children have free play opportunities. Play also helps children build social skills and a healthy self-esteem. So, let’s get out there and play with our kids this summer,” says Leslie Martin, principal of Marigny Elementary and president of the Children’s Museum of St. Tammany.
photo: MARCI HIDALGO
Christy Myers is the CCO of the Children’s Museum of St. Tammany. For more information, she recommends visiting: www.gse.harvard.edu/ news/uk/18/06/summertime-playtime.
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Things to do with Your Kids 1. Honey Island Swamp Tour Climb aboard a flat bottom boat and traverse through swamps and around cypress knees as you go deep into the Honey Island Swamp ecosystem. On your twohour tour, your knowledgeable captain will tell you all about the flora and fauna of Louisiana, throw in a little culture and history, and introduce you to resident alligators of the Honey Island Swamp. Keep your eyes peeled for the legendary Honey Island Swamp monster!
2. Global Wildlife Center Get eye to eye with giraffes, feel the wooly fur of bison, or get licked by a llama on your safari tour of the 900-acre free roaming Global Wildlife Center in Folsom. Visitors love to feed the animals from covered >> FOR TEENS
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The St. Tammany Parish Library’s annual Summer Reading Challenge, “Tails & Tales,” is happening now
through Saturday, August 7, with a simple goal: to encourage everyone to spend 20 minutes reading every day this summer. Tails & Tales is designed to give patrons of ALL ages the pick of the litter when it comes Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Conceal, Don’t Feel:
Campfire by Shawn Sarles
to “pawesome” summer reads and
In the first book in the Lunar Chronicles
A Twisted Tale
While camping, Maddie Davenport,
“fintastic” events and prizes. Throughout
series, Cinder, a gifted teenage
by Jen Calonita
her friends and her family tell scary
this time, readers of all ages can visit
mechanic, is a cyborg, a second-class
Following the death of her parents, Elsa,
stories. Caleb, the young guide, shares
the Library Summer Reading page
citizen with a mysterious past, reviled
Queen of Arendelle, is lonelier than ever.
the legend of the Mountain Men who
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by her stepmother. Her life becomes
Mysterious powers reveal themselves,
hunt campers and carve antlers into
and click on the Tails & Tales icon to
intertwined with Prince Kai’s and
and she remembers fragments of her
their foreheads. The next day, the story
create an account in the challenge
caught between duty and freedom,
childhood that include a familiar-looking
comes true. Now Maddie and her
tracking program Beanstack. Earn
loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover
girl. Elsa takes a harrowing journey across
family are lost with no way out, stalked
720 points to complete the Summer
her past to protect her world’s future.
her icy kingdom.
by their worst nightmares.
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