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Are You Ready for Some Football?!?
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Favorite Family Read Alouds
Reading as a family isn't just fun, it builds children's imaginations and vocabularies, and expands their worlds.
Here are our top three tips for reading aloud with kids!
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Celebrating Black Inventors and Scientists with Picture Book Biographies
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Children's Books to Celebrate the Lunar New Year
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And the Caldecott Award Winners Are...
The 2021 Caldecott Award winning books were announced this morning! If you're looking to read the best of the best Children's picture books that 2020 had to offer, look no further.
And the winners are...
Caldecott Medal Winner
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Take & Make - Snowy Pinecone Owl
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Reading About RBG's Life and Legacy with Kids
Learn about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life and legacy along with your children. These books for younger readers are perfect for sharing and starting discussions about current events.
For older children who want to learn more about this iconic American figure, the RBG documentary is streaming now on Kanopy.
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LOOK UP! Stargazing with Kids
While a lot of activities look different this summer, you can still count on star gazing to be as fun as ever. Wait for a clear night, grab a blanket (and maybe the bug spray), then head outside and look up!
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MAKE IT WITH ME… SALT DOUGH DINO FOSSILS
Since we can’t visit some of our favorite museums right now, Miss Sarah is teaching you how to make your own artifacts to display at home! Follow along with the video to Make It With Me… Salt Dough Dinosaur Fossils!
Salt Dough Recipe:
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CORBETT’S CORNER
All titles are available in Overdrive.
All’s Faire in Middle School by Victoria Jamieson.
After being homeschooled for years while working the Renaissance Faire with her family, Imogene starts middle school and life gets very complicated, very fast.
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CORBETT’S CORNER
All titles available on Overdrive.
Calvin Coconut: Trouble Magnet by Graham Salisbury.
Calvin Coconut,in Hawaii, starts 4th grade, loses his bedroom to the daughter of his mother’s best friend and gets in trouble with the school bully.
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CORBETT’S CORNER
Click on the title to be taken to the Westchester Library Catalog to place a hold for curbside pickup.
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Make it with Me… SLIME!
Who doesn’t love slime?! Well… maybe your parents. But if you tell them that there’s science at the core of creating slime they might let you go for it. This video will prepare you for the basics of slime making.
Get creative, and be sure to show us what you make with #ScarsdaleLibrary and #SPLkids
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CORBETT’S CORNER
Click on the title to be taken to the Westchester Library Catalog to place a hold.