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Youth Databases

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Virtual School Visits

Bloomfield Township preschools, early intervention classrooms, and daycare centers are invited to schedule a special virtual story time. You can provide us with a theme or we can come up with one for your classroom. Please call Youth Services to schedule a story time or sensory story time.

Teaching Collection

Ask a Librarian to show you this wonderful collection of materials designed just for you. Look through the books and magazines for teaching tips, lesson plans, art activities, reading guides, skill building exercises, recommended booklists, science projects, curriculum guides, and more. Check out what’s new in the teaching collection here.

Magazines for Homeschooling

We have one magazine just for Home School families in our Teaching Collection – Practical Homeschooling. You can visit their website Homeschool World for online resources.

Homeschooling Laws and Regulations

Brief Summary of Michigan Legislation, and a legal analysis from HSLDA.

Birmingham-Bloomfield Preschool Directory

Birmingham-Bloomfield Preschool Directory 2020

Poster Collection

The Library has a terrific selection of circulating posters for use in your classroom. Topics include science, social studies, famous people and more. A collection of 40 colorful posters made available through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in cooperation with the American Library Association, is a part of this group. These “Picturing America” posters will highlight American history lessons and many other subjects across the curriculum. There is a Teachers Resource Book full of information and activities related to the “Picturing America” posters located in the Teaching Collection for use in the library. In addition, there is a brochure listing all 40 titles in the set. Posters may be checked out for three weeks, and may be renewed.

Parents and family members are essential in a child’s development of reading, writing, and language skills. You can do the following activities at home to encourage early literacy. Be a model for your child. Children learn that reading and writing are important when they see adults using these skills! Here are three things you probably are already doing and now you know why it’s so important to keep doing it!

Spend time in conversation with your child to develop vocabulary and knowledge of the world. Label what you see and explain how things work. Oral Language
Read aloud with your child every day. Talk about the stories you read to make them more meaningful to your child. Children will learn about books and print, for example: we read the words, rather than the pictures, from left to right, and from the front of a book to the back. Print Concepts
Play with language to help your child listen to rhymes and letter sounds. Read nursery rhymes and other rhyming books. As your child grows see how many rhyming words you can think of together: hop, top, bop, mop, lop, stop, drop, and flop. Use words that start with the same letter (alliteration) and help your child to hear the letter sounds- ex: ‘Big Bob bounced a ball’. Phonological Awareness

Source: Project Enlightenment: Early Childhood Program