The Dream Big, Build Bigger enrichment course is for second grade students ONLY. This course will last for 8 weeks. The course will be held every Thursday, beginning January 21st ending March 10th, in the Library Media Center. You must commit to ALL 8 weeks. ONLY the first 20 students registered will be accepted. Those 20… Read More Dream Big, Build Bigger
Dear First and Second Grade Students, Have you ever tried playing Chopsticks on the piano? Have you ever tried eating with ChopSticks? What was your first experience with ChopSticks like? According to the Mobile Cuisine Chopsticks , when you use chopsticks, you involve over 30 joints and 50 muscles in the fingers, wrist, arm, shoulder as well as thousands… Read More ChopSticks
Challenge yourself with this game of MatchSticks! The rules of Matchsticks seem very easy, but the puzzles can be much more complicated than you have thought! Your goal in this game is to take away a required number of matches so as to form the required quantity of squares. When the game starts, 9 small… Read More Novel Games: MatchSticks
Convince me why you deserve the last french fry! Should I give it to you? Why or why not? At the end of the month, I will review the entries, and choose one winner from each grade. The winning writing pieces will be recorded and placed on the library website in the form of a podcast with… Read More Convince me…
Hey designers, here is a perfect opportunity to put your creative ideas to great use. Many of you drag your newspapers down the driveway to be recycled. Did you know that newspaper accounts for one-third of the nation’s waste? Why not do something way more interesting! The old newspapers are excellent material for creating a… Read More Newspaper Gift Challenge
An engineer from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey just told me about the website Design Squad Nation! Engineers are the people who design buildings, toys, roads, electronic devices, cars, etc. Engineers figure out the best materials to use and how to turn them into the things we use every day. The Design Squad… Read More Design Squad
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun – Mary Lou Cook Many of us enjoy watching the birds in our backyard that are indigenous to Rockland County. There are so many birds we never have the chance to see! Watch the video below and discover the beauty of birds from… Read More Recycle for the Birds
Hundreds and thousands of kids and adults are helping to solve the mysteries of the Earth and beyond. They are known as citizen scientists. Science is our most reliable system of gaining new knowledge and citizen science is the public involvement in inquiry and discovery of new scientific knowledge. A citizen science project can involve one… Read More Citizen Scientist