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 Wild Reads @ Your Library
Wild Reads @Your Library, this year's summer reading
adventure, is coming to a library near you. You can sign
up at either library.
Pick up a packet when you sign up to learn more
about:
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Special programs for elementary-aged children on
Wednesday afternoons.
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Our ever-popular guessing jar and trivia contests
(with prizes!), and NEW! beastly brain teasers.
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How to win a prize at the end of the summer,
plus a special t-shirt just for participating.
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How to keep track of your reading online
if you're spending time away this summer.
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This year you'll keep track of the amount of time spent reading in July and August to get your name up on our wall of reading fame-no special lists, no restrictions on what you read. |
Main Library Special Events
Drop-In Baby Lapsit
Storytime
Saturday July 26 and August 9 and 23;
Friday August 1, 15, and 29, 10:30-10:50
am
J Program Room, Ages 0-2 with an adult. No registration required.
Come sing and play with words and rhyme and puppets at baby lapsit time! Parents can network while babies pick up phonemic awareness, one of the foundations for successfully learning to read. Plan to stay and play afterwards with new friends and puppets.
Book Bingo
Saturday August 16, 2:00-3:00 pm; Thursday July 31 and
August 21, 7:00-8:00 pm.
J Craft Room. Grades K-6. No registration required.
Prizes, snacks, and best of all, books! Join us for our ever-popular book bingo and learn about all the fun books the library has to offer.
Movie Matinee:
Short Circuit, Rated PG (some mild thematic elements).
Friday July 25, 2:00 pm
Main Library Costin Room
When a lightning bolt strikes a top-secret
experimental military robot, it comes to life and has to escape its
genius/inventor in order to keep from being "repaired."
Saturday Surprise Stories: Scooby-Doo Mystery Morning
Saturday July 26, 11:15 am-12:00 noon
J Program Room, Entering Grades
K-2.
Help Scooby-Doo solve a mystery by following a trail of clues hidden
throughout the Children's Room!
 NEW! Family Movie Night:
The Adventures of
Robin Hood
Thursday July 17, 7:00-9:00 pm
Costin Room. Ages 8-adult.
To introduce our Family Movie Night—the
best of classic films to be enjoyed by parents and children
together—nothing could be better than the rollicking Adventures of
Robin Hood starring Errol Flynn as "the original superhero." It hits the
mark for family fun!
Saturday Surprise Stories: Grandma, Grandpa, and Me
Saturday July 19, 11:15 am-12:00 noon
J Program Room, Grades K-6.
Share with your grandchildren a tale from your childhood, or read aloud
a story you loved as a child.
Saturday Surprise Stories: Storytime with Music
and Puppets
Saturday August 2, 11:15 am-12:00 noon
J Program Room. Ages 5-8.
Bring your musical and puppeteering skills to this participatory
storytime.
Saturday Surprise
Stories: Stories about Pets
Saturday August 9, 11:15 am-12:00 noon
J Program Room. Ages 5-8.
Listen to a story or two about pets; then share a photograph and/or
interesting tale about your own pet.
Saturday Surprise
Stories: Fractured Fairy Tales and Tall Tales
Saturday August 16, 11:15 am-12:00 noon
J Program Room. Ages 5-8.
Come hear twisted versions of well-known fairy tales with a couple of
tall tales mixed in. Share some tall tales of your own.
Movie Matinee: The Water-Horse: Legend of
the Deep, Rated PG (some action/peril, mild language and
brief smoking).
Friday August 22, 2:00 pm, Costin Room.
A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of
Scottish legend. Based on the book by Dick King-Smith.
Saturday
Surprise Stories: Writing Words for Wordless Stories
Saturday July 12, 11:15 am-12:00 noon
J Program Room, Entering Grades 3-6.
Write and tell the story as you see it in a picture book or graphic
novel without words.
Looking
for Legos®
The Children's Department is looking for Legos® (any size
except Duplos please) in order to run a building project later this
year. Please drop them off at the Children's Desk at the Main Library.
Thank you!
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McAuliffe Branch Special Events
Baby Lapsit
Storytime
Tuesdays, 10:00 am
McAuliffe Branch Children's
Room
0-2 years old with an adult. Drop-in; no registration required.
Come sing and play with words and rhyme and puppets at baby lapsit time! Parents can network while babies pick up phonemic awareness, one of the foundations for successfully learning to read. This
informal program for babies and their parents/caregivers runs about
20 minutes and introduces the pleasures of the library to your baby
or toddler.
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Wild Reads Summer Adventure Events
Wild Reads @
Your Library
Have you signed up for Summer Reading?
Have you earned your special t-shirt?
Don't forget to play our ever-popular guessing jar and trivia
contests (with prizes!) when you stop by the library.
If you're spending time away this summer,
keep
track of your reading online at http://iread.evanced.info/framingham/sr/homepage.asp.
Prizes and t-shirts can be picked up until school begins.
Go for the Stars! Featuring Robo, The Friendly Robot
Wednesday July 9, 2:00-3:00 pm
Costin Room, Main Library, entering Grades 1-6
Robo talks, moves and interacts with you as you learn about the
space program. Some audience members will dress in astronaut flight
suits and perform demonstrations. It's a wild ride into outer space!
Awesome Robb, Magician
Wednesday July 16, 2:00-3:00 pm
Costin Room, Main Library, entering Grades 1-6
Awesome Robb combines slapstick comedy and amazing magic to
entertain everyone! Come by to see some wild and zany magic tricks.
Wolf Talk: Live Wolf Presentation
Wednesday July 23, 2:00-3:00 pm; 3:00-4:00 pm
Costin Room, Main Library, entering Grades 1-6
Preregistration required.
Come out and see real wolves while learning about wolf behavior in
captivity and in the wild, eating habits, pack structure, and more!
Learn about wild life in the library!
The Day the Library Went Wild with Jay Mankita
Wednesday July 30, 2:00-3:00 pm
Costin Room, Main Library, entering Grades 1-6
Take part in a participatory concert of 'Wild' Songs & 'Natural'
Stories for kids and their families. Afterwards there'll be an
outdoor hands-on alternative energy demonstration with Jay's
vegetable oil-powered van.
The Central Massachusetts Repertory Company
Presents
"Dueling Storytellers"
Wednesday August 6, 2:00-3:00 pm
Main Library, Costin Room. Entering Grades 1-6.
Who's the best storyteller: Aesop or the Brothers Grimm? They are
the competitors in "Dueling Storytellers." Come by and cast your vote
while you enjoy some great storytelling!
Ice Cream Social and
Movie Matinee Summer Finale
Wednesday August 13, 2:00-5:00 pm
Main Library, Costin Room. Preschool through Grade 6.
Help us wrap up the end of the Summer Reading Program with some ice
cream and a showing of Madagascar (Rated PG for
mild language, crude humor and some thematic elements). Find out if
some zoo animals from New York can make a go of it in the wilds of
Madagascar and make sure you've picked up your Wild Reads T-shirt
and an end of summer prize if you qualify! Ice cream donated by
Breyers Ice Cream.
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Preschool Storyhours
The summer session ends on August 15. The fall
session will begin October 6 and run through November 17. Sign-up will be
required and will begin on September 15. Registration may be done
by phone or in person.
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McAuliffe Branch,
corner of Nicholas and Water Streets
508-532-5636
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2 to 4 Year Old Storytime
Thursdays 11:00-11:20 am |
Children's programs are funded in part by the
Friends of the Framingham Library
Association.
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