Go for a walk and look for letters of the alphabet all around you! For example, two branches on the ground might form the letter T. The goal is to find the letters without having to move items around to create the letter. Mark off each letter as you find it!
Captain’s logs and ship’s logs have a rich history, and provide insight into how life on seafaring vessels went (and still go today). Continue this tradition by keeping track of what, where, and how you read this summer.
These activities are a great way to help your child get ready to read. They should be fun for both you and your child. The most important thing to to get out, experience the world, and expose them to all different learning experiences.
Play I Spy and find all 12 objects from the activity list in this picture.
Do something nice and show kindness to others! These activities are great ways to show your generosity.
Small gestures make the most difference on a daily basis. It's easy to get so preoccupied with our own lives that we forget about others, but with just one simple act of kindness, we can change the way someone else's day goes, and we can better ourselves and the world in the process. This challenge is designed for you to take the time to do something for someone else — and hopefully they will pay it forward to the next person!
Books can take you around the world and back, even if you're only in your backyard! Show us all the fun and exciting places you read by marking each place you read. Get out and read!
Look at this photo from the Tenafly Library Digital Archive sponsored by the Tenafly Library Friends.
Complete this mission and you'll earn 100 points toward your point total
It's Simple - Read a book with a primarily RED cover. We've flexible any shade of red (which includes those pink books too!)
The list below includes books for all levels from picture books through chapter books, YA and Adult with both fiction and non-fiction options. Don't see something you like? Feel free to explore the shelves and pick any book with a red cover.
It's Simple - Read a book with a primarily ORANGE cover. We've flexible any shade of orange will do.
The list below includes books for all levels from picture books through chapter books, YA and Adult with both fiction and non-fiction options. Don't see something you like? Feel free to explore the shelves and pick any book with a orange cover. It's harder than you think to find them.
It's Simple - Read a book with a primarily YELLOW cover. We've flexible any shade of yellow will do.
The list below includes books for all levels from picture books through chapter books, YA and Adult with both fiction and non-fiction options. Don't see something you like? Feel free to explore the shelves and search for your personal golden treasure of a story.
Recommend a favorite YA genre book. You can find Ms. Florence's recommendations on the library's YouTube Channel or at www.tenaflylibrary.org/teen-booklists. Complete this mission to earn 100 points toward your point total.
Will you live in a castle made of stone or a cabin made of wood? Maybe you'll live in a tree house, a vessel under the sea or a cave deep below the surface of the earth. Or will you live on another planet or in space among the stars?
Find materials around your current home to build a model of your imaginary future home. Let your imagination rule, but ask permission BEFORE you use building supplies which do not belong to you.
Complete this mission to earn 100 points towards your point total.
It's Simple - Read a book with a primarily GREEN cover. We're flexible any shade of greeb works for us from pale seafoam to minty shakes or bright emerald.
The list below includes books for all levels from picture books through chapter books, YA and Adult with both fiction and non-fiction options. Don't see something you like? Explore the library and find the green that is lucky for you.
Some families have pet cats or dogs. Others have a pet frog, turtle, or even a pig! But what would be the pet of your dreams?
We challenge you to create a picture of your dream pet. You are not limited by reality or practicality. That means that your dream pet doesn't have to exist or be possible to keep in your home. This is a pet of your DREAMS!
Create the picture and take a photo of it.
Upload the photo (computer version of READsquared) or email the picture to tenfjuv@bccls.org (phone app version of READsquared).
Write about your pet.
Complete this mission to earn 100 points toward a chance to win a grand prize.
What would you look like if you were made of food? Assemble your favorite candy, decorate with icing, carve a vegetable or mold a stick of butter into your very own features!
Your mission is to create an EDIBLE (that means someone could eat it safely!) self-portrait. You can make your portrait a flat picture or a sculpture that stands on it's own. Some portraits may be realistic (that means it REALLY looks like you) and others may be more conceptual (that means that they show how you FEEL or what you like to DO rather than how you LOOK).
Create the picture or sculpture and take a photo of it.
Complete the challenge by emailing the picture to tenfjuv@bccls.org or upload it here (works on the computer website only - does not work on the phone app) and write about your portrait.
It's Simple - Read a book with a primarily BLUE cover. We've flexible any shade of blue will do from spring afternoon sky to sea to midnight dark.
The list below includes books for all levels from picture books through chapter books, YA and Adult with both fiction and non-fiction options. Don't see something you like? Cast your eyes to the shelves and find the shade of blue that matches your mood.
Using the provided clue(s), guess the name of the fairy tale!
It's Simple - Read a book with a primarily PURPLE cover. We've flexible any shade of purple works for us; pale lavender blooms, bright violet swathes, rich and regal purple, or even dark eggplant.
The list below includes books for all levels from picture books through chapter books, YA and Adult with both fiction and non-fiction options. Don't see something you like? Explore the library and find the purple book for you.