Week Calendar

Join us inside to explore songs, stories, and fun designed for our youngest audience and their caregivers! This program is intended for children 0-12 months and their families.

Music, movement, and stories for the whole family. Designed for ages 0 and up with a caregiver.

Songs, stories, and play for babies and their grownups. Designed for ages 0-24 months with a caregiver.

Enjoy music, stories and more! Designed for ages 0-5 with a caregiver.

Join us for a caregiver-led discussion and playgroup for tips and tricks to help navigate raising little ones. 

Songs, stories, and play for babies and their grownups. Designed for ages 0-24 months with a caregiver.   Afterwards, we offer a "stay and play" for all to enjoy.

Songs, stories, and play for babies and their grownups.  This program is for children ages 0-24 months with a caregiver.  Afterwards, we offer a baby playgroup for all to enjoy.

Inspired by Musical Storytime? Play with a variety of instruments from around the world and make some music of your own!

Songs, stories, and fun for preschoolers and their grownups. Designed for ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

Is your stuffed animal friend in need of a sleepover at the library? Bring your stuffed animal friend to a special Musical Storytime. Then leave them with Ms. Molly for an adventure. She will take good care of them for the night.

Songs, stories, and fun for preschoolers and their grownups. Designed for ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

Join us for stories, songs, rhymes, and more! Designed for toddlers and their caregivers. Ages 18 - 36 mos.

Join us for stories, songs, rhymes, and more! This program is for children ages 2-3 and their caregivers.

Enjoy a variety of activities to help develop the skills needed for school. Designed for ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

Enjoy stories, fingerplays, rhymes, and more. Ages 0-5.

A multi-sensory storytime designed to support children with autism or sensory processing challenges. This time is designed to meet your child where they are in, a fun, engaging environment.

Go Team Therapy Dogs will be here to visit! 

This program designed for adults with developmental disabilities and their caregivers.

Songs, stories, and fun for preschoolers and their grownups. Designed for ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

Songs, stories, and fun for preschoolers and their grownups. This program is for children ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

Enjoy stories, songs, fingerplays, rhymes, and more! Designed for ages 2-5 with a caregiver. 

Designed with beginning mobility in mind, join us for movement, songs, stories and more that will guide caregivers toward early learning and literacy for toddlers.

Come learn a new skill of writing and learn how to do Calligraphy!

Songs, stories, and fun for toddlers and their grownups. Designed for 2 year olds with a caregiver.

Music, movement, stories and more! 

Join us for stories, songs, rhymes, and more! This program is for children ages 0-5 with a caregiver.

Enjoy stories, songs, fingerplays, rhymes, and more! Designed for ages 2-5 with a caregiver. 

Songs, stories, and play for babies and their grownups. Followed by baby playgroup. Designed for ages 0-24 months with a caregiver.

Songs, stories, and play for babies and their grownups. Designed for ages 0-24 months with a caregiver.

Run, run as fast as you can to the Urbana Library for a special Gingerbread Storytime featuring the Gingerbread Man himself! Geared for ages 0-5 with a caregiver.

Songs, stories and fun for the whole family. Designed for ages 0-5, with a caregiver.

Freedom Bang is a pre-choreographed fusion of boxing, HIIT, hip hop, world dance, optional weighted gloves and just a touch of attitude. Offering a wide range of intensity options to help you customize your workout.

Shri Yoga is a calming but challenging style practiced in an informal environment. Classes include various asanas, breathing exercises, chakra vibration, mantras, and relaxation techniques. Attendees are welcome to bring their own mat.

To reserve an appointment, click here or call the Point of Rocks Library at 301-874-4560.

Movement, music, stories and fun for the whole family. Designed for ages 0 and up with a caregiver.

Join us to explore songs, stories, and fun designed for our youngest audience and their caregivers.

Children learn and explore through hands on activities using science, technology, engineering, art, and math concepts at the library. Caregivers are encouraged to connect with children and participate in the activities!

Join us for play based learning, games and activities! Designed for toddlers and their caregivers.

Bring your wiggles for songs, stories, and fun for toddlers and their grownups. 

Have fun exploring literacy, STEM, and art through play-based activities that integrate essential school skills.  Designed for ages 3-5 with a caregiver. 

Introducing toddlers and their caregivers to a variety of preschool-readiness skills including fine motor development, social emotional skills, and early literacy activities. 

Variety of preschool aged activities to support early literacy and school readiness skills. Designed for ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

Enjoy a variety of activities to help develop the skills needed for school. This program is for children ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

Explore Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math concepts. Designed for ages 2-5 with a caregiver.

Songs, stories, and fun for preschoolers and their grownups. Designed for ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

Young learners can practice skills they will need for school - listening, asking, writing, cutting, tracing, and more. Designed for ages 2-5 with a caregiver.

Songs, stories, and fun for toddlers and their grownups. Designed for 2 year olds with a caregiver.

Preschoolers and their caregivers will practice school-readiness skills with cutting, tracing, play, and other literacy activities.

Are you feeling blue? Brighten your day with this colorful Fri-yay program. Children can explore the colors around us by participating in hands-on fun. Don't forget to wear your favorite color as you make your way to our branch!

Stories, movement, music, and fun for the entire family.  Designed for ages 0 and up with a caregiver.  

Learn how to creatively wrap gifts with help from local crafters. Kraft paper and accessories will be available to use.

Lawyer in the Library provides free one-on-one legal advice from Maryland Legal Aid lawyers. Types of issues include:

Be transported back in time to the beginnings of library service in Frederick County in a 100-year-old school, now serving as home to the Emmitsburg Library.

Join the African American Resources Cultural and Heritage Society for Museums by Candlelight.

Once a year, Frederick County’s numerous historic sites and museums provide visitors with a living reminder of this area's remarkable past.

Learn about buoyancy and make your own boat from different materials to build the ultimate ship. Put your creations to the test in several sink or swim challenges and design competitions. 

Margaret Ann Radford leads a gentle yoga session that helps improve mobility in a soft and gentle, yet supportive and beneficial way. 

Margaret Ann Radford leads a gentle yoga session that helps improve mobility in a soft and gentle, yet supportive and beneficial way. 

Back pain is a common issue that often stems from the physical demands of work and life in general. This program, led by Dr.

Please join us for gentle chair yoga, suitable for all abilities.

Put what you learned to use in a chess tournament. Designed for kids in grades 3-8.

Enjoy holiday music performed in the library stacks featuring teachers from the Sloan School of Music.

12/1 Deanna Davis

12/8 Madelyn Hall

12/15 Christopher Probst

As you can tell by the title, this is not your usual book club!  Each month on a Sunday afternoon, experts from Frederick Health Hospice will explore issues surrounding death AND life through a variety of books and other media. And no, y

Take advantage of the holiday season to revisit your genealogy research, finally talk to those relatives, get organized, make a plan, and kickstart your family history in 2025.  We will discuss revisiting back methodology and brainstorm some

Stop in and play chess with friends!

Relief, fulfillment, and self-understanding become radically more available when we view mindfulness practice through a broader lens of skill development.

Join us to make three easy no-bake recipes for the perfect holiday get-together! We will make a mocktail, appetizer, and dessert that require no baking. Teens and adults welcome, recommended for ages 16-25.

Enjoy classic holiday songs performed in the library.

Come hang out and join in a Fortnite elimination race tournament. Sign up for the bracket or stay and watch! Duos will compete to see who ends the game with the most points. 

Are you a fan of fantasy and strategy games? Join us to learn the basics of Magic: The Gathering. Build your own deck, play a match, and explore the exciting world of spells and creatures.

Want to learn how to make your drawings POP? Learn about perspective while drawing a snowman. We'll create the illusion of 3D space on a flat surface while drawing some snowy friends! For elementary age children.

To reserve an appointment, click here or call the Point of Rocks Library at 301-874-4560.

Express yourself with a mix of art and techology! Learn a new software, tool or toy and make something rad!

This Month: Flex your lego building skills and test your creation against an earthquake!

Calling all Swifties! We're in our birthday era. 

An afternoon of music and celebration!

Embark on a meaningful journey to preserve and share your life's most cherished moments.

Create a  Reindeer Cocoa bag for yourself or a friend this holiday season! Supplies limited!

Get started with crocheting, a life-long hobby - with the talented ladies of the Woodlands! Learn how to hold the hook & yarn and how to make a starting chain - then build from there! All materials provided, while supplies last.

Join us for a variety of science, technology, engineering, arts and math activities for elementary-aged children.

Enjoy a reading of Iggy Peck, Architect by Andrea Beaty and then design a bridge using recycled materials. This program is for children in kindergarten through 5th grades (ages 5-10).

Discover and explore the world around you through science, math, technology, history, art, and literature. Designed for kids in grades K-5.

Turn old books into a winter wonderland with just your imagination and a pair of scissors! Recycle discarded pages and transform them into one-of-a-kind snowflakes that are as unique as you are.

Calling all young adventurers! Have you ever wondered what it would be like to create your own character and go on magical adventures with your friends? Do you enjoy playing games and being creative?

Come in, create a magical kitten character, and join a one-shot of the tabletop role playing game Magical Kitties!

Explore the world around you through science, math, technology, history, art, and literature. Designed for kids in grades K-5.

Grades 4-7. Learn the beginner basics of knitting and crocheting or bring your own projects to join in the crafting. All skill levels welcome. Materials will be provided.

Join us for this free yoga class offered by Sol Yoga.  Be sure to wear comfortable clothes.

Hear from a Frederick Community College Admissions Representative about FCC educational opportunities.  All prospective students are welcome!

This is a group for those who would like to gather for a social time of crafting together. Instruction will be provided to new learners. Bring your own projects to work on and meet other local crafters.

Join us for a wonderful, whimsical winter storytime with our special guest, Mrs. Claus! Enjoy songs, stories, and rhymes with the whole family. 

Join us for bedtime themed songs and stories--pajamas are welcome!

Stress and holidays seem to go hand-in-hand. As your busy schedule becomes even busier with preparations and celebrations, it may be a good time to try to reframe your thinking about the holidays.

Come share a story with a specially trained therapy dog form WAGS for Hope.

Use sheets of beeswax to make your own candle!

This program is for teens in 6th through 12th grades (ages 11-18).

Songs, stories and fun for the whole family -- pajamas are welcome!  Designed for ages 0-5, with a caregiver.

Join Go Team Therapy Dogs to improve your reading confidence and make a new friend when you read aloud to a therapy dog.

Gather a team of up to 6 people for a fun night of trivia at Orchid Cellar Meadery & Winery. Questions will be inspired by A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. The winning team will receive two free flights of mead.

Please join us for a holiday performance by Frederick Community College's Camerata, with a short demonstration of the instruments. This string orchestra, designed to perform without a conductor, is being tutored by FCC faculty member Dr.

Join Thurmont area resident and retired U.S. Ambassador Shaun Donnelly in a group conversation on International Affairs!