Join us every Wednesday at 11:00 AM and Saturday at 2:00 PM at the Children & Youth Library for storytime activities, songs, rhymes, fingerplays, and read-aloud stories every week! August is National Water Quality Awareness month and we are learning about water (Navajo: Tó). Ages 0-5.
Octavia Fellin Children & Youth Library 200 West Aztec Ave.
August 17th at 11:00 AM
Learn about rivers, ponds, and lakes, as well as the wildlife that rely on them for survival.
August 2022 WEEK 3 FAMILY STORYTIME THEME: Ponds, Rivers, & Lakes
Join us every Wednesday at 11:00 AM and Saturday at 2:00 PM at the Children & Youth Library for storytime activities, songs, rhymes, fingerplays, and read-aloud stories every week! August is National Water Quality Awareness month and we are learning about water (Navajo: Tó). Ages 0-5.
Octavia Fellin Children & Youth Library 200 West Aztec Ave.
August 13th at 2:00 PM
Experience the rain, its beauty and importance to the earth.
Join us every Wednesday at 11:00 AM and Saturday at 2:00 PM at the Children & Youth Library for storytime activities, songs, rhymes, fingerplays, and read-aloud stories every week! August is National Water Quality Awareness month and we are learning about water (Navajo: Tó). Ages 0-5.
Octavia Fellin Children & Youth Library 200 West Aztec Ave.
August 6th at 2:00 PM
Discover different ways that kids can have fun with water, whether it is by swimming, splashing in puddles, or taking a bath.
August 2022 WEEK 1 FAMILY STORYTIME THEME: Water is fun
Join us every Wednesday at 11:00 AM and Saturday at 2:00 PM at the Children & Youth Library for storytime activities, songs, rhymes, fingerplays, and read-aloud stories every week! August is National Water Quality Awareness month and we are learning about water (Navajo: Tó). Ages 0-5.
Octavia Fellin Children & Youth Library 200 West Aztec Ave.
August 3rd at 11:00 AM
Discover different ways that kids can have fun with water, whether it is by swimming, splashing in puddles, or taking a bath.
August 2022 WEEK 1 FAMILY STORYTIME THEME: Water is fun
Join us outside by the playgroundat Octavia Fellin Public Library Children’s Branch every Wednesday at 11:00 a.m. for bilingual animal songs and stories.
For the continued safety of our neighbors, we do ask attendees to continue social distancing and mask-wearing.
June 2nd, 2021 – Dr. Doolittle and Friends
June 9th, 2021 – Bookish Beasts
June 16th, 2021 – At the Zoo!
June 23rd, 2021 – No Place Like Home
June 30th, 2021 – Read Connect Protect
We’re also offering a preschool activity book available at OFPL on a first-come, first-serve basis using the Supply Request Form.
Join us on Facebook LIVE @galluplibraryevery Friday at 4:00 p.m. to participate in Fun Friday interactive events and the opportunity to win some great prizes!
Unleash your inner scientist with all the supplies you need for 12 different STEM activity kits available at OFPL using the Supply Request Form all month long. We will be demonstrating the water wheel activity included in the kit.
Join us on Facebook and YouTube @galluplibrary for fun sensory activities you can do at home for everything from learning the alphabet to improving motor skills.
Tune in on Facebook & Youtube @galluplibrary at 11:00 a.m.
Grassroots group aims to revitalize Diné Bizaad and encourage bilingualism through Shimá Storytelling.
Gallup Independent. November 15th, 2019. Christina Tsosie, Staff Writer.
GALLUP – Shimá Storytelling began with Radmilla Cody briefly informing attendees in the audience that taking photos and recording songs and performances by the trio – comprised of Cody, Pauletta Chief-Lee, and Stefanie Littlehat – was forbidden.
Anne Price of the Octavia Fellin Public Library Children’s Branch and their staff invited Shimá storytelling as their guests for Native American Heritage Month and Native Language Programming Wednesday from 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m..
Along with songs aimed at revitalizing Diné Bizaad, or the Navajo language, the group also hopes to promote awareness of consent. Continued after image.
Newspaper article featured in Gallup Independent. Scanned 11.22.2019 by OFPL Staff member, Joshua Whitman.
Empowering Youth
Too often in this age – the age of social media – we forget that we need to ask permission to take photos or record sessions, said Cody, after all, it is their body, their choice.
“Not only do we want to empower youth by encouraging them to speak up against anyone attempting to capture their likeness or their actions, we also want to create a safe space for everyone so that they can be free to be themselves,” she said. “We’re very sensitive towards other people’s preferences – whatever those may be. This is something that we have done from the beginning.”
Newspaper article featured in Gallup Independent. Scanned 11.22.2019 by OFPL Staff member, Joshua Whitman.
When Shimá Storytelling began their story in April, their goal was to bring their children together to socialize and play with one another while listening and speaking Navajo.
Newspaper article featured in Gallup Independent. Scanned 11.22.2019 by OFPL Staff member, Joshua Whitman.
