Category Archives: Programs

Bugs! Bugs! Bugs!

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bebugCome to the Bethel Branch on Saturday, May 18 at 11:00 a.m. as we’re joined by the Cincinnati Museum Center.

Attendees ages 3 – 10 are invited to get up close and personal with all kinds of fun and interesting creatures! Participants can build a toy bug, play hide-and-seek with a very hungry frog and meet some ofss the museum’s other live insects friends!

Sign Up Now! Space is limited, so please reserve your spot by visiting the branch, calling 734-2619, or registering online. This program is for ages 3 – 10.

Children’s books about bugs.

Children’s Book Week 2013

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cbw2013 Established in 1919, Children’s Book Week is the longest-running national literacy initiative in the country. Every year, commemorative events are held nationwide at schools, libraries, bookstores, homes — wherever young readers and books connect!

Celebrate at the Amelia Branch. Stop in anytime during regular library hours Monday-Saturday, May 13-18 to find a craft featuring characters from some of your favorite children’s books!

Children’s Book Week originated in the belief that children’s books and literacy are life-changers. In 1913, Franklin K. Matthiews, the librarian of the Boy Scouts of America, began touring the country to promote higher standards in children’s books. He proposed creating a Children’s Book Week, which would be supported by all interested groups: publishers, booksellers, and librarians.

Mathiews enlisted two important allies: Frederic G. Melcher, the visionary editor of Publishers Weekly, and Anne Carroll Moore, the Superintendent of Children’s Works at the New York Public Library and a major figure in the library world. With the help of Melcher and Moore, in 1916, the American Booksellers Association and the American Library Association sponsored a Good Book Week with the Boy Scouts of America.

Children’s Book Week is administered by Every Child A Reader, a 501(c)(3) literacy organization dedicated to instilling a lifelong love of reading in children.

Celebrate Mother Goose Day!

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bagooseResearch shows that children who memorize nursery rhymes become better readers. Many of our favorite nursery rhymes have been around since Shakespeare’s time! Come celebrate Mother Goose Day at the Batavia Branch on Monday, May 6 at 6:30 p.m. Attendees ages 5-12 can listen to stories, play games and make a craft.

Sign Up Now! Space is limited, so please reserve your spot by visiting the branch, calling 732-2128, or registering online. This program is for ages 5-12.

Collections of nursery rhymes.

Storytime: Food for Thought

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Welcome back to StoryTime at the Union Township Branch! We had a busy year in 2012 and we’re looking forward to having just as many awesome events to tell you about this year.

To start out our New Year on the right foot, our first week of StoryTime was all about Food (because healthy eating is something we all should practice…for at least 2 weeks at the beginning of every year). We read:

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You might remember, last year our Every Child Ready to Read program got a makeover and we changed some of the reading skills that we focus on during StoryTime. This week we featured Singing as our Early Literacy practice. Singing is a great way for kids to learn about language.; it changes the way they hear words and introduces them to rhyming words (which builds Phonological Awareness. Bam! two for one early literacy jackpot!) We sang and had our Silly Dance Contest to ‘Spaghetti Legs,’ a super fun song off of Jim Gill Sings The Sneezing Song and Other Contagious Tunes. The kids did an awesome job imagining what it would be like if their bodies were turned into spaghetti!

My FAVORITE part of StoryTime this week was an amazing flannel board that Ms. Cheryl made to go along with the poem ‘Ode to a Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich’ from James Proimos’ book If I Were In Charge the Rules Would Be Different.

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Next week we have our regularly scheduled ToddlerTime (Wednesday and Thursday at 10:30)  and PreschoolTime (Wednesday and Thursday at 11:30) Both will feature stories about winter animals. Check out our calendar online for other upcoming programs and awesome events. Hope we see you at the Union Township Branch Library soon!

 

Twelve Days of Christmas

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12 days of Christmas

Join us at the Goshen Branch on Tuesday, December 11 at 6:30 p.m. to celebrate the Goshen Township Holiday Event.

Bring the family and enjoy a visit from the library’s storytelling troupe, The Dreamweavers. Mrs. Claus will visit and read stories. Kids can make a special mitten craft to take home. Don’t forget your camera!

Kids’ books about the holidays.

All Aboard the Polar Express

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polar expressJoin us at the Goshen Branch on Saturday, December 8 at 2:00 p.m. for a fun afternoon. We’ll read the story, ride the “train”, serve hot chocolate and make train snacks. We’ll create a polar craft and watch the movie too! Be sure to wear your pajamas.

Sign Up Now! Space is limited, so please reserve your spot by visiting the branch, calling 722-1221, or registering online.

The Polar Express books and movie.

Santa Visits the Owensville Branch

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santa clausJoin us at the Owensville Branch on Tuesday, December 4 at 6:30 p.m. as we wait for a visit from Santa.

We’ll hear Santa stories, play Santa games, watch a Santa movie, and decorate cake pops while we wait for the Big Man to appear. Bring your cameras!

Sign Up Now! Space is limited, so please reserve your spot by visiting the branch, calling 732-6084 , or registering online.

Books about Santa.

November LEGO Club

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lego clubJoin us at the Union Twp. Branch on Saturday, November 24 for our LEGO Club! We’ll supply the LEGOs, you supply the imagination.  Take on our themed challenge or create freestyle. Build by yourself or with friends.  Anything goes!  This program is for ages 5+. We’ll have two sessions, one at 10 and another at 2.
We will also have a LEGO table with Duplo bricks available for our younger construction experts.
To register, call the branch at 528-1744.