Calendar May 2012

Here’s what’s happening this

month!

Mother’s Day Events

Blueberry Picking

Swim Lesson Registrations

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This Month’s Calendar

Kids Events 6

Ongoing Programs and Classes 10

Programs Now Registering 12

Sports Programs Registering 14

Library Programs 16

Story Times 17

Restaurant Fun 18

Kids Cheap/ Free Nights 19

At the Movies 20

Hot Local Deals 21

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May 2012

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun

3 4

Godspell Junior

Midsum-mer Night’s Dream

5

Family Fest

Godspell Junior

Kanapaha Botanical Gardens Moonlight Walk

Midsummer Night’s Dream

Mindfulness Training Yoga Workshops

Newberry Elementary School Carnival

Next Level Sports and Fitness Kids Fit Day

Wild Florida at Stephen Foster Folk Center

6

River Ranch Community Sunday

Godspell Junior

Midsummer Night’s Dream

1 2

7

8 9 10 11

Midsum-mer Night’s Dream

12

GYC Mother’s Day Concert

Midsummer Night’s Dream

Windsor Zucchini Festival

13

Gainesville Community Band Mother’s Day Concert

Midsummer Night’s Dream

River Ranch Community Sunday

14

15 16 17 18

French Congress

19

Bostwick Blueberry Festival

Newberry Watermelon Festival

Sweet Dreams Touch a Truck

20

21 22 23

Peace Salad and Peaceworks Dem-onstration

24 25

Blue Crab Festival

Florida Folk Festi-val

Take 25

26

Blue Crab Festival

Florida Folk Festival

27

Blue Crab Festival

Florida Folk Festival

River Ranch Community Sunday

28

Blue Crab Festival

29

Alternatives to Violence for Youth Training

30 31

Kids Events

On-Going Programs & Classes

Mondays Every Monday

Homeschoolers Park Day

Every other Monday

Art Classes with Jane Gravois

Tuesdays Every Tuesday

O2BKids Morning Magic

Sun Country Stay and Play

Bilingual Enrichment for Preschoolers

Children’s Zumba

Chick-fil-A Family Night

Mommy & Me Lunch at the little shop

Zumbatomic at the little shop

First Tuesday

Story/ Craft Time at Sprout

Last Tuesday

Tot Time at the Harn

Wednesdays Every Wednesday

O2BKids Morning Magic

Barnyard Buddies

Parents Day Out at Academy Preschool

Wild and Wiggly at the little shop

Twinkle Toes at the little shop

Mommy & Me Lunch at the little shop

Thursdays Every Thursday

O2BKids Morning Magic

Bilingual Enrichment for Preschoolers

Second Thursday

Harn Museum Night

Fridays Every Friday

O2BKids Parents Night Out

PJ Library Tot Shabbat

Sun Country Gym Jam

Sun Country Stay and Play

Scribble and Dribble at the little shop

First Friday

Feed-a-Frog Fridays

Sun Country Little Lunchers

Tot Time at the Harn

Second Friday

Sun Country Family Night

Third Friday

Trinity UMC Parents Night Out

Fourth Friday

YMCA FridayFun Night

Every Other Friday

Superhero / Warrior/ Pirate/ Jedi

Training at the little shop

Saturdays Every Saturday

O2BKids Morning Magic

Artsy Kids Open Studio

Do-Re-Moosica at Sprout

French Club

Living History Days

Planetarium Kids Matinee

Michael’s Kids Craft Events

Mill Creek Farm Retirement Home for Horses

Skate Station Skating Lessons

Family Yoga at the little shop

First Saturday

Home Depot Kids Workshop

Second Saturday

Dudley Kids

Hogtown Reptile Shop

Children’s Program

Lowe’s Build and Grow Clinic

Third Saturday

Family Fishing Day

Old Time Dance at O’Leno Park

Fourth Saturday

Lowe’s Build and Grow Clinic

Sundays Every Sunday

Artsy Kids Open Studio

Family Fun Shoot

Second Sunday

Gainesville Hoola Hoop Jam

Every Week Day A Child’s Academy Mommies Day Out

Library Turn to page 16 for library programs

Cade Museum Click HERE to see this month’s programs

Programs Now Registering

Sun Country Sports Center Team Spirit Cheer and Dance—All Month

Artsy Kids Studio—Registration Ongoing

O2BKids—Registration Ongoing

Studio Percussion — Registration Ongoing

Click HERE to go straight the Summer Camps page

http://www.suncountrysports.com/teamspirit.html

Sports Programs Registering

Gainesville Youth Lacrosse FREE Clinics—start May 19th

Den and Ken’s Basketball Camp and Tournament—May 19th & 20th

Swim for Safety— May 12th—18th

Gainesville Kids Triathlon—June 2nd

Season of Archery—Season begins June 4th

Gainesville Synchro Gaviatas– Summer session starts June 23rd

Trinity UMC TBall and Coach Pitch—Summer league starts June 26th

Gator Swim Club—Ongoing

Sun Country Sports Center—Ongoing

Pro Taekwondo—Ongoing

Click HERE to go straight the Sports Camps page

http://www.gainesvillekidstri.com/

Library Programs May 2012

M Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun

1

Beading with Avalon 3:30PM

Junior Panther Den 3:30PM

Wii Fun 3:30PM

2

Tween Club 3PM

History of Chocolate 3:30PM

Wii Wednesday 4PM

3

Gaming 2PM

Florida’s Rep-tiles & Amphibi-ans 3:30PM

4

Head Start Registration Drive 10AM

Star Wars Day 2:30

5

Musikgarten 11AM

Folktales from Europe 1PM

6

Mother’s Day Craft 2PM

Contadores de Estorias de Gainesville

3:15PM

7 8

Discovery Science 10:30AM

Kids Love Books 2PM

Ruby the Rescue Dog 2:30PM

Children’s Book Week 3PM

Mother’s Day Creations 3PM

Junior Panther Den 3:30PM

9

Girls Tea Party 4:30PM

Wii Wednesday 4PM

10

Gaming 2PM

Mother’s Day Card Craft 3:30PM

Arts & Crafts: 4PM

11

Head Start Registration Drive 10AM

12

13

14

CLOSED

15

Beading With Avalon 3:30PM

Junior Panther Den 3:30PM

Wii Fun 3:30PM

16

Tonewood Music 1:30PM

Tween Club 3PM

Wii Wednesday 4PM

17

Head Start Reg-istration Drive 1PM

Gaming 2PM

18

Head Start Registration Drive 10AM

19

Game Day 2PM

20

21

22

Beading with Avalon 3:30PM

Creative Dance 3:30PM

Junior Panther Den 3:30PM

23

Wii Game Day 3:15PM

Wii Wednesday 4PM

24

Gaming 2PM

Arts & Crafts: 4PM

25

Head Start Registration Drive 10AM

26

27

28

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29

Beading With Avalon 3:30PM

Junior Panther Den 3:30PM

30

Wii Wednesday 4PM

31

Gaming 2PM

See the next page for library story times. Turn to page 20 for movie times at the library.

Click HERE to go directly to the Alachua County Library Events

Calendar

Color Code Guide: Alachua Archer Cone Park Hawthorne Headquarters High Springs

Library Partnership Micanopy Millhopper Newberry Tower Road

Tuesdays

Library Partnership

9:30AM

Sprout Learning Resources

10:00AM

Headquarters Library

10:30AM

Archer Library

11AM

High Springs Library

11AM

Tower Road Library

10:30AM

& 7:00PM 2nd Tuesday

Chick-Fil A

5:30PM

2nd Tuesdays

Story Times Thursdays

Hawthorne Library

10:30AM

Milhopper Library

10:30AM

Alachua Library

11AM

Saturdays

Books a Million

10:AM

Mondays

Cone Park

10:00AM

Millhopper Library

6:30PM on 5/21

Wednesdays

Learning Path

10:30 (RSVP PLEASE)

Millhopper Library

11AM— 5/9 & 5/23

Newberry Library

11AM

Micanopy Library

11:30AM

Professional Moms

of Alachua County

Restaurant Fun Magic Mike Beef O’Brady’s on 43rd St: Tuesdays 5:30-8:30

Leonardo’s 706 : Wednesdays 6:00 –9:00

Sonny’s on Archer Road: Fridays 5:30-8:30

Moe’s on Newberry Rd: Sundays 12-3

Cody’s Roadhouse

Monday and Tuesday Nights

The Magic Man performs tableside

Chick Fil-A Fun Nights

Tuesday Nights:

Arts & Crafts, Games and Entertainment

Gator’s Dockside Tuesday Nights

Clown / Balloon Artist

Texas Roadhouse Tuesday Nights

Arts & Crafts, Entertainment, Games, and Prizes and

Andy the Armadillo

Mexico Lindo

Tuesday Nights : Mariachi Band

Kids Eat Cheap

Every Day

Bahn Thai— Kids eat free at the lunch buffet with adult purchase

Crispers - Kids 12 and under eat for .99 when wearing Kids Club t-shirt

IHOP - Kids 12 and under eat FREE with purchase of adult meal / 4 -10pm

Sundays

Mamma Mia Kids 9 and under eat

FREE at buffet w/ adult purchase

Steak and Shake - Kids 12 and under

eat FREE with purchase of adult meal

Stevi B’s Kids eat for .99 at the buffet

after 4 pm

Tuesdays

Beef O'Brady's - Kids 12 and under

eat FREE with adult purchase /Dine In

Only from 4 - 8pm

Chick-fil-A— Kids eat free with adult

purchase 5:30-7:30PM

Cody’s Original Steakhouse

Kids 10 and under eat FREE with adult

purchase

Gainesville Ale House - Kids 12 and

under eat FREE with purchase of

adult meal

Gator’s Dockside - Kids under 12

years of age, l child per adult eat

FREE / 6:00-8:30 PM

I Love NY Pizza in Haile—Kids 10 and

under eat free with adult purchase

Kazbor's Grille - Kids 10 and under

eat FREE with adult purchase

Texas Roadhouse - Kids 12 and under

eat for $.99 with adult purchase / 4 -

8pm

Mondays

Bubbaque’s—Kids 8 and under eat

FREE with paying adult

Cody’s Original Steakhouse -Kids 10

and under eat FREE with adult pur-

chase

David's Real Pit BBQ - One FREE kid's

meal with one adult meal purchased

Newberry’s Backyard BBQ—$1.50 Kids

meals with adult purchase

Pazza Bistro—.99 Kids meals for kids

10 and under with adult purchase

Sonny’s Real Pit Bar-B-Q - Kids 12 and

under eat 1/2 off with adult purchase

Saturdays

Piccadilly Restaurants - .99 Kid's

Meals and $1.99 Big Kids meals / All

day Thursdays /11-4 on Saturdays

Steak and Shake - Kids 12 and under

eat FREE with purchase of adult meal

Wednesdays

Applebee’s – Kids eat for .99 price w/

adult purchase

Blue Highway Pizzeria—Kids eat for $1

with adult purchase of pizza or pasta

4-7PM

Haile Village Bistro - Kids eat FREE

Mamma Mia Kids 9 and under eat

FREE at buffet w/ adult purchase

O!O Tapas and Tinis—Kids eat free off

the kids menu with adult purchase

Sisters—Kids eat free off the kids

menu with adult purchase.

Joe’s Place – Kids 10 and under eat

FREE with each adult meal purchase

Zaxby’s - 2 kids meals for $.99 with

adult purchase

Thursdays

Captain D's - Two FREE kid's meals

with any adult entree purchase /

Dine in only

Piccadilly Restaurants - .99 Kid's

Meals and $1.99 Big Kids meals / All

day Thursdays /11-4 on Saturdays

Fridays

Burger King—Kids eat for .99 with

adult purchase

At the Movies

Click HERE for current show times

Free Movies at the Library Every Monday 4PM / Headquarters

First Saturday 2PM / Millhopper: Smurfs

First Wednesday 4PM / Cone Park

Friday, May 25th

Secondhand Lions

Hot Local Deals