As all Austen readers know, her characters are champion walkers. Whatever the novel, the heroine will at some point go on a good, long walk. Persuasion is no exception as all the younger folk at Uppercross head over the hills to stretch their legs. We’re going to take the outing a bit further and take the major journeys of the novel on foot as well. You can decide how much you’re willing to take on and which direction you’d like to go. Feel like some time by the sea? It’s 17 miles to Lyme Regis. Spend your month there if you’d like. Do you prefer the society of Bath? That’s a little longer journey at 47 miles. Enjoy the concerts and parties! If you’re really just wanting to walk and then walk some more, you could walk to Lyme Regis and from there to Bath for a total of 77 miles. Don’t worry, you can send for a carriage at any time.
It doesn’t matter which destination you select. Anyone turning their log in before noon on Monday, February 22, will be entered into a drawing for a volume containing all of Jane Austen’s works.
Drive by or walk by the library starting Saturday, December 5th to take a look at our Christmas window displays! Use our search and find list here. You can also vote for your favorite window and we’ll announce the winner at the end of the month.
It’s a Mele Kalikimaka Christmas Extravaganza!
Drive up and meet Santa at the Library’s curbside check-out on December 9th any time between 1-7 PM! He will give you a sweet treat and a fun activity to do at home. And, if you have have been good, you can hand your letter to Santa right here at the Library!!
If you can’t come on the 9th, additional Extravaganza kits will be available at curbside thru December 23 while supplies last.
Come see our sidewalk obstacle course outside the library from September 19 – October 3.
In preparation for our Wings of Fire book club discussion next month, we’ve hidden dragon eggs around Rexburg! Travel to each of the locations shown in the Google form below and search out the hidden eggs.
Once you find an egg, take a photo with it before putting it back where you found it for the next group. Email your photos to gina.m@madisonlib.org.
Don’t forget the Walk through Middle Earth ends soon! September 7 is the last day to record mileage. You can turn in your log between September 8-11 to get your awards and be entered into our drawing for an embossed leather dragon journal!
In our storytime trip around the world, Cody is lost in the city!
Or is he? Can you help us find him? Make sure you fill out your passport and come along to the city. What will you find in the city? Find out in the following books and activities below.
Parent tip: when watching a read-aloud video with your children, try muting the volume and reading the story with your child.
For the last few weeks in online storytime, we visited four different biomes around the world. Today is the final location we will visit. We have included a link to print off a passport so the children can keep a record of all the places we visited.
Helping children hear the smaller sounds in words, the syllables, by clapping them out is one way to develop the phonological awareness. Children can hear syllables more easily than each individual sound in words.
Play this model and mock game with your child’s name or with a word that might be new to them or a challenge to say.
1) Super duper 1, 2, 3. Can you say this word with me?
2) Super duper 1, 2, 3. Can you clap this word with me?
3) Super duper 1, 2, 3. Can you snap this word with me?
4) Super duper 1, 2, 3. Can you tap this word with me?
5) Now let’s say it!
The big city sure is a speedy, noisy place for a country truck like Blue. With everyone pushing to be first, soon there’s a giant traffic jam! But even a wrangle-tangle is no match for Little Blue Truck, who comes to the rescue in true Blue style.
This bus is in trouble―it won’t be going through the town without a good mechanic! Can everyone work together to get the bus moving again?
Come along for the ride as a little girl and her mother hop on the subway. From spinning turnstiles and musicians performing on the platforms to people hopping off and on and lights flashing past in the tunnels, the sights and sounds of the subway have an energy all their own.
Amid the hustle and bustle of the big city, the big crowds, and bigger buildings, Little Elliot, the polka-dotted elephant, leads a quiet life. In spite of the challenges he faces, Elliot finds many wonderful things to enjoy―like his friend Mouse.
Find it in our Catalog
Driving round in my little red car
Driving round in my little red car
Driving round in my little red car
Zoom zoom zoom zoom zoom!
-https://storytimekatie.com/2014/04/24/cities/
London Bridge is falling down
Falling down, falling down
London Bridge is falling down
My fair lady
Build it up with silver and gold
Silver and gold, silver and gold
Build it up with silver and gold
My fair lady
– Traditional
One little house all alone it stood
Then another was built
There grows the neighborhood.
Two little houses…
Three little houses…
Four little houses…
Five little houses
All together they stood
On a beautiful street in a happy neighborhood.
-Jbrary.com
A hip, a hip, a hippopotamus
Got on, got on, got on a city bus
And all, and all, and all the people said,
“You’re squishing us!” (hug baby)
A sheep, a sheep, a sheep got on a city bus
and all, and all, and all the people said,
“Baaaack up!”
A cow, a cow, a cow got on a bus
And all, and all, and all the people said,
“Mooooove over!”
– Jlibrary.com
– Kiddiestv
Oh the city is great and the city is grand
There’s a whole lot of people
on a little piece of land
And we live way up on the 57th floor
and this is what we do when we go out the door.
We take the elevator up and the elevator down,
take the elevator up, take the elevator down
Take the elevator up and the elevator down
and we turn around.
– Jbrary
Print out this Times Square coloring page or color online.
