Toddler Time Tuesdays
Music and Movement Storytime, aka Littles Love to Learn! Join us on Tuesdays at 10:30 AM for an interactive storytime filled with group singing, dancing, imaginative play, crafts, and stories, all designed specifically for babies and toddlers.
Storytime Wednesdays
Every Wednesday at 10:30 is Children’s Storytime. Visit us at the library for stories, crafts, and singing. Then experience the cozy ambience in the children’s area, which has all sorts of neat things to do. Make new friends. Set up playdates. Check out books, movies, and games, play with the trains, Legos, and puppets. Come for the learning, stay for the fun!
1,000 Books Before Kindergarten
The Oscar Foss Memorial Library is excited to participate in the 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten program. This program encourages parents and caregivers to provide positive, nurturing early experiences by reading aloud to their children regularly. Through their partnership, Upstart and the 1,000 Books Foundation have designed materials and incentives that help libraries, early childhood centers and other organizations promote the program.
Research shows that the most reliable predictor of school success is being read to at home during early childhood. The brain develops more rapidly during the first three years of a child’s life than at any other time during the lifespan. Reading to children from an early age can help close the vocabulary gap and prepare children to enter kindergarten with the skills they need to succeed. Most important, sharing books with children promotes a lifelong love of books and reading.
You can register for 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten at the library or by emailing the following information to Jerissa@oscarfoss.org:
- Child Name
- Child’s Age
- Parent Name and Library Card Number
- Email or Phone Number
The library will provide the materials needed to participate at no cost to families.
500 Books Before Middle School
This program is FREE and open to children in grades K-5
How does it work?
- Sign up to participate in the program
- When you sign up, you will receive a tote bag with instructions, a book log and your book passport.
- Read a book, any book for fun!
- Listen to an audiobook, read on a device, or share a book together with someone.
- Read a comic book, a graphic novel, mystery, fantasy, non-fiction books, a book in any Ianguage or any other book you can imagine.
- You can log stories read for school, book clubs or other activities. It all counts!
- Track your progress
- Keep track of al I the books you’ve read on your book Iog.
- For each 25 books you log, come into the library and we will stamp your passport and you can pick out a token from our prize bucket.
- Get a bigger prize when you reach 250 books
- When you reach 500 books, you will receive a free book, a prize and you will be invited to our awards ceremony party where you will receive your 500 Books completion certificate!
Read at your own pace and, most importantly, HAVE FUN! If you have any questions, you can call us at 603-269-3900 or email ofmlstaff@gmail.com.
100 Books Before High School
This program is free and open to grades 6-8
How does it work?
- Sign up to participate in the program
- When you sign up, you will receive a tote bag with instructions, a book log and your book passport.
- Read a book, any book for fun!
- Listen to an audiobook, read on a device, or share a book together with someone.
- Read a comic book, a graphic novel, mystery, fantasy, non-fiction books, a book in any Ianguage or any other book you can imagine.
- You can log stories read for school, book clubs or other activities. It all counts!
- Track your progress
- Keep track of al I the books you’ve read on your book Iog.
- For each 10 books you log, come into the library and we will stamp your passport and you can pick out a token from our prize bucket.
- Get a bigger prize when you reach 50 books
- When you reach 100 books, you will receive a free book, a prize and you will be invited to our awards ceremony party where you will receive your 500 Books completion certificate!
Read at your own pace and, most importantly, HAVE FUN! If you have any questions, you can call us at 603-269-3900 or email ofmlstaff@gmail.com.