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Events & Programs STEM 

Minecraft Designer Hour of Code: Kids’ Coding Club

July 10, 2020July 23, 2020 AnnMarie Kolakowski 0 Comments coding, games, minecraft, school age, STEAM, tweens, videos

We had 198 participants in our Zoom coding workshop today! For today’s workshop I walked everyone through a Code.org Hour

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Book clubs 

Read Around the World Book Club Tours Denmark

May 15, 2020 AnnMarie Kolakowski 0 Comments read around the world, school age, tweens, videos

We held our first virtual meeting of the Read Around the World book club today, and nine kids joined us

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Events & Programs Games Social Distancing Resources STEM 

Citizen Science Anyone Can Do at Home

May 8, 2020June 11, 2020 AnnMarie Kolakowski 0 Comments apps, citizen science, school age, science, space, STEAM, tweens, videos

For many kids and teens, summer is a time for traveling and expanding their knowledge of the world. For some

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Music Programs 

Infant Toddler Show with Angie Donkin

December 10, 2019December 10, 2019 AnnMarie Kolakowski 0 Comments infant, music, toddler, videos

We had fun this morning with Angie Donkin, dancing with scarves, playing shaker eggs, singing with finger puppets and a

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Events & Programs STEM Writing 

It’s Showtime! LEGO Movies Made by Younger Kids

July 10, 2019July 11, 2019 AnnMarie Kolakowski 0 Comments apps, iPad, legos, school age, STEAM, videos

**Updated 7/11/19 — see notes at the end** Last week we held another LEGO Stop-Motion animation workshop in our Central

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Events & Programs STEM Writing 

It’s Showtime! Stop-Motion LEGO Movies Made by Tweens

June 20, 2019June 20, 2019 AnnMarie Kolakowski 0 Comments apps, iPad, lego, school age, summer reading challenge, tweens, videos

A few weeks ago when our Summer Reading Program, “It’s Showtime At Your Library!” officially began, we held a LEGO

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Events & Programs STEM Writing 

Book Trailers Made by Kids!

June 17, 2019June 17, 2019 AnnMarie Kolakowski 0 Comments apps, book trailers, iPad, tweens, videos

Kids 9-12 years old came to the library for a three-day program last week to make book trailers about their

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Storytimes 

Bon Appetit! Preschool Storytime

March 22, 2019 AnnMarie Kolakowski 0 Comments early literacy, food, preschool, videos

Last Saturday, we did a storytime that worked up an appetite, with stories, lots of dancing and movement, and yummy,

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Arts & Crafts Writing 

Writing Party: Make a Board Book

December 8, 2018December 8, 2018 AnnMarie Kolakowski 0 Comments school age, videos

Last month, we had a Writing Party for kids 5-8 years old about making a board book for a baby

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Book clubs Events & Programs 

Lucha Libros: 2nd Grade – Junie B. Jones and Jack and Annie

October 10, 2018October 10, 2018 AnnMarie Kolakowski 0 Comments lucha libros, school age, videos

Last week, twenty second graders met at Pasadena Central Library to answer questions about two books they read this month:

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