Come join us for a celebration of LGBTQ families with a special storytime featuring Ms. Mindy from Rachel Kohl, Mr. Jason from Middletown, and Mr. Scott from Swarthmore!
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Did you miss our collaborative Pride Storytime? No worries, we recorded it! Check out the recording above to enjoy & celebrate! |
Tails & Tales--Wildlife Education Summer Series
Join us this summer for exciting and informational wildlife education activities and materials that are made possible from a wildlife grant provided by The Community’s Foundation.
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Eyes of the Wild Rescue and Wallaby Tales Events
Join us every Wednesday June 9th – 14th at 7 pm to meet and learn about 5 new animals each week. This program is approximately 45 minutes long and geared toward children 4 and up. Click here to register. Tail & Tales Trivia Sheets
Learn fun and interesting new facts about animals all summer long by playing Tails & Tales trivia! Print out a trivia sheet each week and try to answer the questions using our new collection of eBooks. Answers will be posted every Friday. Trivia sheets are also available at local libraries. Week One Trivia Sheet- use the book The Most Endangered Animals in the World Week Two Trivia Sheet- use the book Animal Athletics Week Three Trivia Sheet- use the book It Glows! Week Four Trivia Sheet- use the book It Transforms! Week Five Trivia Sheet- use the book Penguins are Awesome Week Six Trivia Sheet- use the book Narwhals are Awesome Week Seven Trivia Sheet- use the book Killer Whales Are Awesome Week Eight Trivia Sheet- use the book Seals are Awesome Week Nine Trivia Sheet- use the book Animal Facts or Fibs Week Ten Trivia Sheet- use the book Strangest Animals in the World |
Are You Smarter than a Mammalogist Trivia
This fun-filled, interactive game challenges your mammal knowledge. What can we learn by exploring how other mammals are born and raised? With a focus on early childhood, we uncover fascinating facts, amazing adaptations, and parenting peculiarities. There are over 6,000 mammal species, ranging in shape, size, and habitat. Learn about the diverse ways babies develop (in a womb, pouch, or egg), survive (are they “nest,” “cache,” “follow,” or “carry” mammals?), and how fast or slow the young grow up (newborn blue whales gain 8 pounds per hour!). Come ready to learn, and leave with an appreciation for the diversity in animal adaptations. Dates: Monday, July 19th at 11:00 or Wednesday, July 21st at 7:00. Click here to register. Wildlife Education at StoryWalk
The books This is How I Grow and If My Mom Were a Platypus will be featured at the Rose Tree Park StoryWalk this summer. Dates TBA. Nature Notebook
Pick up a Nature Notebook from your local library to complete some fun nature and wildlife activities in your own backyard. 
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Summer Quest 2021: Tails & Tales
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Join us for Summer Quest 2021! This year’s Summer Quest theme is Tails and Tales! Libraries across Delaware County will be offering fun programs and activities related to animal tales and education, so check our library events calendar as summer gets closer. Beginning on June 1, all Delco Libraries will offer a Tails and Tales on-line reading challenge. Pre-registration will begin May 17th. This year we will be using Beanstack to help you track your progress and earn badges. Beanstack is easy to use and available online and as an app.
What You Can Do
► Register as a family, individual, group, or class
► Track your reading
► Complete reading challenges
► Earn badges, incentives, and prizes
► Write book reviews
► If registered as a family, track the whole family's progress from one account
How to Sign Up
► Programs are available for pre-schoolers, kids, teens, and adults
► Registration begins May 17, 2021. CLICK HERE!
► Download the Beanstack Tracker app Apple App Store Google Play Store
► For instructions on using Beanstack, click here.
► For instructions on using the Beanstack app, click here.
What You Can Do
► Register as a family, individual, group, or class
► Track your reading
► Complete reading challenges
► Earn badges, incentives, and prizes
► Write book reviews
► If registered as a family, track the whole family's progress from one account
How to Sign Up
► Programs are available for pre-schoolers, kids, teens, and adults
► Registration begins May 17, 2021. CLICK HERE!
► Download the Beanstack Tracker app Apple App Store Google Play Store
► For instructions on using Beanstack, click here.
► For instructions on using the Beanstack app, click here.
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MFL's 2021 Summer Quest Kick-Off
All Ages! [Sensory-Friendly/Autism-Friendly]
Register by CLICKING HERE! Flap your wings, jump up and down like five little monkeys jumping on the bed and roar like a polar bear! This performance celebrates famous children's stories and songs about animals including a few written by adults on the autism spectrum! The show will also celebrate biodiversity - the more wild our planet is the healthier it is! Kids will dance, sing, laugh, use their imaginations and connect with new friends. The show is crafted to be inclusive for all children, including children on the Autism Spectrum, and a great time for parents and caregivers! Each song in the show is accompanied by hands-on, visual, and sensory experiences designed to help kids learn and have fun at the same time. Registration is required to receive the Zoom link 1 hour before showtime! |
Books on Blankets
Outdoor Story Times w/ Mr. Jason at Sleighton Park
Mr. Jason will be outside for safe & socially distant story times! Registration is mandatory so we can keep the numbers low. Families must provide their own blankets to sit on and will maintain a 6-ft distance from others. Masks are required for those unvaccinated ages 2+.
Mr. Jason will read a couple books and engage the kids in a couple songs, then offer a brown bag with crayons, stickers, and an activity sheet to do at the park or elsewhere on their own!
20 spots are available each story time (i.e. 20 families, NOT individuals).
Sleighton Park is located at: 277-299 Forge Rd, Media, PA 19063
Click on the date(s) you'd like to register for!
Mr. Jason will read a couple books and engage the kids in a couple songs, then offer a brown bag with crayons, stickers, and an activity sheet to do at the park or elsewhere on their own!
20 spots are available each story time (i.e. 20 families, NOT individuals).
Sleighton Park is located at: 277-299 Forge Rd, Media, PA 19063
Click on the date(s) you'd like to register for!
GSK Science in the Summer
Virtual from home for EVERYONE!
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The GSK Science in the Summer™ Be an Engineer program is being offered virtually in Delaware County this summer. Through online videos and at-home experiments, children take on the roles of different engineers to solve real-world problems. Children then join virtual research team meetings with Franklin Institute scientists and educators to share their results. Be an Engineer is designed for children ages 7-13, and we invite your whole family to explore together at home!
Important Dates: June 14 – July 11: Families do at-home Be an Engineer activities using the activity guides, videos, and materials! July 12 – August 6: Participate in one or more live virtual team meetings with Franklin Institute scientists and educators. Visit each engineer’s page for dates and times of team meetings and to sign up! Visit www.scienceinthesummer.com for more information. |
Great news! Our annual Journey Across Delco (JAD) begins on June 1st! Each year our 28 spectacular libraries come together to promote learning by highlighting a fun activity and fact related to the Summer Quest theme. This year is no different, as our libraries will each be featuring an animal to promote this year’s Summer Quest theme of Tails and Tales. There are three ways to complete the program for this year.
To complete the JAD program, first download the game sheet here and instructions here or pick up a copy at any local library. Fill out your information on the bottom of the sheet and begin your journey by visiting libraries, completing badges in Beanstack, or visiting StoryWalk at Rose Tree Park – or a combination of all three (see below for a description of each)! Once you’ve completed your game sheet and figure out the mystery saying, return it to any local library to be entered into our Journey Across Delco raffle.
Ways to Play:
1. Visiting Libraries: With your game sheet in hand, visit our libraries where you will find a JAD poster highlighting the library’s animal with two fun facts and an activity. On the back of your game sheet, write the library’s full name on the number line that corresponds to the animal picture on the front of your game sheet. Can’t visit all 28 libraries in person, then try below.
2. Inside Tails & Tales Reading Challenge: With your game sheet in hand, sign up to participate in our Beanstack Tales & Tails reading challenge at http://www.delcolibraries.org/Reading-Challenge. As part of the challenge you can complete activity badges, one for each library animal (as well as log books, complete reviews and win prizes). As you complete badges, write the library’s full name on the number line that corresponds to the animal picture on the front of your game sheet (hint: the badge name will include the library as well as the badge description).
3. Visiting Storywalk: With your game sheet in hand, visit the StoryWalk in Rose Tree Park. Read the story. At each post complete the small activity cards sponsored by each of our libraries. On the back of your game sheet, write the library’s full name on the number line that corresponds to the animal picture on the front of your game sheet.
The Journey Across Delco game sheets will be accepted at local libraries until August 15th. Winners of the raffle will be contacted by e-mail and prizes will be sent to their local libraries for pick-up.
To complete the JAD program, first download the game sheet here and instructions here or pick up a copy at any local library. Fill out your information on the bottom of the sheet and begin your journey by visiting libraries, completing badges in Beanstack, or visiting StoryWalk at Rose Tree Park – or a combination of all three (see below for a description of each)! Once you’ve completed your game sheet and figure out the mystery saying, return it to any local library to be entered into our Journey Across Delco raffle.
Ways to Play:
1. Visiting Libraries: With your game sheet in hand, visit our libraries where you will find a JAD poster highlighting the library’s animal with two fun facts and an activity. On the back of your game sheet, write the library’s full name on the number line that corresponds to the animal picture on the front of your game sheet. Can’t visit all 28 libraries in person, then try below.
2. Inside Tails & Tales Reading Challenge: With your game sheet in hand, sign up to participate in our Beanstack Tales & Tails reading challenge at http://www.delcolibraries.org/Reading-Challenge. As part of the challenge you can complete activity badges, one for each library animal (as well as log books, complete reviews and win prizes). As you complete badges, write the library’s full name on the number line that corresponds to the animal picture on the front of your game sheet (hint: the badge name will include the library as well as the badge description).
3. Visiting Storywalk: With your game sheet in hand, visit the StoryWalk in Rose Tree Park. Read the story. At each post complete the small activity cards sponsored by each of our libraries. On the back of your game sheet, write the library’s full name on the number line that corresponds to the animal picture on the front of your game sheet.
The Journey Across Delco game sheets will be accepted at local libraries until August 15th. Winners of the raffle will be contacted by e-mail and prizes will be sent to their local libraries for pick-up.
Bedtime Math's Summer of Numbers!The final day the current library location is open to the public is June 18. Stop in by then to pick up one of these sheets for your kids to do math problems at home. (Or download the file below and print it!)
Visit www.bedtimemath.org or download the app and for each daily math problem they complete, color in a star or put a sticker over the star. Return the completed sheet to the library's NEW location in August and win a prize! New location address: 464 S. Old Middletown Rd Estimated opening date: Early August 2021 |
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Rube Goldberg Kits
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Mr. Jason has put together kits of pegboards and a box of various supplies in order for you & your family to create your own Rube Goldberg machines at home. Only the following supplies have to be returned to us: pegboards (2), connecting nut & bolt, plastic bin, roll of masking tape (if there's any left), machine screws (15), metal hooks (10), and a mini screwdriver. Feel free to use any supplies at home and make a video of your machine in action! Email it to Mr. Jason (micsd@delcolibraries.org) to be featured here on our website!
Kits can be checked out for 3 weeks. You can reserve a kit (like a book) through our catalog. Search for "Rube Goldberg Kit." Kits can only be checked out and returned at the Middletown Free Library. Included in the box is a sheet with helpful links to examples, lesson plans, challenges, etc.
Kits can be checked out for 3 weeks. You can reserve a kit (like a book) through our catalog. Search for "Rube Goldberg Kit." Kits can only be checked out and returned at the Middletown Free Library. Included in the box is a sheet with helpful links to examples, lesson plans, challenges, etc.
Mr. Jason's & fellow Delco Librarians' Digital Story Times (while COVID-19 restricts our services):
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Mr. Jason's Origami Lessons & other Arts & Crafts Tutorials
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We offer a wide selection of materials and programs for children of all ages!
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