I'm okay with this national holiday! Lasagna is one of our family favorites. Probably not during the summer, when its too hot to use the oven, but hey, I don't care if I'm at a restaurant. :)
Onto some of our fun stuff this week...
This Tween Crafternoon on Wednesday, July 31 at 3pm we will be making Starry Windchimes. Sounds like fun! (Registration Required)
The Lunar Lander has been at the Rochester Museum and Science Center and the man (Barry Nobles) bringing it is a wealth of knowledge. He'll be here on Wednesday too from 6-8pm. You can't miss it!
Our favorite dance instructor, Rosalind Walker, is back and this time we will be dancing our hearts out! We'll be meeting on Thursday, August 1 at 2:30pm. (Registration Required)
Our annual Teddy Bear Sleepover is back as well. Come and join me and Miss Jill as we tell lots of sleepy stories as you cuddle up with your favorite friends. Join us Thursday at 7:15pm after Lego Club, which is at 6pm. (Registration Required)
Finally, if you're a teen, we our ending our week with an Ice Cream Social like no other! That's Friday, August 2nd at 3pm. (Registration Required)

This week if you want to get your special bead, you need to read some historical fiction.
Some of our random favorites:
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Patricia Polacco
American Girl
Dear America

Today is also National Hammock Day! A little too cool and rainy to enjoy your hammock today, but maybe later in the week you could do a little of your 20 minute reading/listening on the hammock and pretend you did it today! 

So if you have entered summer reading already, this week is the PINK ticket. What that means is that this week you should add AUDIO BOOKS to your library bag! Remember that if you listen to an audio book, you will get a special bead that proves that you are an amazing listener.

Have smart phone or tablet?
Check out our Overdrive kids audio books that are available now.
​Check out our Overdrive teen audio books that are available now.
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Other things that we have going on this week:
This evening from 6-7pm we have Cathy's Creativity Club, where we will make "puppets" (not especially difficult puppets, but fun anyways) and then create a story using special dice to help us. Then, depending on how long it takes, we will perform our play in front of the green screen. Should it take longer than anticipated, our green screen will be waiting for us next month too (on August 19). 
If this isn't your cup of tea, tonight we will also have Chess Club tonight from 6-7pm. 

Wednesday we'll be having Movie Morning at 10am. Be ready to eat popcorn and watch the third movie in a series where best friends (who just happen to be a cowboy and a spaceman) take on the world!
Wednesday afternoon at 3pm, if you happen to be between 8-12 you can make Galaxy watercolors that will take you to a place far, far away. (You have to register)

Thursday is CRAZY!
Simply Stories is at 10am: We'll be reading books about colors with Mr Dunning.
We will be HULA HOOPING like crazy at 2:30. This one there is registration since, in case of rain, we will be hula hooping indoors.
Then we end the day with Elephant and Piggie! Our favorite of all time. Elephant and Piggie (from the Mo Willems series) will be visiting us as we tell stories about them.

We will end the week on Friday with our annual Chalkathon at 10am which will happen RAIN OR SHINE!

And teens, we have not forgotten about you. Promise. We will be doing nail art at 3:30pm. We have a million different colors of nail polish, so registration is NOT required! ​

We started the summer off quietly but then added a nice huge BEEP!

Going on a long car ride and don't want to hear "ARE WE THERE YET?" over and over and over? We have everything you could need (besides books of course) ... we have audio books, ebooks, audio ebooks and launchpads, which are tablets with no internet access, but access to a plethora of games on a certain topic.

To see our kids audiobook collection, click here.
To see our teen audiobook collection, click here.
To see our launchpad collection, click here.

To see our kids audio ebook collection, click here.
To see our teen audio ebook collection, click here.
To see our kids ebook collection, click here.
To see our teen ebook collection, click here.

​New to ebooks/ audio ebooks? Come in and let us show you how to put them on your smart phone or tablet. Once they are downloaded you don't need to be on wifi/data so there's no worries there. Also, they come off your phone after 3 weeks (unless you are able to renew it) so that there are no fines!