From the Lake Placid Public Library

Dear Homeschool Families,

We have two exciting events for families next week. First, there is the Lake Placid Arbor Day Celebration on Tuesday, May 28th at 5 p.m. at the McKinley Street Park/Playground. All children present at this event will receive a free sapling to plant and a garden stake to decorate, naming and identifying their new tree. Second, there is a visit from Environmental Conservation Officer Matthew LaCroix and Webb, his K-9 partner on Thursday, May 30th at 10:00 a.m. at the LPPL. Officer LaCroix sent a thank you on behalf of Webb to all our library friends for the incredible get-well cards. They must have had an impact because Webb is doing much better, thank goodness. If you plan on attending this May 30th event, please RSVP to librarian at librarian@lakeplacdilibrary.org or 518-523-3200. As always, happy reading!

-Karen and Bambi

Bambi Pedu Library Director Lake Placid Public Library librarian@lakeplacidlibrary.org 2471 Main Street, Lake Placid, 12946 lakeplacidlibrary.org 518-523-3200

• Enjoy a stunning view of the high peaks from a historic greenhouse. Picnicking encouraged!
• Gardening experts will be on hand to answer your questions about planting and caring for your pollinator habitat.
• Kids can take home free wildflower seed packets, participate in themed craft and activity stations to learn about pollination, complete a pollinator scavenger hunt challenge, and get their faces painted with flowers, butterflies, bees, and other pollinators.
• Join in free grassland walks and workshops (details below)!
• Learn about composting to restore Adirondack soils, and how to use compost in your pollinator garden.
• Meet area nonprofits who are helping protect pollinators and their habitat.

SCHEDULE

• 7:30am – 9am: Grassland ecology/bird walk at Heaven Hill Farm with Michale Glennon, Brian McAllister, Hyla Howe (sponsored by PSVIC)
• 9am – 3pm: AdkAction Native Pollinator Plant Sale, with a variety of kids activities (face painting, crafts, wings) with experts on hand to help offer planting tips.
• 11am -12pm: Uihlein Farm Activities & MOTUS Wildlife Tracking System ribbon cutting
• 11am: Uihlein Foundation welcome
• 11:15am: AdkAction & Ausable River Association – The Importance of Native Plants and Pollinators + Native Conservation Nursery Overview – Lisa Salomon, Kiana French & Kelley Tucker
• 11:30am: Adirondack Land Trust – Farm & Grassland Conservation – Aaron Thomas & Chris Jage
• 11:45am: MOTUS Wildlife Tracking station- information/video and ribbon cutting- Chris Regan
• 12:30pm – 2:00pm: Native plant and restoration ecology walk at Uihlein Farm with Ray Curran, Aaron Thomas (Adk Land Trust), Catherine Smith (Northern NY Audubon), and Steve Young. Space limited, sign up here
• 12:30pm – 3pm: “Learn 10 Native Trees” walk at Uihlein Farm – Dan Spada, NY Flora Association. Space limited, sign up here

Save the date and start planning your project now!

Link to capacity building grants https://terraed.org/grants.html

Link to Fair in a Box https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CbL6bbGwWw_R0A3DgU0iyfLm-aPDKcdY?usp=sharing (you may have to request permission / sometimes does that)

The NYS event is the NYS Science Congress sponsored by STANYS (Science Teachers Assoc of NYS). Kids from Clinton, Essex and Franklin are eligible through the Champlain Valley Regional Science Fair https://www.cvrsf.com/. St. Lawrence eligibility is through TNRSF. Note: All the students should be applying to CVRSF, too, for the added experience and the resume building.

How Science Fairs help in homeschooling:

From the Lake Placid Public Library

Dear Homeschool Families,

Below is a revised flyer for the Lake Placid Arbor Day Poster Contest. Please note that the submission deadline for homeschoolers to the LPPL has been moved to Tuesday, May 21^st (earlier than the previous flyer). Even if your child(ren) does not complete a contest submission, we hope that you will join us for the Lake Placid Arbor Day Celebration on Tuesday, May 28^th at 5 p.m. at the McKinley Street Park/Playground. All children present at this event will receive a free sapling to plant and a garden stake to decorate, naming and identifying their new tree. Let us know if you have any questions and, as always, happy reading!

-Karen and Bambi

Bambi Pedu, Library Director
Lake Placid Public Library
librarian@lakeplacidlibrary.org
2471 Main Street, Lake Placid, 12946
lakeplacidlibrary.org
518-523-3200

ACW is offering two awesome summer camps this year, one for teens (ages 13-18) and one for kids (ages 9-12). Keep your kids creative this summer as they learn new skills, meet new friends, and make lasting memories. Learn more about each camp below.

Creating Fictional Worlds: A Three-day Creative Writing Workshop for Teen Writers (ages 13-18)

Story Publishing Camp (Grades 5-8)

From the Lake Placid Public Library:

Dear Homeschool Families,

Unfortunately, tomorrow’s visit with Environmental Conservation Officer Matthew LaCroix and Webb, his K-9 partner has been cancelled. Webb has a few stitiches that need time to heal, so we have rescheduled for Thursday, May 30th at 10:00 a.m. We will send a reminder as we get closer to that date.

Please know that you are still welcome to join us tomorrow morning (5/2 @ 10:00 a.m.) to write get-well cards to Webb. We apologize for any inconvenience but hope that this will help children further understand the role of working animals in environmental conservation and other fields. We appreciate your understanding.

We will also have information and art materials for the Lake Placid Arbor Day Poster Contest for children in grades 3-5.

-Karen and Bambi

Bambi Pedu, Library Director
Lake Placid Public Library
librarian@lakeplacidlibrary.org
2471 Main Street, Lake Placid, 12946
lakeplacidlibrary.org
518-523-3200

Dear Homeschool Families,

Please join us on Thursday, May 2nd at 10:00 a.m. to learn about the important role K-9s play in environmental conservation and safety with special guests Environmental Conservation Officer Matthew LaCroix and Webb, his K-9 partner. Please rsvp to librarian@lakeplacidlibrary.org or 518-523-3200 if you know you are attending to help with set-up needs.

Please note that free parking is available on Main Street until 11 a.m. for residents with a valid parking sticker; in addition, the St. Eustace lot is available for this library program (please leave a note on your dashboard). As always, happy reading!

-Karen and Bambi
Bambi Pedu
Library Director
Lake Placid Public Library
librarian@lakeplacidlibrary.org
2471 Main Street, Lake Placid, 12946
lakeplacidlibrary.org
518-523-3200

For more info: Laura Cook, Cook Family Enterprises, LLC
www.cookfarmny.com
(518) 353-6026

https://www.nynpa.com/nie/lawday.html

From NY News Publishers Association: The Law Day 2024 theme is “Voices of Democracy.”The theme recognizes that in democracies, the people rule. For nearly 250 years, Americans have expressed their political views and wishes by speaking their minds and voting in elections. This contest seeks to amplify student voice on the importance of the First Amendment and the right to vote. To encourage the VOICES of the next generation of voters, we developed a Student video contest.

Make a video that creatively expresses the importance of accurate, reliable information as the United States approaches the election this fall. Use your voice to inspire others to cherish and exercise the right to vote as knowledgeable, informed citizens

Submissions are being accepted through May 22.

Homeschool History Day will be held on Tuesday, June 4th, from 9am-3pm, at John Brown Farm State Historic Site in Lake Placid.

**Please RSVP to sunitahalasz@gmail.com by May 4th with the number of children and adults you’ll bring.**

Scroll down to see the full day’s schedule. There is a suggested donation of $5/family to the two organizations that will be hosting us: John Brown Farm State Historic Site (donations processed through NY Natural Heritage Trust), and historic site friends group John Brown Lives!

History Day is a very inclusive event! All ages are welcome to give a presentation on a history topic of their choice. Kids dress up as the person, place, or thing they have researched. Parents are welcome to join their student on stage.

In previous years, we have had parents be interviewers to help prompt their kids; one time a parent read a story about their child’s topic while their student stood nearby; we’ve had a group of siblings go up together and share their presentation; and of course students also go up on their own. Every method of sharing your learning is welcomed and applauded!

Kids are not required to do a presentation. The role of audience member is equally important!

We’ll all be working together to make a Recycled Reading Rug throughout the day at History Day. This is a project of John Brown Lives!, the friend group of John Brown Farm. This rug will be donated to the Lake Placid Library Children’s Room for all of us to enjoy sitting on when we visit the library for Homeschool Thursdays. Here is a bit of background about the weaving project from the John Brown Lives! end-of-year report. If you have cotton t-shirts to donate in advance of History Day, please give them to a member of North Country Climate Club who is collecting them!