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Nassakeag Wins the 2025 Emma Cup!

Each year the Emma S. Clark Memorial Library holds a friendly competition among the 3 Village Elementary schools to see which school has the highest percentage of students sign up for and complete the Summer Reading Challenge. This summer Nassakeag Elementary school won and took home the Emma Cup Trophy!

Emma Clark Head Children's Librarian, Brian Debus, presents the Emma Cup Trophy to Nassakeag Librarian, Lisa Lewis, and some Nassakeag students.

The Emma Cup

Nassakeag Library Year In Review

The photos below highlight some of the exciting things students did in the library this year including a book tasting, 3D printing, coding, robotics, and of course browsing for their next great read.

Coding with Bee-Bots

Second grade students used their coding skills to program a Bee-Bot to retell the story of Jack and the Beanstalk.

Puzzling Pentominoes

Students try to fit together 12 unique shaped Pentominoes to solve pattern puzzles-from simple rectangles, everyday objects, and animals.

Multicultural Week

May 12th-16th is Multicultural Week at Nassakeag Elementery school. Stop into the Library to check out a book on a country from around the world or use one of the databases to search for a place you'd like to learn more about or visit!

Celebrate National Library Week

April is School Library Month and April 6th-12th is National Library Week! Be sure to stop in the library to celebrate and check out a great book.

Book Tasting

Students in grades 3-5 visited the library to browse books from different genres. During a book tasting students read from a book for about 5 minutes to see if it is one they enjoy. After the time is up they get to "taste" another one.

Who Would Win?

Stop into the library to vote on who you think is going to win the Super Bowl.

While you are here, be sure to check out one of the books in the popular "Who Would Win?" series or a book about football.

Celebrate Lunar New Year

Stop in the library to check out one of the many books celebrating Lunar New Year

Happy Holidays

Stop in the Library to check out one of the many books for holidays celebrated in December.

Celebrate Diwali

Stop in the Library to check out a book celebrating the history, culture, and traditions of the people of India.

Book Character Pumpkin Patch

Be sure to check out our book character pumpkin patch when you visit the library.

Coding with Bee-Bots

Students learned the basics of coding during a recent library visit by programming their Bee-Bot to follow the same path the snowmen took in the book "Snowmen at Night" by Caralyn Buehner.

Origami Monster Bookmarks

During a visit to the library, students created an origami monster bookmark for Halloween.

Creepy Carrots Halloween Design Challenge

For this activity based on the Caldecott Honor Book, Creepy Carrots, by Aaron Reynolds, 5th grade students used clothes pins and popsicle sticks to create a structure to keep their creepy carrots from escaping the carrot patch.

Warm Up With A Good Book

Stop in the library to check out a new book to read by the fire on a cold night!

Congratulations Madison Indenbaum

Congratulations to second grade student Madison Indenbaum winner of the Emma Clark Library design a bookmark contest.

Emma Cup Winners

Each summer the Emma Clark Library holds a friendly competition to see which elementary school reads the most books as part of their summer reading club. This year Nassakeag came in first place and set new records for the number of students signing up for the club and for the number of students completing the club. Way to go Nassakeag!

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