The Tyrone-Snyder Public Library wishes to announce a recently awarded grant to become a \u201cFamily Place Library\u201d, a national distinction with the goal of transforming public libraries to serve very young children and their families.
\nKey features of a \u201cFamily Place Library\u201d include:
\n\u2022 The Parent\/Child Workshop, a regularly scheduled program presented in an informal early childhood setting that brings parents and toddlers into contact with health and human service professionals from the community;
\n\u2022 A specially designed space for young children, parents, and caregivers, equipped with educational toys, audio-visual materials, and electronic resources as well as books, and
\n\u2022 A collection of reference and referral sources for parents, caregivers, educators and service providers.
\nThis five-week workshop series brings together infants, toddlers and their parents in an early childhood setting filled with toys, art activities, and books, and encourages parents to play with their children, meet with other parents or caregivers, and become familiar with library and community resources.
\nThe main focus of the workshop is to promote an atmosphere to develop early childhood literacy.
\nProfessionals from local agencies such as child care centers, hospitals, speech clinics move casually about the room and chat informally with participants about issues pertinent to their children or services that their agency offers for families. The librarian facilitates the smooth flow among the children, parents or caregivers, resource professionals, and library staff, and closes the workshop with a simple circle game, song, or finger plays.
\nParents or caregivers (the person who spends the daytime hours with the children) may sign up now by calling or stopping in at the library for the first session which runs Thursday mornings from 9 a.m. until 10:30 a.m. beginning May 4 and continuing through Thursday, June 8.
\nSpace is limited, so please sign up early by calling the library at 684-1133.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Tyrone-Snyder Public Library wishes to announce a recently awarded grant to become a \u201cFamily Place Library\u201d, a national distinction with the goal of transforming public libraries to serve very young children and their families. Key features of a \u201cFamily Place Library\u201d include: \u2022 The Parent\/Child Workshop, a regularly scheduled program presented in an informal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}