1-2-3 Brain Break: Boom Snap Clap

  Brain Breaks are short activities, often only 1-3 minutes long, that help kids get ready to learn or refocus on the task at hand. They often involve physical activity and movement though relaxing activities can also boost mental brain power.   So, in addition to encouraging your kids to participate in these fun breaks, join the …

1-2-3 Brain Break: Voting Fun

Brain Breaks are short activities, often only 1-3 minutes long, that help kids get ready to learn or refocus on the task at hand. They often involve physical activity and movement though relaxing activities can also boost mental brain power.  So, in addition to encouraging your kids to participate in these fun breaks, join the kiddos and …

Día de Muertos 2020

By Johanna Ulloa Girón, MSW, Library District Community Services Manager The tension between life and death. The tension of the ticking seconds experienced while becoming something else, something we love even while it leaves us behind. The tension in knowing that life will fade, it will cease to be and become something else, something close …

One Book Colorado 2020 Winning Book Celebration

The 2020 winner of the One Book Colorado program is “The Little Red Fort” by Brenda Maier and illustrated by Sonia Sanchez. One Book Colorado is a statewide collaboration among Serve Colorado, the Colorado State Library, the Colorado Department of Education, the Denver Preschool Program, Denver7, Mile High United Way, public and military libraries statewide, …

1-2-3 Brain Break: Circle Round

Brain Breaks are short activities, often only 1-3 minutes long, that help kids get ready to learn or refocus on the task at hand. They often involve physical activity and movement, though relaxing activities can also boost mental brain power. So in addition to encouraging your kids to participate in these fun breaks, join the …