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Books for Preschoolers on Wednesday, August 5
We monkeyed around at storytime this week with books and rhymes all about monkeys!
Play With Your Child!
Find a way to bring a book
“to life.”
For example, go shopping for foods from
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
or make a dog puppet after reading
Clifford , the Big Red Dog.
Baby Storytime on Friday, July 31
We read a beloved classic at baby storytime this morning: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? We also discussed how families can enjoy a book like this without reading the actual text. Instead, you can simply look at the illustrations and talk about the different colors you see, or use the animal pictures as inspiration for a song like “Old MacDonald Had a Farm.” There are so many ways to share books with your child!
Books for Preschoolers on Wednesday, July 29
We cooled off at storytime on this hot summer day with books about the beach and the ocean.
Sing With Your Child!
Attend free and local concerts and
performances.
Come to “Summer Fun at MacKay” music series
on Wednesday nights at 6:30pm.
Come to “Summer Fun at MacKay” music series on Wednesday nights at 6:30pm.
Look What’s Growing at MacKay!
Exciting things are happening in the garden at the MacKay Library! Cucumbers, tomatoes, radishes, kale, and basil were all ripe and ready for sampling at today’s storytime. We also picked a golden delicious apple from our apple tree, but it’s a little too early in the year for the apples to be ready to eat. It’s a good thing we took this photo before the kids at storytime ate everything up. It was delicious!
Baby Storytime – Friday, July 24, 0-12 months
A great group of babies and caregivers came to storytime today. Babies waved, laughed, clapped and seem to enjoy the morning of songs, rhymes, bubbles and a story.
We read this story together.
Books for Preschoolers on Wednesday, July 22
This morning’s storytime at the main library featured four books about picnics. Don’t forget to join us this summer for a real picnic every week at our MacKay branch in North Chelmsford. The picnic storytime at MacKay takes place every Friday at 11:30 in the garden outside the library. Here are the picnic stories we read this morning:
Write With Your Child!
Write With Your Child!
Writing activities help children learn letter names and sound out new words. Writing also helps children understand that written words represent ideas, places and events.
