It feels like summer just began and here we are buying book bags, pencils, notebooks and crayons. School is much different than back in the stone age when I was in school… we had paste and charcoal pencils. Even though we may now buy different things to take to school, children getting ready for school have not changed. There is still nervousness to enter a new grade or a new school building, excitement to see old friends and make new friendships and the dreaded getting up early again to start our days (for some kids).
We look forward to the change of the seasons at the library and new and exciting programs and items added for the school year. The children’s department has a lot of fun things planned for the fall plus some great new additions to the children’s room. We have added two nice big trains that the kiddos can sit in to read their books and new books will be added in the train cars. This was courtesy of our friends at Wayne County Public Library. We will also add a nice talking globe that will teach us facts about all the different places in the world we want to visit. Also being added are our virtual reality books. These books come with a special holder where you can put a grown up’s phone to make these books come alive. The books include The Sun, Polar Bears, Firefighters,Airplanes and India. We will add to the collection as the popularity grows.
School time is not the time to stop reading but to read more. We have a wonderful reading program for school age kids calling Reading Dragons. Kids read 30 mins at a time and log it into their special tracker. Once they have read for 2 hours they can collect Dragon cards which they can play games with and even trade with their friends. There will be a special Dragon program also this fall. It’s free to sign up and begins in September. So as you can see there’s a lot of fun things happening as we go back to school this fall. Goodbye summer, welcome fall!
Jen Gardner