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Wacky Wednesday Book Discussion: Fortunately, the Milk
Yesterday, we had our final book discussion for our rising third and fourth grade students. The library has been really quiet this week, I think a lot of families are on vacation so I ended up with ten kids in my book discussion, nine of which had read the book!…
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Summer Camp Outreach – Week #3
This week and next week are my last camp outreach programs for the summer. I think overall, they’ve gone really well this year. I’ve picked out some really great read alouds that have gotten some great response from the kids and the kids and counselors have really enjoyed our projects…
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Is It Fall Yet? Or Summer Reading Is Draining Me!
I’m in week 5 of 11 official weeks of summer reading…. and I’m at the point in the summer where I don’t know if I’ll make it. It’s been a very busy summer already with our circulation through the roof (almost 2,000 more books that last June), reference questions that…
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Summer Camp Outreach
We provide outreach to a couple of different summer camps in our area. Adventure Day Camp is provided by the township’s Parks & Recreation Department whom we partner with to provide services to camp throughout the summer. The camp actually has two sites which I visit for the six weeks…
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The Last School Visits and Summer Reading
We had a group of 100 third graders visit this past week for a library tour and a quick highlight of upcoming library programs for summer reading. We had already seen them at school a few weeks ago, but they got the chance to come into the library, which for…
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Summer is Comin'… (insert Jaws theme song here!)
It’s getting to that point in the year where I have to seriously start thinking about summer reading, not that it hasn’t been happening for months now already. We had our first school visit yesterday – at the middle school, after the kids have spent the last week and a…
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Summer Reading School Assemblies
As I type this it’s 31 degrees outside and feels like a heat wave after the temperatures we’ve been getting over the past week. But, as they say in the theatre, “The show must go on.” (The summer reading show, that is) We’ve got most of our entertainment shows booked,…
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American Helicopter Museum Visit
Last night was our last big program of the summer (yay!) where we invited the American Helicopter Museum to give the kids some brief information about helicopters and then the kids got the chance to sit in a helicopter, push some buttons and take some photos. For the event, we…
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Summer Camp Outreach – Shrinky Dinks
This week at summer camp we made Shrinky Dinks! If you’re unfamiliar with Shrinky Dinks you can get Shrinky Dink paper from Amazon. It’s basically a sheet of plastic that can be decorated using colored pencils and shrinks when you put it in the oven (or in our case –…
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Reading Drought
I have been so busy recently, that I haven’t had time to read. I’ve been at the shore for two weekends, last week my grandmother and mom came to visit (which was awesome!), and this weekend I was in a wedding out of town. Needless to say, there hasn’t been…
