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Storytime - All Year Round!

Birth through Kindergarten
Stories, finger plays, songs and movement
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Special Programs

Activities and events during days off from school
Annual Summer Reading Program - motivational reading program with a different theme every year
Guest Performers
Read to a Dog Program - the "perfect listener" for your child's reading practice
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Check the newsletter, events calendar, call 508-841-8609 extension 4, or stop by the Children's Room for more details and exact dates and times for all programs.

Online Resources

Scholastic BookFlix is a new online literacy resource that pairs classic video storybooks with related nonfiction eBooks to build a love of reading and learning.

NoveList is a fiction database that provides in depth information on over 135,000 fiction titles.

Get free homework help from Brainfuse's online tutoring service, HelpNow. It also includes a variety of other services like test prep, language learning, writing review, and an online meeting place for students to collaborate on group projects.

Miss Humblebee’s Academy is a fun, interactive, and award-winning, online kindergarten-readiness learning solution for children ages 3 to 6. With hundreds of lessons in Math, Science and Social Studies, Language and Literacy, Art, and Music, the curriculum increases in difficulty as the user progresses through the program.

In Scholastic Go explore non-fiction texts, world newspapers, videos and more with this easy-to-navigate digital resource designed to strengthen content knowledge, vocabulary, and core proficiency skills.

TumbleBooks, a world leader in online children’s book databases, will be making its family of online libraries available for free to all public libraries until at least August 31.

TumbleBooklibrary is a collection of animated talking picture books, read-alongs, ebooks, quizzes, lesson plans, and educational games which is used by thousands of schools and public libraries in over 100 countries across the world.

TumbleMath is the most comprehensive collection of math picture books you will find anywhere. All in the amazing TumbleBook format complete with animation and narration.

The books are accompanied by supplementary materials such as lesson plans and quizzes.

With coronavirus updates changing our communities every day, Scholastic is prepared to help students learn from home. To support the forward movement of education during these challenging times, we want to extend our line of Scholastic resources to support distance learning.

Even when schools are closed, you can keep the learning going with these special cross-curricular journeys. Every day includes four separate learning experiences, each built around a thrilling, meaningful story or video. Kids can do them on their own, with their families, or with their teachers. Just find your grade level and let the learning begin!

Step 1: Click Scholastic Learn at Home link (Open using Browsers: Firefox or Chrome)

Step 2: Scroll down and select grade level that matches

Step 3: Select one of the units available

Step 4: You’ll be automatically transfer to that program where it will prompt you for a username/password

- Username: Learning20, Password: Clifford (case sensitive)

- Once in program, you can explore the Unit

- Access will be available for several weeks

Sebco wants to help bridge the school-home & library-home gap during this challenging time and is therefore offering hundreds of FREE ebooks with no obligation! These are newly released titles which support state curriculum.

If you would like to take advantage of Sebco's offer, simply click on the this link and enter the following credentials:

User Name: keepreading | Password: sebco | ID#: 1