Building STEAM with El Dia

Building STEAM with El Día

El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Children's Day/Book Day), commonly known as Día, is a celebration every day of children, families, and reading that culminates yearly on April 30. The celebration emphasizes the importance of literacy for children of all linguistic and cultural backgrounds. This year, Día will be even more thrilling than usual thanks to a mini-grant “Building STEAM (science, technology, art and mathematics) with El Día provided by American Library Association, Association for Library Services to Children and Dollar General Literacy Foundation.  The Martinsburg-Berkeley County Public Libraries is proud to be chosen as one of the eighteen libraries to receive this funding.  With the help of this support, we will celebrate the diversity in our community that makes our lives so much richer and joyful.

Our celebration will begin on April 4, 11am with the visit of Lulu Delacre, a Puerto-Rican born author/ illustrator. Her program, “Sing, Dance and Travel the World” will be both active and informative.  Each family will receive a FREE book (as supplies last) in Spanish or English that Lulu will sign! Activities will continue through the month featuring activities using the GLOBE program. Library staff member were trained by NASA to teach these worldwide weather observations. The Chocolate Festival on April 25, 10-3 will feature “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, but also chocolate history and geography and tastings from around the world, especially in countries associated with our community members. Of course our month-long celebrate conclude on April 30, 3-5 with “Touch the Sea”, a touch-tank with live sea creatures, bi-lingual signage, art, math and science activities. So many ways to celebrate literacy, so much fun! Come to the library and check it out!