Starting a vegetable plot in Foggy Bottom?
Growing flowers in a container on your balcony?
Check out these titles at West End Library:
Container Gardening: 250 Design Ideas & Step-by-Step Techniques by Carol Kasper & Jen Malack
100 Garden Tips and Timesavers by Walter Chandoha
Early Literacy Tip
Encourage your child to tell about her day—a birthday party or a special trip. Ask questions such as, "What happened first? What happened next? What did it look like? What did you like best?"
Early Literacy Tip
Snuggle with your child using a favorite blanket or toy as you read. It is not only what you read but how you read to a toddler that is important.
Books We Read
Are you a kid or teenager who loves to draw? Do you know a kid or teenager who loves to draw?
If so, the Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian is the place to be the first weekend in April!
On April 3 and 4 at 2 p.m., in honor of the annual Cherry Blossom Festival, the Sackler is celebrating anime and manga (Japanese-style animation and comics). Learn about the roots of anime and manga in the drawings of 19th-century artist Hokusai, and get feedback on your anime drawings
Please join us for a talk on Pierre Corneille's The Cid to be held Wednesday,
March 31, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the small meeting room on the 2nd floor of the West End Library. The talk is third in the discussion series on the theme of love and strife in literature sponsored by the West End Library Friends. The presenter is Ori Z. Soltes, resident scholar in theology and fine arts at Georgetown University. Discussion questions will be as follows:
Early Literacy Tip
Explain to your child the things you are doing as you are doing them. (For example, “Look! I’m answering the phone – let’s see who it is!”) The more you talk with your child, the richer your child's vocabulary will be.
Books We Read
Early Literacy Tip
Read to your baby often. Children who are read to at least three times a week do better in later development than those who are read to less than three times a week.
Books We Read
Bear of My Heart by Joanne Ryder
Whose Chick Are You? by Nancy Tafuri
His name is Arnold Spirit Jr., but most people just call him "Junior." He has seizures, a speech impediment, and is a charter member of the Black-Eye-of-the-Month Club. In other words, he spends a lot of time getting punched in the face by the stronger guys on the reservation. Fortunately, he has a few things that keep him sane:
Early Literacy Tip:
Before we learn our letters we must first learn our shapes such as triangle, square, star, rectangle,
circle, etc. When reading or engaging your child in the world, talk about the shapes they see. For a fun
activity make shapes with your body.
Attention genealogists. Your search for family history just got easier.
Click on the Heritage Quest genealogy database on the library's website. Heritage Quest covers more than 25,000 family and local histories, U.S. Federal Census records from 1790-1930, over 28, 000 family and local histories, the Periodical Source Index to more than 2 million articles, over 80,000 Revolutionary War Pension & Bounty Land Warrant Applications, and the records of the Freedman's Bank (1865-1874) which was founded to serve newly freed African-Americans.
