Legos at the Library

Tuesday was a great time for anyone 12 or under here at the library (and actually, some of the adults had fun too)!  Everyone was allowed to come in and make whatever they wanted with the thousands of Legos we had available.  No time limit, no pressure.  So come in and view the amazing creations in our display case (until Monday, August 29)!

We will be hosting another Lego Day just for teens

Tuesday, August 30 at 1:00 p.m.

Come relive your childhood!

Newbery Challenge

Every year the Macedon Public Library challenges their summer readers to read 6 Newbery winner or honor books, thus the "Newbery Challenge"  This year we made it a little harder, by requiring them to read one non-fiction Newbery book, and 3 books published during certain years, as well as 2 Newberys of their choice.  We are proud to announce that this year 13 readers completed the challenge, ranging in age from 6 to 16!
We celebrate this accomplishment with a pizza party sponsored by the Reliant Community Credit Union, were we talk about the books we loved, and the ones we didn't.  The readers also receive a new book to bring home, and other prizes.

Congratulations, and we look forward to seeing you all back next year!

One World, Many Stories - Week 6

So, we finished our last week of summer story times with a blast.  Lots of fun as we visited our last continent, but even more fun when WOWEE (World of Wildlife Educational Encounters) visited on Wednesday and brought animals from around the world. We saw a chinchilla taking a sand bath, got the pet the potbellied pig, tried to get the cockatiel to dance for us, and got totally grossed out by the hissing cockroaches.  There were lots more animals, and we "traveled around the world", but in the end we all had our favorites.  Mine was Honey, the sugar glider.  What was yours?

Gasland

The Friends of the Macedon Public Library invite you to a screening of this Academy Award nominated film.

Wednesday, August 17th

6:30 -8:30 p.m.

Community Room 

30 Main Street, Macedon

This Hydro-facturing Documentary by Josh Fox is presented by the Sierra Club with a question and answer session following the screening.  Join us to learn more about his controversial natural gas recovery process.

Adult Crafts

I have been so busy with the children's summer program I have neglected some of the other things going on at the library.  For the past 3 weeks we have had a mask making class conducted by Amy O'Connor.  There were some beautiful finished products, and loads of fun along the way.

One World, Many Stories - Week #5

We had a quieter week than last.  This must be a popular  vacation week, or everyone is at the Wayne County Fair.  But everyone had lots of fun at story times, and our weekly reading with dogs (Tessa and Macy this week).

And Melanie Zimmer was back to run her scarf marionette workshop, where we made beautiful marionette puppets and learned how to manipulate them!











Next week:
WOWEE's World of Animals. Wednesday, August 17th, at 2:00 p.m.  Everyone is welcome!

One World, Many Stories - Week #4

Wow!  We were busy this week!
Melanie Zimmer was here with her Dancing Bear Theater to present "The Littlest Pirate".  I was very impressed with her giant-sized theater and the beauty of her puppets.  We all laughed when the puppets wouldn't wake up for the show, and were in awe of the mighty pirate vanquishing sea serpent!  A few of us might have even been a bit afraid of the awful pirate, Eddie Snickerbucket.


                                           

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After the pirates and puppets left, and the Wacky Wednesday class "visited" Europe, juggler Nate the Great came and taught some of our teens to juggle.  Nate is always fun to have around, and the kids learned quite a lot of skills from him.  Who knew we had such talent in Macedon!





Today, we are grateful to Phil Klingler who happily returned to conduct
another Bridge Building Workshop.  I am never sure who has more fun at these things, Phil or the kids.  But there were lots of smiling faces and some fantastic bridges when all was said and done.





Next week:
Melanie Zimmer will be back to Thursday, at 1:00 p.m., to teach us how to make and manipulate marionettes made from scarves!  There is still room in the workshop if you are 8 years or older and want to learn to entertain your friends and family with puppets.  Call us at 315-986-5932