Upcoming Events!

Hey everyone, Raeann here to post a reminder about all of our awesome upcoming events. The last week of October will be a busy week for us in the Childrens Department. Along with our regular classes, we will be having the American Girl Program and the Fall Party in the Garden!

     The American Girl Program is Thursday, October 27 from 6:00 pm to 6:30 pm. There will be food for everyone to try, a fun craft and of course stories. No doll is needed to attend and the target age is 6-12, but everyone is welcome to attend.

     The Fall Party in the Garden is Friday, October 28th from 6:00 pm to 9:30 pm and we will be showing It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown at dusk. There will be stories at 6 and lots of games, activities, and refresments for everyone to enjoy. The Fall Party is open to the public and free for everyone to attend. We're so excited to see everyones amazing costumes!

     October will be coming to a close soon, so it's time to get ready for all of our November events too! On Saturday, November 5th starting at 10:30 am we will be having a Love on a Leash program. This month's theme is of course turkeys, so come and read to a dog and then create a turkey centerpiece with us.

     There will also be a tween program on Monday, November 7 called All Anime with Logan and Sonya at 5:30. They will be discussing a variety of anime, so come in and have some fun learning about anime. The next day we will be having Lego Club (Tuesday, November 8) from 3:30 to 6:30. Come in and build some Lego masterpieces with us. The Pride Club Program is also coming up in November, so be sure to come Monday, November 14th at 5:30 to learn about the environment with us. There will also be our American Girl Program and a Dork Diaries Program, so keep watching the blog for more information about all of our different programs coming up in November!

Sonya's Saturday Stories

It's so beautiful outside! The sun is shining through the windows, and it makes me want to curl up in a patch of it...like a cat.
Yesterday we had the Chess club! So fun! You should come next time if you missed it yesterday.
Remember: Regular classes next week! Also--Thursday is American Girl. Who is it, you ask? Come and find out on Thursday at 6:00 pm.
Hey, speaking of cats... Check out this book!

Time Cat by Lloyd Alexander

Jason has always thought that his cat Gareth could talk if he wanted to, so when Gareth speaks to him he is not surprised. On finding that Gareth does not have nine lives but does have the ability to visit nine different times and places, Jason eagerly asks to go with him. Together they travel to Ancient Egypt, Roman Britain, pre-Christian Ireland, Imperial Japan, Renaissance Italy, 16th century Peru, late 16th century Isle of Man, 17th century Germany, and America at the beginning of the Revolutionary War. In each place they help someone, often rulers having problems with corrupt or evil officials. Join Jason and Gareth on this exciting adventure of time travel!!!

Weave it to Us...

Oh what a web we weave. Today, Lindsey and I have been having fun with spiders. Well not real spiders. We were fortunate enough to have two bales of hay donated for your library to use for decoration this fall. So... we made spiders. A Momma spider and her baby spider. If you get a chance drive by the Library and see our new friends. They are beside the big oak tree. Momma is Incy and baby is Wincy.

Have a lovely weekend.
Ms. Vicki

The Literacy Bell

Hello Everyone!!

When I posted the earlier blog about the Literacy Bell it occurred to me that perhaps you might like some further information about this wonderful wonderful bell.

First off before we built our new library we wanted to be able to engage the whole community in as many ways as possible, as we are the center of literacy and language in our community. We sought to embrace, encourage, and enable our youngest patrons to be lifelong readers.

Enter the Literacy Bell. The Literacy Bell was lovingly donated in memory of Katherine Hoffman by her children and grandchildren. Its wonderful clear and distinct sound is a symbol for something very special, that incredible and magical moment when a child can make the letters on a page become a word and then that word plays in a sentence and finally that sentence becomes magically a story.

Ringing the bell has become a statement in our community that literacy, language, and lifelong reading equals success and is important to us! Ours is the original Literacy Bell in the United States. However, Georgia and a few other states have Literacy Bell's now as well.

In our community there are 3 public school systems, a Christian school, and a large home-schooled population. All students from each type of education are eligible to be a "bell ringer."

A coupon to ring the bell is given to each student after they have read a book from the list of selected books to a designated person at their school or home school. They also receive a sticker that reads, "I read my first book." The coupon is brought to the Library and allows the bell to be unlocked. The child writes their name and the date in the "Book of Names."

"It began with a wish, evolved into a dream, and is now a symbol of literacy for a small town."

With today's Literacy Bell we had over 100 new readers!!
Congratulations to our NEW readers!!

"The more you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you will go." ~Dr. Seuss

Anywho, I hope this helps.

Lindsey!!

NEW BOOKS!!! (Yay)

Hey Guys!

Guess what today is!! LITERACY BELL!!! Yay!

I know that Miss Carol has already talked to you about the upcoming events but I would just like to emphasize the amount of FUN we will be having at the Garden Party on Friday, October 28th!! Sooo much fun and did I mention that we (your ringmasters) are dressing up as well? FFFUUUNNN!!!!!!!!!!

Anywho, to the more important part of this blog... NEW BOOKS!!

• Dork Diaries: How to Dork Your Diary: Rachel Renee Russell
• Guess How Much I Love You: the pop-up edition: Sam McBratney
• The Great Cheese Conspiracy: Jean Van Leeuwen
• Paul Thurlby's Alphabet: Paul Thurlby
• Happy Pig Day! : Mo Willems

DVD

• Baby Signing Time: Here I go
• Signing Time: My First Signs
• Baby Signing Time: It's Baby Signing Time

Sound Recording

• Tom Sieling: Swimming With the Sharks

Hope you all have a FABULOUS day!!
Lindsey

Coming up and goings ons!

Hi everyone , Happy Monday! Long time no blog ......lots to tell you about .....
Our BIG Fall Party in The Children's Garden on Friday, October 28 from 6-9 pm. Stories, games , activities, refreshments, It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown at dusk. Come in costume , free ,and open to the public.
Then on Saturday, November 5 at 10:30 Tails and Turkeys : Love on a Leash (read to a therapy dog) and then make a turkey centerpiece.
Until next week ........Miss Carol

But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.
Andrew Wiles

Sonya's Saturday Stories

I had an awesome birthday! Thanks for the gifts, Ringmasters. I love them! And Happy Birthday to anyone who had a birthday yesterday!
Well, everyone, Fall Break is almost over, and we all know what that means: School starts up again. With school comes homework, and with homework, comes tests. But you know, it's always nice to see your friends at school again, right? But let's daydream a little longer before we have to go back to school:



Copper, by Kazu Kibuishi

This book is for you comic lovers! Join Copper and his dog, Fred, as they go on some of the craziest adventures. Copper is bright and optomistic, and Fred, well... isn't. These two friends certainly get into odd situations, though. Find out what their up to at the library!!!

Remember:

Monday is the Pride Club at 5:30 pm.

Tuesday is the Lego Club from 3:30-6:00 pm.

Wednesday is Literacy Bell for Pulaski County Students.

Have a happy weekend, everyone!

Sonya

Wildlife

What a beautiful day. It seems the animals think so too. Coming to work this morning I saw 5 deer, a squirrel, a rabbit, 5 ducks, and 2 dogs. I think the animals are gathering food and storing up for the winter.

It's a wildlife, so take a walk and maybe you will see some animals too. The children's library has some great books on Kentucky animals so check us out.

Have fun.
Ms. Vicki

Also:
From all of the ringmasters here in the Children's Library, we would like to wish our fellow ringmaster Sonya a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!

Wacky Wednesday!

Hello blogosphere!
Nikki here!
How are you all enjoying YOUR Fall Break?
I just want to share with you guys how OUR Fall Break at the Library is going!
As the title of this post says, today has been a pretty wacky wednesday! We had Toddler Tales at 9:30 and Storytime at 10:30 this morning. We had about 30 wonderful library users for our classes this morning. After classes, we set up for gaming in the Depot which started at 1. At 1:30, we had Hopkins Elementary after school program stop by for a visit. They had a blast playing on the Wii's!  At 2:30, one of our fantastic patrons came by and donated 2 hay bales for us to make into spiders to decorate for fall and 3 square bales to decorate our Children's Garden! Shew, that's a lot of stuff and it's only 3:30! I can't wait to see what the rest of the day has in store for us!
We have had so many great visitors this week at the library.  We love it when people come to see us!
Monday we did ALIEN AUTOPSIES! Let me tell you, that was soooo much fun! Today we are having gaming in the Depot from 1-5 pm. If you can make it, you should come on down!
If you haven't been able to make it to the library over your fall break yet, don't fret, we still have stuff planned for this week! Thursday, we have our regularly scheduled Lusic at 5:30 and Stories at 6. Friday, October 7th from 1-2 pm we will be making edible pumpkin treats, so be sure to stop by and make your own.
We look forward to seeing you guys stop by and enjoy YOUR library!
~Nikki
P.S. Don't forget our Fall Party in the Garden! It will be so much fun! We are going to be having stories at 6, games, treats, and a movie at 7:30-ish! Feel  free to come in costume! FREE and open to the public!

Sonya's Saturday Stories

Oh my goodness! Today was so awesome! Not because it's Saturday, but because we had all kinds of things happening at the library. We had Love on a Leash, donut holes, a movie, and... We decorated pumpkins!!! We had fun today, and we hope you have a fun day, too.
 Did you miss all the action today? Well, fear not! Monday is our Tween Program at 5:30 pm. What are we doing, you ask? We are doing Alien Autopsies. Woah. Is that cool, or what?! We hope to see you there.
By the way, while we're disecting our aliens, you ought to check out this book (literally!).

 A Field Guide to Aliens, by Johan Olander

Have you ever noticed strange words spelled out in the night sky? Do you know which alien can't be alone? are you sure that a Knutt has never played a prank on you? Find out all of that and more in this delightfully eerie collection of extraterrestrial lore.

We hope to see you on Monday! Don't forget to pick up your pumpkin if you painted one today.

Till Next Saturday,

Sonya