 PROGRAMS
COMING
 THIS
FALL
Green
Building Tour: Join
us for a daily guided tour through the first LEED certified
Library and
Environmental Learning
Center the whole country!
Daily
Garden Tour:
Stroll through our dreamy gardens and smell the fragrances of
Fall
Exhibit Hall Expeditions:
Take a tour of our indoor exhibits
with one of our knowledgeable staff members!
Senior Eco- Matinee:
Experience the academy award winning documentary,
"An Inconvenient Truth"
Home
Chem. Lab: Bring your samples
in on the first Friday of every month and we will test it at no
charge!
Bouncy Baby Buggies:
(ages 3 to pre-walkers) Bounce and play to buzzing meodies- touch
and feel the wonders of fall!
Tiny Hoppers
Toddler Time: (walkers to 2 years old). Jiggle
and wiggle to the beats of nature!
Little
Explorers Preschool Story hour: (ages 3 to
5) Turkey gobble time, music, stories and crafts!
Teen Naturalist:
Uncover the mystery of owls and discover what your owl ate last
nigt! Join us in the lab and become and investigative scientist.
Critter
Chow Time: Come Experience the ELC Staff fill
the tummies of our hungry animals in the Eiscovery Zone!
Family
Night Under the Stars: Join us in our rooftop
garden with the San Bernardino Amateur Astronomers Club to launch
into the universe!
Highland Environmental Story hour
“Trees are Terrific Program”
Mr. Happy Tree shows all the delicate systems
and
interactions a tree supports in the forest.
 
Children and adults take a walk in the forest and
meet Mr. Happy Tree
 
Sit,
Stay,
Read!
Reading aloud to dogs provides
children with a relaxed, non-judgmental opportunity to practice
their reading skills and improve their confidence.
Lovable and patient therapy dogs from the
HEAVENLY
HEALING PAWS
organization will give your child a
helping paw in reading. Join us at the library and introduce
your kids to a furry new friend.
This program
is provided on the third Saturday of every month at 3 p.m..
Highland
Branch Library
7863 Central Ave.
Highland, CA
(909) 425-4705
Preschool Environmental Story
hour
(Adapted from 1st -2nd Grade)
July 2005
   
Program Title: Who polluted the Santa Ana River?
(Adapted from Sharing a Small World: Environmental
Activities for Young Learners by Population Connection 2001 pg22.)
Program Time: 1 hour
Objective: Young learners will be able to identify
different types of water pollutants and ways to prevent more water
pollution.
-A Readers theater allowed active participation amongst the young
learners to dump pollutants in a water container demonstrating how
water pollution is caused.
Craft: Created by Jessica Sutorus
Materials:
• 12X18 green construction paper divided in half by a line
• Blue Paint
• Sand (Clean Kid sandbox sand)
• Cut out of trees, dead tree, happy turtle, sad turtle
• Trash: plastic bag cut small squares to represent grocery
bags, foil paper squares to represent aluminum, cardboard squares,
and Macaroni shaped like wheels to represent tires, plastic straws
to represent plastic waste
Facts to discus with the learners:
How long does it take for these items to decompose?
Tires never decompose
Plastic- 450 years
Aluminum-200-500 years
Cardboard-2 months
Plastic Bag-20-30 years
JESSICA'S CORNER
Leaf Art Projects
; 
What we do here:
The last Thursday of every month we have an environmental
story hour for preschool age children
.
We have live and static exhibits at the learning center
related to environmental education. We do
program outreach to local schools.
We have loaner materials for local teachers on various environmental
topics.
Locations to Other Environmental Sites:
1. www.creec.org
2. nest.csusb.edu
3. www.sbcounty.gov/library/homepage/default.htm
4. www.ci.highland.ca.us
5. worldwatch.org
6. www.familyplayzone.com
7. www.sdecocenter.org/about.aspx
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