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SUMMARY:Story Time
DESCRIPTION:Story Time is geared toward preschoolers\, but all ages are welcome to join the fun! Each session runs from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM\, with approximately 15-30 minutes of focused storytime\, where children will enjoy engaging stories\, hand plays\, music\, and occasional new book previews from the library. The remaining time is free choice\, allowing children to explore hands-on learning through play\, crafts\, and social interaction. \nWhether listening to a story\, making a craft\, or engaging in imaginative play\, kids are strengthening the skills they need for future reading success! \nLook for us in the Community Room downstairs\, or\, if the weather is nice\, we may be outside in the backyard. \nPreregistration is appreciated but not required—drop-ins are always welcome! To sign up\, call the library at 802-875-2277 or email Carrie at youthlibrarian@whitinglibrary.org.
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LOCATION:Whiting Library\, 117 Main St.\, CHESTER\, VT\, 05143\, United States
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SUMMARY:Tales to Tails: Read to a Dog!
DESCRIPTION:Come read to a furry friend! 🐶 \nKids are invited to boost their reading confidence by reading aloud to a gentle\, trained therapy dog named Orla. Our Tales to Tails program provides a calm\, playful\, and nonjudgmental space where young readers can practice their skills\, build fluency\, and enjoy the company of a four-legged listener. \nReading to a dog makes learning feel like play—which is essential to literacy development! Through play\, children engage their imagination\, build language skills\, and gain the confidence they need to become lifelong readers. \nPerfect for emerging and reluctant readers—because dogs make the best audience! 📖 \nKathleen Karl\, a registered therapy dog handler and seasoned educator with over 20 years of experience helping children become successful readers\, will be on hand to support young participants. Kids are welcome to bring their own book or choose one from the library. \nWhen: July 2 – August 1📖 Wednesdays from 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM📖 Fridays from 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM \n🐾 Prefer a different time? Appointments are welcome! Contact Carrie to request a time that works for you—we’ll do our best to accommodate your schedule. \n🔖 Reserve your reading time with Orla:Email Carrie King at youthlibrarian@whitinglibrary.org
URL:https://www.whitinglibrary.org/event/tales-to-tails-read-to-a-dog-5/
LOCATION:Whiting Library\, 117 Main St.\, CHESTER\, VT\, 05143\, United States
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SUMMARY:Summer Unplugged - Fuzzy\, Flying\, & Misunderstood: Bats!
DESCRIPTION:Bats often get a bad rap even though they’re incredibly important\, and special\, animals. Several species of these night-flying fuzzy mammals call New England home. Come join us to dispel bat myths and learn more about these misunderstood winged wonders. Explore bat biofacts\, stick around for a bat story\, and join the hunt in a special bat activity! \nThe Nature Museum aims to engage and educate in order to spark a lifelong connection and responsibility to the natural world. Our vision is that we help all people be inspired to explore the wonder\, science\, and beauty of the natural world and to protect the regional and global ecology. \nThanks to the generous support from Great River Hydro\, The Nature Museum is excited to once again bring free environmental education programming to public libraries throughout the Middle Connecticut River Valley and at the Bellows Falls Fish Ladder and Visitor Center during the summer of 2025. \nThese programs aim to be engaging and highlight topics related to the unique ecology and landscape of Northern New England. These programs are geared towards youth ages Pre-K through elementary grades\, but all are welcome! Programs will be approximately 45 minutes long with dedicated time for a story reading and any nature related questions you may have for our expert educators. Library programs will be both outdoors whenever possible and indoors as needed depending on weather and location. Join us to unplug\, discover\, and learn!
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LOCATION:Whiting Library\, 117 Main St.\, CHESTER\, VT\, 05143\, United States
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SUMMARY:Illuminating Hope and Grace in the Face of Hardship with Rex Ogle (5th-8th Grade)
DESCRIPTION:This online event will be 45 minutes in length. Register here: https://libraryc.org/whitinglibrary/upcoming \nYou’re invited to join us online with award-winning author Rex Ogle as he talks to viewers about his struggles to navigate sixth grade as written about in his book Free Lunch. \nInstead of giving him lunch money\, Rex’s mom has signed him up for free meals. As a poor kid in a wealthy school district\, better-off kids crowd impatiently behind him as he tries to explain to the cashier that he’s on the free meal program. The lunch lady is hard of hearing\, so Rex has to shout. \nFree Lunch is the story of Rex’s efforts to navigate his first semester of sixth grade—who to sit with\, not being able to join the football team\, Halloween in a handmade costume\, classmates and a teacher who take one look at him and decide he’s trouble—all while wearing secondhand clothes and being hungry. His mom and her boyfriend are out of work\, and life at home is punctuated by outbursts of violence. Halfway through the semester\, his family is evicted and ends up in government-subsidized housing in view of the school. Rex lingers at the end of last period every day until the buses have left\, so no one will see where he lives. \nUnsparing and realistic\, Free Lunch is a story of hardship threaded with hope and moments of grace. Rex’s voice is compelling and authentic\, and Free Lunch is a true\, timely\, and essential work that illuminates the lived experience of poverty in America. Register now to join the conversation! \nAbout the Author: Rex Ogle is the author of Free Lunch\, winner of the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award; Punching Bag\, a New York Public Library Best Book; Abuela Don’t Forget Me\, finalist for the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award; and Road Home\, which received a Printz Honor and a Stonewall Book Award Honor. He lives in Los Angeles\, California.
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