Middleburgh Library Notes for Thursday, April 23, 2020

In-home classroom ideas

Peanuts has educational materials and coloring sheets to keep your kids engaged at home. Free resources can be found at www.peanuts.com.

Memoirs From Quarantine

The Middleburgh Library is collecting contributions in the form of memoirs, creative works, and insights from our community that articulate the challenges faced by our community, and how we are overcoming them, in this unprecedented time.

Residents of all ages are welcome and encouraged to submit work; content should be appropriate for a wide audience. Feel free to share thoughts, poetry, stories, recipes, pictures, or any other printable contribution.

Your stories will be compiled into a journal that will be kept in our local history room for everyone to view. Please send your submissions to or mail to The Middleburgh Library, 323 Main Street, Post Office Box 670, Middleburgh, NY 12122.

Dave Pilkey At Home

Do you love Dog Man and Captain Underpants? Author and illustrator Dave Pilkey is partnering with the Library of Congress to host fun activities that you can do at home! Go online to https://tinyurl.com/sh8vagg.

Learning at home

Stay at Home Story Time with Miss Terry is great for toddlers and preschoolers and their caregivers. Join us on Facebook, Tuesdays at 10:45 a.m.

If you’ve got young ones at home while schools are closed, listen up! We're happy to announce a new resource available to all users:Tumblebooks is providing free access to its collections of talking picture books, read-alongs, lesson plans, and more. No library card is required. Check it out!

Science in a Jar is a super fun way to get those kiddos engaged in easy-to-understand science concepts using a simple mason jar.  One of the most fascinating things about science activities for kids has to be the ease in which you can set so many up, even at home!

The one thing that all of these science experiments have in common is that they can be easily set up in a mason jar. How fun is that?