OnTrack Mini-Magazines

Looking for grade-appropriate ways to help your child with his or her schoolwork, based on the Indiana Academic Standards? The Indiana Department of Education and the Indiana Commission for Higher Education have teamed up to publish OnTrack Mini-Magazines for students and their parents/guardians, available online.

Click on the links below to access the booklets in English or Spanish.
Kindergarten: English | Spanish
First Grade: English | Spanish
Second Grade: English | Spanish
Third Grade: English | Spanish
Fourth Grade: English | Spanish
Fifth Grade: English | Spanish
(Booklets are in PDF format and require Adobe Acrobat Reader to open. Click here to download Adobe Acrobat Reader for free).

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and
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for more great information on child development, services for families, reading with children, and more!

Barr Street Market: Make a Nature Journal

Visit the ACPL Children's Services booth at the Barr Street Market today between 9am and 1pm to make a nature journal. You can use your journal to write or draw about all of the amazing creatures and plants that you see outside. Visit us at the Market every Saturday through September for more crafts!

We'll miss Caleb

Paws to Read is a special program offered every Thursday night at 6:30 p.m. at the Main Library and at various times throughout the month at some of our branches. Research shows that children enjoy improving their reading skills by practicing reading to animals. With this program, kids are invited to read a story to a book-loving dog. Trained therapy dogs are here every week with their handlers -- and they want to listen to you read!

Caleb, one of our weekly Paws to Read dogs, has died after a long illness. We love our Paws to Read dogs. We loved Caleb. Caleb, we'll miss you.

Baby and Toddler Storytime

Don't Miss the Fun!

Join us for our Babies & Books and
Toddler Time every Friday morning!

Babies & Books - every Friday at 10am

Toddler Time - every Friday at 10:30am and 11am

Saxton Freymann at work

Saxton Freymann, the artist behind the books How Are You Peeling?, Dr. Pompo's Nose, and Dog Food, creates amazing art using food!

Hit this link to go to Teaching Books.net to watch a 4 minute video about Freymann's food creations and his books. In this video Freymann shows how to transform regular food into food with a mood. Take a look!

Teaching Books.net is a wonderful resource for parents, teachers and kids looking for author websites, book guides or booklists. Check it out today!

Vroom! Vroom! The Race is On!

Join us tomorrow morning at 10:30 a.m. for Smart Start Preschool Storytime. We'll be reading about race cars!

If you can't make it to storytime, check out Sputter, Sputter, Sput! by Babs Bell. This brand new book is all about what happens when you run out of gas.

Early Learning Center Mailbox

Soon to be 4-year-old Zelle shared this lovely drawing that she created in the Early Learning Center. She explained that this is a picture of balloons with pinecones floating away.

By telling me about her drawing, Zelle was practicing narrative skills. She thought that she was just having fun!

Bring your preschooler to the Early Learning Center to work on one (or two) of the six early literacy skills today!