Masterminds Week 4! Superhero Identity!

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 !!!!

Masterminds Week 2: Send Me a Postcard!

Thursday morning we saw the Masterminds invade the library and again we talked about travelling, especially since its summer vacation for us all! So there were many journeys and camping trips to discuss!

We started our day off by colouring and decorating some postcards to send over the summer! We also read through some books and then went on a scavenger hunt through the library!

The scavenger hunt took us all around the world from Paris and back to Canada again. Here's some pictures of the kids on their hunt!

Some of the clues required the Masterminds to use the computer to find a specific book in the library!

Another part of the hunt called for the kids to finish a Canadian Map Puzzle!

It was a fun day and we look forward to continuing our journeys here at the library! 

Masterminds Week 1: All About Superheroes!

Woot woot! We continued our superhero themed with the Masterminds on Thursday morning! We explored through books that brought us to Gotham City, Metropolis and science fields where Bruce Banner became the Hulk!

We read some books, made some superhero masks and played a few rounds of pin the symbol on the superhero!

We ended our superhero-filled day by putting our superhero skills to the test with a scavenger hunt!!! Here's some of the clues I made up for the kids to go through! It was lots of fun!!

Updates! Change in Programming!

Hello hello all! This is just a quick update, this week we decided that 1 hour is just not enough time for our Superheroes and Masterminds this summer! So now instead of going from 10 - 11 am our programs for ages 6-9 (Superheroes) and 10-12 (Masterminds) will be going on from 10 - 11:30 am!  A whole hour and a half! Huzzah!

Here's the updated posters and calendar for you all! Hope this works for everyone! See you all next week!

Enjoy!

Update! Book Reviews for Masterminds and Adventure Picnic next week!

Bonjour my friends! This week has been a pretty chill week. I've been focusing on organizing the oncoming summer programming for the Superhero's (ages 6-9). And early in the week, on Tuesday, we had another splendid visit from another local kindergarten class. I got to take the kids on a tour of the library, while Carly gave some story and craft time for the kids to enjoy!

Today, I'll be working on planning out the rest of the summer reading club days for the Superhero's (ages 6-9) and Masterminds (ages 10-12)!!! I'm hoping to reiterate an idea from last year for the 10-12 aged kids with the return of Book Reviews!!! I think it's important to not just encourage kids to be reading, but to also get them to start to analyze and talk about the content of the stories they are reading! It's one of the best parts of reading - for me anyways!

Here's what we got for our Book Review Template:

Anyways, it's a very merry TGIF here at the library, cloudy morning with an oncoming hot afternoon according to the weather channel. I'll have to enjoy the fancy weather from inside - which is fine as I feel like I may have caught some sort of flu or nasty sickness -_- at least I'll have a weekend to recover!

Hopefully I'll be better for the awesome Adventure Picnic on Monday! I'm looking forward to the fun at the Beaver Valley Arena and BOUNCY CASTLE!!! woot! Here's a little snippet from our children's programming handout: 

 

The Adventure Picnic was also mentioned in yesterdays newspaper, here's the scoop:

Summer Reading Club Posters!

Da, da, da, dAAAAAAA! Here's what's happening today! We had a splendid visit from the kindergarten class! And today is the last spring day program for our younger kids! and to celebrate we are having crafts, stories and CUPCAKES!!! oh yes!

Until we have our cupcakes, here's some of the posters for our summer reading club!!!

Library Chalkboard - Summer Reading Club

TAAAA-DAAAA! Here's a sum up of some of the Friday's work!!! Carly and I came up with names for our kids groups for the Summer Reading Club and here they are in all their glory!!! (I'm so excited!!!)

For ages 3-5 --> SIDEKICKS

• Tuesdays starting July 9 'til August 20 from 10-11am 

For ages 6-9 --> SUPERHERO'S

• Wednesdays starting July 10 'til August 21 from 10-11am 

For ages 10-12 --> MASTERMINDS

• Thursdays starting July 11 'til August 22 from 10-11 am 

So awesome! Do you like the names? I'm loving 'em, I'm so excited to add some superhero, action and comic book fun into this summers program!!!

Registration and signup has now started!! So make sure you sign up at the BVPL ASAP! Phone us at 250-367-7114 or drop by in person!!