For children 0-24 months and their caregivers. Caregivers will learn songs, stories and rhymes to enhance personal reading time. These skills will help children build vocabulary, recognize objects, and build a foundation for reading and learning.

Join art educator Megan Moriarity and make your own miniature creature with polymer clay. We’ll check out fantastical creatures and design our own complete with details like claws and wings or whatever you imagine! Hero or villian? Mean or nice? You decide! Registration is required and begins December 29th. Related reading: A Practical Guide to Dragons by Lisa Trumbauer

For children ages 3-1/2 to 6 and their caregivers. Children and caregivers will learn pre-reading skills through stories, songs and rhymes to help prepare them for their Kindergarten Readiness Assessment in Literature Test (KRAL). Kindergarteners will continue to strengthen their skills. Skills include answering questions, repeating sentences, rhyming words and identifying sounds and letters.

Calling all young engineers! Students in grades 3-5 will explore the scientific concepts of speed, incline, and gravity by designing and creating a structure out of cardboard roll tubes that can, at completion, facilitate the course of a marble from Point A to Point B. The library will provide all supplies. This is a registered event. Registration begins on January 2nd. Related reading: Energy and Motion by Allan B. Cobb

Preschoolers and their caregivers can join us for a short storytime followed by a walk in Northam Park where we’ll look for signs of spring and colors weather permitting. Registration is required and begins March 4, 2013.
Related Reading: Signs of Spring by Justine Korman Fontes