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Assist staff with special library projects and programs. The program will help children improve their reading skills while also helping the shelter animals by providing socialization and human. This year while piling up my stuffed animals i had a great idea. Luis the jungle babies lion stuffed animal by fiesta. Im not a big stuffed animal person but my new library came with a crazy number of puppets. Book buddies oktibbeha county humane society givegab. While some of these ideas definitely lend themselves to the primary grades, upper elementary kids are happy to have an excuse to spend some time with a stuffed animal dont leave them out of the fun. Book buddies may be stand alone volunteer opportunities or may be combined with the reading enrichment opportunities. Vermont teddy bear stuffed bear teddy bears, 15 inch. Im always searching for ways to hook kids to try a new book. Burlington books is one of europes most respected publishers of english language teaching materials, with over two million students learning from its books and multimedia programs, which include speech training, career training, elt materials and software. Buddig offers a large variety of affordable and packedtogo lunchmeats that make lunch too delicious to be eaten just once a day. A reading buddy can be another student, or, as im going to talk about here, a stuffed animal or toy.