Whew! So for our 5th week of the Summer Reading club, the kids and I pre-celebrated our Guest Wednesday by doing a bat craft, in anticipation for our presentation from Juliet Craig of Kootenay Bats!
We had lots of fun reading/listening (audiobooks FTW) about BATman (ha! see what we did there!) and then watching some national geographic videos about bats!
Everyone also put lots of effort into making their bats, it was nice to see a plethora of variety, as later in the afternoon we learnt about the vast diversity among the different types of bats around the world! Fantastic stuff!
This week at the library we continued with our superhero versus theme and I had the Masterminds read through the book Shark vs. Train with me... and my special guest, Susan! Who stopped by the library for a quick and lovely visit, she also assisted by being the shark to my train and wore the shark hat beautifully!
After reading through our story, the Masterminds went on a scavenger hunt through the library!
Then after some more stories, we went to our craft! Superhero themed bookmarks !!!!
Well, its already that time of year again! Shocking really! Isn't it!? But to go with the bad news, we also have the fantastic-super-awesome-fun-great news of our upcoming End of Summer, Summer Reading Club Party!!! Hooray! Here's some of the information for your eager to attend next Thursday's party:
For our 4th Guest Wednesday, we had our friend, Diana from the Columbia Basin Water Smart and she came to us with lots of knowledge about water conservation!!!
She told us a great story about her friend - Wally? - the water smart fish who goes up against the terrible water wasting dragon!! Her art work for her story was beautiful and I think the kids and I really enjoyed the story!
After the story, Diana took the kids to investigate water usage in our bathroom (sorry, no pictures!). We experimented with how much water can be wasted when we don't properly turn off the taps whilst brushing our teeth! We also used food colouring to see if there were any leaks in our library's public toilet (update: there isn't!!!).
After that Diana took out her magical map and we learnt about where our water comes from in the area! We also learned about how water is cleaned and treated before coming into our houses!
After our review of the area's water sources we went outside for some more fun!!
Diana brought with her some water balloons as well! And she also unveiled her amazing juggling skills to us all!!!
We were also joined by our library puppy, Gypsy :)
As a gift to the kids, Diana taught them the basic skill in water balloon juggling and we all tried our best to master the techniques!
We also got to get some face paint!! AWESOME!
It was great fun! We also had time to read some stories and check out some books! Thanks Diana for such a lovely afternoon!
Week 4, we revisited the world of superheroes with our aged 6-9 Superheroes!
It was a fun-filled morning! We started with our craft!
Our craft for today was a superhero themed bookmark! I premade each bookmark by printing out some superhero (Justice League) themed colouring sheets and glueing them onto some construction paper and I added some ribbon as a tassel to the top of each bookmark!
The kids had fun picking out which superhero to colour!
I also left a blank white sheet of paper to the back of each bookmark so the kids could decorate the back, be it with their names, a pretty picture or what have you!
The kids took a lot of time to finish and perfect their respective bookmarks, which gave me plenty of time to take lots of pictures, which is always fun! ^_^
Since the kids were taking a lot of time to colour and decorate their bookmarks, I thought we could use a bit of an intermission with a story, so we went on to one of our stories for today! But before we read the actually book, we watched a quick trailer for the book we would be reading!
Check it out:
We then read Shark vs. Train by Chris Barton and Tom Lichtenheld, which has quickly become one of my favourite books this summer!
The story is about the possibilities that are made when a shark and train meet head to head! But what really decides the winner depends on what the battle is and where it takes place!
So essentially each page of the book and I made some signs for the kids to hold and every page they voted on the winner of the battle, either the train or the shark, or if it was decided that it was a tie they held their sign sideways!
The book itself is hilarious! And I think the kids had fun reading the book together! It was quite the epic battle! Fortunately, it all ended with a happy draw!
After the book we went back into finishing up our bookmarks!
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After the bookmarks we read another story! And since I was fresh from watching the Wolverine the previous weekend (and since we were doing our superhero theme again!) I picked a new Wolverine story!!! The movie didn't quite follow the comic book canon, but it was still enjoyable! The book we read through was much closer the the usual Wolverine that I picture.
After our second story we went on to play a game of scavenger hunt! The premise for our scavenger hunt was that all the villains had come together to form a injustice league to fight against the superheroes, and as a result all the superheroes of the world had vanished! So the kids had to follow the clues in order to find and rescue the heroes!
It was loads of fun! I even found some activity sheets that were superhero themed and gave hints to the next clues location!
The superheroes did a great job in working together to find the clues! It was fantastic!
