ATTENTION:  Please be advised that The SERC Library will CEASE operations as of Friday, June 29, 2018.  Borrowing privileges will be suspended effective June 8, 2018.  All borrowed resources must be returned to the Library no later than Friday, June 15, 2018.  For more information - see the SERC website - click here.

ARBOR DAY - April 27, 2018 - Go Plant a Tree!

For more information:

Arbor Day Foundation

Trees Across America

TimeAndDate.com

Tree information:

Right Tree, Right Place Standards - Trees to plant under power lines - CT

Best Tree Finder:  Tree Wizard - Arbor Day Foundation

Activities:

Educational Resources at arborday.org - Arbor Day Foundation

Teacher Activity for the classroom at arborday.org

Arbor Day Lesson Plans, Printouts, and Crafts - The Teacher's Guide

NAEYC's Week of the Young Child April 16th to 20th!

The Week of the Young Child™ is an annual celebration hosted by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) celebrating early learning, young children, their teachers, and families. This year's event is April 16–20, 2018!

CLICK HERE for additional information!

Music Monday!
Tasty Tuesday!
Work Together Wednesday!
Artsy Thursday!
Family Friday!


From Teaching Strategies:

Join us in celebrating NAEYC’s Week of the Young Child™ with activities for your program!

During the week of April 16 – 20, Teaching Strategies is celebrating NAEYC’s Week of the Young Child™ by sharing digital samples of some of our favorite daily resources from The Creative Curriculum®. Some of the featured activities for download include: Painting blocks of colored ice Learning how to help each other inside and outside of the classroom Experimenting with cookie cutters and gelatin And much more!

Join us in the celebration with these free activities for your program.

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April is National Poetry Month

The Academy of American Poets in 1996 started National Poetry Month in April.  In the years following it has become a literacy celebration in the world with libraries, schools, publishers and poets helping celebrate poetry's vital place in culture.

For more information, check out the links below:

Academy of American Poets
NCTE - National Council of Teachers of English
Poetry Foundation
'Poetry lives everywhere':  NPR kicks off National Poetry Month
National Poetry Month 2018 | NetGalley

Enjoy this poem ---

It’s all I have to bring today

Emily Dickinson, 1830 - 1886

It’s all I have to bring today—
This, and my heart beside—
This, and my heart, and all the fields—
And all the meadows wide—
Be sure you count—should I forget
Some one the sum could tell—
This, and my heart, and all the Bees
Which in the Clover dwell.

National D.E.A.R. Day - Drop Everything And Read Day! April 12th!

National Drop Everything and Read (D.E.A.R.) Day is celebrated annually on Beverly Cleary's birthday, April 12th.

For more information:

International Literacy Association

GoodReads

Reading Rockets

Autism Awareness Month

For more information:

Autism Society 

Autism Speaks

10 Things Everyone Should Know About Autism, by Lisa Shulman, M.D., U.S.News, April 2, 2018