Preschool Pajama Storytime

This month Mrs. Amera read, If you give a Pig a Party by Laura Numeroff and Good night, Harry by Kim Lewis. Later children chose a book to share pictures with Tweety! This program is geared toward children ages 3 - 5 and takes place in the evening between 7 - 7:30pm. Children are welcome to bring a stuffed animal and attend in their favorite pajamas. Our next program will be on Thursday, October 20. REGISTRATION is on Thursday, October 6!

ENTER THE CONTEST

October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and the Woodbridge Township Domestic Violence Response Team is sponsoring an art contest.

Enter for a chance to win a $50.00 Barnes & Noble gift card.

RULES:

Grades 1 - 6 will draw a picture portraying bullying or true friendship.

Grades 7 & 8 will draw representations of a dating relationship- good or bad.

All pictures must be on 8 1/2" x 11"paper. They can be made using any medium- pencil, pen, markers, paint, crayon, etc. The drawing must have the child's name, age, parent's signature, and phone # on the back. No entry will be considered without this information. Submit entries to Woodbridge DVRT 1 Main st. Woodbridge, NJ 07095, drop them off at Main, Fords, Iselin, Henry Inman libraries, or drop them off at the Woodbridge Community Center.

All entries will be displayed at the Barron Arts Center from 10/26 - Nov. 7th.

DEADLINE: Sunday, October 16, 2011 at 5pm

Need more information? Call 732- 634-4500 Ext. 2802

Book Club

This month at the Iselin Branch Library we started a BOOK CLUB! Our club takes place once a month, on a Friday from 3:30 - 4:30pm. There is no registration for this program. Children between grades 3 - 7 are welcome to join the fun!

Each month Mrs. Amera will choose an author of the month. Then we might talk about the author, the author's books/ illustrations, the style the author wrote in, genre, etc. Together we might make cards for the author/illustrator, we might draw/write about one of our favorite books/series for our display, you might meet new people, and if your lucky you might check out one of our NEW books! Everyone gets a chance to share their opinion and share their favorite or not so favorite book/author/series/etc.

Our September author of the month is Jon Scieszka. If you're in the mood to laugh, read or re-read some of your favorite stories.

If you missed this month's program stop in next month between 3:30 - 4:30pm on Friday, October 7th!

Library Card Sign-Up Month

This month take a chance at winning a $10 Barnes and Noble gift card! All you have to do is stop by your local library, check out some children books, and take a guess at how many library cards are in the jar. The closest guess without going over will be our Winner! Only the kids of Woodbridge Township can enter this contest.

Summer Reading Club Fair

Games, Crafts, Snacks, Balloons, & Prizes! All the ingredients that are required to have FUN were at our One World, Many Stories Summer Reading Club Fair!

Thank you to all our volunteer for helping us through another successful Summer Reading Club!

Don't forget to spend all your Book Bucks on or before August 31st!

Look for more pictures on our facebook page!

Act-Out Strega Nona

This summer children in grades K - 3 shared in a special creative drama experience with Joey from Youth Stages, LLC workshop. "Creative drama takes children's natural world, creative play, and develops it further, using theatre techniques, to create learning experiences which are for the participants." During this program children participated in a welcoming name game led by Joey, listened to Strega Nona by Tomi DePaola, then performed the story for their parents.

Later that week Joey came back and led another special program, Theater Games, for children in grades 4 - 7. This program followed a similar format, but in addition to the welcoming name game, he demonstrated physical, vocal, and imagination warm-ups while introducing acting terms and techniques.

A special thank you to the Friends of the Woodbridge Public Libraries for sponsoring this wonderful program.

LOOK what I learned from a BOOK!

On August 8th, after Mrs. Amera's Balloon Sculpting program, Brianna checked out The Ultimate Balloon Book. Less than a week later, she generously shared this photo with us.

Can you tell what she made?

Great Job! Can't wait to see what else you'll learn from our wonderful selection of books! (face painting, cooking, crafts, magic tricks, etc.)