Middle Schoolers

Have your family play the role of secret agents to crack the case! Spend time together enjoying games and activities that challenge you to solve a range of mysteries. 

Kids can meet a variety of living beetles from The Butterfly House and learn interesting facts about them while practicing their observation skills. Participants will also paint three rocks with a beetle and take the rocks home to add to their garden. 

No experience is necessary for students to attend this Editorial Cartoon Workshop. Students will create an editorial cartoon, which they can enter into next year's Scholastic Art & Writing Awards contest.

Enjoy Open Play on the obstacle courses at Ultimate Ninjas in Chesterfield on Monday, Feb. 18. Families are welcome to enjoy the customizable obstacle courses and work on skills as a family from 1 to 3 p.m.

Kids and teens ages 6-15 can practice and explore a variety of obstacles, fine tune their skills on a single obstacle, or practice running the customizable courses at Ultimate Ninjas Open Play. Registration is recommended. 

Enjoy a presentation of West African drumming of the Malinke ethnic group from SpecDrum. You'll learn about the fhythms and what they are used for in African culture, and be ready to try out the drums! This Black History Month event is for all ages.

The Hundred Dresses tells the story of Wanda Petronski, the new girl in Room 13, who is a Polish immigrant who lives in a shabby house and doesn't have any friends. Every day she wears the same faded blue dress, but tells her new classmates that she has a hundred dresses at home. Her classmates tease Wanda about her hundred dresses until one day she disappears from school. As guilt overtakes the children, they decide to find out what happened to Wanda and to make amends. But is it too late? Bullying, friendship, and forgiveness as at the center of this play adapted from the beloved Newberry Honor Book by Eleanor Estes.