Ballston Reader
What's Happening at the Town of Ballston Community Library
Friday, September 4th, 2020
September is National Library Card Sign up & Literacy Month
Library Card Sign-up Month has been held each September to mark the beginning of the school year. During the month, libraries unite in a national effort to ensure every child signs up for their own library card.
Sign up for a library card today.
Dear Readers
The Summer Reading Challenge continues until September 7. You can earn prizes by logging time spent reading, being read to, or listening to audio books and completing challenges that appear in our online logging system.
Fall Activities
Zoom Time
Baby Zoom Time
Tuesdays at 9:30 AM starting September 22
Register Here: http://tbcl.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails?EventId=5913&backTo=Calendar&startDate=2020/09/01
*Registration required, for caregivers and babies 0-17 months.
Never too early to get your baby ready to read. Join Ms Jane for the fun of books, rhymes, stories, songs and music to have memorable times with your little one. Program will be virtual via Zoom.
Toddler Zoom Time
Fridays at 9:30 AM Starting September 24
Register Here: http://tbcl.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails?EventId=5907&backTo=Calendar&startDate=2020/09/01
*Registration required for caregivers and toddlers ages 18 months - 3 years
Join Ms Jane on Zoom to experience the world of books, stories, songs, music, crafts and dances with your energetic toddlers. Program will be virtual via Zoom.
Story Time in the Park
Thursdays at 10:30 AM
September 3 - October 8
Please join us for Story Time in Jenkins Park! We will gather under the pavilion on Thursdays at 10:30 AM (weather permitting) for stories, rhymes and songs. We will follow all CDC and NYS health guidelines. Please bring chairs or blankets to sit on and we will socially distance. Masks will be required when social distancing cannot be maintained. This is a drop-in program intended for kids ages 2-5 accompanied by a caregiver. Siblings are always welcome
Mindfulness for The Busy Person
Join us for our Wellness session with Amy Rutledge as she walks you through a 30-minute guided mediation session online. Amy will introduce us to mindfulness in a year that has thrown our families, communities and world into a completely different way of being. Learn how to use mindfulness to improve the quality of our experience, raise our levels of consciousness, and navigate the new normal.
http://tbcl.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails?EventId=5890&backTo=Calendar&startDate=2020%2F09%2F01
Wednesday, September 9, 2020 at 6pm - Virtual
Halloween Cooking classes
Join Jodie Fitz online to practice your cooking skills and make a yummy treat. Ingredient lists and Zoom link will be emailed to participants prior to the event. To get in the Halloween spirit kids will be making Worm Infested Brownie Bites and Beetle Juice.
For Grades K - 2nd. Registration required.
http://tbcl.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails?EventId=5936&backTo=Calendar&startDate=2020/10/01
Kid's Cooking fall Treats
Join Jodie Fitz online to practice your cooking skills and make a yummy treat. Ingredient lists and Zoom link will be emailed to participants prior to the event. We're making Cinnamon Apples and Dip Turned into a Turkey along with a Fall Smoothie.
For Grades K-5. Registration required.
http://tbcl.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails?EventId=5935&backTo=Calendar&startDate=2020/11/01
September Releases
All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny
On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches gather as a family for a bistro dinner with Armand’s godfather, the billionaire Stephen Horowitz. Walking home together after the meal, they watch in horror as Stephen is knocked down and critically injured in what Gamache knows is no accident, but a deliberate attempt on the elderly man’s life.
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Gifty is a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine studying reward seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her.
The Evening and the Morning by Ken Follett
It is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages, and in England one man's ambition to make his abbey a centre of learning will take the reader on an epic journey into a historical past, rich with ambition and rivalry, death and birth, love and hate.
The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult
Everything changes in a single moment for Dawn Edelstein. She's on a plane when the flight attendant makes an announcement: prepare for a crash landing. She braces herself as thoughts flash through her mind. The shocking thing is, the thoughts are not of her husband, but a man she last saw fifteen years ago: Wyatt Armstrong.
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini
Kira Navárez dreamed of life on new worlds.
Now she's awakened a nightmare.
During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds an alien relic. At first she's delighted, but elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move.
Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi
The story that I thought
was my life
didn’t start on the day
I was born
Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he’s seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy.
Planning to Return to School while Social Distancing
- Engage and encourage everyone in the school and the community to practice preventive behaviors. These are the most important actions that will support schools’ safe reopening and will help them stay open.
- Implement multiple mitigation strategies (e.g., social distancing, masks, hand hygiene)
- Communicate, educate, and reinforce appropriate hygiene and social distancing practices in ways that are developmentally appropriate for students, teachers, and staff.
- Maintain healthy environments (e.g., cleaning and disinfecting frequently touched surfaces).
Town of Ballston Community Library
Email: web.toblibrary@gmail.com
Website: toblibrary.sals.edu
Location: 2 Lawmar Lane, Burnt Hills, NY, United States
Phone: 518-399-8174
Facebook: facebook.com/toblibrary