Louie Gets Into the Christmas Spirit

It always seems to rain on school visit day!

The 3rd graders and their teacher Chelsea Brooks braved a pretty heavy downpour to make their first visit to the library last week. Everyone chose a book or a magazine and there was time for one story. We are looking forward to their return visit next month - let's hope it's sunny this time! (click picture for larger version)

Lucky us! A Visit from Kindergarten AND 2nd Grade!

They braved the rain to visit the library. Several kids got library cards for the first time. Thank you Mrs. Pohl and Mrs. Briggs for bringing your classes here!  (Click picture to see a larger size.) 

A Sweet Soft Library Visitor

Margaret brought Hazel, her 8-week-old Chocolate Lab puppy, to visit the library. Hazel looks huge in this picture but that's only because Margaret is small. If you look closely, you will see Louie in the background taking a bath. He didn't bother to pay any attention to Hazel at all.

Harvest Crowns

Not everyone would agree to have their picture made, but here are three cuties from today's storytime sporting their fabulous harvest crowns.

Tie Dye & Patriotic Flags

We had a huge crowd at last week's Fun Friday on July 29th with about 35 kids making flags and tie-dying t-shirts. Here are some photos from that day.

Duct Tape Hula Hoops a Hit!

Take some 1/2 " tubing, cut 7/16" dowels into 1.5" pieces, cut tubing into 9'4" lengths and insert dowel piece into each end to make a circle. Use a staple gun to connect the two ends and hammer the staples in. Voila! A homemade hula hoop. Now bring lots of hoops to Fun Friday and let the kids cover them with colorful duct tape!

4th of July Crowns a Hit at Storytime

 Storytime has started up again on Wednesdays at 10:00. The craft today was 4th of July crowns. Here are the kids (and an older sibling) modeling their creations. They are all ready to march in a parade!

Owen Brooks Visits the Library

Our big friend Owen was quite anxious to come in the library, hoping to see Louie, but Louie had not yet reported to work. We were happy to see Owen, but Louie probably wouldn't have been that thrilled.

First Graders Visit the Library

We enjoyed another visit from the Freedom Elementary first grade class, accompanied by their teacher MaryEllen Holmes, parent Ann-Marie Knox and a little sister. They picked out some books and listened to some stories and then back to school in time for the bus!

Making Airplanes at Storytime

The kids worked hard on their airplanes at storytime today!

A visit from the 2nd grade

The 2nd graders at Freedom Elementary have been coming to the library every 3 or 4 weeks throughout the school year. They get to choose a book to check out and then Elizabeth reads them some stories. The day of their most recent visit was Dr. Seuss' birthday and Brianna B. asked to read Elizabeth's favorite Dr. Seuss story, "Why Was I Scared" about the pale green pants with nobody inside them. She did a first rate job reading the story (which she had never read before that day), with great inflections and feeling. Here are some pictures from the visit. Click on pictures to see their larger size. Enjoy!

A Traditional English Tea

The 2nd graders from Freedom Elementary came for their monthly visit to the library on February 9th.  Afterwards, Judy, Irene and I were fortunate enough to be invited to afternoon tea at Petula Plunges' house. She treated the 2nd grade class to a traditional English tea complete with finger sandwiches, fancy cookies, biscuits, fruit and brownies - a real feast!  The second graders had superb manners and we all had a fine time. Sounds like it may become a 2nd grade tradition - I'm already looking forward to 2012 if so!