Top 10 Tips for Reading to a Child Get everyone in your family involved – parents, baby-sitters, grand-parents, aunts & uncles, brothers & sisters – anybody! Don’t be self-conscious and worry about how you sound. Each person has a different reading style so read however you feel most comfortable. All your child cares about is that YOU are reading to THEM. Feel free to change the text by adding words or phrases to make it Read more…
Love Lettering is now live on your OverDrive site until February 24 with no waitlist! The title is available in both the ebook and audiobook formats. Be a part of the conversation A discussion guide is available here. And, you can join the conversation on Overdrive’s discussion board. Author Interview Don’t miss OverDrive’s Professional Book Nerds podcast interview with author Kate Clayborn. Click here to learn more about Overdrive, the Libby App and how to Read more…
The Corinth Library is temporarily closing due to a Covid-19 exposure. The library will reopen on Friday, February 5th if possible.
Congratulations to Northeast Regional Library The winner of this year’s Jane Smith Literacy Award. You can learn more about their project, which promotes activities that build early literacy skills at home, here: https://www.nereg.lib.ms.us/family-activities/ #JaneSmithLiteracyAward #Literacy #MSLibraries
We are so thankful for Ms. Greene and all the work she does to help make the monthly packets. My kids have loved working on all the activities. – Ashley Higginbottom
The Deadly Irish Epidemic That Helped Bring Dracula to Life from Atlas Obscura. Forget Vlad the Impaler. A 19th-century cholera outbreak in Sligo may have been Bram Stoker’s chief inspiration. AN AFTERNOON WIND FUNNELS DOWN deserted Old Market Street, past shuttered shops and darkened restaurants. The rowdy Irish student town of Sligo has been frozen. It is two months into a strict nationwide lockdown enforced by the Irish government to combat the novel coronavirus, which has Read more…
Library SnapShot Day 2020 It may have looked a little different… but that’s ok!
MacKids School Library GET READY FOR A NEW SCHOOL YEAR WITH TINKERACTIVE! ENTER FOR A CHANCE TO WIN A CLASSROOM SET OF WORKBOOKS + DOWNLOAD FREE PRINTABLE LESSONS AND WORKSHEETS! TinkerActive Workbooks from MacKids School Library provides math and science workbooks to download for learning at home https://www.mackidsschoolandlibrary.com/activity-guide-tinkeractive-workbooks/ Here are additional weekly activity kits from MacKids School Library. https://www.mackidsschoolandlibrary.com/tag/activity-kit/
Suggested Family Activity • Friday, August 7 Tomorrow is Global Sleep Under the Stars Night. You can celebrate by having a camp out in your own backyard this weekend and taking time to look up at the stars. Gazing up at the night sky can feel very peaceful as you appreciate the wonder of space. If you don’t want to put up a tent, you can put out blankets or sleeping bags in your yard Read more…
The Music We Listen to In Our Teens and Twenties Really Does Stick With Us For Life The music we listen to between the ages of ten and 30 could give us memories that stay with us throughout our lives, according to UK research. Published in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, the new research was carried out by teams from the University of Westminster and City University of London and used data from Britain’s longest-running Read more…
