{"id":26168,"date":"2020-03-12T19:45:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T23:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=26168"},"modified":"2020-03-12T19:45:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T23:45:35","slug":"march-break-kicks-off-with-pi-and-pie-at-aurora-public-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/march-break-kicks-off-with-pi-and-pie-at-aurora-public-library\/","title":{"rendered":"March Break kicks off with pi \u2013 and pie \u2013 at Aurora Public Library"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you\u2019re mathematically inclined, you know that this\nSaturday, March 14 \u2013 or, 3\/14 \u2013 is National Pi Day and, in honour of the\noccasion, the Aurora Public Library is kicking off a full week of free March\nBreak activities with a chance to show off your math skills while satisfying\nyour sweet tooth at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis will be our third year celebrating Pi Day at the\nAurora Public Library (APL) and you can come here, do some math trivia, show\noff your math and arithmetic skills, and you can win yourself a piece of pie!\u201d\nsays Jodi Marr, Manager of Customer Opportunity for APL. \u201cOur plan is to have\nsomething every day for people during March Break. We want it to be easy to\nattend, drop in, whatever \u2013 no tickets, no registration. Just come, have fun,\nand make the best of your week off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The chance to taste something sweet \u2013 or not! \u2013 continues\non Monday, March 16, when March Break-proper kicks off with a Harry Potter\nParty from 2 \u2013 4 p.m., suitable for children five and over, accompanied by an\nadult. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cast spells, make wands and capture the golden snitch at\nthe party, at which you\u2019re invited to wear your best Hogwarts costume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne of our most popular features last year was, in the\nbooks they have Bertie\u2019s Beans, which are jelly beans which can either taste\nfantastic or disgusting,\u201d says Ms. Marr. \u201cWe call it \u2018Jelly Bean Roulette.\u2019 Do\nyou get a good one, or a bad one like stinky socks, fresh cut grass, or fish\nflavour?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, there\u2019s only one way to find out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fun continues on Tuesday, March 17, with a live\nreptile show from 2.30 \u2013 3.30 p.m. hosted by Reptilia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday, March 18, is all about Science, Technology,\nEngineering and Math at the Library\u2019s Super STEM Party from 2 \u2013 4 p.m., with\nactivities ranging from building a bridge, making a volcano erupt, and LEGO\narithmetic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOn Thursday, we\u2019re going to try and build an entire city\nthroughout the Library with boxes, cardboard and things like that,\u201d says Ms.\nMarr. \u201cThere will be roads and buildings and whatever else. Whatever somebody\nwants to bring back to the table to build, we will build and hopefully line it\nup along the main Living Room space so you can see what people have created.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Build A City Activity on March 19 runs from 2 \u2013 4\np.m., and is preceded from 1.30 \u2013 3.30 p.m. by \u201cLet\u2019s Do This!\u201d, an activity\nfor youth between the ages of 9 and 14 to create a Set in Stone photo holder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mad Science is the order of the day on March 20 with\ndemonstrations taking place in the Library Living Room from 2.30 \u2013 3.15, and\nthe activities conclude Saturday, March 21 with Fairy Gardens, an activity\nsuited to kids four and up, where you can use your imagination and creativity\nto design your own fairy garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe did this for our Summer Reading Club last year and\nyou get a little pot that you\u2019re able to decorate with moss, mushrooms, sticks,\ntwigs and all kinds of little things that you can put in your garden so the\nfairies who live in your garden will have a place to call their own,\u201d says Ms.\nMarr with a smile. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Library has so many new\nand amazing things going on. We have our Creative Studio where people are\nwelcome to drop in and talk about 3D printing, laser cutters and all kinds of\ncool stuff going on during the March Break and any time. We have a huge\ncontingent of people who like to drop by after school and see what\u2019s going on\nand make a project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf you haven\u2019t been to the Library before, it is a great place to come. There\u2019s something happening every day that will make it worth the visit. We make it as easy as possible for you to engage your kids and engage with your kids and to get something out of the time that you spend here that goes beyond the material. Everything just has so much of an added value that people tend to be very happy with the results: spending time with your kids in a way that is productive and seeing your kids interact with animals, technology, art in ways that you never would imagine them interacting with before \u2013 especially in a library space.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n\r\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re mathematically inclined, you know that this Saturday, March 14 \u2013 or, 3\/14 \u2013 is National Pi Day and, in honour of the occasion, the Aurora Public Library is kicking off a full week of free March Break activities with a chance to show off your math skills while satisfying your sweet tooth at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general_news","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-6O4","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 23:56:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}