Exercise More: Creating Movement-Friendly Library Programs

This year, I’m viewing “traditional” New Year’s resolutions through a library lens. This month, we’re focusing on the resolution to exercise more. While the library may not be the ideal place for exercise classes, it can serve as a space for physical activity, exploration, and growth. Instead, we’re looking at ways to incorporate intentional, accessible movements, adaptations, and spaces in our programs. Why Movement Matters Movement is a key component of early literacy and learning. Moving in storytimes and programs provides oxygen to growing brains, a crucial element of growth and development. Practicing gross motor motions helps little ones understand how their bodies move in space, developing a sense of self. Fingerplays and action rhymes help develop fine motor skills that are critical to writing. For more kinesthetic learners, moving provides opportunities to engage more senses in the learning process. However, movement only works if we find ways for everyone…
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