Join the “1000 Books Club” sponsored by the Chesley Memorial Library. The program is open to any child from birth to the start of kindergarten. Reading aloud to children at birth strengthens their language and vocab skills– important tools for learning to read when they enter kindergarten.
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We offer story time for our young readers to explore new stories and socialize with their peers. Storytime is currently in its off-season through summer but is returning this fall on Wednesdays from 10:30-11.
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In the Summer of 2022, summer readers blew through 614 books. Click below to read more about our prize winners, program, and next year's plans!
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Thanks for joining us for a night of cookie decorating on Tuesday, December 20! We completely ran out of gingerbread and even had a processed sugar shortage early on! Pictures from the event are soon to be added, but thank you so much for attending our programs. We hope you have a happy holiday!
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Thank you for joining Susie Spikol and the Library for another successful program! Our Animal Adventurers go forth to follow animal tracks, chase fireflies, and more. Thanks for coming out!
The Chesley Memorial Library was able to offer the program through a recurring grant from the Robert C. Grano Charitable Fund to commemorate the generosity of Joseph Grano in donating the funds to build the Theodora Kalem Grano Memorial Wing in 1991. “Joseph Grano Children’s Initiative” programs promote exploration of the natural world, music, art, diverse cultures, adventure travel, and craftsmanship.
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On Tuesday, October 4th from 5-6pm, we welcomed the "Discover the Power of Parks" Interpretive Ranger from Bear Brook State Park for an evening about the plants and animals that call New Hampshire home. There was so much to learn about right in our backyard. Thank you for coming!
Check out what your friends got up to at our Teddy Bear Sleepover!
Make plans with friends as we release our Legos downstairs on Thursdays, 3-5pm for you to make sets from instructions or your own design!
New Hampshire Child Care Search
NH Child Care Search is a free service that helps families find childcare to best meet their needs. Reach out to Child Care Aware of N.H. (CCAoNH) by calling the Main Outreach line at (603) 578-1386, ext. 2531 and an Outreach Specialist will return your call. General Summer camp information can be found here: https://www.nh-connections.org/families/nh-camps/
They can also contact CCAoNH here: https://www.nh-connections.org/contact/ and select Child Care Resource and Referral Outreach.
DOE Summer Camp Program
The Department of Education is offering summer programming. The state-operated summer enrichment program will pay up to $650 of the youth recreation camp fees of qualifying students. Parents/caregivers of qualifying students will select a New Hampshire youth recreation camp from a list of approved camps across the state. For more information, please visit https://rekindlingcuriosityeducation.nh.gov/
Additional support - Office of Student Wellness toolkits that may be helpful for providers, yourself and families you are working with.
https://nhdoe.instructure.com/courses/37/pages/osew-toolkits
Find a Summer Camp in New England Map
With more than 130 years of experience in providing a safe, thriving environment for young people to explore personal interests, build self-esteem, develop interpersonal skills, discover the creativity and health benefits of the outdoors, and make lasting friendships and memories. Find a Camp – YMCA Alliance of Northern New England (ymcasofnh.org) https://ymcasofnh.org/find-a-camp/
NH Child Care Search is a free service that helps families find childcare to best meet their needs. Reach out to Child Care Aware of N.H. (CCAoNH) by calling the Main Outreach line at (603) 578-1386, ext. 2531 and an Outreach Specialist will return your call. General Summer camp information can be found here: https://www.nh-connections.org/families/nh-camps/
They can also contact CCAoNH here: https://www.nh-connections.org/contact/ and select Child Care Resource and Referral Outreach.
DOE Summer Camp Program
The Department of Education is offering summer programming. The state-operated summer enrichment program will pay up to $650 of the youth recreation camp fees of qualifying students. Parents/caregivers of qualifying students will select a New Hampshire youth recreation camp from a list of approved camps across the state. For more information, please visit https://rekindlingcuriosityeducation.nh.gov/
Additional support - Office of Student Wellness toolkits that may be helpful for providers, yourself and families you are working with.
https://nhdoe.instructure.com/courses/37/pages/osew-toolkits
Find a Summer Camp in New England Map
With more than 130 years of experience in providing a safe, thriving environment for young people to explore personal interests, build self-esteem, develop interpersonal skills, discover the creativity and health benefits of the outdoors, and make lasting friendships and memories. Find a Camp – YMCA Alliance of Northern New England (ymcasofnh.org) https://ymcasofnh.org/find-a-camp/
Does your child like narrated stories? Tumblebooks is a free website with a large amount of narrated books for kids that we offer at the library! Click the link below to check out your next favorite.
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Narrated Children's Stories are available to our public library patrons at nh.overdrive.com. A library account is needed to access this Free service. Use it with your web browser, the Overdrive app or with Libby app.
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Book Awards
2020 Ladybug Picture Book Award Winner
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2020 Great Stone Face Book Award Winner
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2021 Isinglass Award Winner
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2021 Flume Award Winner
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2021 FLUME AND ISINGLASS TEEN BOOK AWARD AMBASSADORS
If you are a current 6th grader or 7th grader interested in serving on the 2021-2022 Flume and Isinglass Awards committee, please contact the Chesley Memorial Library at 942-5472 for an application before May 17, 2021. As a Teen Book Awards Ambassador, your main tasks would be to read and review nominated books, to attend monthly virtual check-in meetings and to attend the Flume & Isinglass committee meeting in March 2022, where you will share your opinions about the books you have read, and whether they should be on next year's short list. This is a 10-month commitment, from June 2021 - March 2022. You must have a librarian (school or community) or English/Language Arts teacher complete the Librarian/Teacher Nomination Form.
PLEASE NOTE: Even if you have applied for this position in the past, you will need to submit a NEW librarian/teacher nomination. A committee member will be in touch to let you know if you have been selected as a Teen Book Awards Ambassador by May 24th. |
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Thank you, Lydia Pinard!
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Lydia Pinard hosted What is Marine Science at the library on July 20th for our Ocean of Possibilities Summer Reading to great success! Young readers learned the names of the oceans, different ocean animals, looked at ocean waves, and found out how to distinguish between vertebrates and non-vertebrates. Thank you, Grano Children's Initiative, for sponsoring this event and expect more like this in the future!
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We raffled off four tickets to a Fisher Cats game at What is Maine Science, and the winner has been selected.
Congratulations to Kara Gendakos, and we hope you had a great time at the game!
Congratulations to Kara Gendakos, and we hope you had a great time at the game!
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TAKE AND MAKE CRAFTS
We have new crafts available every week next to the staircase for the children's room.
If you do any of the crafts, please feel free to email pictures to share of your artistic abilities to chesleylib@gmail.com with subject line CRAFT.
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WINTER ACTIVITY/READING CHALLENGE
Congratulations to our Winter Activity/Reading Challenge winner, Kaylee Hummel! Kaylee read a non-fiction book, a new book, a book suggested by a librarian, a book with snow in the title, a book with a blue cover, a fairy tale, an award winner, a book with winter in the title, a book that was made into a movie…and still found time to play a board game, do an art project, build a snowman, and listen to an audiobook! Kaylee picked up her gift bag with an assortment of prizes that will help her to enjoy more reading as well as get her ready to enjoy some outside spring activities. Great job reading, Kaylee! |
We hosted a Teddy Bear Sleepover at the Chesley Memorial Library! The teddy bears (and other stuffed friends!) were invited to a sleepover at the Library on Wednesday, July 28, to celebrate Christmas in July. Children brought cuddly friends, listened to some Christmas stories, and enjoyed a light snack. They tucked their friends in for the night and came back to the library on Thursday, July 29, to bring their friends home.
Story Time Photos
Lego Projects!
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Dress-Up Chest - not available for play at this time
The library has a cedar chest to house our dress-up collection in memory of library trustee, Pat Bondelevitch.