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Storyworks Jr. Video Read-Aloud: Mountain of Fire

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Footage of the 1980 Mount St. Helens Eruption

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Digital Escape Rooms - try them all!

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Do you have what it takes? We are sure you do!

Solve a series of clues, open the locks in the puzzles and escape. Don't worry, it's just for fun and you can't get stuck inside!

Check out our collection of Digital Escape Rooms created by librarians all around the world - how cool is that?!

These Digital Escape Room rooms are designed for children of different ages, or for families to work on together.

A Harry Potter themed Digital Escape Room

Created by: Sydney Krawiec, Youth Services Librarian at Peters Township Public Library, Pennsylvania, USA

Suitable for: Ages 11+ and/or families

An Alice in Wonderland themed Escape Room

Created by: Erin Honeycutt, Children's Librarian at Moultrie-Colquitt County Library System, Georgia, USA

Suitable for: All ages

A Star Wars themed Digital Escape Room

Created by: Richmond Hill Public Library, Ontario, Canada

Suitable for: All ages

An Avengers themed Digital Escape Room

Created by: Richmond Hill Public Library, Ontario, Canada

Suitable for: All ages

A space themed Digital Escape Room

Created by: Morgan Lockard, Adult/Teen Services Librarian at Campbell County Public Library, Kentucky, USA

Suitable for: Ages 11+ and/or families

A Pokémon themed Digital Escape Room

Created by: High River Library, Alberta, Canada

Suitable for: Ages 6 +

A Goldilocks and the Three Bears themed Digital Escape Room

Created by: Marissa Lieberman, Children's Librarian at East Orange Public Library, New Jersey, USA

Suitable for: Ages 11+ and/or families

A Sphinx and riddle themed Digital Escape Room

Created by: Ashley Le Master, Adult Services Programmer at Clermont County Public Library,Ohio, USA

Suitable for: Ages 11+ and/or families

A Cinderella themed Digital Escape Room

Created by: Stefanie Reed, Youth Services Supervisor at Henika District Library, Michigan, USA

Suitable for: Tweens + and/or families

A Pete the Cat themed Digital Escape Room

Created by: Abington Free Library, Pennsylvania, USA

Suitable for: Ages 2-8

A Minotaur themed Digital Escape Room

Created by: Karen Liu, a Teen Librarian at Salt Lake County Library, Utah, USA

Suitable for: Tweens and Teens

A spy themed Digital Escape Room

Created by: Lauren Rura and Felicia Brock, Adult Service Librarians at Washington-Centerville Public Library, Ohio, USA

Suitable for: Teens and Adults

A Roald Dahl themed Digital Escape Room.

Created by: The children's team at Willoughby City Libraries, NSW, Australia

Suitable for: All ages

A Minecraft themed Digital Escape Room.

Created by: Laura Escamilla, Youth Services Librarian at Regency Park Library, New Port Richey, Florida, USA

Suitable for: All ages

If you are inspired to create an escape room, here's a great video tutorial - Create a Virtual Escape Room with Google Forms

If you create your own Digital Escape Room, let us know at childrens.librarian@qldc.govt.nz and we can share it on our page!

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An eclectic assortment of Digital Escape Rooms, assembled by our QLDC District Children's Librarian.

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Your password is your birth month, a dash, and your birth day: Oct-17 (capitalization matters)

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Possible activities:

1. Practice reading the poem out loud - use your voice to highlight important words. Record yourself and email it to me or read the poem to your family.

2. Memorize the poem and perform it for your family.

3. Write your own poem about something a creature (real or imaginary). Email it to me or share it with your family.

4. Draw a picture to go along with this poem.

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A small dragon

I've found a small dragon in the woodshed.
Think it must have come from deep inside a forest
because it's damp and green and leaves
are still reflecting in its eyes.

I fed it on many things, tried grass,
the roots of stars, hazel-nut and dandelion,
but it stared up at me as if to say, I need
foods you can't provide.

It made a nest among the coal,
not unlike a bird's but larger,
it is out of place here
and is mosttimes silent.

If you believed in it I would come
hurrying to your house to let you share this wonder,
but I want instead to see
if you yourself will pass this way.

Copyright: from Love Poems (Flamingo (HarperCollins), 1990), copyright © Brian Patten 1990, used by permission of the author.

About A small dragon

Sometimes poems that were never intended for children get adopted by them. This next poem is one such poem, and it's called 'A Small Dragon'.

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A small dragon - Children's Poetry Archive

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2. Write your own poem about a different letter of the alphabet. Email it to me or share it with your family.

3. Draw a picture to go along with this poem.

The Letter A

BY DARREN SARDELLI

The letter A is awesome!

It simply is the best.

Without an A, you could not get

an A+ on a test.

You’d never see an acrobat

or eat an apple pie.

You couldn’t be an astronaut

or kiss your aunt goodbye.

An antelope would not exist.

An ape would be unknown.

You’d never hear a person

say “Afraid” or “All Alone”.

The A’s in avocado

would completely disappear

and certain words would be forgot

like “ankle”, “arm”, and “ear”.

Without the A, you couldn’t aim

an arrow in the air.

You wouldn’t ask for apricots

or almonds at a fair.

Aruba and Australia

would be missing from a map.

You’d never use an ATM,

an apron, or an app.

The arctic fox and aardvark

would be absent from the zoo,

and vowels, as you know them,

would be E, I, O, and U.

There wouldn’t be an A chord

on the instruments you play.

Let’s appreciate, admire,

and applaud the letter A!

“THE LETTER A” © 2016 by Darren Sardelli. Reprinted from BLAST OFF. Copyright © 2016 by The School Magazine, Australia. Used with permission from Darren Sardelli.

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The Letter A by Darren Sardelli | Poetry Foundation

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Bring your completed Time Capsule back to school to have it properly bound into a booklet.

I will be creating one large school-wide Covid-19 Time Capsule booklet, which will be available for viewing in the library next year.

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1. Practice reading the poem out loud - use your voice to highlight important words and make sure to emphasize the rhymes. Record yourself and email it to me or read the poem to your family.

2. Memorize the poem and perform it for your family.

3. Write your own poem about something you think you're "in love" with. Email it to me or share it with your family.

4. Draw a picture to go along with this poem.

I Think I'm in Love with My Smartphone by Kenn Nesbitt

I think I’m in love with my smartphone.
I’ve never felt this way before.
I used to be lonely without it.
I don’t feel alone anymore.

My phone is my constant companion.
It loves to just hang out and play.
As long as I plug it in nightly,
it charms and delights me all day.

It likes to play music and movies.
It never says no to a game.
It answers my questions so sweetly.
Without it, life isn’t the same.

I hope you don’t misunderstand me
or think that I’m some kind of freak,
but I fell in love with my smartphone,
so we’re getting married next week.

— Kenn Nesbitt

Copyright © 2020. All Rights Reserved.

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I think I'm in love with my smartphone.
I've never felt this way before.
I used to be lonely without it.
I don't feel alone anymore.

My phone is my constant companion.
It loves to just hang out and play.
As long as I plug it in nightly,
it charms and delights me all day.

It likes to play music and movies.
It never says no to a game.
It answers my questions so sweetly.
Without it, life isn't the same.

I hope you don't misunderstand me
or think that I'm some kind of freak,
but I fell in love with my smartphone,
so we're getting married next week.

- Kenn Nesbitt

Reading Level: Grade 2

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I Think I'm in Love with My Smartphone - Kenn Nesbitt's Poetry4kids.com

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I think I'm in love with my smartphone. I've never felt this way before. I used to be lonely without it. I don't feel alone anymore. My phone is my constant companion. It loves to just hang out and play. As long as I plug it in nightly, it charms and delights me all day....

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I will be creating one large school-wide Covid-19 Time Capsule booklet, which will be available for viewing in the library next year.

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Put your search skills and Google's tools to use. For instance, you can enter 30.891383, -102.885032 right inside the search bar, and learn that it's directly in the center of Ft. Stockton, TX. A quick Search for [Giant bird ft stockton TX] (or perhaps you're the adventurous type who'll "walk" there in Street View) and you'll have your bird: Paisano Pete.

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Have you ever noticed how photographs of underwater scenes have a bluish tint? Sunlight is made up of a rainbow of colors, but when it enters the water the reds and yellows in the light are quickly filtered out. The blues and greens penetrate deeper into the water and give those watery scenes their peculiar cast. Because there is very little red light in the deep sea, most of the animals that live there have never evolved the ability to see the color red. This is why many deep-sea animals are red. In the depths of the ocean, a creature that can't be seen is safe from many predators.

There is an unusual fish that takes advantage of its fellow sea creatures' colorblindness. The stoplight loosejaw, a member of the dragonfish family, can see the color red. Not only that, but it has a patch on its face that glows red. It also has a glowing green spot on its face, which is probably used to communicate with other dragonfish. These red and green patches explain the "stoplight" part of this fish's name. The "loosejaw" comes from this fish's ability to open its mouth extra wide and swallow large prey. Scientists think that the open structure of the lower jaw allows the fish to close its mouth quickly, making it difficult for prey to escape. Relative to its size, the stoplight loosejaw has one of the widest gapes of any fish, with a lower jaw measuring one-quarter of the fish's length. It's not easy for animals that live in the dark waters of the deep sea to find prey. Many of them, including the stoplight loosejaw, have large mouths and sharp fangs that help ensure that their prey cannot escape.
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Below about 650 feet (200 meters), very little sunlight penetrates the ocean. Below 3,300 feet (1,000 meters), the only light is that produced by living creatures. Almost all deep-sea creatures can bioluminescence, or make their own light. But the light they produce is usually blue or green. When the stoplight loosejaw switches on its red spotlight, other creatures in the water are illuminated. Being blind to the color red, they don't realize that they've been spotted. Dragonfish are not known as picky eaters. If one of the lit-up animals is a fish, shrimp, or other suitable prey, the stoplight loosejaw quickly grabs it and swallows it.

The stoplight loosejaw's attributes include a red spot, hinged jaws, and needle-like teeth. Illustration by Steve Jenkins

There are two kinds of stoplight loosejaws. The Northern (Malacosteus niger) shown here and the Southern. Together they are found everywhere in the world except the North and South Poles. Wikimedia Commons

Steve Jenkins has written and illustrated more than forty
nonfiction picture books, including the Caldecott Honor-
winning What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? and the
Boston Globe Horn Book honor-winning The Animal Book.
His most recent books are Apex Predators: Top Killers Past
and Presentand Who Am I?, an animal guessing game
written with Robin Page.

Jenkins, Steve. "The Fish That Sees Red." ​MLA 8 Citation
Nonfiction Minute, iNK Think Tank, 6
June 2018, www.nonfictionminute.org/the-nonfiction-minute/
The-Fish-that-Sees-Red.

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Have you ever noticed how photographs of underwater scenes have a bluish tint? Sunlight is made up of a rainbow of colors, but when it enters the water the reds and yellows in the light are quickly filtered out. The blues and greens penetrate deeper into the water and give those watery scenes their peculiar cast.

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