Join us for skill assessments for adults who need a high school diploma (GED or National External Diploma) and tutoring for those with skills at the high school level. Tutoring takes place on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 4 to 7 p.m. Assessments take place on Wednesdays only.
Please note: In order to qualify for tutoring, you must take the assessment first.
This class is designed for mobile children (crawlers/walkers up to 3 years) along with at least one loving caregiver. All are welcome—parents, nannies, other family members and friends. We will move, sing and play together to boost social and physical development. Tots are natural yogis and we will follow their lead as they explore their unique expression of movement. Grown-ups can expect to participate. No prior yoga or fitness experience is necessary. Mats are optional.
These 20-to-30-minute story times are full of books, songs, rhymes and finger plays for children birth to 2 years old. Our Baby and Toddler Story Time is a great way to introduce your child to language skills in a positive and fun environment. With slightly more activity and movement than our lap times, children and their caregivers are encouraged to engage with the books and songs and to actively participate in the program.
This is a ticketed first-come, first-served program.
These 20-to-30-minute story times are full of books, songs, rhymes and finger plays for children birth to 2 years old. Our Baby and Toddler Story Time is a great way to introduce your child to language skills in a positive and fun environment. With slightly more activity and movement than our lap times, children and their caregivers are encouraged to engage with the books and songs and to actively participate in the program.
This is a ticketed first-come, first-served program.
These 20-to-30-minute story times are full of books, songs, rhymes and finger plays for children birth to 2 years old. Our Baby and Toddler Story Time is a great way to introduce your child to language skills in a positive and fun environment. With slightly more activity and movement than our lap times, children and their caregivers are encouraged to engage with the books and songs and to actively participate in the program.
This is a ticketed first-come, first-served program.
These 30-to-40-minute story times are packed full of books and activities designed to be enjoyed by all ages. Promoting language and literacy skills, these story times are a great way to further your child’s lifelong love of reading and learning. Children and their grownups are encouraged to actively engage and participate with the stories and activities during the program.
Please note: Due to space constraints, staff may issue tickets on a first-come, first-served basis and/or limit participants to one adult per child. Please ask at the children's desk.
A drop-in group for adult speakers of other languages to improve their oral skills in American English and gain more confidence in speaking. Participants should have at least a working knowledge of English.
Enjoy homemade early literacy toys with your babies and toddlers, get inspired to make your own at home with everyday objects and get tips on building a foundation for your child to learn and read through play.
We will meet from 10 a.m. to noon.
Recommended for children ages birth to 3 years and their caregivers.
Please join us on Tuesday, Oct. 7 for our monthly Trashy Book Club meeting.We will be discussing our September readings (below), and assigning our SPOOKY October readings, just in time for Halloween!See you there!
Day 1: Seasons of mists and mellow fruitfulness!* The calendar might still say summer, but the weather has us ready for fall! Pumpkins, leaf sniffing, and snuggling in for naps with brother Salt. Life is good!
Have you memorized how to complete every jigsaw puzzle in your closet? Bored with the same old search and fit?Snap out of those doldrums, grab those puzzles, and come to the September edition of the DCPL Jigsaw Puzzle Swap to freshen up your puzzle stash!
The third Adult Knitting Circle saw new faces and new projects. Knitters were creating scarves and a sweater, trading patterns, and helping one another with simple knitting techniques. Join us Sundays at 3 p.m. to socialize, create, and learn something new!
The first knitting circle at Watha T. Daniel was a great success. Five beginning knitters attended, and learned the basic cast-on and knit stitches. There was also some demonstration of circular knitting and discussion of books and beginner projects. Join us on Sunday afternoons at 3 p.m. as we demonstrate more cool fiber techniques, including crochet!
On Sunday, June 29, The DC Public Library hosted a new premier annual literary event called WordsOut. WordsOut is a scholarly component to the Library's participation in the Annual Pride parade and the Pride Festival on Pennsylvania Avenue, and was the name of a prominent gay men's writing group of the MLK Library in the 1980s and 1990s. The keynote speaker for WordsOut 2014 was the esteemed mathematics professor and fiction author
The LGBTQ Summer Literary Fair for Readers, Writers & Librarians
The DC Public Library is pleased to present the first annual WordsOut LGBTQ Literary Fair on June 29, 2014 from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Shaw Library.WordsOut is the DC Public Library's scholarly component to its annual participation in Pride month.The keynote speaker for WordsOut 2014 will be PEN/Faulkner nominated fiction writer and professor Manil Suri, who's latest release The City of Devi has been received to critical acclaim and nominated for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay General Fiction.
Cardboard boxes, bubble wrap, tissue paper, balloons, tape, glue, craft sticks, pipe cleaners, yarn... Surely, you may be familiar with each of these things individually.
We are proud to be part of the largest free summer lunch program in the United States for a second year. The DC Summer Meals Program begins at Watha T. Daniel Library on Tuesday, July 8. Lunch is from 1-3 p.m. every weekday in our lower level meeting room. Youth 0-18 can receive a free meal each day through August 15th, and no advanced registration or ID is required. Check out our lunch/movie board each day to find out what we are serving up!
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