Welcome

Hello, and welcome to the CHAOS! My name is Jamie Gonzales and I have been the Children's Services Coordinator at the Gaines County Library since August 2013. In that time, I have become more and more interested in early literacy, and have attended workshops to better educate myself on the best way to present these practices to the children of our community. In 2018, I will be revamping our early literacy story times to make them the very best they can be for our youngest patrons.

Following Betsy Diamont-Cohen's award winning method, Mother Goose on the Loose, and her most recent book, Transforming Preschool Storytime, we will follow the five early literacy practices: talking, singing, reading, writing, and playing. In short, it may seem like a bunch of CHAOS, but it's really Children Having Awesome and Outstanding Storytimes!

Mother Goose on the Loose® is a thirty-minute nursery rhyme program for children from birth to age 3. MGOL follows the following format:

• 80% repetition of material week-to-week
• one to two developmental tips for parents and caregivers in each program
• following a 10 step structure that includes one story, rhymes, songs, puppets, musical instruments and more to stimulate the learning process of babies and toddlers.

Literacy Littles is our preschool age story time. This is a 45 minute story time that is designed to help children build a positive connection with books and illustrations. It promotes personal and social development, and each week modeled with the school readiness domains as a guide (language and literacy, mathematical and scientific thinking, approach to learning, cognition and general knowledge, physical development and health, and the arts).

Both of these programs are held at the Gaines County Library in Seminole, Texas.

Mother Goose on the Loose: Mondays, September through May, at 10 a.m.
Literacy Littles: Wednesdays, September through May, 10 a.m.

We would love for you to join us on this journey into CHAOS! If you can't join us in person, please follow along on this blog!

-Mrs. Jamie
CHAOS Coordinator