What a great way to commemorate Earth Day by designing your own seed bombs. Have fun and contribute to the beauty and health of our planet. Join Carole Boothroyd of PCDC Education & Outreach on Thursday, April 18 at 2 pm for this mother nature-friendly project. We will make native wildflower seed bombs to look like globes with construction paper and bee & butterfly-friendly flower seeds. Ms. Michelle will also read a book on pollinators and friends.
Join us for two new story times!
Start your Saturday with stories and songs at Good Morning Story Time. This 9:30 am program starts on March 16 and will repeat the 3rd Saturday of every month. It will feature reading, music, and finger plays, with coloring & puzzles at the end.
Children are invited to bring blankets and teddy bears and wear their PJs to snuggle in for a cozy, quiet Bedtime Stories. This 6:00 pm program starts on March 19 and will repeat every other Tuesday evening.
Parrots from the Siesta Sanctuary will visit the Thompson Free Library on Saturday, February 9 at 11:30 am!
About the event:
“At least three of our best talking and dancing parrots from our 80+ parrot flock will present Parrots 101. And you can take home a feather! Henrietta, a cockatoo, along with RiRi, an Amazon, and Jose, a macaw, will demonstrate typical parrot behavior and eating habits. Meanwhile, Fritz and Margaret Buschmann will explain what parrots eat, where they come from and what’s their future in the world. Thankfully, the future for the birds at Siesta Sanctuary is to stay put. Siesta Sanctuary does not re-home parrots but can refer to organizations that do.
In 2006 Margaret and Fritz Buschmann founded the non-profit Siesta Sanctuary as a home for parrots who have been displaced and need permanency. Parrots are wild animals that live 30-80 years. They are very intelligent and social and, in the wild, thrive as part of a flock. It is our mission to recreate the flock for parrots that have had their human flock disrupted; seldom can humans accommodate a pet through all the family life changes in 80 years!
Our parrots have come to us from rescue organizations, owners moving to nursing homes or apartments, spouses objecting to the bird, birds with problem behaviors that disrupt the home and birds that other folks have rescued but couldn’t keep. All birds we take in will have permanent sanctuary. Here the parrots live in a flock, can fly and learn to behave like birds. Many birds that come to us have lived alone. Nearly all have found a mate or best friend. We delight in all this social activity and the odd couples that develop.
Please consider a donation to help support this flock. You can also visit in the afternoon throughout the year. Please just call first (207-683-6322) to make sure we are home and not embroiled in some messy project!”
Join us to celebrate the 10th annual World Read Aloud Day on Friday, February 1, 2019!
This annual advocacy day unites people around the world by highlighting the importance of reading aloud and sharing stories: http://www.litworld.org/wrad/
Ms. Michelle will share books and a craft from 4:00-5:00 pm.
Join us on Tuesday, Jan. 29 from 5:30-7:00 pm for an informative workshop aimed at helping parents and caregivers understand how teens and kids are using technology, and learn some tools to safely navigate technology use.
What will be covered:
About the presenter:
Brooke Dupuy is the Community Outreach Educator at Rape Response Services, a sexual assault crisis and support center serving Penobscot and Piscataquis Counties. As a prevention educator, she teaches lessons on cyber harassment, sexual harassment, healthy communication, consent and internet safety to students in pre-k through college. As a former high school teacher, she has over a decade of experience working with teenagers, and is a mother of two. She is passionate about empowering kids to make healthy choices, and to step in when they see something that makes them uncomfortable.