Summer Coming to an End!?!?! ALREADY!?!?! PARTY TIME!

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:

I was a bit cheeky and added some of my favourite quotes from Lemony Snicket's "Horseradish" to the back of the invites! You can see my review for that book here: http://beavervalleylibrarykids.blogspot.ca/2013/07/book-review-horseradish-bitter-truths.html

Hope to see you at the party next week! You can RSVP by emailing me at bvlibrarykids@gmail.com or phoning us at the library at 250-367-7114!

The Return of the Infamous GUEST WEDNESDAYSZZ!!!

Next week we decided to kick off the Summer Reading Club with a fun Wednesday afternoon event!!

I'm looking very much forward to this! Also we have most of our Guest Wednesdays set up and planned out for this summer, so if you were curious as to who our guests will be and what they will be presenting, check out our summer calendar!

Summer Reading Club Party!!! 2012

So a year late! Here I am back from school and home for the summer! My illustrious return to the library has been ripe with many ongoing children's programs and even more books! I'm super excited to be back and to be working with a new children's librarian here at the Beaver Valley Public Library, Carly!

Yesterday was my first day and before I could make any new posts on the blog, I thought the most imperative task before posting about this years program would be to wrap up last year's summer, as I never made a proper post about the fun and shenanigans that were held to close off our summer!

So I suspect this will mostly be pictures! Enjoy!!!

One of the activities held at the park: TYE DYE!!!! Rhonda cut out templates for awesome capes and we had the kids tye dye their own alter ego superhero costumes!

We also arranged for some fun carnival games for the kids!!!

Here's a picture of some of our lovely volunteers for the day! Thank you Ashely and friend!

And of course there was lots of fun to be had at the water park! duh!

And on such a hot day, popsicles were a must. 

The party was a lot of fun! We even had time to have a water balloon fight and play the classic mummy in toilet paper game!

We all had lots of fun and I look forward to this year! We shall for sure continue on with all the fun adventures and learning that occurred last year!!

Tra la la!!! The End of Our Summer!

So this week wraps up our Strange ... But True? Summer Reading Club 2012, yesterday we went out with a bang at the Montrose Park! We had a bouncy castle and carnival games from BV Tool Rentals, a refreshing water park for the kids to frolic in, our tie-dye-ing station all set up, and I had my camera at the ready!

I'll be posting my official post later this week or at the start of next week! I still have to post about our Monster Week with the Little Einsteins and Young Professors and Guest Wednesday with Les Anderson. And plus, I took about 250 pictures at the party! So it's going to take me a while to go through them all, pick out the good ones, and edit them! So please bear (pun! .... get it? no probably not, but Les Anderson talked a bit about bears during his Guest Wednesday visit, no? not funny? ok) - bare with me!

Until then here's a teaser picture from our Party from yesterday! This is a shot of some of the kids in the water park. Just before we started our water balloon fight we got a group picture, here the kids threw the water balloons up high and screamed as they were bombarded by rogue balloons!

Anyways, I just wanted to thank all the kids, Rhonda, the Beaver Valley Public Library, all our fantastic Guests for out Guest Wednesdays, the Trail Daily Times (for putting up with my constant emails and for sending the lovely Breanne Massey to the party to take some pictures and ask questions for the paper!), parents, and everyone for making this such a fun job for me! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

Happy Reading! 

What's Happening This Week? PARTY!

PA-PA-PAR-PAR-PARTY!!! (P.S. this picture was featured on the second page in the Trail Daily Times today! Much better in colour, though, no?)

So, from all of us at the Beaver Valley Public Library, you are invited to ...

Our Flyer for the Event!

Yay! I'm so excited, yet also a little sad, since this marks our last week of the Summer Reading Club and therefore drawing to a close my time this summer at the Beaver Valley Public Library! :(

Sara, Zoe, Michael and Sam are getting excited for our party this Thursday!

In the meantime though, I am looking forward to the bouncy castle!!!, the tie-dye-ing!!!, and games and just EVERYTHING coming up for the party at the Montrose Park this week! I hope to see you there!

Today, Susan and Stephanie joined me to practise some tie-dye-ing at my house, since we are planning to have a section at the party this Thursday devoted to tie-dye-ing capes! We shall indeed be assembling some super heroes at the party!

Our materials and finished product!

Week 6 - Dragons with the Little Einsteins!

Story time with Mrs. Giles! These kids are absolutely adorable!

So this Tuesday the Little Einsteins had lots of fun stretching their imaginations as the theme this week for the little ones was DRAGONS!!!! 

Rhonda started things off as per usual with the Name Box and some classic songs! 

For stories she read through some dragon books! She also read "Sophie and the Sea Monster" by Don Gillmor and illustrated by Michael Martchenko (known to me as the awesome guy who illustrates a lot of Robert Munsch books!

This is such a cute story and hearing Rhonda read it in such an animated and fun way was awesome! The kids enjoyed it immensely - as did I! It has become a favourite of mine this week, as I took it out to read to the Young Professors and Mad Scientists - who loved it just the same! 

Along with that, Rhonda had set up her felt board and did a lovely rendition of 5 little monkeys, re-warped into 5 little dragons! The kids sand along and had a blast!