Children  Programs

Storytimes at OWL

Storytime welcomes our youngest library users with the rhythm and beauty of language, while helping them develop their motor skills, attention spans, and social skills. Age appropriate stories, fingerplays, songs, musical instruments and puppets combine to engage children, broadening their horizons, reinforcing the pleasures of reading, and establishing the library as a first favorite place.
 

Bouncing Babies (0-24 months and their caregivers)

Setptember 7th - November 16th

Tuesdays 10:30 a.m. or 11:30 a.m.

Enjoy concept and rhyming books, learn fingerplays and rhymes, and meet other families in your neighborhood in this interactive program. Your child will form a bond with you, develop listening skills and begin vocabulary development in this educational program. Playtime will follow to foster your child’s imagination development and social skills.

Short Tales

2 - 3 year olds
Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m.

Listen to new and classic stories, learn fingerplays and songs, and build early literacy skills such as letter knowledge and sequencing in this active program with Mrs. Shaia. Craft time will follow to help your child build fine motor skills.

Tall Tales

3 - 5 year olds
Thursdays at 10:30 a.m.

Experience new and classic picture books and flannelboard stories, learn movement activities, and build pre-literacy skills such as phonological awareness and comprehension in this educational program with Mrs. Shaia. Craft time will follow to help your child build fine motor skills to get ready for kindergarten.

Preschool Programs

Preschool Halloween Tea Party

Friday, October 29 from 10:30 - 11:15 a.m.
For ages 2 - 5

Come dressed in your Halloween costume and enjoy a snack with Mrs. Shaia. We’ll do some Halloween movement
activities, and everyone will go home with a craft bag.

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After School Programs

For students in grades K - 3
Wednesdays 3:45 - 4:30 p.m
September 29th - November 17th.

Choose Your Own Adventure

We’ll decide a path together as we read a different Choose Your Own Adventure each week with Mrs. Shaia. We’ll create a live action board game to see where these tales will take us. Compete on the red, blue, green or yellow team and see which team makes it until the end first.

 We’ll be “playing:” 

• Sand Castle

• Your Very Own Robot

• Owl Tree

• Indian Trail

• Caravan

• The Lake Monster Mystery

• Your Purrr-fect Birthday

• Always Picked Last

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Specials

The Great Ga’Hoolian Challenge

For students in grades 4 - 6
Wednesday, September 22nd   3:45 - 4:30 p.m.

Compete in a trivia contest about the first three books in the Guardians of Ga’Hoole series: The Capture, The Journey, and The Rescue with Mrs. Shaia.

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Cooking with Katie

For ages 9 - 14
Saturday, October 16th  10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Join Katie Wilton for a hands-on cooking class where students will make recipes from her cookbook You’re the Cook! including deviled eggs, pizza wontons, parmesan pita triangles, yogurt fruit shakes and cream cheese filled strawberries. Participants will sample all the food. Books will be available for purchase.

Sponsored by the Junior Women’s Club of the Litchfield Hills

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