Do you ever need help understanding a new topic your math class is covering? We have a great new tool to support students (and family members who find themselves turned into math teachers this school year). TumbleMath is like our…
Ya llegó el tiempo de elecciones y es la oportunidad perfecta para platicar con los pequeños sobre los derechos del voto y cómo funciona nuestro gobierno. Aquí hay algunos libros que puede compartir con los niños y niñas, todos están…
This blog post discusses sensitive subject matter; reader discretion advised. There are some topics you can’t really find children’s books about. If you want to read about the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, for example, you need a teen or adult book or…
As with so many things this year, Halloween will be a little different. The Illinois Department of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control have published safety guidelines, suggestions for alternative activities and warnings about what not to do this year. Haunted…
Ya llegó el mes de octubre y a muchos les gusta leer libros con criaturas de terror que pueden ser muy divertidos. Ponte en el espíritu de halloween con estos libros nuevos que tenemos en la biblioteca.
“For those that got away, the answer was ‘wherever.’ Initially, some of them went to Antwerp, and then all over. The correct answer was ‘elsewhere,’ because those who stayed and said, ‘we are modern, secular Austrian citizens, many of us…
175 years ago, The Dublin Evening Post reported a serious failure in the potato crop. Potatoes were not a cash crop, but the food eaten by tenant farmers and farmworkers who grew cash crops to pay the rent. The potato…
Tenemos música nueva para niños, y tambien canciones clásicas de La vecindad del Chavo y Cri-Cri. ¡Vuelve a vivir tus recuerdos de la infancia con viejos favoritos de México y comparte esos recuerdos felices con tus hijos!
Do you like making and playing with ooey-gooey slime? Do you want to learn more about slime, including some really cool recipes for slime? Then keep reading! Bubbling Swamp Slime is another recipe from The Slime Book. The most unusual…
If you work with children, you’ve probably come across the terms ACEs, short for Adverse Childhood Experiences. What are ACEs? Here is a definition from the Centers for Disease Control: Adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs, are potentially traumatic events that…