An Excellent Resource

I have been using a wonderful website called Family Education. If you are willing to register your email address, you will have access to numerous articles, printable worksheets, and helpful information pertaining to families and their children, ages birth to 18.

If you have a minute, take a look at www.familyeducation.com

Autumn Leaves and Cool Breezes and Fall Stories

It is time to think about falling leaves, cooler temperatures, and fall programs.

Busy Bees (ages birth to 5) will meet for stories, songs, and fingerplays on Mondays (September 12, 19, and 26) from 1-1:30PM, Tuesdays (September 13, 20, and 27) from 11-11:30AM and Thursdays (September 8, 15, and 22) from 2-2:30PM. Please choose the day and time that suits your schedule the best. An adult is required to stay with the registered child.

Terrific Tigers (ages 6 to 8) will meet for stories on Mondays  (September 12, 19, and 26)and Thursdays (September 8, 15, and 22) from 3:30-4PM. Please register for the day that best suits your child’s schedule. (Only register for one day.) An adult does not need to attend the program but should be here for pick-up at 4:00PM.

Awesome Ocelots (ages 9 to 12) will meet for stories and projects on Mondays (September 12, 19, and 26) and Thursdays (September 8, 15, and 22) from 4:15-5:00PM. Please register your child for the day that best suits his or her schedule. (Only register for one day.) An adult need not attend the program but should be here for pick-up at 5:00PM.

Please register at the front desk. Be sure your contact information is complete (address, phone, and email, if you have one).

Class sizes are limited.

Please register by September 1, 2011.

Programs may be cancelled or combined with another day if enrollment is less than 10 children. I will post any changes here and at the library by September 6th.

Summer Reading Challenge Treat Bags

Seven children who completed the Summer Reading Challenge were unable to attend the final celebratory party. Your treat bags are available any time in the Junior Room. Please stop by and pick up yours!

Party Pictures

A picture is worth a thousand words…thank you to Mr. Ellis for providing snapshots of our party!

 

FALL PROGRAMMING

Fall programming information will be available on this site and at the library within the next 10 days.

Sign-ups will begin on August 22nd.

I am planning to offer three Busy Bee programs and two After-School Club programs (although that may change to four if I decide to split the age groups). Check in for more information!

Oh, What Fun We Had!

Wednesday was such a fun day! The children and their families began arriving right at 11:00AM. There was so much to do… large floor puzzles. bowling, fishing, reading with the big bear and big puppy from the Junior Room, coloring, games, blocks, and musical instruments. There was also a ball throwing game with a base that doubled as a tent! Oh, and treats…lots of yummy treats!

The Busy Bees seemed most impressed by fishing and seeing how many fish they could catch on one try. The high score was 16!

Musical instruments were a hit and for a while there was a musical parade marching around the room.

Professional bowlers should know that the next generation is well on its way to filling their shoes.

The older boys and girls really seemed to enjoy the new board game I just purchased called Guess Who? and the homemade set of Jenga blocks.

When the children were ready to leave, I presented them with a congratulatory gift bag filled with a magnet, a magnetic picture frame, a bookmark, tattoos, a pencil, bubbles, and a book. (Some children were ready to leave as soon as they got there when they found out the gift bag was  a departing prize!)

Nearly everyone who was invited was able to attend, and I had such a good time visiting with all of you!  Enjoy the rest of your summer..and keep reading!

Summer Reading Program and Challenge Results

It has been quite an exciting summer!

The balloons on the wall on the second floor landing, marking the children’s reading progress, are very colorful. I feel good every time I walk past them just knowing how many books are being read.

A total of 79 children were registered for the Summer Reading Program. Sixty-seven children participated in the Summer Reading Challenge. Thirty-eight children met or exceeded the Summer Reading Challenge goal of 540 minutes of reading over an eight week period.

Altogether, they were required to read for 342 hours…our total exceeded that by 57 hours! What an accomplishment!

 

Here are the remaining story titles we read and the new song we learned.

We All Went on Safari by Laurie Krebs

Way Far Away on a Wild Safari by Jan Peck

Grandma Elephant’s in Charge by Martin Jenkins

Where’s My Mom? by Julia Donaldson

Giraffe’s Can’t Dance by Giles Andreae

The Bird, the Monkey, and the Snake in the Jungle by Kate Banks

Peace Week in Miss Fox’s Class by Eileen Spinelli

Peace Tales by Margaret Read MacDonald

Franklin is Bossy by Paulette Bourgeois

And to Think That We Thought We’d Never Be Friends by Mary Ann Hoberman

The Signmaker’s Assistant by Tedd Arnold

 

The Itsy Bitsy Monkey

The itsy bitsy monkey climbed up the coconut tree.

Down came a coconut and hit him on his knee. OUCH!

Out came a lion, shaking his great mane ROAR!

  And the itsy bitsy monkey climbed up the tree again!