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Caregiver Workshop Series

Whether it's getting them to eat their vegetables or understanding what's going on inside their heads, being a caregiver of young people can be challenging. Each month's caregiver workshop explores a different topic to support and enrich relationships between kids age birth to 6 and their caregivers.

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September: Resiliency and Self-Care for caregivers with Johnson County Mental Health

October: Your Preschooler's Big Feelings and understanding them with Johnson County Mental Health

November: Food Play with kids cookbook author and blogger Amy Palanjian

December: Decoding Strategies for practicing early literacy with Dr. Marnie Ginsberg founder of Reading Simplified.

The Creation of Leawood City Park: An Interview with Jean Wise

Jean Wise writes: "When you’re a kid, summer means swimming, and when I was growing up in Leawood I did most of my swimming at the Leawood City Park’s pool. I also spent a lot of time on the playground where Lee Boulevard and I-435 meet. Both the pool and playground were thoroughly remodeled in 1997, when I was eleven, and the original playground has long lingered in my memory as a lost paradise – a Shangri-Leawood, if you will. I liked the remodel quite a bit, but once I became an adult I found that every time summer rolled around I started thinking back to the city park as I originally knew it."

Read more of Wise's interview about the history of Leawood's City Park »

This Week at the Library

Walk and ReadDaily, All Week

“Take a walk and read a book.” Not normally sound advice, but that is exactly what Johnson County Library is suggesting families do this week at Quail Creek Park, (7024 Grandview St, Merriam, KS) and at various locations throughout Johnson County. Walk and Read creates a family reading experience in the great outdoors! Families who participate will read two stories posted around the path, one going each direction. When you finish one story, you can flip around to the other side of the sign and begin the next story, which will lead you back around the path. 

The Great Courses – Daily, Anytime

 Stream the best of The Great Courses through Kanopy. Hundreds of topics to choose from. Each course provides a series of in-depth video lessons taught by an expert professor. Enjoy unlimited viewing of this series!

Universal Class – Daily, Anytime

Universal Class offers convenient online classes, lessons with assignments and exams, self-paced deadlines and real human instructors. Continuing Education Units are available. Look through the course catalog to see all offerings and enroll in a class. With over 500 online classes, you are sure to find something to pique your interest.

Udemy – Daily, Anytime

Gale presents: Udemy, offering thousands of on-demand video courses taught by world-class instructors. Courses cover the freshest and most relevant content on leadership and management, coding, design, marketing, IT operations, data science, project management, human resources, sales, accounting, finance and productivity.

Courses include exercise files, searchable transcripts and multilingual captioning. Powered by the Udemy for Business collection, plus an International collection featuring courses led by native speakers in a variety of languages.

 

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TBT: Back to School (way back)

Someone once said "The difference between try and triumph is a little umph." That's good advice for all the kids returning to school.

Check out these class photos from over the years. Can you guess the year for each? The answers can be found at jocohistory.org.

Remember, jocohistory.org is the place to time travel through local history. Be sure to follow our hashtag on Twitter!

Happy Throwback Thursday! Some call it the best day of the week.

Lionsgate Films now on Kanopy

Over 90 Lionsgate films were added to our favorite video streaming service, Kanopy. 

Lionsgate is a studio known for award-winning independent and foreign films. If you want to watch "Apocalypse Now," "Miss Potter," "The Ghostwriter," "The Meerkats," "But I'm a Cheerleader," "Grizzly Man," "Trees Lounge," and many more, all you need is your Johnson County Library card and maybe some popcorn!

This Week at the Library

Walk and ReadDaily, All Week

“Take a walk and read a book.” Not normally sound advice, but that is exactly what Johnson County Library is suggesting families do this week at Stoll Park, (12500 West 119th Street, O.P., KS) and at various locations throughout Johnson County. Walk and Read creates a family reading experience in the great outdoors! Families who participate will read two stories posted around the path, one going each direction. When you finish one story, you can flip around to the other side of the sign and begin the next story, which will lead you back around the path. 

Brainfuse HelpNow Tutoring – Daily, 2 – 11 pm

Get live online after-school help with homework from expert tutors for grade levels Kindergarten through College. Also drop in any time for the writing lab, study aids, practice tests, customized learning plans and collaboration tools.

Virtual City Bicycling – Thursday, Aug 19, Noon – 1:30 pm

Learn the rules of the road and cycling confidence in this FREE class from Johnson County Library and BikeWalkKC! Our instructors will encourage you to ride farther and explore our region on bikes. Register to get the link to our live Zoom webinar.

Naxos Music Library – Anytime, On-Demand

Enjoy a concert right in your headphones! Visit our eMusic page to for rich collections of classical, jazz and world music from Naxos. Stream from the web or the Naxos apps to take your tunes on the go.

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