Programs & Events
Workshops
Programs for Kids
First 5 Forever storytime is an interactive program for preschool children and babies featuring songs, rhymes and stories. This is a free event conducted in a relaxed atmosphere with a focus on fun. These activities are designed to help prepare your children for school and encourage:
- good listening skills and developing a love of reading and learning
- fine and gross motor skills development and coordination
- memory, sequencing and rhyming skills
- social interaction, creativity and family fun
First 5 Forever sessions include singing, rhymes and stories. Sessions are held fortnightly.
The InglewoodT First Five Forever is held on the 1st Wednesday of each month; and the Texas First Five Forever is held on the 3rd Friday of each month. Have a look below for information about sessions in the Goondiwindi Library. They are held every 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month.
Times for Goondiwindi First Five Forever:
*Sing & Story Time – 2nd Thursday of each month – 10:00am – 0-5 years combined
Sing and Story sessions are fun, high-energy opportunities to brush up on your nursery rhymes and sing and dance with your child. Learn new songs to try at home and match actions with words to help your child learn. Enjoy this special time together, meet other parents and caregivers and learn something new! After this, kick back, listen to or interact with a couple of special stories. This is a great session to pick up some ways to introduce some early literacy skills to your child. Best of all, it is free!
*Play Time – 4th Thursday of each month – 10:00am – 0-5years combined
Come along to participate in a variety of simple activities that can provide interactions and experiences that assist your child’s development and inspire you to re-create some of the opportunities at home.
Some skills and benefits gained throughout activities:
- To learn new concepts based around the monthly theme in a fun and engaging way
- To encourage creative and critical thinking through role-play, crafts, puzzles and other games
- To improve language, early literacy and communication skills
- To support social and emotional development including working collaboratively, building resilience when ‘competing’ in games and taking turns
- To enhance physical development including gross and fine motor skills
- To enjoy some sensory experiences
- To spend some quality time with your little one
Goondiwindi First 5 Forever Tickets (0-5yrs) here
Remember there are always opportunities to discuss with your child colours, letters, numbers, animals and to provide different experiences to extend your child’s development. This can be through a simple conversation about their day and yours – it does not have to be a planned lesson with bulk resources! YOU are their best resource.
Tip: Find out what your child likes and run with it to make it beneficial to their growth. Play with your children every day – talk and have fun while you play together. Point out any letters or words you see. Talk about street signs, treasure maps, symbols, posters or labels when shopping, and show children recipes and instructions as you follow them together.
Call, Click and Collect Service: You can still ring the library and request for some books, audiobooks, DVDs or puzzles to be put aside for you.
For more information about these sessions please contact the Library on 4671 7470. You can also visit the First 5 Forever website
Goondiwindi Regional Council, Care Goondiwindi and United Way Australia have united to bring Dolly Parton's Imagination Library early literacy intervention to children in the Goondiwindi Local Government Area.
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library puts books into the hands and hearts of children across the world - and it's now right here in the Goondiwindi Region! Any child born from 1 March 2022 currently residing in the Goondiwindi Local Government Area is eligible to join.
In partnership with our local Council libraries in Goondiwindi, Inglewood and Texas, Dolly Parton's Imagination Library will provide a hand-selected, age-appropriate, high-quality book each month to registered children (from birth to age five).
The Imagination Library means that all Goondiwindi Region children can have a great selection of books at home to support the great selection on offer in our libraries and support their reading at home.
More information can be found on the website
If you are interested in sponsoring the program you can do so on this website
Programs for Adults
This group normally meets on the 1st Tuesday of each month in the Goondiwindi library or the 3rd Tuesday of each month in the Inglewood library to discuss great authors and exciting reads. The content for this group is also online. For more information contact Ilona at the Library on 4671 7470.
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