Apr 15, 2019 | Librarian's blog, WL Foundation
Every Sunday in the front of the magazine published by and delivered as part of The New York Times an essay is printed that generally has to do with popular culture. This past Sunday, Sam Anderson wrote a piece with the title “Bird’s Eye” and it...
Apr 15, 2019 | Librarian's blog, WL Foundation
During our Saturday afternoon Curiosity Club for tweens, they learned “Screen-printing w/ Wax Paper”. They used freezer paper, stencils and do-it-yourself cut-out paper as a screen-printing stencil vehicle on fabric using fabric paint. Tweens meet at 2 p.m. every...
Apr 8, 2019 | Librarian's blog, WL Foundation
On Saturday, April 6, the subject for our Curiosity Club was “All Things Spring and Science.” During this session, tweens dissected seeds and flowers, made seed bombs, discussed insect life cycles and created butterflies, mixed up some gooey frog spawn slime and made...
Apr 5, 2019 | Librarian's blog, WL Foundation
A new study has been published and the results appeared recently in The New York Times about parents reading to their kids. Basically, the study affirmed the fact that when an adult/parent has a child in his or her lap and together they read a book, the child receives...
Mar 31, 2019 | Librarian's blog, WL Foundation
During Saturday’s Curiosity Club, tweens learned to create a 3x3x3 puzzle cube from scratch. Using engineering principles, they created a 2D sketch of their puzzle cube. Using cube blocks and glue, tweens assembled their cube. While those dried, they created a...
