Families @ Scoville
Spend Early Dismissal & Vacation Days at the Library !
What to do when school lets out early or is closed for a holiday and there are endless chores and errands to run, but your kids want to have some fun? Buddy up with another adult to bring your kids and their friends to the library. For early dismissal and most no-school-days this month, we have fun crafts planned for your kids and the whole family to enjoy. Check our event calendar for times and registration information.
Craftsgiving: Take your table top decor to a new level with John Robshaw textile stamps!
Wednesday, November 22nd at 2PM
Ages 5+
Share in and bring home the warmth of the holiday season by creating one-of- a kind textile designs: table runners, placemats and cards for your Thanksgiving and upcoming family, holiday table. John Robshaw has kindly lent us an assortment of handmaid stamps to use, as well as decorative turbans to wear as we celebrate and create beautiful designs to use year after year! The textile dyes DO NOT wash out, so PLEASE DO wear appropriate clothing or coverage. The acrylic paints used for stamping on paper are washable.
Pre-K to 3rd grade
Designed to support young children with their reading, Reading Buddies pairs your child with a Hotchkiss School student to be the older "buddy," eager to help the younger child practice their reading. The idea and the hope for the emerging readers is that connecting with another, older "kid" is a treat in itself, and that reading aloud to a "kid" is low-pressure. At the same time, the student volunteer (age 12-18) serves as a reading mentor, demonstrating how to stay calm while reading and how to conquer reading difficulties. The buddy will ask questions about the text and have a basic understanding of assessing and helping with reading comprehension.
Younger readers can meet their older "buddy" in person on the Hotchkiss campus, over ZOOM or here at the library. Whatever is most convenient for you and your family!
Additionally this Fall, an eighth grade SCS student will be available at the Scoville Library for in person tutoring or reading help on Thursday afternoons from 3:30 to 4:30pm.
Kindly complete this form to be paired with your "buddy" today and enjoy a mentorship program that has also resulted in many life long friendships!
Parent Child Book Club for 3rd, 4th, & 5th graders and their parents!
Hosted by Miss Rita
1st Friday of every month, 4PM, starting, Dec. 1st
Be sure to come by the library this week to pick up your very own copy- to- keep of the first title in the Parent Child Book Club for kids in the 3rd, 4th, & 5th grades and their parents, hosted by Miss Rita! The first title is "The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and Spool of Thread," by Kate DiCamillo. This 20th anniversary edition, released in September 2023, will be yours to keep, to build or add to your very own family library. The first book discussion will happen on Friday, December 1st and consecutively the first Friday of every month at 4PM downstairs in the Children's Library. Please complete this form to ensure that we have enough copies to pass around and snacks!
Look forward to seeing you all soon at the library!
The books for this program have been purchased by The Friends of Scoville Memorial Library. Thank you FSL!
dreams!@The Hotchkiss School's
December 3rd, 2-4 pm
Build a Smart City with members of The Hotchkiss School’s award-winning Robotics Team! 4-6th grade students will work with electronics, circuitry, engineering, coding, sensors and even marshmallows and spaghetti to design and build a smart city! You will learn how to: Build your own battery-powered LED circuit; Build wind turbines; Power your own LED lights; Make a wind-powered electrical house and much more! Enrollment is limited; please register by October 17th.
Snacks provided.
MoCaH (Men-of-color at Hotchkiss)
Youth Mentoring Program
at The Hotchkiss School
Sundays 1-2PM
4th-8th Grade
The MoCaH Affinity Group proudly presents a coed mentorship program for students of color in the 4th through 8th grade. Students will enjoy arts projects, sports days, tutoring sessions and more. For details and registration email Caroline
Kenny-Burchfield st clburchf@hotchkiss.org
Weekly, by appointment
High school volunteers will be matched with a middle school-aged student to work on a subject that the student needs help with. Tutors will be matched with kids based on what they are confident with and the kids' needs. Tutors work weekly with their paired students either online or on The Hotchkiss campus anywhere from 30-45 minutes.
Additionally this Fall, an eighth grade SCS student will be available at the Scoville Library for in person tutoring or reading help on Thursday afternoons from 3:30 to 4:30pm.
Kindly specify your preferences on this form
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