Library
- Kids' Author Event: "the Strange Case Of Origami Yoda"
Kids book author Tom Angleberger will join us Friday, June 25, at 4:00 pm in Central Library's Youth Service's "Rabbit Hole" room, to tell us all about his new book - The Strange Case of Origami Yoda. "The Strange Case of Origami Yoda" is a...
- Giving Shape To Story Plots
?The fundamental idea is that stories have shapes which can be drawn on graph paper, and that the shape of a given society?s stories is at least as interesting as the shape of its pots or spearheads,? Kurt Vonnegut said. Vonnegut plotted stories...
- Sign Up Time--library Learning Patch - Children Discovering Nature
It's signup time again for our nature club, Library Learning Patch-Children Discovering Nature. Children ages 6-9 are invited to sign up through January 26, 2013. This program is co-sponsored by the Red River County Public Library and the Red River...
- Sign Up Time For Garden Club
The Red River County Public Library and members of the Red River Chapter of Texas Master Naturalists are offering the Library Learning Patch again this year. Children from grades 1-5 are invited to sign up at the Library from January 9-27. The...
- Parts Of Plants
Session 3 The Library Learning Patch Kids learned about what parts of plants are edible and then got to sample the examples. Edible plant parts include:Leaves (lettuce)Stems (celery)Flowers (broccoli)Seeds (sunflower)Fruit (apple)Roots (carrot) The...
Library
Paper or Peat?
The Library Learning Patch kids making paper seedling pots from newspaper.
Newspaper strips are soaked in water.
Carefully line a small plastic cup with two or three layers of the damp strips.
Use a pencil to make a small hole in the paper at the bottom of the cup.
Allow to dry for a day or two.
When completely dry, the cups can be filled with potting soil and planted with seeds.
When the seedlings are ready to transplant outside,
they can be placed in the ground paper pot and all!
As the new little plant grows, the recycled pot will disappear.
The Library Patch Kids will be comparing their paper pots with peat pots
at home this week as the plant
basil, marigolds and sunflowers.
- Kids' Author Event: "the Strange Case Of Origami Yoda"
Kids book author Tom Angleberger will join us Friday, June 25, at 4:00 pm in Central Library's Youth Service's "Rabbit Hole" room, to tell us all about his new book - The Strange Case of Origami Yoda. "The Strange Case of Origami Yoda" is a...
- Giving Shape To Story Plots
?The fundamental idea is that stories have shapes which can be drawn on graph paper, and that the shape of a given society?s stories is at least as interesting as the shape of its pots or spearheads,? Kurt Vonnegut said. Vonnegut plotted stories...
- Sign Up Time--library Learning Patch - Children Discovering Nature
It's signup time again for our nature club, Library Learning Patch-Children Discovering Nature. Children ages 6-9 are invited to sign up through January 26, 2013. This program is co-sponsored by the Red River County Public Library and the Red River...
- Sign Up Time For Garden Club
The Red River County Public Library and members of the Red River Chapter of Texas Master Naturalists are offering the Library Learning Patch again this year. Children from grades 1-5 are invited to sign up at the Library from January 9-27. The...
- Parts Of Plants
Session 3 The Library Learning Patch Kids learned about what parts of plants are edible and then got to sample the examples. Edible plant parts include:Leaves (lettuce)Stems (celery)Flowers (broccoli)Seeds (sunflower)Fruit (apple)Roots (carrot) The...