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It’s Fun and Easy! Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney is about a baby llama full of llama drama who wants the comfort of his mama after she puts him to bed for the night. There is rhyming throughout the story which provides an opportunity to read to a rhythm. Read the story to your child at a normal rhythm. Read the story again with an emphasis on the rhyming

words and increase the pace a little. Encourage your child to repeat the words so they can hear

themselves reading aloud. These reading strategies can help a new reader with fluency and comprehension, two of the five pillars of reading. After reading the story with your child, ask how they would feel if you were away. This helps the reader relate to the characters and gain a deeper understanding about their personality.

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Did You Know? A consistent bedtime routine helps children improve their con-centration and lowers the risk of obesity. Providing relaxing activi-ties such as reading before bed gets the child into a restful state of mind and makes it easier to fall asleep.

Children will benefit immense-ly if you read aloud with them, even once they have started to read themselves. They will learn new words that are beyond their reading ability and will love the time you spend with them.

You don’t always have to read a book. Pictures are very im-portant and help to tell the story. Point to the pictures and talk about them. Discussing the book encourages your child to become the story teller.

Sources: www.webmd.com/children/features/make-your-kids-bedtime-battle-free and www.booktrust.org.uk/usr/library/documents/bedtime-reading/bedtime-2010-tips-starting-to-read.pdf

The Book-of-the-Month is selected by a team of librarians and other experts for the purpose of promoting a love of

reading and providing fun and rewarding reading experiences in the

classroom and in the home.

Sponsored by Kiwanis Club of Mercury 64

The Mayor’s Book Club is pleased to present our Book-of-the-Month for May:

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Bringing the Story to Life!

Community Resources

Family Movie Night at the Library - Main Hampton Public Library, 4207 Victoria Blvd., Hampton, VA 23669 Thursday, June 8th, 2017 4:00PM - End of Movie Admission is free. No registration required. Come visit the Hampton Public Library and watch The Tale of Despereaux with your friends. Snacks will also be provided for your enjoyment. Blackbeard Festival & Fireworks – Downtown Hampton, VA 23669 Saturday, June 3, 2017, 10:00 AM – 10:00 PM Sunday, June 4, 2016, 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM Admission is free and open to the public. Pillage and plunder your way through the coastal seaport city of Hampton, VA when the Annual Blackbeard Pirate Festival returns for another year of swashbuckling excitement! Celebrate Hampton’s rich maritime heritage by commemorating the demise of our most infamous visitor, Captain Edward Teach, aka Blackbeard the Pirate. Children can enjoy the activities at the Young Matey’s Picaroon Camp! For more information visit http://blackbeardfestival.com/.

Many thanks to Scholastic, First Book, the Exchange Club of Wythe, U.S. Air Force Association, Langley Civic

Leaders Association, Langley Thrift Shop, and the Downtown Hampton

Exchange Club for their contributions.

Visit your local public library or school library: Hampton Public Library:

http://www.hamptonpubliclibrary.org Hampton City Schools – Information Literacy Services:

http://www.hampton.k12.va.us/departments/informationliteracy/infoliteracy.html

Book Picks

Bedtime rituals can be very important to children. With your child, make a list of the things that happen in your household at bedtime. Bath, tooth brushing, choosing clothes for the next day, reading a story, listening to music, yoga, praying, singing together, or talking about the day, are some of the activities you might include. Are there items you and your child would like to add to your bedtime ritual? Post your list in the kitchen or the bedroom and read it together.

Since a llama is featured in the story, you may want to find out more about them. Visit the library and borrow a nonfiction book about llamas like Love a Llama by Colleen Stanley Bare and then visit a live llama at the Peninsula SPCA or Bluebird Gap Farm. Books help build your child’s vocabulary. Talk about the words fret, pout and moan. Act them out with your child.

Other Llama Llama Books: Llama Llama Gram and Grampa Llama Llama Home with Mama Llama Llama Yum Yum Yum! Llama Llama Time to Share Llama Llama Misses Mama Llama Llama Mad at Mama Llama Llama Wakey-Wake Llama Llama Nighty-Night

Related Books: Beatrice Doesn’t Want To by Laura Numeroff Time to Say Goodnight by Sally Lloyd-Jones Never EVER Shout in a Zoo by Karma Wilson

I Love You, Stinky Face by Lisa McCourt Froggy Eats Out by Jonathan London

Owl Babies by Martin Waddell Noisy Nora by Rosemary Wells