Summer Learning Clubs incorporate a Project Based Learning model that integrates all of our math, literacy, and STEAM activities into a thematic approach for an extended period. Each week, this complete immersive experience will cover a different topic over two days. Tuesdays center around a blend of inquiry, design, research, writing and the arts. The Wednesday class builds on the deep work from Tuesday, and focuses on math, science and revision, testing, and technology, with students creating a physical representation of their learning.
Using a Project Based Learning model, students will work together to solve challenging problems that are authentic, curriculum-based, and interdisciplinary. Following this format, learners will decide how to approach a problem and what activities to pursue in their unique approaches. They gather information from various sources and plan, synthesize, analyze, and derive knowledge from it. Their learning is inherently valuable because it connects to something real and organic and promotes essential skills such as collaboration, revision, and reflection. In a culminating activity, students will demonstrate their newly acquired knowledge and communicate this with others. Throughout this process, the teacher's role is to guide and advise rather than direct and manage the student's work.
There will be a short movement and snack break.
REGISTER for Week 1 - Architecture: Imagine, Design, Build (June 27 and 28) HERE.
REGISTER for Week 2 - Olympics: Let the Games Begin! (July 11 and 12) HERE.
REGISTER for Week 3 - Making Music (July 18 and 19) HERE.
REGISTER for Week 4 - Outer Space: the Next Frontier (July 25 and 26) HERE.
REGISTER for Week 5 - People Who Changed the World (August 1 and 2) HERE.
REGISTER for Week 6 - Flight and Its Many Forms (August 8 and 9) HERE.
REGISTER for Week 7 - Tell Your Story: Create a Picture Book (August 15 and 16) HERE.
REGISTER for Week 8 - Code Making Code Breaking (August 22 and 23) HERE.
The Summer Learning Clubs are made possible by the continuing generosity of Roz and Bud Siegel.
Wednesday, April 12 - Friday, April 14
McCall Room
Grades K-2: 9:30-10:30 am
Limit: 16 participants
Registration required
This is a cumulative program and participants are requested to attend all three days.
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Buildwave is a creative building program that feels like a video game! Students will build with different materials to "level up" each day.
Foster your child's interest in STEM, while igniting their creative spark. Over the three sessions, students will create with over 50 mystery building materials, including LEGO, PlusPlus, and custom-made Buildwave projects. Each session of the program is a new "level" of the Buildwave game, with an audiovisual setup featuring animations and music that guide students through the different building waves. As your child creates with wave after wave of new objects, they build creative confidence, become better collaborators, and encounter design and engineering fundamentals in a unique and memorable context.
Instructor Tim Merle is the founder of Enrichment Labs LLC and the creator of Buildwave, a creative enrichment program for ages five and up. Within a background in the arts and a passion for creative expression, Tim has designed and implemented programming for more than 100 schools, libraries, and community centers across New England.
This is a free program for those who attend. Because of the limited number of students, you will be charged $25 upon registration. Your deposit will be refunded less credit card processing fees upon attendance or notification of inability to attend sent to [email protected] a week before the program starts AND we can fill your spot.
Questions? Contact Margaret Pastel at [email protected].
Registration is not transferable and a caregiver must remain in the Library during the class.
Register for Grades K-2
We also are offering this program for children in Grades 3-5.
Please find out how to register here.
The Library is pleased to be able to offer free programs and events through the generous donations of patrons like you. Please consider giving to the Library so that we can continue to offer events like this one. Your donation is tax deductible. Donate Now!
If it’s late April, it must be … time for Halloween! That’s right, we are HALFWAY to October 31, so let’s celebrate with some spooky books by Library-favorite middle-grade authors and creepy crafting projects!
Join Lorien Lawrence (Fright Watch series), JW Ocker (The Smashed Man of Dread End and The Black Slide), and Dan Poblocki (Tales to Keep You Up at Night) for a Halfway to Halloween you’ll never forget!
PLEASE REGISTER HERE
Fun for everyone!
Visit The Westport Children’s Library this Valentine’s Day from 11 am to 6 pm and create your own Valentine Heart Envelopes.
Write sweet Valentine messages to family and friends and decorate the heart envelopes with stickers. No need to register; just drop in!
The Library is pleased to be able to offer free programs and events through the generous donations of patrons like you. Please consider giving to the Library so that we can continue to offer events like this one. Your donation is tax deductible. Donate Now!
Experiment with LittleBits — snap-together, magnetic, building blocks for electronics — through a variety of building program challenges.
Thursdays 4:30-6 pm
McCall Room #216
Limit 12 students
March 9: Grades K-1 (Limit 10 students) — Register
March 16: Grades 2-3 — Register
March 23: Grades 4-6 — Register
This is a free program for those who attend. Due to the limited number of students, you will be charged $25 upon registration. Your deposit will be refunded less credit card processing fees upon attendance or notification of inability to attend sent to [email protected] a week in advance AND we can fill your spot.
Registration is NOT transferable. A caregiver must remain in the Library during class.
Questions? Contact Margaret Pastel at [email protected].
The Library is pleased to be able to offer free programs and events through the generous donations of patrons like you. Please consider giving to the Library so that we can continue to offer events like this one. Your donation is tax deductible. Donate Now!
Experiment with LittleBits — snap-together, magnetic, building blocks for electronics — through a variety of building program challenges.
Thursdays 4:30-6 pm
McCall Room #216
Limit 12 students
March 9: Grades K-1 (Limit 10 students) — Register
March 12: Grades 2-3 — Register
March 23: Grades 4-6 — Register
This is a free program for those who attend. Due to the limited number of students, you will be charged $25 upon registration. Your deposit will be refunded less credit card processing fees upon attendance or notification of inability to attend sent to [email protected] a week in advance AND we can fill your spot.
Registration is NOT transferable. A caregiver must remain in the Library during class.
Questions? Contact Margaret Pastel at [email protected].
The Library is pleased to be able to offer free programs and events through the generous donations of patrons like you. Please consider giving to the Library so that we can continue to offer events like this one. Your donation is tax deductible. Donate Now!
Experiment with LittleBits — snap-together, magnetic, building blocks for electronics — through a variety of building program challenges.
Thursdays 4:30-6 pm
McCall Room #216
Limit 12 students
March 9: Grades K-1 (Limit 10 students) — Register
March 12: Grades 2-3 — Register
March 23: Grades 4-6 — Register
This is a free program for those who attend. Due to the limited number of students, you will be charged $25 upon registration. Your deposit will be refunded less credit card processing fees upon attendance or notification of inability to attend sent to [email protected] a week in advance AND we can fill your spot.
Registration is NOT transferable. A caregiver must remain in the Library during class.
Questions? Contact Margaret Pastel at [email protected].
The Library is pleased to be able to offer free programs and events through the generous donations of patrons like you. Please consider giving to the Library so that we can continue to offer events like this one. Your donation is tax deductible. Donate Now!
Explore Makey Makey with projects ranging from conductivity basics for the youngest students to specific design challenges.
Thursdays, 4:30-6 pm
McCall Room #216
January 5: Grades K-1; Limit 10 students
January 12: Grades 2-3; Limit 10 students
January 19: Grades 4-6; Limit 12 students
Registration required:
Register: January 5, Grades K-1
Register: January 12, Grades 2-3
Register: January 19, Grades 4-6
This is a free program for those who attend. Due to the limited number of students, you will be charged $25 upon registration. Your deposit will be refunded less credit card processing fees upon attendance or notification of inability to attend sent to [email protected] a week before the program starts AND we can fill your spot. Registration is NOT transferable. A caregiver must remain in the Library during class.
Questions? Contact Margaret Pastel at [email protected].
Hour of Code Family Event
Sunday, December 11, 1-3 pm
Children's Library Higgins Room
Kids in PreK to Grade 6 and their families.
Try out the Library's collection of coding games and kits: Cubetto, Code and Go Robots, Lego WeDo, and more.
A hands-on, fun way to learn coding basics.
Thursdays, 4:30-6 pm
McCall Room #216
Limit 12 Students
Registration required
Using the library's ROOMINATE Construction set, design an ideal room, playground, or structure. A motor is included in the kit, so one moveable element may be required in the designs. Let imaginations run wild!
Register: November 3, Grades K-1
Register: November 10, Grades 2-3
Register: November 17, Grades 4-5
This is a free program for those who attend. Due to the limited number of students, you will be charged $25 upon registration. Your deposit will be refunded less credit card processing fees upon attendance or notification of inability to attend sent to [email protected] a week before the program starts AND we can fill your spot. Registration is NOT transferable. A caregiver must remain in the Library during class.
Questions? Contact Margaret Pastel at [email protected].
For thousands of years humans have looked up to the sky asking questions like: How big is the universe, how old is it? How did it begin, how will it end? We want to know what there was before, how the stars are made and how did life begin, and more. It's only been in the last 50 or so years we’ve been able to start answering these questions, and more, due to the likes of the Hubble Space Telescope and now the James Webb Space Telescope. Marty Yellin will offer an overview of the fascinating and often mindboggling discoveries made by these telescopes. We now have a better understanding of how, starting from absolutely nothing, we are where we are today.
IF YOU MISSED THE EVENT, PLEASE ENJOY THE RECORDING HERE.
Marty Yellin received a Bachelors and Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from CCNY. In 1965 he joined Perkin-Elmer in Wilton, which helped support his doctorate in Bio Medical Engineering at NYU applying engineering solutions to medical issues. At Perkin-Elmer he became involved with a top secret program to design and build the largest spy satellite ever to be flown in space .. In his last ten years at Perkin Elmer he helped design and manage the Hubble Space Telescope which has been the most productive space instrument ever built. After retirement in 1998 he resumed taking courses at NYU in the fields of genetics and cell biology. Since the launch of the Webb Telescope he has closely followed the amazing science it has, and will discover, especially in establishing if life exists on the exoplanets we are discovering.
Community Partner: Y's Men
Space Telescopes
The Solar System
The Apollo 11 Mission