Baby Singalong Suggested Age: Birth to age 3 Thursdays at 4:00 pm; Fridays & Saturdays at 10:00 am Join us in singing nursery rhymes, children’s songs and fingerplays. Puppets, storybooks and lots of bubbles add to the fun and are an excellent way to strengthen early literacy skills! Sing-Alongs last for roughly 25 minutes. Friday sing-alongs are followed with an open play hour for children and parents/ guardians to meet and play with other local families. Toddler Storytime Suggested Age: 1-3 years Mondays at 10:00 am These storytimes focus on our younger readers and include simple storybooks mixed with songs and rhymes, encouraging early development of both literacy and many other skills while being a wonderful activity for the family to enjoy together! Baby Doll Storytime Suggested Age: 2-5 years Wednesdays at 11:15 Please join us for songs, stories, and games we can share with our baby dolls (or stuffies). Bring a doll or borrow one of ours! Pre-School Storytimes Suggested Age: 3-5 years Mondays at 10:30 am and Thursdays at 10:00 am These storytimes are focused towards a slightly more advanced age than our Toddler Story Time. These sessions will include more complex stories and stimulate core literacy skills through direct experience with books and storytellers. The stories chosen are developmentally appropriate for preschool children and very entertaining and enjoyable at the same time. Early Literacy Programs Falmouth Memorial Library 5 Lunt Road, Falmouth, Maine 04105 www.falmouthmemoriallibrary.org (207) 781-2351 Falmouth Memorial Library Newsletter Summer 2018 | Volume 7 Number 6 Library Director Andi Jackson-Darling Front Desk (207) 781-2351 Library Hours as of 6/2/18 Monday 9:30-5:00 Tuesday 9:30-5:00 Wednesday 9:30-8:00 Thursday 9:30-5:00 Friday 9:30-5:00 Saturday 9:30-12:00 Closed Sundays & Holidays Please note: we will close earlier on Saturdays and will only be open late ONE evening per week. Closures Wednesday, July 4 Contacts Interlibrary Loan [email protected] General Library [email protected] General Staff fmlstaff@falmouth.lib.me.us Reference & Technology Mike Carnes [email protected] Youth Services Will Brown [email protected] Gift-A-Book to Support Summer Reading Program In June our Gift-A-Book fundraiser continues here at the library! We have a selection of great children’s books available for purchase as a donation to the library. Each book costs $15, a personalized book plate will go inside your purchased title and you will be given the option of being the very first person to check out the book. Every purchase goes to fund our children’s Summer Reading Program and provides more wonderful titles for kids to explore! Thank you, everyone, for your support and generosity in helping us to keep kids reading all summer long. Our fiscal year closes on June 30 and we need your help to meet our goal. Please make your Annual Fund donations now if you have not yet done so. Every year, the Library holds our Annual Fund Appeal to raise money needed to close the gap between our operating budget and the funds supplied by the Town of Falmouth. Annual Fund gifts are solicited and are needed every year to help fund our operations. The Annual Fund drive is separate from the Capital Campaign funds, which, thanks to you, were successfully raised to support our upcoming expansion and renovation project. Lecture: How the Early Music Movement changed classical music August 28 at 6:30 pm at Lunt Auditorium at OceanView In 1829, Felix Mendelssohn organized and conducted a performance of selections from a forgotten masterpiece, J.S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion. The concert was a seminal event for what we now call the early music movement, which aimed to revive the music and performance practices of past centuries. Over time, early music repertoire joined the mainstream. A byproduct of that evolution was that composers and performers began to adopt early music methodologies (and instrumentation) to later repertoires. Colby College’s Timothy Burris will provide an overview of that evolution, from Roger Norrington's recordings of the Beethoven symphonies to Jonathan Dove's L'altra Euridice, an opera in one act for baritone and (predominantly) baroque instruments. The Flukes Perform to Benefit Children’s Summer Reading Program Tuesday, July 24 at 6:30 pm at Lunt Auditorium at OceanView Join the Falmouth Memorial Library and the Flukes for a night of musical entertainment! It’s a night of fun and ukulele music for the whole family. Admission is free, but donations are encouraged, and all of the proceeds will go to benefit our Children’s Summer Reading Program, helping our youngest readers to thrive and succeed! Bring the whole family to enjoy a fun concert unlike any other, and to show your support for Falmouth’s Younger Readers! We will also be offering a ukulele “petting zoo” at the concert, and give anyone interested the chance to get hands on with one of these delightfully fun instruments! Additionally, raffle tickets will be sold for your chance to win a ukulele signed by Jake Shimabukuro. Raffle tickets will sell for $5 each or 3 tickets for $10. Falmouth Memorial Library Ukulele Society Libraries Rock: 2018 Children’s Summer Reading Program Finale Tuesday, August 7 at 6:00 pm Join us to Celebrate all the effort of you young reader with a grand finale of the Children’s Summer Reading Program presented by Mad Science of Maine. It’ll be a science and action-packed show to reward the kids of Falmouth for a summer full of reading. Admission is free. Just bring your reading log which is your ticket for admission to this popular show. We can’t wait to see you there! Children’s Summer Reading Program June 22-August 11 This year’s Summer Reading theme is: Libraries Rock! ..And we’d love to show you all the ways how! We’re getting together lots of new books and prizes for this year’s summer reading, and we want to make it one of the most fun summers yet to celebrate the last summer of reading in our current space! Registration for summer reading begins on June 22 nd . Kids will get a free ticket to a Sea Dogs game for signing up, prizes every week for showing off their reading, chances to open the library Puzzle Box for more prizes, and we’ll finish it off with a Grand Finale show with Mad Science of Maine on August 7! We have tons of fun planned for our readers this summer, and we hope you’ll join in! https:// www.falmouthmemoriallibrary.org/youth/summer- reading Geology is a Piece of Cake presented by Katie Coppens Wednesday, July 18 at 1:00 pm Geology made yummy! Katie Coppens' presentation on her book Geology is a Piece of Cake includes a hands-on lesson that is both educational and delicious. Come learn about rocks, minerals, and fossils through the analogy of cake and cake recipes. Katie Coppens is a middle school English and science teacher in Falmouth. Please register online.