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Children’s Programs for April

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Drop-in Weekly Children’s Programs (Morning Programs start at 10am)

Music in Motion for Toddlers –Wednesdays, ages 2-5 Move & sing with us!

Story Time & Craft – Thursdays, ages 2-6  A little bit of story, science, craft and play.

Check our all of our children’s programs on our main page happenings!

 

2025 Readers Dozen Challenge

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2025 Reading Challenge!

Our annual year-long reading challenge is here again! Each month, read a book with one of the corresponding monthly key words in the title. Enter your name each month to win a prize, and if you complete all 12 months, you may just take home the grand prize!

Monthly Key Word

Jan – Storm, Time, Know, Return, Break, Hour, Twist, Silence

Feb – Art, Golden, Dream, First, Club, Went, Stay, Live

Mar – Deep, Clever, Sand, Little, Happy, Date, Guest, Over

Apr – Rest, Days, Upstairs, Sing, Shell, Starlight, Life, Couple

May – Lost, City, Wind, Hide, Lie, Fan, Room, Clear

June – Great, Wander, Child, Mine, Book, Watch, Heart, Save

July – Sunrise, Deepen, Story, Sweet, Resort, Good, Left, Ever

Aug – Side, World, Sound, Trial, Word, Hotel, Now, Say

Sept – Borrow, Survive, Listen, Where, Sleeping, Crash, Please, Count

Oct – Bury, Ghost, Chain, Glass, Moon, Last, One, Street

Nov – Tale, Final, Feast, Bloom, Cliff, Wide, Memory, Always

Dec – Fable, Flirt, Truly, Shop, Winter, Yours, Warm, Love

*Audio books count! *Extra Credit! Borrow a book through a JCCL online resource (Hoopla or Palace Project) and have your name entered in that month’s drawing twice!

Step into Spring – All April Long

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The annual contest is here! Call or sign up at the front desk to get your participation number.

Download your favorite walking app and keep track of your steps for the month of April. Report your total steps to the library by May 7th. The JCCL participant that has the most steps will receive a prize. Keep the Stinky Golden Sneaker Trophy in Franklin!

JCCL WiFi Pavilion

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pavilion and butterfly bench photo

The CT State Library and Gov. Ned Lamont created the Everyone Learns Library Grant that was offered to 61 CT libraries and JCCL was one of the lucky to be chosen.

Library staff noticed how many people were sitting in their cars last summer using the WIFI and wanted to create a comfortable space for everyone to use the high-speed internet we had installed.

Other Grant improvements inside the library have been completed. Stop in and check them out!

Visitors can enjoy a reading a book, working on the internet or just enjoy the beautiful gardens this year at the Janet Carlson Calvert Library. A picnic table and completed flooring due this June.

new wifi pavilion

calvertlibrary.org -or- call us at 860-642-6207 for more information