Mattituck-Laurel Library Youth and Parenting Department

As we find ourselves in this new normal sometimes we want to get in our cars and drive around our town and look for BEARS! Do you want to go on a Bear hunt?  The library wants you to know we are participating and a bear sat on a bench to read a book. Place a picture of a bear on your door, in your window or someplace where people can find the bear when they go on a bear hunt. Good luck on your hunt!!

4/14/20 Get Visual Virtually.  Share with us your creative take on our weekly theme. Draw, color, build; we love any medium! Email us your work at childrens.programming@mattlibrary.org Your awesome creations that you email us will be posted on Facebook! All ages are welcome to participate. This week the theme is Community Hereos Let's showcase your designs here since we cannot place them in our glass showcase!

4/14/20 Learn to draw with another author.  This link features Jarrett J. Krosoczka Draw Every Day! Daily art lessons from author/illustrator Jarrett J. Krosoczka—author of Punk Farm, Lunch Lady, Jedi Academy, and the young adult graphic memoir Hey, Kiddo, which was a National Book Award Finalist.

We hope you are enjoying the stories while you are home.  Each week we feature stories to share on the Facebook page.  If you happened to miss them, we will provide the date of post and book read here. 4/13/20  We shared the book Full of Beans by Jennifer Holm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfBU4lyR6A0&t=6s This wonderful novel takes place during the Great Depression.  You meet Beans Curry and follow him through his attempts to earn money for his family, learn to accept responsibility for his actions and how Key West was turned into a tourist town.  Each of the characters are well developed.  I suggest this is a read for a 4th grader and older.

We hope you are enjoying the stories while you are home.  Each week we feature stories to share on the Facebook page.  If you happened to miss them, we will provide the date of post and book read here. 4/13/20  We shared the book The Odd Egg by Emily Gravett https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kji8rob1DXY&t=20s Are you surprised at what hatched from Duck's egg?  This story examines animals and their egg  size   as well as learning to be patient.  After watching  talk about the different animals and their respective size and then look at the size of the egg.    Ask about how surprised they were when duck's egg finally hatched.

Do you think you know all here is about Harry Potter? Head over to our library Facebook page and try your knowledge.  Here is the best part, you can learn and take it again. We will feature different literature based quizzes. Have fun!

4/10/20 Check out our Facebook for this fun time!   Video will air on 4/14/20 and remain on our stream. Taken from the site: Even Elmo is on Zoom ! On April 14, everyone’s favorite fuzzy red muppet is inviting viewers to join him for Sesame Street: Elmo’s Playdate, which is a half-hour special featuring celebs like Lin-Manuel Miranda, Anne Hathaway and Tracee Ellis Ross as part of Sesame Street ‘s new Caring for Each Other initiative. The “virtual play date” special follows Elmo and his Sesame Street pals as they find new ways to learn together online and discover fun things to do at home with their families — plus, they’ll celebrate today’s heroes like EMTs and doctors. The s...

4/10/20 Join Chef Rob and watch how to make these delicious surprise cupcakes. Ingredients needed: Cupcakes Buttercream frosting - white Food color - suggested red, blue and yellow for spring colors Peeps in different colors Candy to fill cupcake:  M & M, Skittles, Jelly Beans, a small chocolate - your choice Plastic gloves Paper plates Plastic fork, spoon and knife With the help of an adult, children will love to create these surprise cupcakes.  Easy and fun.

Located on the Library Facebook are some wonderful science based videos for you. 4/15/20  Join Miss Michelle from Skoblicki Science and learn all about turtles in this interactive video. https://youtu.be/1otwa0wqIe0 4/9/20  Join Miss Michelle and learn all about bunnies in the Bouncing Bunnies program with Skoblicki Scientists https://youtu.be/Fs8pHQ0iMi0 Join Miss Michelle and learn all about these wonderful animals.  See live bunnies at the end of the program.

We hope you are enjoying the stories while you are home.  Each week we feature stories to share on the Facebook page.  If you happened to miss them, we will provide the date of post and book read here. 4/6/20   We shared the book Grumpy Bird by Jeremy Tankard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w8BCBkO6n0&t=24s Did someone every try to make you smile while you were feeling grumpy?  That is exactly what bird's friends do.  After listening you will learn that it is so much fun to be happy.

We hope you are enjoying the stories while you are home.  Each week we feature stories to share on the Facebook page.  If you happened to miss them, we will provide the date of post and book read here. 4/3/20  We shared the book Will you be my Friend ? by Nancy Tafuri   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w8BCBkO6n0&t=24s This is a wonderful story about friendship and helping each other.  We chose this book to start our virtual stories because we are all staying in our homes and helping each other to stay safe and healthy.  After watching this story have that safe converstaion about how our homes keep us safe, and how we help each other.

Hello, All of us at the Mattituck-Laurel Library miss you.  We know you are staying home and safe and doing some wonderful things during this time.   We hope you are able to see what we are offering on our Facebook page and the library website. We have story times with Mrs. L.  If there is a book you would like us to read, contact us and if we can, we will read it.  Our email address is childrensprogramming@mattlibrary.org  We must follow the guidelines of publishers who allow us to read their work.  Not every publisher is included, however, send us your suggestions and if possible, they will be read. We know you are doing incredible things at home and want to showcase your work.  We are starting with an idea - Visual Virtual.  We know how hard you work on Lego designs and love to see them on display in our case.  However, since we all must stay home, build your designs and send us a picture to this email:  childrensprogramming@mat...