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Wild Reads Special Events

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:

Special programs for elementary-aged children on Wednesday afternoons.

Our ever-popular guessing jar and trivia contests (with prizes!), and NEW! beastly brain teasers.

How to win a prize at the end of the summer, plus a special t-shirt just for participating.

How to keep track of your reading online if you're spending time away this summer. 

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.

Main Library, 49 Lexington Street
508-532-5570 x4336

2 to 3 1/2 Year Old Storycraft
Mondays 10:00-10:30 am
Wednesdays 10:00-10:30 am
3 1/2 to 5 Year Old Storycraft
Thursdays 10:00-10:45 am
Saturday Surprise Stories
Saturdays 10:30-11:00 am
Ages to be announced. No registration required.
See Kids Page Events for details.
Cuentos y manualidades en español para niños 3-6 años
Martes 3:30-4:15 pm.

McAuliffe Branch, corner of Nicholas and Water Streets
508-
532-5636

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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