Online Stories & Activities

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Some ideas for online stories and activities for young children to middle-schoolers. Online Story Resources Storyline Online – Books read by celebrities https://www.storylineonline.net/ Kate Messner Website – A list of resources for lessons and authors reading their books https://www.katemessner.com/read-wonder-and-learn-favorite-authors-illustrators-share-resources-for-learning-anywhere-spring-2020/?fbclid=IwAR1wKRNHVL7CVzdTrK9ghhW-VyILR-JO93_MGj3O3CwwcVR3CGmzc2jdASs Jarrett Lerner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k015s03zEBYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWXnfEeuyO4 Comic for kids on the coronavirus https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/02/28/809580453/just-for-kids-a-comic-exploring-the-new-coronavirus Authors Activities https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=authors+everywhere Oxford Owl – Sign up for a free account https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/welcome-back/for-home CDC Washing Hands Posters https://www.cdc.gov/handwashing/posters.html Take & Make Kits These “kits” are activities geared to various ages that are simple, easy, and inexpensive. They can be used as take-home projects (instructions and materials inside a plastic bag), a …

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New Items ~ March 2020

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FICTION The authenticity project by Clare Pooley.  The story of a solitary green notebook that brings together six strangers and leads to unexpected friendship…and even love. A beautiful crime by Christopher Bollen.  A twisty story of deception, set in contemporary Venice and featuring a young American couple who have set their sights on a high-stakes con. Cesare by Jerome Charyn.  Beginning in 1937 Germany, this is a literary thriller and love story born of the horrors of a country whose culture has died, whose history has been warped, and whose soul has disappeared. The chill by Scott Carson.  A century …

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Maine Bicentennial

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M ~ The moose with loose poops A ~ A is for Acadia I ~ In Peppermint peril N ~ Nautilus E ~ Emmeline   B ~ Bag of bones I ~ Interrupted forest C ~ Cousins Maine Lobster E ~ Eagle flies at night T ~ Take heart E ~ Enjoying Maine birds N ~ Now that you mention it N ~ No news is bad news I ~ Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop & Cafe A ~ Answer in the tide L ~ Lighthouse dog to the rescue

February Events ~ 2020

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Children’s Events ~ February 2020 Just letting you know some of the upcoming events in February. Story & Craft Time Tuesday, Feb. 18th & 25th We will have a story, songs and a craft at 10:00 am for preschoolers.   Free Movie night at the Gardiner Public Library Born in China Thursday, February 20th Movie starts at 6:00 pm Doors open at 5:30 pm Children must be accompanied by an adult. Hosted by the Gardiner Library Association.   Art @ the Library will be presented by Upstream Tuesday, Feb. 25th from 6:00 to 7:00 pm. Paint a wooden fish for …

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New Items ~ February 2020

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FICTION American dirt by Jeanine Cummins.  Intensely suspenseful and deeply humane, this novel makes migrants seeking to cross the southern US border indelibly individual. The bells of hell by Michael Kurland.  A counter-intelligence agent recruits a number of civilians to help foil a suspected terrorist attack by German spies in New York in 1938. The better liar by Tanen Jones.  When a woman conceals her sister’s death to claim their joint inheritance, her deception exposes a web of dangerous secrets. The blaze by Chad Dundas.  One man knows the connection between two extraordinary acts of arson, fifteen years apart, in …

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January Weather

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J       January rides the wind A       Annie and Snowball and the magical house N       Name of the wind U       Uncommon appeal of clouds A       After the snow R        Rising storm Y        Young snowboarder   W      Winter storms E        Energy from wind A       And the wind blows free T       Tracks in the snow H       Hello snow! E        Eye of the storm R        Really good snowman