Pasadena Public Library
On Nov. 18, 2016, to celebrate Young Readers League and its 2016 selection of Circus Mirandus by Cassie Beasley, we had a science program called “Be a Light Bender!” We had a jam-packed hour of activities exploring the physics of light and color. We did demonstrations of various phenomena, like […]
This month we answered questions about Judy Moody, Girl Detective / Judy Moody es detective by Megan McDonald. We had three new families join the group tonight! It’s nice to see the program grow. The new kids did a very good job too. Everybody did. The bonus round this time […]
Everybody knows magnets are FUN, but did you know scientists use magnets when making certain kinds of polymers? Did you know that magnets can help chemists to sort out the tangled mess of molecules that most polymers consist of? Today’s Curiosity Machine class focused on Making a Self-Assembling Structure […]
Monday’s hands-on science program, “The Science Behind Recording Music,” challenged tweens to come up with several iterations of a gramophone that could play the sound stored on a vinyl record with only their hands to power it. First tweens learned about the history of sound recording and its great inventors, then we […]
On July 1st, we had a program for early elementary school kids from ages 5-8 years old to encourage them to do creative writing. Miss AnnMarie prepared the materials and Mr. Nick did a wonderful job presenting it. Mr. Nick read two books: The Adventures of Beekle, The Unimaginary Friend […]
We had forty participants at our Kickoff program to our Summer Reading Challenge! Families came to our Studio On 4th to dance, make musical instruments and rock out! Here’s a video of some of the highlights of the program: We had a Wii set up for dancing: We made […]
This afternoon we had a program at Pasadena Library about how to make a musical instrument–something that would produce not just noise, but definite pitches that you could change or manipulate. We learned about aerophones, chordophones, idiophones and membranophones, and then got a chance to make our own DIY instruments. […]
On Friday, May 8, we focused on revising using a multi-layered approach I playfully call “Miss AnnMarie’s Thirteen Steps to a Perfect Final Draft.” Is any final draft ever perfect? I don’t know… but if you follow these steps you WILL get about as close to perfect as is possible for […]
We took things up, up and away with stories about balloons today! Books We Shared To start off our balloon adventure we read a new title from Philip C. Stead – Sebastian and the Balloon. Sebastian gets bored in his old neighborhood so he makes a balloon, brings everything he […]
Today we had a special program in the library’s auditorium, celebrating the life and music of French composer Claude Debussy. We examined his childhood, his musical influences, his friendships with impressionist and symbolist painters and composers, and the explosion of beauty and artistic expression that was the Belle Epoque in […]