This isn't just a regular reading hour. Roar, Rock & Read is a hands-on STEAM
Summer Reading Program
Bilingual Storytime for School-Age Children
Join Ms. Tina for an interactive bilingual storytime featuring stories in both English and Spanish. Children will enjoy engaging activities, songs, and dinosaur-themed stories while building language and literacy skills.
This program promotes cultural awareness and a love of reading in two languages.
Movie discussions! Topics will be based on the previous day's movies.
Refreshments provided by the Friends of Freeman Library.
Get creative this summer at the library! Join us for a fun-filled arts and crafts program led by the wonderful mother & daughter volunteers from the National Charity League. Children will enjoy hands-on projects, creativity, and summer fun in this program designed especially for elementary school-aged kids. All supplies provided. No registration required. This program is for children ages 5-11 years old.
When you discover a mysterious suitcase filled with expedition tools, you’ll use your imagination and senses to search for dinosaur fossils! Journey through the jungle, dig for bones at an excavation site, rescue dinosaurs from tar pits, and collect dino eggs—just be careful of the earth-shaking volcano! Presented by Brave Little Company.
Step into a world of creativity inspired by fossils, gemstones, and ancient discoveries. Crafts on the Rocks is a hands-on summer series where participants will create unique, geology-, paleontology-, and archaeology-themed projects while enjoying refreshing mocktails.
Each session explores a different craft, from wearable art to decorative creations, all designed to spark curiosity and creativity.
This program is geared toward adults, but supervised participants ages 10 and up are welcome to join us for coloring at the same time.
Bring your sketchbooks, drawing tablets, or anything else you use for art. Hang out with teens, learn new techniques, or just chill.
Limited supplies provided.
There will be a brief lesson for beginners at the beginning of the session. Each class go over the following:
- How each chess pieces move
- Chess rules
- Review how to use a chess clock
- How to use notation
- How to set up the chess board
- Discuss special moves
- Describe check and checkmate
- Review chess principals
- Cover minor tactics
- Discuss end game principals
- Then members will get a chance to play each other
**Ages 9-17 ONLY & FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE**
Join us to create one of a kind cyanotype prints, a special kind of blue photo that is developed by the power of the sun and made with materials that will give your creation a prehistoric twist!
This program is for kids ages 7-12 and is limited to 10 children. Registration is required and begins one week in advance.
With the help of the Magician's Handbook, the kids guide Tommy Terrific through a magical adventure where the world of dinosaurs come alive in wacky and unexpected ways. From the T-Rex to the Triceratops and beyond, the kids will uncover exciting facts about Dinosaurs and the Age in which they lived. Kids 5-12 years old.
Tickets will be provided 30 minutes before the program at the information desk. Space is limited.