Fine Print -Spring 2001 Volume XII, Number
1
National Library Week
April 1-7, 2001
Kids Connect @ Your Library
Activities @Your Library
In celebration of National Poetry Month, Appleton Public Library
is inviting children ages 5-12 to enter the poetry contest. Prizes
will be awarded to the top entries in two categories - 5-8 and 9-12.
All poems submitted will be displayed on the poet tree in the children's
services. Poems are collected April 1-30 and will be displayed on
the children's web page.
Poet Tree Scavenger Hunt
Are you a good Sherlock Holmes/? Celebrate National Poetry Month
by finding the pockets hidden in the children's services area. The
clues located in the pockets make a sentence. Present the sentence
to a staff member at the children's service desk.
Spark Your Imagination & Your Library
Join the Culver's reading program. Draw a creature, place or thing
that depicts a book read to earn a Culver's prize.
Daily Events @ Your Library
| April 2 |
Monday |
9:30, 6:30 |
Kids connect @storytime |
| Stories, fingerplays, activities set to music
and flannelboard stories designed for families |
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| April 3 |
Tuesday |
9:30, 10:30, 6:30 |
Kids connect @storytime |
| Miss Kathleen reads stories and sings songs in
the morning. Linda DeNell presents in the evening. |
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| April 4 |
Wednesday |
10:00 |
Daycares@ the library |
| Storytime for center and family daycares. Books,
flannelboards, musical fingerplays and videos will be presented
to children and their daycare providers to celebrate the week
of the child |
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| April 5 |
Thursday |
9:30, 10:30,
7 :00 |
Kids connect @storytime
Kids connect @safe surfing |
| Learn about safe surfing and guidelines
for using the Interent recommended by the Appleton Public Library
staff. |
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| April 6 |
Friday |
9:30, 10:30 |
Kids connect @storytime
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| April 7 |
Saturday |
9:30 - 3:00 |
Families connect @ the Library's
2nd annual family fair |
| Pick up information on community agencies'
activities for children and their families. Play games, enter
drawings and win prizes. |
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| 9:30 |
New Parents with very young children connect
@the library presented by Carole DeJardin An opportunity
for parents to become acquainted with books, nursery rhymes,
songs, and other materials that can be used with babies to promote
language development.. Infants welcome with parents
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| 1:30 |
Families connect @ the library with Gerald
Morris, author of The Squire's Tale, The Squire, His Knight
& his Lady and The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf. who will tell
Arthurian stories. A book signing follows the presentation.
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