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Virtual Table Top Games
September Featured Table Top Games
Join us Wednesday at 6 p.m. for our monthly virtual Table Top Games event! Each month, we gather in Zoom and on Board Game Arena to play games, make friends, and have adventures. Here’s what we’re playing this month:
Potion Explosion: Channel your inner mad scientist! Choose your potion ingredients carefully to make them explode. The bigger the explosions, the faster you’ll brew your potions.
Libertalia: Where do pirates go when they retire? To Libertalia, of course. Battle to become the richest pirate so you can build this utopian pirate retirement colony.
Kingdom Builder: Take advantage of the terrain and buildings available to your fledgling kingdom to construct settlements, win objectives, and amass piles of gold.
Welcome To (Your Perfect Home): Play the role of a 1950s residential developer! Everyone gets the same resources; can you arrange yours into the most enviable housing estates with fancy pools and luxurious parks.
Dragonwood: The enchanted forest of Dragonwood contains many menacing creatures. Stomp on some fire ants, shriek at a grumpy troll, or strike the menacing orange dragon with a magical silver sword—you’ll need to vanquish your foes to emerge victorious.
This Week at the Library
Walk and Read – Daily, 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 Big Bull Creek Park, (20425 Sunflower Rd., Edgerton, 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.
English Language Conversation Classes Basic and Intermediate Level Interviews/Entrevistas para las Clases de conversación en inglés de nivel básico e intermedio – Tuesday, Aug 31, 6:30 – 7:45 p.m.
Practice using the language by joining our virtual English conversational sessions for basic and intermediate levels. You must register and be interviewed to assess your level of English proficiency. If accepted, you will attend the series of classes on Tuesdays: September 14, 21, 28; October 5, 12, 19; November 2, 9, 16, 23, 30; December 2, 9, 16 at 6:30PM until 7:45PM.
Facebook Live Book Party – Wednesday, Sept 1, Noon – 1 p.m.
Facebook Live Book Parties are live events where library staff members will booktalk a short list of titles around a certain genre or theme and staff will interact with patrons in real time. This Book Party will be held on Facebook live. Visit JoCoLibrary on Facebook and be sure to ‘follow’ us to get notifications when we go Live if you have a Facebook account. You do not need a Facebook account to watch our Book Party.
Caregiver Workshop Series – Wednesday, Sept 1, 7 - 8 p.m.
Whether it's getting them to eat their vegetables or understanding what's going on inside their heads, being a caregiver of young children 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.
Meet the Author & Illustrator
Meet the Author & Illustrator: Sharice Davids with Nancy K Mays and Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley
Register for this program online or call 816.260.4600.
Kansas 3rd district congresswoman Sharice Davids loves encouraging kids to use their voice and lift up their communities. Join us for a reading and discussion with Rep. Davids, co-author Nancy Mays, and illustrator Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley as they talk about the art and story in Sharice's Big Voice. Their book tells the triumphant story of Davids, one of the first two Native American women ever elected to Congress and the first openly LGBTQ+ congressperson to represent Kansas in Washington.
This program will be hosted using the meeting software Zoom. A Johnson County Library staff member will contact registrants via the email you registered with to provide more information about the program and instructions on how to access the Zoom meetings. You do not need to download any software or create an account.
In connection with our author event with Congresswoman Sharice Davids and her debut children’s book, Sharice’s Big Voice, kids are invited to join our youth writing and art contest, Reaching for Your Dreams. In Sharice’s Big Voice, Sharice dreamed of making a difference in this world by pursuing politics and now represents Kansas as a Congresswoman. What are your dreams? How will you accomplish them? What stands in your way? How will you stay motivated and what happens if you fail? Any or all of these questions and more can be explored in your submission. Short stories, essays, poems and art can be submitted Sept. 1-14.. Winners will received a copy of Sharice’s Big Voice signed by the authors and illustrator. Open to ages 10 and under.
TBT: Leawood City Park
The Creation of Leawood City Park: An Interview with Jean Wise
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.
I remembered sand pits separated by concrete slabs connecting them that had tunnels big enough to crawl through. I remembered a small, stepped hill-sized structure with evergreen bushes on it. One could ... Read the full article on the jocohistory blog.»
Step-by-Step through the FAFSA
Register online for this program or call 913.826.4600.
Thursday, Oct. 14
6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Online event
The Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, is the federal application necessary to get free and low-cost money for college. Join Jason Anderson, CPA, CFP®, Managing Member and Senior Consultant at Gradmetrics, as he walks line-by-line through the FAFSA form, using it to explain the ins-and-outs of the college admissions and financial aid process.
This program will be hosted using the meeting software Zoom. A Johnson County Library staff member will contact registrants via the email you registered with the day of the program with instructions on how to access the Zoom meeting. You do not need to download any software or create an account.
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.
Register for this monthly series »
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 Read – Daily, 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
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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.