On Friday August 14th we made videogames using Scratch. Our games were based on the infamous “Flappy Bird” videogame that brought its creators notoriety and established them in the halls of memorable bad game design forever 🙂 We followed a tutorial I created and chose new sprites for our flappy […]
Playing records with no electricity!
Published on :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 […]
Craig Newton’s Really Big Music Show
Published on :On August 8th, 2015 we had a special guest, Craig Newton, put on a music show for families in our Donald Wright Auditorium! He brought a ton of instruments and demonstrated them all to the kids, teaching them about how musical instruments work, as well as giving them exercises in […]
Meet the kids’ grand prize winner for Central Library!
Published on :The Central Library’s Children’s Summer Reading Challenge winner is Diego, a kindergartener who completed his whole reading game board and then was randomly selected to take home our squishable Porter the Polar Bear. Here he is with his prize: And here’s Angela Arzu, manager of Youth Services, congratulating him and presenting him […]
Creative Writing for Beginning Readers: Bookworm Books!
Published on :This month’s Creative Writing for Beginning Readers class took inspiration from the book Violet and Victor Write the Best-Ever Bookworm Book by Alice Kuipers and illustrated by Bethany Murguia. It’s a very cute book about a boy and a girl who make up a story about a bookworm who slips […]
Kids’ Writing Workshop with Kirk Scroggs!
Published on :Last Friday our Kids’ Writing Workshop welcomed author Kirk Scroggs, who wrote the Wiley & Grampa’s Creature Features series, the Snoop Troop series and the Tales of a Sixth-Grade Muppet series. He gave us a presentation about his books and characters, and then we did activities where we took a […]
Infant & Toddler Storytime: Busy Buses
Published on :There are so many different types of transportation. Today we shared stories about the bus! Books We Shared The Bus is for Us! by Michael Rosen, illustrated by Gillian Tyler is a new book, and as soon as I saw it I knew it would be great for infant toddler […]
Preschool Storytime – At the Beach
Published on :It’s hot outside this summer. Really hot. So what better way to cool off than inside with a good book about the beach? Books We Shared While the Antarctic might not be the first place you would look to for a story about the beach, our friend Penguin, who […]
Infant & Toddler Storytime: Summer at the Beach
Published on :With our infant todder storytimes we spent a summer day at the beach! Books We Shared During infant storytime, we started with Beep, Beep, Let’s Go! by Eleanor Taylor. Many animals are in their cars headed somewhere in a hurry — but where? Next we read two short board […]
eStorytime – Airplanes
Published on :For our July eStorytime we shared apps and stories all about airplanes! These might be a great choice to help prep your preschoolers if you are going to take a flight soon! Apps We Shared To get everyone excited about airplanes we spent some time looking at real plane photos […]