Make Your Own Valentines Gnome Craft
Wednesday, Feb 8th from 1PM-5PM
Make a Gnome to take home! All ages welcome! All supplies provided
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Online Activities
Learning Resources – Stories, language, coding
Cultural Institutions – Zoos, Parks, Museums
Books and Storytelling – list from Waseca-LeSeur Library
Crafting – list from Waseca-LeSeur Library
Music – list from Waseca-LeSeur Library
Crochet & Knitters’ Club
Every WEDNESDAY at 1:00pm – Crochet & Knitters’ Club –Bring your projects or problems for help or ideas. Beginners always welcome! Need a project? We’re preparing for our annual “Smittens Fur Mittens” Christmas donation. Try your “hand” at mittens or a scarf!
Children’s Programs for February
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.
Readers Dozen Challenge – YA and Adults
Readers Dozen Challenge! All Year Long!
Take part in our Readers Dozen Challenge! Each month presents a different reading challenge for you to explore and every month you complete enters you in a monthly drawing! Complete all 12 challenges and you will receive a participation prize and placed in a drawing for a $25 Amazon gift card! Stop in to the library for the tracker bookmark or download it HERE.
January: Read a book you bought or were gifted, but haven’t read yet
February: Read a book about food
March: Read a book about sports/hobby
April: Read a book with a cover you hate
May: Read a true crime book
June: Read a book with a beach cover
July: Read a book with a name in the title (Person, Place or Thing)
August: Read a book set at sea
September: Read a best seller from 5-10 years ago
October: Read a ghost story
November: Read a book with a one-word title
December: Read a book made into a movie, then watch the movie
*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!
Readers Dozen Challenge – Kids
Kids Readers Dozen Challenge! All Year Long
Take part in our Readers Dozen Challenge! Each month presents a different reading challenge for you to explore!
1: Complete the month’s reading challenge! 2: Draw a picture of your book, a character, or scene from the story! 3: Bring it to the JCC or school library to be displayed!
Complete all 12 challenges and you will receive a participation prize and placed in a drawing for a $25 Amazon gift card! Stop in to the library for the tracker bookmark or download it HERE.
January: Read a book you bought or were gifted, but haven’t read yet
February: Read a book that won an award
March: Read a book about dinosaurs, fiction or non-fiction
April: Read a book with a cover you hate
May: Read a book about a live animal
June: Read a book about the beach or ocean
July: Read a book with a name in the title (Person, Place or Thing)
August: Read a book about a hobby, craft or food. (Extra credit bring in a sample!)
September: Read a graphic novel
October: Read a ghost story
November: Read a book with a one-word title
December: Read a book made into a movie, then watch the movie
*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!
National Take your Child to the Library Day! Saturday, Feb 4th 10AM-12PM
National Take your Child to the Library Day!
Saturday, Feb 4th 10AM-12PM
Come celebrate Take your Child to the Library Day with us! Create your own tabletop mini-golf course! Try one of the other courses and vote for your favorites. Snacks and Hot Cocoa Bar included!
Novel Tea Book Club – Thursday Feb. 9th @ 6:00PM
Novel Tea Book Club Thursday, Feb 9th @ 6:00PM
This month’s fiction novel is “Take My Hand” by Dolen Perkins-Valdez. Stop by to pick up your copy! Stick around for a Friends of the Library meeting at 7:00PM!
Talk Victorian to Me! Winter Book Club – Tuesday, Feb 14th @ 1:00 PM
Talk Victorian to Me!
Winter Bookclub (January-March)
Tuesday, Feb. 14th @ 1:00 PM
Warm up this winter with our Victorian/Gothic Romance book club! February’s novel will be “The Murder of Mr. Wickham” by Claudia Gray. Tea and Treats provided!
All Things Culinary – Thursday, Feb. 16th @ 6:00 PM
All Things Culinary Club
Thursday, Feb 16th @ 6:00PM
What could be a more fitting food topic for Valentines Day/February than CHOCOLATE! There is no book tied to this months meeting, but we will have a chocolate fountain and hot cocoa bar! Bring your favorite item to dip!
Live Animals! Winter Pequot Program – Tuesday, Feb 21st @ 10:30AM
Live Animals!
Winter Pequot Program
Tuesday, Feb 21st @ 10:30AM
We have some special animals visiting the library! Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center and some of their critters will be onsite to teach us about winter animals and hibernation.
SPECIAL Breakfast Book Club – Wednesday, Feb. 21st @ 6:00 PM
Special Breakfast Book Club & Author Talk
Tuesday, Feb 21st @ 6:00PM
Special meeting of the non-fiction book club! We will join together at Sprague Library to have an author talk with Stephen Kurczy – author of “The Quiet Zone: Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence”. You don’t want to miss this conversation with a local author on a fantastic read!
Upcoming Young Adult Book Club! Sat. March 18th @ 10:00 AM
Upcoming Young Adult Book Club
Sat. March 18th @ 10:00 AM
Heads up! We are hosting a young adult book club discussion on the New York Times best seller “The Grace Year” by Kim Liggett – described as The Hunger Games meets The Handmaids Tale! Stop by the library for a copy or you can listen to the audiobook for free on Hoopla! Can’t join in person? Call the library for the zoom link! Suggested Age of 16+
Amazon Smile Link – Support the JCC Library!
Amazon Smile Link – Support the JCC Library!
Do you shop on Amazon? Do you want to help your local library? There is an easy way to combine both! Do your Amazon Shopping with Amazon Smile! Simply bookmark the link below and online shop as normal – a portion of the profits go directly to the library!
Click HERE to support the JCC Library!
New JCCL WiFi Pavilion
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.
calvertlibrary.org -or- call us at 860-642-6207 for more information