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Parent & Teacher Web Resources

 

Early Learning

  • Great Kids Connecticut
  • Connecticut Birth to Three System
  • Early Literacy
  • Grow up reading
  • Horn Book:  Resources just for parents
  • Mother Goose Rhymes

 

 

Internet Safety

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  • ALA: Libraries, Children & the Internet

Special Needs

  • CT Parent Advocacy Center
  • SPED*NET: Special Education Network of New Canaan
  • CT Department of Public Health: Children &  Youth with Special Health Care Needs

Schooling for the Gifted

  • Gifted Education Policies in CT
  • CT Association for the Gifted

Home Schooling

  • CT Homeschool Network
  • Homeschooling Laws in CT

For Teachers

  • Assignment Alert: Let the library know about upcoming assignments.
  • CT State Department of Education
  • Discovery Education Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators

Literature

  • Children's Book-A-Day Almanac
  • Best Children's Books
  • Learning About the Author & Illustrator by Kay E. Vandergrift


 


 

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New Canaan Library of the Future

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Upcoming Events

  • May Preschool Sing-along

    Drop-in for songs and rhymes with Diane Wells and her guitar.

    May 21

    10:00am

  • Teen Advisory Board podcast recording session (May 2012)

    May 21st. Talk about what you've been reading, watching, and listening to.

    May 21

    05:00pm

  • PowerPoint 2007 Part II Computer Class

    May 22 at 9:30

    May 22

    09:30am

Latest News

  • Authors on Stage - Nancy Goldstone

    Nancy Goldstone, author of The Maid and the Queen: the Secret History of Joan of Arc, appeared at The New Canaan Library on Monday, April 30, 2012

  • Volunteer Recognition 2012

    Thank you, volunteers!

  • May New Fiction

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