001[Music] the dramatic play station at the Ashlin Public Library. So, welcome to the Ashlin Public Libraryies dramatic play station. Um, you can see my director and one of our esteemed patrons are making some ice cream ice cream sundaes. We know we don't eat food off the floor. Um, so we decided to do a dramatic play at the Ashlin Library for a number of reasons. One, it is totally fun. I have seen so many uh toddlers and preschool kids and even like fifth and sixth graders and teenagers in here enjoying the the play opportunities in whether it's an ice cream station or we did um the farmers market. We've done a hairdressing salon. um all kinds of different play opportunities. And the reason that we do this is to give kids an opportunity to play in
002a public space with peers that they may or may not interact with and also to give parents an opportunity to interact with their children in a fun way in a library. Um there was some research done a few years ago by the public library association. Sorry, Mina's throwing our play money. done by the Public Library Association where um it was a program called Every Child Ready to Read and it's an early literacy program that states that there are five um ways to help your child get ready to read. And that would be singing, writing, reading, um and playing one of the I forget the fifth one. I'll have to get back to you. But playing is one of the most important ways that you can help your child get ready to read. And so we
003wanted to give folks an opportunity to come to the library and to have fun with their kids um as well as doing the reading and the writing and the singing um during story time. And [Music]