 Kick-Off Event!
World of Magic and Fun with A2 magician Jeff Wawrzaszek Fri. June 10, 2pm at the Ackerson Gym (410 City Rd.) Kick off your summer with this high-energy, magic-packed show featuring music, visual humor, pantomime and a galaxy of wonderful reading routines. Register for the summer reading program while you're here, and leave charged up and ready for a summer full of GREAT stories! Mid-Summer Fun Night Crew with owls and staff from the Leslie Science Center Sat. July 9, 11am in the Village Room (912 City Rd.) Allow owl visitors from the Leslie Science Center to engage, delight and educate you! Classification, conservation and survival techniques are but a few of the topics that will be explored through live birds, activities and hands-on explorations. Kids will discover what it's like to be a nighttime predator. The Grand Finale! Dinosaur Stories with Paleo Joe (paleontology expert Joseph J. Kchodl) Fri. July 29, 6pm at the Ackerson Gym (410 City Rd.) It's the final program of summer reading 2011! Finish off the summer by exploring dinosaurs with Paleo Joe. He'll bring a T rex tooth, a Velociraptor skull, dinosaur puppets and a variety of amazing fossils to bring dinosaurs to life. Don't miss this exciting, high-impact program -- you'll feel like you're actually walking with the dinosaurs millions of years ago. | Summer Reading Program, June 10-July 29
The Summer Reading Program is one of the library's most popular programs! Kids often lose ground in reading and comprehension skills during summer break (read 7 Tips to Keep Kids Reading All Summer for more information). To avoid this, the library encourages kids to set goals (30 or 60 minutes of reading a day) and visit the library regularly for new reading material. Kids earn fun rewards for participating, from small weekly prizes to the big grand drawing at the end of the summer.
Children ages 2 and up are invited to register. Younger participants may register as "Listeners," and instead of tracking time spent reading alone, track the time they're read to by an older child or adult. "Readers" can choose their goal of either 30 or 60 minutes per day, and track their reading using a worksheet we provide. Along with the reading program we offer a variety of fun, theme-related events! We try to offer programs for a variety of ages, too. For more information about any of these events or the summer reading program, call or stop by and ask for one of our terrific Youth Services Assistants, Karen Seghers and Anne Creffield. Weekly Programs Story Time Wednesdays at 10:30am, June 15-July 27 Singing and crafts designed for kids 2-5 years old. Siblings are welcome too! Please pre-register at the circulation desk so that we have enough craft materials available. Lunch Bunch Mondays at 12pm, June 13-July 25 A program for kids ages 5-12 who would like to bring a sack lunch to the library and listen to a good book read out loud by a librarian while eating. Reading will be followed by discussion and brief activities. No registration required. This year we'll be highlighting the work of author Laurence Yep. LEGO Club Wednesdays at 3:30pm LEGO Club is open to children of all ages. This is an opportunity for boys and girls to create LEGO structures and build relationship skills, too. Use the library's bricks! Creations are put on display in the library until the next LEGO Club session. No registration required. Storyteller's Club and One World, Many Games Tuesdays at 6:30pm, June 14-July 26 For ages 9 and up. The Storyteller's Club will feature a story from a new culture every week, and foster interaction through reading aloud and other reading-related activities. One World, Many Games will feature new games every week from other cultures. Find out how kids in other countries entertain themselves! No pre-registration required. |
