooded animals, hibernation, Christmas Eve
November 2020
November 4, 2020 – Themes: rhyming, animals, differences, friendship, helpfulness, laziness, neighbors, personal conduct, responsibility, toleration, understanding, worry, father and child, questions and answers, seasons, harvest
November 11, 2020 – Themes: friendship, play, wounds and injuries, individuality, self-confidence, self-esteem, participatory, rules, anthropomorphic tales, absent-mindedness
November 18, 2020 – Themes: anthropomorphic tales, building, sharing, friendship, size, generosity, neighbors, dirtiness, fatigue, songs, misfits, mischief
October 2020
October 6, 2020 – Themes: siblings, footprints, dinosaurs, anthropomorphic tales, courage, best friends, separated friends/relatives, time, forest animals, change
October 13, 2020 – Themes: unlikely friendships, African-American families, autumn, farms, families, brothers
October 21, 2020 – Themes: animals as artists, criticism, sisters, smallness and bigness, self-confidence, Halloween, emotions, minor disasters, friends
October 28, 2020 – Themes: cooperation, Halloween, rhyming, counting, animals, trucks, costumes, fear of darkness, overcoming fear, anthropomorphic tales
July 2020
July 8, 2020 – Themes: Summer Reading Program, folklore, fables, legends, multigenerational families, laziness, self-reliance, cleverness, gullibility, panic, fathers and daughters, interruptions, anthropomorphic tales
July 15, 2020 – Themes: Summer Reading Program, rhyme, grandmothers, rescues, escapes, traps, folklore, fairy tales, cleverness, foolishness, laziness, magic, mothers and sons
July 22, 2020 – Themes: Summer Reading Program, animal tales, music, fighting and forgiving, interpersonal conflict, fairy tale, folklore, cleverness, tricksters
July 29, 2020 – Themes: Summer Reading Program, belonging, identity, anthropomorphic tales, pets, friendship, envy
June 2020
June 3, 2020 – Themes: pets, determination, animal shelters, songs, anthropomorphic tales
June 9, 2020 – Themes: black authors, grandmothers and granddaughters, gender roles, African American children, social issues, respect, appearance, identity, emotions, self-acceptance, self-doubt, mothers and daughters, skin color
June 17. 2020 – Themes: beauty, teasing, self-acceptance, divorce, family differences, fathers and daughters, appearance, respect, African American girls
May 2020
May 6, 2020 – Themes: worry, metamorphosis, friendships, absence, anthropomorphic tales, nature, seasons, fathers and daughters, etiquette, anger, generosity
May 13, 2020 – Themes: unlikely friendships, overcoming fear, anthropomorphic tales, lost items
May 20, 2020 – Themes: mothers and daughters, nature, rhymes, counting, differences and similarities, belief and doubt, persistence
May 27, 2020 – Themes: rhyme, friendship, helpfulness, disasters, anthropomorphic tales, emotions
April 2020
April 1, 2020 – Themes: overcoming fear, problem solving, anthropomorphic tales
April 8, 2020 – Themes: colorful, healing bad moods, rhymes
April 15, 2020 – Themes: overcoming fear, anthropomorphic tales
April 22, 2020 – Themes: springtime, anthropomorphic tales
April 29, 2020 – Themes: anthropomorphic tales, rhymes