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Monona Library LEGO® Monona Library LEGO® Club! Farms and Foods!
Tuesday, May 28, 4:00pm
Register Online or call 608-222-6127.
Join the Monona Public Library LEGO® Club.

Members ages 5 to 12 years old meet once a month to share ideas, techniques, and show off LEGO creations. Sign up each month!

This month's theme: Farms and Foods! Build a tractor, build a silo. Build a cow or your pet Milo! Make a carrot, make a tomato; you could even make a baked potato!  - ignite your imagination! Show & Tell at the end of the program. Pictures of LEGO Club and the fabulous creations and costumes will be added to our Facebook photo album. Creations will be on display in the library. Limited space and Lego bricks.

Registration required (LEGO brick donations to the library welcome anytime). Donations can be dropped off at the Monona Public Library, attn: Rob Smithson.
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Teen After Hours Dis Teen After Hours Disc Golf
Friday, Jun. 7, 5:50 - 8 pm
Register Online or call 608-222-6127.
Teens - jump start your summer with a night of disc golf inside the library!
There will be games - including Wii - contests, giveaways and snacks.  An after hours event, just for teens! Must be entering grades 6 - 12 fall 2013. Registration begins May 15.
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Time Capsule: 75th A Time Capsule: 75th Anniversary of Monona. Family event.
Wednesday, Jun. 12, 1:00 - 2:30p.m.
Register Online or call 608-222-6127.

Wednesday, June 12 at 1p.m.

Celebrate your Monona Heritage at the Monona Public Library. There will be live music by Andy Nath, face painting by Janelle Kohlhagen, book displays, refreshments, and a mini-time capsule craft for each family to complete. In addition, items brought in and approved for the City of Monona Time Capsule will be on display.

 

EVENT SCHEDULE

Time: 1:00 pm 2:30 pm

1:00-1:10 Speaker

Display of select items for 75th time capsule

Where: Forum Room

What:

· Photo booth, Facepainting, Live Music, Time Capsule Craft, Treats

· Children’s book covers (books) from 1938 on display

· Create official Time Capsule which will be buried at Monona Motors on Saturday August 31

TIME CAPSULE To commemorate, celebrate, and document Monona’s 75th Anniversary, the Monona Public Library is looking for small items significant to Monona or your Monona Family. The official City of Monona Time Capsule will be sealed on Saturday August 31 at Monona Motors, (Ernies Trading Post).

 

WHAT KINDS OF THINGS SHOULD WE BRING IN FOR THE TIME CAPSULE? All submissions for the Time Capsule must be no larger than 12 inches wide and 30 inches tall and must be submitted to the library by June 12.

· Photographs from years past or of your family today in front of your Monona house.

· Popular toys or tools.

· Labels or packaging of favorite foods or other products, clean. Include price tags.

· Filled journals or diaries.

· Letters of significance that may be of interest to someone many years from now.

· Currency.

· Pictures or photographs of clothing and fashion items of the current time.

· Indicators of high technology. Even if nobody can read the contents of a DVD in 50 or 100 years, you might still enclose one to demonstrate the state of the art.
At Monona Public Library
We need to know especially how many children will be attending. Facepainting, one per child, first come, first served until 2:30p.m. Adults may type in AD when asked for age on this registration form.

Sponsored by The 75th Anniversary of Monona committee.
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Jazz & Hip Hop Dance Jazz & Hip Hop Dance! For ages 6 to 11.
Thursday, Jun. 13, 2:45-3:15 pm
Register Online or call 608-222-6127.
Explore the joy of music & movement while learning basic hip hop & jazz dance style and movements. Creativity, coordination, rhythm & fun!  Limited space.  Registration required.
This 3 week dance class is for children ages 6-11.
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Creative Movement Dance Class! For ages 3 to 5.
Thursday, Jun. 13, 3:30-3:50 pm
Register Online or call 608-222-6127.
This three week dance class is for children ages 3-5.  Younger children may join in with the assistance of an adult.  Creative Movement Dance fosters physical and congnitive development through dance, music, drama, props, rhymes, and stories.  Creative Movement encourages creativity, basic coordination, and body awareness.  Limited space - registration required.
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Under A Bedtime Sky: Stuffed Animal Campout at the library
Monday, Jun. 17, 6pm
Register Online or call 608-222-6127.
Children ages birth to 9 are invited to drop in and drop off stuffed animals at the library in the evening. Critters spend the night at the library doing all sorts of fun things. The stuffed animals are then waiting for their owners at the library the next morning, where the night's activities are recounted on a digital picture frame.

Sign-up your stuffed friend today!
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Monona Library Summe Monona Library Summer LEGO® Club! For ages 5 to 12.
Tuesdays, June 18 and 25, July 9 and 16, 4pm
Registration required, begins May 28.
Join the Monona Public Library Summer LEGO® Club.
Builders ages 5 to 12 years old will meet for this limited 5 week, 4 session, build-a-thon! Join us to share ideas, techniques, and show off LEGO creations. Sign up now!
For the Summer, free build whatever you want! Save your creation from week to week or start fresh each time  - ignite your imagination! Show & Tell at the end of the program. Creations will be on display in the library. Limited space and Lego bricks.
Registration required (LEGO brick donations to the library welcome anytime). Donations can be dropped off at the Monona Public Library, attn: Rob Smithson.
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The Weekly Origamist: A Paper of Creativity
Wednesdays, June 19, 26 and July 10, 17, 24 at 9:30am
Register Online or call 608-222-6127.
Join Rob for this weekly program of paper-folding fun. Participants will have the chance to construct many unique creations using origami, the Japanese art of paper folding. The whole family will love this program.

Each week we will build on the elements and techniques from the previous weeks to create ever larger geometric designs.
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Dig into Reading: A Summer Kickoff Event! For all ages.
Wednesday, Jun. 19, 1pm-3pm
Register Online or call 608-222-6127.
Join the Monona Public Library as we kick the Summer off with a fun-filled afternoon of Theater!

1:00pm - Paw Paw Puppet Theater gives puppet shows of classic folk and faerie tales, often with a twist. To open the 2013 summer library reading program season Paw Paw will present a 30-minute puppet show featuring the tales Lion & Mouse and Monkey & Crocodile, two stories young readers can find in books in the library; and stories in which characters appreciate how reading enriches their lives.
1:30 - 3pm - Children and families are invited to sign up for the summer reading program and register for events.
Sponsored by The Friends of the Monona Library, SCLS, and the Weinberger Family.
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Discovery Days: Worm Games & Dirt Cake. For ages 6 to 11 yr olds.
Thursday, Jun. 20, 1pm - 2:15pm
Register Online or call 608-222-6127.

For children ages 6 to 11 years old. Thursdays, June 20, 27 and July 11, 18 from 1:00 to 2:15 pm (No program July 4).

June 20 Wacky Worm Antics & Dirt Cake. Want to watch an earth moving, dirt munching soil making machine? You can watch one live! Participants will make scientic observations, be part of a team in a longest worm relay race and everyone will enjoy some dirt cake - just look out for the worms! Register in advance.

Sponsored by Sponsored by Monona State Bank. .
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