Posted in General | October 26, 2012
Few things are as scarily satisfying as a good ghost story or a gothic horror tale involving the discovery of some vast, dark secret in a forgotten nook. Most of us know the famous practitioners of this genre. Edgar Allan Poe is celebrated for his stories of murder, death and…
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Posted in General | October 24, 2012
Art lovers had a lot to fret about recently: The Associated Press reported that on Tuesday, October 16, thieves broke into a Dutch museum and stole seven paintings by legendary artists such as Picasso, Monet and Matisse. The haul could be appraised in the hundreds of millions of…
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Posted in General | October 20, 2012
This week the children at Broadway made a Castle diorama using primarily recycled materials, such as a cardboard box and toilet paper tubes. We also used markers, crayons, glue, and a good dose of creativity! Some of the kids even made a fire breathing dragon out by recycling an…
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Posted in General | September 27, 2012
With summer coming to a close and autumn right around the corner, the kids at Steinway library wanted to hold onto summer before it officially ended and by doing so we made “summer globes” instead of “snow globes.” The idea here is the same as a winter snow globe, though instead…
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Posted in General | August 16, 2012
This week at Steinway’s Garden Club, we planted various beautiful flowers all around the garden. We also played a game in the garden where the kids had to guess what each plant/vegetable was by either looking at the plant or by smelling it. A few of the kids were stumped on some…
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