Guest Wednesday Week 4 - Columbia Basin Water Smart!

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!

Guest Wednesday! - Despicable Me

For the second week in a row, we had a fabulous movie afternoon in the library with the kids for our Guest Wednesday! One of my favourites, Despicable Me! Such an awesome and lovely movie! The minions are definitely one of the best things EVA!!!!

So we had the kids come into the library and served juice boxes and gummy candies for snacks! After that we just sat back and enjoyed the show!

This week for our Special Guest Wednesday we will be having Diana from the Columbia Basin Water Smart stopping in to visit us! See the previous post for more details: Guest Wednesday - Diana, Columbia Basin Water Smart!

Guest Wednesday - Next Week!?!

What's a happening here at the library next week you ask!? Well on Wednesday, our Special Guest is Diana from the Columbia Basin Water Smart, and we'll be learning all about where our water comes from and why it's so important to conserve water!!!

Here's the poster:

Hope to see you then!

Adventure Picnic!

Monday we celebrated the summer and preschool programs of our area with the locals at the Beaver Valley Arena, which hosted our ADVENTURE PICNIC!

The event went very well, we had a variety of stations ripe with crafts, games and information for children and parents. We had a craft table and face painting table. A bouncy castle which was as usual very popular with the bunch!

We also had tables manned by different local organizations, including: the Columbia Basin Water Smart, Child Dental and Audiology, Sparks, Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy (CBAL), CCRR and ATCO. 

 Here, Diana and Katie from the Columbia Basin Water Smart, are presenting to a group about where our local water sources are and where they come from and how we can preserve our water and not be "dragon drainers"!!

 

Here, Rebecca from ATCO Wood Products, presents to a group about trees and forestry and animal habitats! A great presentation that the kids really enjoyed!

Some good ol' fashioned parachuting in the parking lot.

Rhonda also was able to fit in some good ol' mother goose sing-a-long action for the kids, which was greatly appreciated by all! 

 And of course, our bouncy castle!!

... and more songs!!

A big thank you to all the people who attended this year! Also a big thanks to Beaver Valley Rec. for being such a big help! Thank you to all the groups and people involved in making the Picnic as fun as ever and I can tell ya now how excited we are at the library to get this event going for next year!!! ^_^

Guest Wednesday! - Columbia Basin Water Smart! with Diana, Marnie and Ryan

Our Guests for the day Marnie, Ryan and Diana (back), with the kids for today's Guest Wednesday!
Front row kids: Tyler, Cohan, Sara, Zoe, Kyleen, Cody, Alicen, and Emily!

Sara and Zoe working on crafts before our Guest Wednesday!

This week's Guest Wednesday Poster!

 Yay! Today marks our second Guest Wednesday! It was great! We hosted Diana, Ryan and Marnie from the Columbia Basin Water Smart team and they came and shared water conservation tips, stories and fun planting activities for the kids today!

Alicen and Cohan making giant bookmarks!

Because of the traffic due to the construction going on the paving of the roads here in Fruitvale, I knew we would probably be running a little late today! So for the early birds we started a colouring craft of making giant bookmarks!

Emily, Kyleen and Cody colouring away!

 I printed out a template I found online that goes with our space theme of the week and the kids had fun coming up with far off planets! We had planets called "Potato", "Lonemone", "Ice Cream Planet", "Red Lava" and "Cookie Planet" delicious! Once they finished decorating and writing about their planet we glued them on to tough poster board paper to give them some strength and to make 'em durable enough to hold up well as giant bookmarks! :)

Columbia Basin Water Smart! Ryan, Marnie and Diana!

 Then we had our presentation from Ryan, Marnie and Diana! They introduced themselves and talked about the importance of water and how important it is to try to have the least impact on our earth for our future generations!

What's Happening Next Week?

Oh, what's that title of the post? You have a question? Well next week we got lots happening next week, thanks for asking!

For one thing our theme for week 3 is "It Came from Outer Space - Space Exploration, Astronomy, Alien Life and Science Fiction"! So we are going to be talking about space, planets, gravity and aliens!

I'm really excited about this theme because it also leds into the classic science fiction novels in our library! And I'm hoping to somehow tie in a little Ray Bradbury tribute since he sadly passed away this year. Fahrenheit 451 has been one of my absolute favourite novels and I just recently found the authorized graphic novel of Fahrenheit 451 in our library, so I'll be giving that a read! Look for the review here once I've finished! 

Hopefully, I'll find someway of incorporating him into the programming! I know his books are mature, but maybe I can find a good short story of his to read to the kids! Let me know in the comments if you have any ideas!

I'm also looking forward to doing something H.G. Welles oriented, since we had Jayne Garry of EZ Rock Radio come in this week for Guest Wednesday, maybe the Mad Scientists would like to hear about the whole War of the Worlds radio show fiasco!

We are also going to be making some fun and easy alien masks! I'm excited for these! Rhonda found some glow in the dark star wall decals and we are going to unleash the kids (sans glitter this time) to decorate up their masks and be creative.

I snapped a couple of pictures of my mask! I went crazy with my camera for the second one to make it look fresh from outer space!

Also next week, besides exploring the limitless bounds of space and science fiction, we are welcoming some special guests for our Guest Wednesday! Diana, Ryan and Marnie with Columbia Basin Water Smart will be coming in on Wednesday afternoon to talk to the kids about water conservation and tips on water saving! Should be fun!

I ran off a quick poster with all the details, here it is!

So that is what we have to look forward to next week! Should be awesome!

Until then, I'll just have to endure this Friday the 13th morning, ripe with muggy, overcast weather and in the meantime prep for our Summer Reading Club adventures next week! I'm going to be painting a lot of black mask templates, that's for sure! 

Oh! I also grabbed some of the pictures from the Mad Scientists and beautified the shelves with their art work! I love these colouring sheets! .... You might also notice that Chase's Crash of Rhinoceros (top right picture!) have sadly caught the chicken pox! Poor things!
Although speak of the weather, I just ran out to take a look outside and looks like that morning overcast didn't last for very long!

I'll end here with some wise words from the late Mr. Bradbury himself. 

Happy Reading!