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Friday, December 18, 2020
Every December, we celebrate the Hour of Code to encourage children to explore the concept of coding. While many schools are beginning to incorporate coding into their curriculum, this topic is an easy one to introduce to children with simple, fun activities.
For younger children, start with basic... |
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Friday, December 18, 2020
Has this ever happened to you? You visit your favorite library. You look through the Young Adult collection and a cover catches your eye. It’s the first book in a series and the synopsis sounds interesting, so you decide to check it out. You take it home and read it to the end. That’s when you... |
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Thursday, December 17, 2020
Before we learn to read words, we learn to read through images, colors and context. As early as age one, children start making these associations as they make sense of what they see. As they grow, understanding and being able to judge what they see becomes critical to survival.
The illustrations we... |
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Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Netflix’s Ratched has taken the streaming world by storm with its wild plotlines, gorgeous-styled costumes and complex characters. Whether you’ve fallen under Ratched’s scary and saucy spell and are desperate for more intense characters, or are simply intrigued by the psychiatric hospital setting,... |
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Tuesday, December 15, 2020
The novels written by Jane Austen strike a chord in the hearts of many readers and yet, had she been less courageous, we may never have known her work. Born on Dec, 16, 1775 in Hampshire, England, Jane wrote nine novels, but all were published anonymously during her lifetime. Her first, Sense and... |
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Tuesday, December 15, 2020
Sometimes, a label is the only thing that keeps you from picking up a good book. Here at BCLS, we would hate for that to happen to teens on the lookout for something good to read, so we’re sharing a few titles shelved in adult fiction that could happily land in their hands.
Ninth House... |
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Monday, December 14, 2020
Since 1992, the United Nations has promoted International Day of People with Disabilities. The day, Dec. 3, is aimed at encouraging a better understanding of people affected by disabilities and more awareness of their rights, welfare and dignity.
More than one billion people, 15 percent of the... |
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Monday, December 14, 2020
Sometimes first loves end with happily ever after, and sometimes they end with disaster. But either way, when it comes to first love, what matters is the journey.
So when it’s cold outside and you just want to stay in your room but you’ve watched everything on Netflix, what do you do? Try checking... |
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Friday, December 11, 2020
It’s cold outside and, while it’s fun to play outdoors, sometimes you just want to cozy up under a big soft blanket with some stuffed animal friends and read your favorite book. Or maybe you just want to hang out with your family and watch a fun winter movie instead. Whatever your activity of... |
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Wednesday, December 9, 2020
The Lost Thought
I felt a cleaving in my mind
As if my brain had split;
I tried to match it, seam by seam,
But could not make them fit.
The thought behind I strove to join
Unto the thought before,
But sequence raveled out of reach
Like balls upon a floor.
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