Childcare Provider Workshop

A certified workshop for child care providers is offered twice a year. Call the Children's and Youth Services Coordinator at (989) 755-0904, ext. 814 for more information.

Children's and Youth Services Coordinator

Contact Rhonda Farrell Butler at (989) 755-0904, ext. 814 with questions about children's and youth services. The Public Libraries of Saginaw is interested in coordinating activities and events with other area organizations which serve children.

Children's Programs

The library has regularly scheduled programs for children.  Call (989) 755-9826 for a free calendar of events. Special programs include preschool story times, Mother Goose Times, the Parent Child Playgroup, the Summer Reading Program, and story times.

Mother Goose Time
Mother Goose Time is a series of four programs for toddlers, 18-24 months old who must be accompanied by a loving adult. The programs feature stories, nursery rhymes, finger plays and other activities. Call Zauel (989) 799-2771 or Butman Fish (989) 799-9160 for more information.

Teaching Learning Connecting
A five-week series for children ages 1-3 that emphasizes learning through play and a supportive environmen for parents to interact with one another. Child development resource professionals are available during the series to answer questions.

Summer Reading Program
The Summer Reading Program is held June - August to encourage children and teens to keep reading over the summer. The program offers incentive prizes for children preschool through 12 to read ten hours, and teens ages 13-18 to read twenty hours. In connection with the Summer Reading Program all five branches offer free activities for children.

Preschool Story Times
Butman-Fish, Hoyt and Zauel Libraries have regularly scheduled preschool story times for children ages 2½ to 5.

School Services

Interested parties need to contact the children's librarians at each individual branch to schedule any of the items listed below.

Class Visits
All teachers are invited to visit the library with their classrooms. Each class can schedule a tour or special program twice during the school year. Class visits need to be scheduled at least two weeks in advance.

Library to School Visits
In addition to class visits to the library, the Children's Services Coordinator or other library staff will provide programs to schools in the library's service area.

Classroom Collections
Library staff is happy to select a general collection or materials on a special topic for teachers to check out. Please give several days notice, so we can obtain materials from other libraries, if needed. Teachers are able to check out up to 75 items on their library cards.

First Grade Reading Celebrations
All first grade classes in the library's service area will be invited to a special program to celebrate their students learning to read.

Teacher Library Card
Teachers are eligible for a special library card that allows them to check out up to 75 items.

Teens

Special teen programs include Teen Fest, the Summer Reading Program and Teen Read Week. Visit any library for more information.