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Lunchapalooza with Miss Jamie!
For just 7 days, you can experience the AAPLD exclusive: Miss Jamie’s Garden Friends video here!
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NASA: Next Moon Step Challenge
Did you watch the NASA & SpaceX rocket launch last weekend? NASA is also planning to send women to the Moon with Project Artemis. The “Next Moon Step” is their summer art challenge for kids in grades K-12. Your challenge is to create an image of your footprint (photo or artwork) and tell us what you would say, in 20 […]
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Buster Bear Coloring Contest
Buster Bear Coloring Contest Click the above link for a PDF coloring page to print at home. Submit your entry (1 per person) to buster@aapld.org by July 31st, 2020. The email should include the child’s name, their age, a contact phone number, and a picture of their artwork. You may use crayons, markers, or colored pencils. The winning artists will […]
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Summer Reading & JiggleJam!
Sign-Up for Summer Reading Here Our Summer Reading Program is mostly virtual this year. There will still be prizes though, however we are waiting until July 1st to begin giving those out. As you may be aware, Curbside Pickup for Algonquin cardholders begins on June 8th so we are expecting to be very busy for that! This is why we […]
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Curbside Pickup Services
We have worked on plans to receive returns and offer curbside services in a way that provides materials to you and also keeps our staff and community safe. We are now ready to move forward and take the first steps in restarting limited library services at the Main Library (2600 Harnish Drive). RETURNS We will accept returns through our drive-thru window […]
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Read to a Librarian
What is Read to a Librarian? Read to a Librarian is our exclusive 2020 Pandemic replacement program for Summer Book Buddies. This program will take place virtually through Zoom Meetings. You will get an email with the Zoom meeting room link before the program starts. Younger students will read with to a staff member for 20 minutes once a week […]
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Summer Reading Starts June 1st
YES, we will have an online Summer Reading program through a product called Beanstack. This program will be similar to previous years, where you will read and do activities to earn prizes. There are paper logs in the June/July 2020 newsletter sent to your household through the mail. A more detailed FAQ (especially with technology how-to details) may be found here. […]
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A Couple More Free Resources
Do you like coloring? Do you like Bad Kitty by Nick Bruel? Well, he has introduced a new Bad Kitty Coloring Book that is about washing your hands (er…paws). It is free to download right here! The James Dyson Foundation has created engineering challenge cards for kids during the pandemic. Those are available here. The Google Arts project allows you […]
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Girls Who Code From Home
Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code, wrote a short article about her pandemic experience here. eLearning is no joke and we do not want anyone to feel obligated to do extra online learning in addition to school with Girls Who Code. If you want to, that is totally fine. If you want to play video games, go outside, or […]
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Everyone’s Favorite, Laurie Berkner
The music of Laurie Berkner is often featured in storytime at AAPLD. Our Youth Librarians love her! Tomorrow, she will be holding a virtual seminar on Facebook Live about educational play & music at home. This will take place tomorrow, Wednesday, May 13th at 5:30pm Central Time (6:30pm Eastern Time).