Join us for an afternoon virtual game break every Wednesday at 4. We will be playing Drawasaurus in a private game room. Drawasaurus is a draw-and-guess style game. This is a browser-based game so no downloads or accounts needed! For grades 3-5. RSVP for Game Break! Link to join our private game room will be
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Join a Zoom meeting with Librarians Cathy Townsend and Audrey Heneage for book recommendations that make perfect read-alouds for the whole family. We'll be choosing from titles available through our digital resources and will tailor our suggestions to your family! Please register to receive the Zoom meeting ID.
Join us for a live storytime with Miss Cathy & Miss Marie! We'll be hosting a Zoom storytime with all your friends & neighbors. Bring a scarf & something to shake to help make it lots of fun. Stay online afterward to chat with your friends! Register here for the Zoom meeting ID.
Go to Week 1 Submission Gallery For this week’s family art challenge, go outside and look closely. What can you find that is colorful? Unusual? What can you find lots of? What can you find only one of? Gather those things and use them to make art! Arrange them in a pattern, shape or anything
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Join a Zoom meeting with Librarians Miss Marie and Ms. Cheryl for book recommendations for your young readers and tips for navigating our digital collection. We’ll be choosing from titles available through our digital resources and will tailor our suggestions to your children! Register here to receive the Zoom meeting ID.
Join us for an afternoon virtual game break every Wednesday at 4. We will be playing Drawasaurus in a private game room. Drawasaurus is a draw-and-guess style game. This is a browser-based game so no downloads or accounts needed! For grades 3-5. RSVP for Game Break! Link to join our private game room will be
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By member request, this month we are reading From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg! Join Librarians Cathy Townsend and Kathleen Crouse in a Zoom meeting to discuss the book and chat with your friends! Register online HERE to receive the Zoom invitation or email ctownsend@newcanaanlibrary.org.
Robert & his trusty guitar bring lots of songs & dances into your home! Join him for a mini-concert and maybe see some friends too! Register here for Zoom meeting ID.
We are all using the internet and social media so much more now. To help guide parents through these unprecedented circumstances, New Canaan CARES and New Canaan Library are offering a follow-up to the CARES/Saxe PTC February presentation by award-winning author and educator Diana Graber, Raising Humans in a Digital World. Ms. Graber will advise
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Join us for a live storytime with Miss Cathy & Miss Marie! We’ll be hosting a Zoom storytime with all your friends & neighbors. Bring a scarf & something to shake to help make it lots of fun. Stay online afterward to chat with your friends! Register here for the Zoom meeting ID.
Take time this week to try this meditative art technique. Find a piece of paper and anything you can draw with and make a zentangle handprint as unique as you are. First, trace your hand onto the sheet of paper. Next, divide your handprint into sections. In each section, create a different pattern. There’s no
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Cristina Young, LCSW will join us via Zoom videoconference to offer what she calls "Endurance Parenting Tips" for this unique and uncertain time at home. She will address the importance of good self care since this quarantine will require sustainability out of all of us. Cristina will provide concrete strategies that parents can put into
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The Young Critics are reading We're Not From Here by Geoff Rodkey this month. Join Librarian Cathy Townsend in a Zoom meeting to discuss the book and chat with your friends! Email ctownsend@newcanaanlibrary.org to receive the Zoom invitation.
