By Amy Mann
Children’s Services

Zach Mueller was a Winter Reading Program winner at the Warsaw Community Public Library. Photo provided by WCPL.

Spring Break all started with the Greek and Roman Empires.

Partiers celebrated spring as a season of fertility and new beginnings. They celebrated with plenty of food, wine and extravagant pageantry. The Greeks enjoyed flower festivals, and the Romans held horse and chariot races.

The Christian celebration of Easter also takes place in the spring. It is always held on the first Sunday after the full moon following the March equinox (so, the first full moon of spring). This moon is also called the Paschal Moon, which is the moon associated in the lunar calendar with the Jewish holy day of Passover.

The reasons schools around the world take a break during the spring vary. Some breaks fall over the Easter weekend, and some are meant to give students (and teachers) a reprieve for study or rest. Some families travel, some do service projects, and others stay home and regroup before school begins again. For others, it will be business as usual for the parents, and the children will go to camps or to daycare of some sort.

What will you and your family be doing for spring break this year? Warsaw Community Schools take a break the first full week of April every year. Warsaw Community Public Library will be celebrating National Library Week during that time as well. In Children’s Services that week, WCPL will have in-person story times. Babies and toddlers, and their parents, meet at 10:15 a.m. on Wednesdays in Room C for stories and activities. Children ages three through five and their caregivers can choose to come at 10:15 a.m. Monday or Friday for a story time geared toward them, also in Room C, downstairs.

Watch for WCPL’s weekly online story time as well, which is posted on Facebook at 7 p.m. Thursdays, and available to view at your convenience at a later time. Another popular event taking place on Spring Break Week is Lego Club. There will be two Lego Club events; Room C will be open from 1-5:30 p.m. Friday. For those who can’t come then, there will be another Lego Club from 10:30 a.m. to noon on Saturday.

Come to Children’s Services that week for take-home crafts, Snap Circuit play, a fabulous Lego hunt, and other surprises.