Families gathered to learn about air on Friday night in the Pawling Library’s Science Buddies program. Our family science program includes a story, important science words and lots of hands-on exploration of science themes! Check out all we learned!
If your child is 2 ½ – 3 ½ years old and you are looking for a language rich literacy program to attend, then look no further! The Pawling Library has the perfect program. Dynamic Duos is a weekly parent and child program that introduces children to group literacy programs with 45 minute sessions that develop critical early literacy and language skills that are important to your child’s future reading success. During the program, we’ll listen to books, discuss what’s happening in the story, talk about important story words, engage the children in listen and think activities and we even use rhythm instruments to encourage movement, sensitivity to word parts and rhyming! We always end with a development activity that encourages socializing, fine motor development, language skills and vocabulary. The five recommended activities to develop early literacy skills are read, talk, play, sing and write and we use four of these activities every week! Dynamic Duos takes place on Tuesdays, 11 – 11:45 am. Can’t make it on Tuesdays? The same program is offered on...
The Children’s Spring Programs @ the Pawling Library are finally here! We’ve got a lot to offer, so we hope you’ll check out all of our program listings. If you missed Crazy 8’s Math and Pete the Cat this winter, you’ll be happy to know we have included encore performances of both programs in our spring session. We’ve also got some brand new programs for you to enjoy, as well as many of our old favorites. So, check out our listing on-line! Our lottery registration will be open Monday, March 14th through Saturday, March 19th Registration confirmations will be available beginning Monday, March 21st at 12:00 pm. If you are out of town on vacation, please feel free to complete a registration form and fax it to the library at 855-8138 or scan and email it to Ms. Karen. As always, if you have any questions about which programs are right for your child, please contact Ms. Karen by phone at 855-3444 or by email. She will be very happy to explain our programs and...
Thanks to Jessica Sisalima, Pete the Cat paid a visit to the Pawling Library on Saturday to read stories, sing songs, play the “Pete the Cat Mystery Game” and make a special Pete project. It was a fun afternoon for everyone! Don’t worry if you missed Pete this visit, he’ll be back again in April for another fun visit!
During February, the library was packed with young scientist eager to learn all about inclined planes. Our Science Buddies program hosted 23 scientists ages 4 – 8 years in our We Like to Move It Program. Families enjoyed an evening of hands on science exploration and discovered that Kids + Science = Lots of fun! Check out our scientists at work!
Crazy 8’s kids became spies in training as they learned to use numbers and patterns to crack secret codes. Watch out, world! We are number-expert, mystery-cracking spies!
The Pawling Library’s Crazy 8’s Math Club battled for the gold this week in our Toilet Paper Olympics! We measured, counted, added, multiplied and estimated our way to feats of major proportion! Who knew there was so much math in a roll of toilet paper!
This week we thought about time…large chunks of time like centuries, decades and years, small chunks of time like minutes and seconds, and everything in-between. Being able to use calendar dates and clock time not only uses numbers, but shows we understand the concept of time! We even got a chance to estimate when 20 seconds had passed. Could you do that?
Our Crazy 8’s Math Club was at it again, this time exploring sound! We compared lengths and made sound with straws of different lengths. We noticed the relationship between the length of the straw and the pitch of the sound made with it. The longer the straw, the lower the sound! We ordered the straws by length and assembled them into pan pipes. We even used a giant sound meter to see how loud we could get and used subtraction to compare the decibels! Whoa…that’s a lot of math!
Students in kindergarten, first & second grade enjoyed an hour of the craziest math ever…glow-in-the-dark geometry! From simple shapes to repeating patterns, we created, counted and collaborated to discover how awesome math really is!