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!

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!!

Superheroes Week 1! All about Superheroes!

The Superheroes started off their summer by training to become ultimate heroes! We made a home out of the library and declared it our secret headquarters, but before saving the world, we first needed to create our own superhero identities and hide our secret identities!

So for our craft we went ahead and decorated some masks!!!

We also read some of the many superhero-themed books in the library! From Marvel to DC, to just plain heroes we explored fantastic worlds where justice and nobility are upheld by heroes!!!

Now, of course, I again forgot to take some pictures! but I did snag some of the library before the kids came into the library while I was setting up!

Wednesday mornings are always fun! Here's some of the books we read!

Lego books are seriously the best books!!!

Summer Reading Club - Commences! Sidekicks: Week 1 Things with Wings!

The Summer Reading Club kicked off to a start on July 9th with the Sidekicks meeting in the library for the first time this summer!

Miss Carly introduced the theme of "Things with Wings!" and the kids read some stories about flying animals, and my personal favourite - a momma and daddy bird that accidentally become parents of a crocodile who things he's a bird!

The craft was an adorable 3D dragonfly that the little ones each bejewelled and coloured in! The beautiful dragonflies were then glued onto some popsicle sticks, an voila!!! It was fantastic fun!

Sorry for the lack of photos! I was without camera for a few days at the library ... so some of these catch up posts will be low on photo quantity!!!

Guest Wednesday! DESPICABLE ME!

I'm looking forward to this week's Guest Wednesday! We are continuing our Superhero theme that started last week with watching THE INCREDIBLES by watching a Villain themed movie: DESPICABLE ME! And gosh, do I ever love this movie!!

I did catch the sequel, Despicable Me 2 this weekend, and boy did I love that movie! Perhaps I'll post a movie review later today... although for now, I'll be preparing for our SUMMER READING CLUB, which officially starts this week! HOORAY! See you all this week!

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!

Children's Library Decorations!

Whew! The library is started to look awesome! Over the last week and days and today Carly, Rhonda and I have been revamping our Children's Library area to go along with our Summer Reading Club theme: UP, UP and AWAY! I'm really please with our decorations this year! Rhonda went all out and made some beautiful cardboard masterpieces for the library. We have a lovely cardboard rocket ship and some crazy alien ships!

Here's some pictures of the kid's area!!! Hope everyone had a lovely long weekend!!