Thursday, May 22, 2014

Fizz, Boom, Read!

Summer Reading is here again!!  


And we are going to have a great time with our science theme this year!!

This year we tried something new--having a week of pre-registration for the reading club--instead of signing up on the first day of the program.  Children can start recording their days on Tuesday--our first day of the Summer Reading Program.  Our program runs from Tuesday, May 27 through Friday, July 11th.  All of our programs are free and open to the public.  Some events do require pre-registration.

Some of our programs will include:
  • Kickoff event with Wildlife Encounters
  • Park and Read at Washington Park every Monday at noon
  • Legos @ your library every Tuesday from 10-11 AM
  • Mad Scientist University (for students entering 1st - 6th grades)  Four Tuesday afternoon sessions in June
  • Baby & Me Storytime every Wednesday and Thursday at 9:15 AM
  • Power Up and Read Storytime every Wednesday and Thursday at 10 AM
  • Song and S'mores
  • Stories and S'mores
  • Evening storytimes
  • Stuffed Animal Sleepover
  • And a Storytime Play Day!!

Visit our library's website for more details!!

We will also continue our reading program--with small prizes as reading incentives.  (Read more about our reading program here). We have a special early literacy program for children birth through prekindergarten...

and our regular reading program for children going into kindergarten through 6th grade.

Hop, Hop, Horray!

It's Frog Jumping Day!  (May 13th!)  So most of the month of May we focused on FROGS at our Do It Yourself Table!

Here are the five activities children could when they visited the library...

Create a jumping frog craft (from freekidscrafts.com)  I fell in love with these adorable frogs!!





Play the Frog Food File Folder Game (from File Folder Fun)

Do a frog crossword puzzle (from dltk-kids.com)

Put the life cycle of a frog in order (from MontessoriMom.com)

Color a frog picture (from education.com)

Monday, May 5, 2014

R is for Rabbits

Outreach Storytime for Welcome School and Kindercare

Books

What Noise does a Rabbit Make?  by Carrie Weston; illustrated by Richard Byrne

Tiny Rabbit's Big Wish  by Margarita Engle; illustrated by David Walked

Dinnertime!  by Sue Williams; illustrated by Kerry Argent

Songs/Rhymes

5 Little Bunnies  (words by Tammy Henry)
Sung to: 5 Little Ducks

5 little rabbits went out to play
Over the hills and far away
When Mother rabbit went thump, thump, thump

4 little rabbits came back; jump, jump!

[Continue counting down to zero]

1 little rabbit went out to play
Over the hills and far away
When Mother rabbit went thump, thump, thump
No little rabbits came back; jump, jump!

But when the Daddy rabbit went "THUMP! THUMP! THUMP!"
5 little rabbits came back; jump, jump!

Have you ever seen a bunny?
Sung to: Have you ever seen a lassie?

Have you ever seen a bunny, a bunny, a bunny
Have you ever seen a bunny that hops like this?
It hops, and hops, and hops, and hops
Have you ever seen a bunny that hops like this?

Additional verses:

Have you ever seen a bunny that hops so slow

Have you ever seen a bunny that hops so fast

Have you ever seen a bunny that hops on one foot