All STEAM Ahead!

The STEAM movement is alive and well in the Zervas Library!

STEAM centers give our children the space and time to be innovators, creators and designers. These STEAM centers and websites foster a hands-on approach to learning and creating.

Over the next several weeks, students in grade 2-5 will get to choose a different STEAM center. Students have a chance to code, design a ramp using Keva planks, create a moving machine using legos, color bookmarks, design their own comic books, create stop-motion stories and much more.

Selected maker sites are available on the Zervas Library Website

Summer Reading 2017

It's gray and rainy outside, but with six more weeks of school, summer is on the minds of the wonderful librarians at the Newton Free Library!

This year the summer reading program has changed a bit.  Instead of earning little individual prizes, children preK-rising grade 5 can log their reading minutes online and help earn a community prize for the Newton Free Library!  Be sure to fill out a postcard and share with Mayor Warren what you are reading this summer.

Newton Free Library Summer Reading Challenge

Going into Middle School?  Guess what!  You have a challenge and a change to help earn a community prize for the new teen space in the Newton Free Library!  READ READ READ and log those minutes!

Poetry Month

April is National Poetry Month!

Students Grades K-5 read, created, and listened to poetry.

We read and studied many types of poems: color poems, shape/concrete poems, creating poems from a word bank, listening to music and creating poems from what they heard.  Students created blackout poems, haikus, and acrostic poems.  

Best of all students read and found some new favorite poems to read and share!

We learned about shape/concrete poems

And more shape poems 

We learned about color poems

We read class favorites poems

Students created shape poems

Students used the Word Mover app to create poems from a word bank