May is National Pet Month, so here is a pet-themed podcast list curated by School Library Journal: Eat Your Spanish: Lesson 8, Pets Ages 5-12: Bilingual musicians and former Montessori teachers Evan and Vanessa speak mainly in English but select a couple of Spanish words to practice based on a theme. Here, they include words for common pets, including cat, […]
This Friday, May 8th at 12:30 pm, you can take a field trip to Mars with the Smithsonian – just click on this link. NASA has a wide variety of online resources and ideas for unplugged resources. Ranger Rick magazine has made themselves freely accessible to everyone stuck at home. Girls Who Code has an at home series that updates […]
Just because the major North American comic book distributors have stopped working, doesn’t mean you cannot still read comic books! And don’t forget to support your local neighborhood comic book shop (Modern Age is still shipping books!) if you are able. Comics & Comic-Related Resources Attend a free virtual Comics Relief festival from First Second Comics. This will be held […]
AAPLD Staff Celebrate National Poetry Month Miss Nikki & Emma’s Easter craft Miss Lauren’s fabric mask maker craft Dav Pilkey at Home: You all probably know Dav Pilkey from the Dog Man or Captain Underpants books. He has started an “At Home” series and you should totally check it out. Princess Storytime Live from Happily Ever After Parties at 11:30am, […]
ALL of the blogs from the past week have focused on online resources to cope with the school & library closures due to CoVid-19. However, right before everything started shutting down the Association of Illinois School Library Educators announced their 2021 Bluestem Book Award List. Without further ado, here it is: The Ambrose Deception by Emily Ecton Three Chicago students, […]
Virtual Resources for Scouting Girls Scouts of Northern Illinois has set up a program where Girl Scout members may earn their badges from home. There are also resources on how to host a Girl Scout Troop meeting virtually using Zoom meetings. Materials are available in English and Spanish. Boy Scouts of America has also acknowledged that 58 of their merit […]
Things are coming in quickly! Everyone wants to help out, which is awesome. We were so bummed to have to cancel Homeschool Information Night, little did we know everyone would be doing school at home. We are ironing out our virtual storytime ideas still so stay tuned — there are a lot of details in the copyright laws of reproducing […]
Here are just a few of the many free online resources for students out of school. There is also always the Library’s regular online resources list, but you may need your library card number to access the paid-for resources. All of these below are currently free! Preschool PBSkids.com Scholastic Starfall Education TumbleBooks Storytime: check out our earlier blog post Elementary […]
Jodi Koplin will be hosting a Facebook livestream of JiggleJam from 10am-10:30am (CNT) on Tuesday, March 17, 2020. If you like AAPLD’s Music & Movement storytimes, this is perfect for you! Miss Jodi works with Chicago area libraries and is a local children’s performer. Have your instruments ready at home to play along! If you have song requests, please send […]
We will still be circulating materials via the drive-thru window at the Harnish Main location from 9 am – 5 pm Mondays through Saturdays, and Sundays from 12 pm – 5 pm. If you or someone in your household is sick, please do not return materials; call to have your loan period extended. Are the buildings open? No. At this […]
