Invite children and teens to create a travel brochure to share information about a special place with others.
Design a Travel Brochure
Creating Comics and Cartoons!
Using published comics and cartoons as examples, children can create their own while playing with images and language.
Mail Time!
Sort through your junk mail and talk about what you find for a fun literacy activity before recycling it!
Creating Family Timelines
Children can interview family members and make an illustrated timeline of the most important family events and memories.
Exploring the Library
Plan a visit to a library to discover more about this magical place.
Let's Play a Game
Playing board games or card games can be a fun activity, so why not make your own?
Fairy Tales and You
Children will draw on their knowledge of story structure and fairy tales to write their own.
Reading Signs and Labels
These activities will have children reading signs, logos, brand names, and other words all over their home and community.
Let's Play Bingo!
Work together, create a bingo board that can be played while walking around town, going to the zoo or a museum, or traveling on a vacation.
Let's Go on a Reading Hunt!
In this activity, children go on a hunt for places where they can read and enjoy books: on a family road trip, at the pool, at the doctor's office.
Note Writing at a Message Center
In this activity, children write short everyday notes, to remind, plan, request, or compliment others.
Today is the International Day of Peace.
Students brainstorm a list of current conflicts and why people fight. Groups discuss and present possible solutions and create posters that promote their particular solution.
Library Card Sign-up Month begins today.
A school or public library librarian is invited to visit the classroom to talk to the students about the advantages of having a library card. Students then take a library tour to acquaint them with the general features and resources available.
The tropical storm that became Katrina formed over the Bahamas in 2005.
As a class, students explore weather-related and other natural disasters that their geographical area is prone to and review emergency preparedness and procedures.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963.
Students explore the "I Have a Dream" Foundation's website and brainstorm ways they can help themselves or others at their school achieve their educational dreams.
The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave women the right to vote in 1920.
A representative from the local chapter of the League of Women Voters is invited to talk to students about voting rights and what they can do to be active in politics.
Gary Soto, poet and children's writer, was born on this date in 1952.
Using one of Soto's stories, students take part in share stories about their families, describe their street/neighborhood, or compose an acrostic poem using the Acrostic Poems interactive tool.
Let's Go On A Poetry Walk!
The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and you're surrounded by brilliant shades of green! Observe and collect sensory images from nature and use the sights, sounds, smells, and textures to create original nature poetry.
Go Wild with Webcams!
Can't make it to a zoo? After reading a book about apes, observe animal habits and habitats using one of the many Webcams broadcasting from zoos and aquariums around the United States and the world.
TeenTober?!? Learn about this month-long celebration.
TeenTober is a nationwide celebration hosted by libraries every October and aims to celebrate teens, promote year-round teen services and the innovative ways teen services helps teens learn new skills, and fuel their passions in and outside the library.