Dinosaurs

Dinosaur Titles (non-fiction and fiction) for Kids on Hoopla Digital
Handprint Dinosaur (Red Ted Art)
Clothespin Dinosaurs (Crafts by Amanda)
Salt Dough Dinosaur Fossils (Kids Activities Blog)
10 DIY Dinosaur Crafts (The Spruce Crafts)
3 Ways to Make Paper Plate Dinosaurs (I Heart Crafty Things)
Dinosaur Printable Preschool Pack: color by numbers, dot to dot, counting, and more (Itsy Bitsy Fun, download link at the bottom of the page)

From Scholastic Teachables:
Dinosaur Riddles
Name That Dinosaur (Matching)
Dinosaur Dig Maze (Identifying d, e, f)
Con D De Dinosaurio: Spanish Play
Fossils: SuperScience STEM Activities
The Littlest Dinosaurs: Measurement Activity
And many more! Click here for the full list

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Elephants

Elephant Titles (non-fiction and fiction) for Kids on Hoopla Digital
Cardboard Elephant Craft (Patchwork Parent)
Milk Jug Elephant (The Imagination Tree)
Cereal Box Elephant (I Heart Crafty Things)
Origami Elephant Bookmark (YouTube)
Hand Print Elephant (Crafty Morning)
Learn How to Paint an Elephant with August Wren (Creativebug, Day 9)

From Scholastic Teachables:
Some of the options available on Scholastic Teachables:
The Letter E: Elephant Puppet
E is for Elephant: Letter Formation Practice
Patchwork Elephant Puzzle: Math & Art Activity
Letters A-Z Elephant: Connect the Dots
Emily & Mortimer: Vocabulary Tale Mini-Book
Mr. & Mrs. Elephant: Spot-the-Difference Pages
Laughing Elephant: gh and ph consonant digraphs
And many more! Click here for the full list

Note: you may have to log into Scholastic Teachables by clicking here or Creativebug by clicking here before following the links above.

April Fools’ Day

No Kidding! Interesting Facts about April Fool’s Day by Baby Professor (Hoopla)
The Story Behind April Fools’ Day by Melissa Raé Shofner (Hoopla)
Ellie May on April Fools’ Day by Hillary Homzie and Jeffrey Ebbeler (112 page JF, Hoopla)
April Fools’ Day Pranks (Kidspot)
April Fool’s Day in the Classroom: contains links to a variety of free resources (Edutopia)
The Museum of Hoaxes
April Fool’s Day Around the World (Insider)

From Scholastic Teachables:
Some of the options available on Scholastic Teachables:
April Fools the School: An Easy-to-Read Play
Guess What I Saw Today: Mini-book
Fooled You! Quick Cloze Passage
Fooled You! (Sequence of Events)
April Fool’s Day: Comprehension Passage
And many more! Click here for the full list

Note: you may have to log into Scholastic Teachables by clicking here before following the links above. Scholastic Teachables offers 25,000+ ready-to-go lessons and activities for every subject and skill level (grades Pre-K to 8), free with your MCPLS library card.

Three Billy Goats Gruff

Three Billy Goats Gruff activities you can do at home:
Make a Toilet Paper Roll Goat (Crafty-Crafted)
The Three Billy Goats Gruff Sensory Activity Bin (Growing Book by Book)
Play Dough Kit for Kids (B-Inspired Mama)
Paper Plate Troll Craft/Mask (DLTK’s Crafts for Kids)
Three Billy Goats Gruff Storybook STEM (Teach Beside Me)

From Scholastic Teachables:
The Three Billy Goats Gruff Mini-Book (Grades K-2)
The Three Billy Goats Gruff: A Beginning Reader Play (Grades K-2)
The Three Billy Goats Gruff Go to the Game Show: A Funny Fairy Tale Math Activity (Grades 2-3)
Getting Across Close Reading Passage (Grade 1)
The Three Billy Goats Gruff Lesson Plan & Activities (includes discussion questions and a troll vocabulary development activity. Grades K-2)
The Three Billy Goats Gruff Mini-Book & Activities (includes mini-book and problem/solution chart. Grades K-2)
Goat Puppet

Note: you may have to log into Scholastic Teachables by clicking here before following the links above. Scholastic Teachables offers 25,000+ ready-to-go lessons and activities for every subject and skill level (grades Pre-K to 8), free with your MCPLS library card.

Celebrating Caldecott!

Information about the Caldecott Award
American Library Association Caldecott Medal Page
List of Caldecott Medal & Honor Books (1938-present)
Caldecott Medal and Newbery Medal Books in our collection (put one or more on hold today!)
Design your own Caldecott Medal

Where The Wild Things Are activities you can do at home:
Where The Wild Things Are Titles in Our Collection
10 “Where the Wild Things Are” Activities We Love (Written by We Are Teachers)
20 Activities, Crafts, and Printables for Where the Wild Things Are (Written by Homeschool Creations)
Coloring Activity (Reading is Fundamental)
Crossword Puzzle (Reading is Fundamental)
Word Search (Reading is Fundamental)
Activity Kit (Reading is Fundamental)
Where the Wild Things Are Animated Video (Kanopy)
Where the Wild Things Are Audiobook (hoopla)

My Friend Rabbit activities you can do at home:
My Friend Rabbit and other titles by Eric Rohmann in our collection
Make Paper Airplanes
Eric Rohmann on “My Friend Rabbit” (Woodson Art Museum)
Word Search (Reading is Fundamental)
Author Interviews and Activities (TeachingBooks)
My Friend Rabbit Book & Materials (Karina Lopez)
Easy Paper Rabbit Bookmark Corner (Red Ted Art)
Toilet Paper Tube Rabbits (Living Locurto)

Other Resources for Kids & Teens

ArtistWorks provides patrons with world-class music and voice instruction through self-paced video lessons taught by highly accomplished and Grammy Award–winning music professionals.

Creativebug offers an all-access, no-boundaries pass to explore 1000+ craft classes. People of all skill levels can work alongside instructors to learn craft techniques, FREE with your library card! New videos are added every day, and include everything from sewing to crochet to manga drawing.

Scholastic Teachables offers unlimited access to thousands of printables. Save hours of prep time with this database that offers 25,000+ ready-to-go lessons and activities for every subject and skill level.

Transparent Language is an online tool to learn and practice foreign languages. Courses are offered for over 100 languages. If English is not your first language, Transparent Language Online also offers English as a second Language courses.

Homework Help for Kids

Click here for online resources.