April is Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Month -- Please report any animal cruelty to your local animal welfare department, law enforcement or local humane society.
April showers will bring more than just May flowers. April 3rd is National Find a Rainbow Day. Rainbows are caused by the reflection, refraction, and dispersion of light in water, resulting in a visual spectrum of light appearing in the sky. You don’t have to go chasing rainbows on this day, like Kermit the Frog said, “Rainbows are visions, they’re only illusions, and rainbows have nothing to hide.” Visit the library with your friends and make your own rainbow that you can view anytime you want. Here’s what you will need: a circle out of card stock or light cardboard, paper, embroidery floss (about 7 colors), glue, and scissors. For a more visual tutorial look up Jellyfish Friendship Bracelets.
April is National Poetry Month, 30 days of celebrating the joy, expressiveness, and pure delight of poetry! What is blackout poetry you ask? Blackout poetry is when you take a written piece of text from a book, newspaper, or magazine and redact words, to come up with your very own poetry. You can make it into cool picture designs too. Don’t worry we won’t make you read your poem out loud unless you want to. Brownie points if you do! If you want to do this at home grab some old newspapers, magazines, or books (ask your guardian first before using old books) then grab a black marker or color of your choice and blackout the words you don’t want to use in your poem and that’s it.
Happy Golfer’s Day, celebrate by playing with your friends and spreading the joy of the game. Fun Fact: According to Facts.net, golf was the first sport played on the moon. Apollo 14 commander and golfer Alan Shepard decided to leave a lasting mark before leaving the Moon. Shepard swung at two golf balls on the moon, one of which he claimed went on for miles, and eventually landed in a crater called the “Javelin.”
In the month of April we celebrate Golfer’s Day. We wanted to extend that fun to our awesome 6th-12th Graders. Bring a friend, build a golf course using jumbo Legos, and see if you and your friends can get through the course!
Reading is “tie”d to the library! Visit the library dressed in your multi-colored coolness!
Can you figure out which wacky fact goes with which librarian? For extra fun take a Book Face picture and share it with us on Facebook!
Thank a Librarian! Send your favorite librarians a note or an email telling them how much you appreciate them.
It’s National Library Week! To celebrate the library has put together a breakout box. You and your friends must work together to figure out clues about the library to gain entrance to each box level.