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Summer Reading | Conservation Quest | Tuesday Night Family Programs | Scholastic BookFlix | Email Notification | Museum Passes | Fun Links
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Welcome to the Junior Library!
For more information on programs, to confirm times or register, please call us at 860-868-2310 or email us. If you're not familiar with offerings in the junior library, check out the tour.Patron Info lets you log in with your ID number and last name, to view your library status: books out, due dates, fines, holds, etc.
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Summer Reading Program
Ahoy Readers!"Make a Splash — READ!" is the theme this summer in the Junior Library. Children will get to explore the world of water with activities that center around our oceans, rivers, lakes, and pools and the creatures that live there. The 2010 Summer Reading Program is open to preschool through young adult and include exciting summer evening events, story hours, and prize drawings as children log-in their reading hours.
Summer Reading sign-up continues until the program ends on August 17th. 120 children have signed up already. Come see our "underwater scene" being created by all the Summer Reading program participants.
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New for July Only!
We are now hosting Stepping Stones Museum for Children "Conservation Quest" Mini Exhibits in the Junior Library. Four different exhibits featuring energy, conservation and environmental information using interactive, hands-on activities will take turns being displayed for your learning pleasure. Learn about and improve your energy conservation habits.Tuesday Night Family Programs
Family programs will be held every Tuesday evening at 6:30 p.m. All programs are free and open to the public. Registration is helpful to insure adequate supplies - which we will provide!
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Join guest artist Elizabeth Wolff creating your own underwater scene diorama with colorful paper fish, plants, real shells and even a chest full of sunken treasure.
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Calling all parents and kids for a night of old fashioned games with bean bags, marbles, penny pitching, limbo and more! Test your skills and challenge mom and dad.
Design your very own sailboat using corks, popsicle sticks, and colorful paper while guest, Anne Low, reads a seafaring tale. Race the boats in our bathing pool.
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Let’s have a beach party complete with "just add water" food fun, limbo, leis, fire-walking and hula dancing.
Tom will host a music and story program for children called "Waterbound" which highlights the history of American life on the water. This program is held in conjunction with the Museum’s exhibit of "Life on Lake Waramaug" and will conclude with refreshments at the museum.
Scholastic BookFlix
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For home access, go to Scholastic BookFlix Online and enter your 14-digit library card number.
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Email Notification Service
Would you like to be notified by email about upcoming events, Saturday programs and storytimes being held in the Junior Library? We are currently compiling an email list to be used starting this October to inform parents and caregivers of upcoming events by email. If you would like to be added to this list, please contact the library either by email, phone or in person in the Junior Library.Museum Passes
Are you looking for something fun to do? The Junior Library has "Family Passes" to the following local museums and nature centers. These passes have a loan period of one week and can be checked out with a valid library card. To obtain a pass, visit the Junior Library Circulation Desk.
- The Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport
This pass will allow 2 adults and 4 children free admission to Connecticut's only zoo for one day. Limited to use by one family per day. - Earthplace in Westport
Free passes for a family of four to Natureplace and the live animal hall and native plant courtyard. - Institute for American Indian Studies in Washington
General admission for a family of four, plus a 10% discount in the gift shop. - Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk
Discount Card for $2.00 off combination (Aquarium and Daytime IMAX) admission for up to 6 people. Two passes available. - Mystic Aquarium in Mystic
Discount admission for 2 adults and 2 children. - Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford
The ARTpass offers free general admission for up to two adults and two children (ages 6-17).
Fun & Educational Web Sites
If you have found a site you like, please e-mail us and we'll include it here.
- Enchanted Learning is a terrific home-made site loaded with information and fun activities.
- Powers of 10 zooms in, from outer space all the way to a leaf cell's nucleus. This is one of many cool demonstrations from Florida State University.
- How Everyday Things Are Made, from Stanford University, shows movies of the manufacturing processes of jelly beans, among other thins.
- LibrarySpot has lots of reference resources, lists and links.
- Ask Kids is "the easiest, fastest, and safest way for kids to finds answers to their questions online."
- TekMom's Resources for Students offers useful links and a computer terms dictionary.
- Fact Monster has a dandy "Homework Center" section that lets you search by category or via an encyclopedia and dictionary.
- Education Planet provides over 300,000 education-related links with easy keyword searches.
- Internet Public Library has endless links and resources.
- B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper delivers search engines, reference links, and a complete listing of subjects.
- Coolmath.com is billed as "an amusement park of mathematics."
- Visit the Exploratorium, a virtual museum of science, art and human perception.
- How Stuff Works has loads of information on, well... how stuff works.
- Take a ride on the Magic School Bus.
- Explore outer space at home via NASA Kids.
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