Play In A Book

Use your local library! Such a fantastic resource. 📚

Santa joined us for the Play In A Book holiday party at The Tonk.

A great night for Play In A Book at the Ingenuity Fall Arts Summit.

Preparing for our last day of shooting with rising 1st graders in Play In A Book at South Shore Fine Arts Academy.

Banned books are so much more fun to read than plain old ordinary books.

Arts Liaison Maya O'Neal from South Shore Fine Arts Academy is with two students celebrating SSFAA being a CSF Lollapalooza Grant finalist. PIAB was proud to have partnered with the school on this project.

Our itinerant PIAB acting troupe; we go from town to town and place to place putting on shows.

Mx. Fay plans to get Play In A Book with Coles 2nd grade started with some breathing exercises today.

Play In A Book uses Nursery Rhymes for our K-2 literacy program. They're so much fun!

Do you read nursery rhymes to your children? Nursery rhymes may just seem like a bit of fun, a way to spend time and interact with your children or just a quick and easy way to distract them but the truth is nursery rhymes have so many more benefits for your child, both in the long and the short term and are incredibly powerful influencers in pre-school development.

Nursery rhymes have a lot more to offer than just entertainment value. They introduce babies and children to the idea of storytelling, promote social skills and boost language development. They also lay the foundation for learning to read and spell. Generally, children who will become good readers enjoy listening to speech, storybooks and nursery rhymes.

Here is more valuable information about why these silly rhymes are so important. https://www.boysandgirlsnursery.com/the-benefits-of-nursery-rhymes-in-your-childs-development/

This is one of my favorite Nursey Rhyme books. Nina Crews uses the backdrop of the city to tell the nursery rhymes. Check it out and say some nursery rhymes today!

We are looking for Teaching Artists to come join our team. If you have expertise in drama and dance along with a willingness to help young students build literacy skills, we would like to talk to you about Play In A Book.

The benefits of play are immense across all ages, research shows Experts say such play time should not just happen outside of school or at recess, but should be a necessary part of teaching and learning.

Wise words by the young Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai.
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Working as a team to pass the hula hoops.

It is exciting to see our first graders so engaged with Teacher Ardarius in Play In A Book at South Shore Fine Arts.

Play In A Book in the library at Bond with 4th grade.

Another shipment of books leaves the Play In A Book warehouse under the patient gaze of Carl, our patron saint of shipping.

For our poetry program.

Rapping, deconstructed: The best rhymers of all time Here's how some of the greatest rappers make rhymes.From the simple nursery rhyme–like bars of Kurtis Blow's "The Breaks" to the smooth East Coast flow of No...

Mister Rogers Had a Simple Set of Rules for Talking to Children The TV legend possessed an extraordinary understanding of how kids make sense of language.

Welcome back to school students and staff!

Some of the PIAB team are busy doing warmup sessions preparing to get back in the classroom (L-R: Erica, Laura, Abi, and Fay)! See you soon, students!

It is the first day of Summer School at South Shore Fine Arts Academy with Ms. Abigail.