Here are a few highlights from this week:
Glorious Gardens! at Post Road Library
39 children, 15 adults
"It was a glorious day at Post Road today. Sara and I presented the program that Amy creatively put together. Patrons showed up ready to garden. The line started forming at 9:24 and we started giving out tickets at 9:30 am. The activities included decorating a flower pot, making bubble wands and decorating a butterfly using leaves and twigs. For decorating a Flower Pot, the younger kids painted and put stickers on plastic pots, while elementary aged kids and adults painted ceramic pots. Then they went outside to put the dirt, seeds and water. For bubble wands, the kids put pony beads on a pipe cleaner and attached it to a wooden stick. For the butterfly, we provided lots of different leaves, twigs and flowers that the kids could glue to the butterfly printout. Lastly, the patrons could take their bubble wands and scavenger hunt printouts to the Poetry Garden. Comments were so complimentary. Several mother were so thankful for a creative program for their children. One Nanny of two children explained that the youngest does not like to leave the house because of anxieties, but she enjoys coming to the library programs. Several patrons said they did not know about the garden until today. They were very interested in coming back. Sara witnessed a family with older elementary kids and a teenager, that was enjoying the bubbles in the garden. The mother was taking pictures of her older children enjoying a simple pleasure together. It was a great day today." – Tina Pearson
Puppetpalooza! at Cumming Library
135 children, 106 adults (three programs)
"Puppetpalooza fun! I reused some of the puppet shows that we had compiled for summer storytimes: Duck & Goose - A Gift for Goose / I Am a Cat / Night Animals (always the favorite!) / Horse Meets Dog. In between puppet shows, we danced to "Dance, Freeze, Melt" / "Bananas Unite" / and "The Goldfish Song". I had a few girls dance with me...in fact they danced to all the most in the puppet shows too! After the last Puppetpalooza, the teens help put away the puppet stage since this was our last summer program which is always a little sad to me." – Julie Boyd
Book Sleuths at Post Road Library
13 adults
"For July, Book Sleuths read The Couple at Number 9, by Claire Douglas. All of us really liked this book! We highly recommend it and want to read other books by this author. This book covered so many issues - loyalty, forgiveness, cruelty, fear, deception, manipulation, parenthood, dementia, obsession, and rehabilitation - all wrapped in a mystery and a love story. We thought this book was very well written, and the author kept leaving hooks that made the book hard to put down. The ending of the book was jaw-dropping, but when we looked back at the book, we could see that the author skillfully dropped clues all the way through the book. The book did have a sense of foreboding all the way through. The story is set in England, flipping between the 1970s and 2018 and the setting is a small cottage (with two bodies buried in the back garden) that backs up to woods, in a small village with no streetlights, which adds a sinister tone to the whole book. This story also touches on whether or not rehabilitation can work, how the capacity to love and forgive, or not, can shape our lives, and how people we think we know well have hidden motives. Saffy and Tom have moved into the small cottage handed down by her grandmother, Rose, who is in a care home suffering from dementia. They want to enlarge the cottage and as the workmen are digging a trench in the back garden, a human hand is dug up. This leads to a police investigation and not one, but two bodies are discovered! The few clues that Rose is able to provide, in her more lucid moments, add confusion, not clarity. As the story progresses, and more characters are added, the author drops everyone in a swirling mix that seems to intertwine all their lives. But we also didn’t find the story confusing, due to the author’s excellent writing. This book is a quick read with no graphic details to deal with, and the ending was very satisfying! Highly recommended! " – Angela Robbins
NOTE: Book Sleuths has been run by Angie for nearly ten years and has the highest attendance of any book club at FCPL. Way to go, Angie!
FCS New Educator Orientation with Outreach
70 adults
“'Oh my gosh, we love the library! Thank you for everything you do! We really appreciate you!' was how we were greeted at this event. We were so excited to have a table at the FCS New Educator Orientation and we had an amazing turn out. The out-of-county teachers were delighted that they could get a library card; we signed up 40 teachers! We also shared information about our online resources, multilingual resources, and storytime kits with teachers who already had a card, but weren’t familiar with all of our amazing resources. Tutor.com was definitely the resource that garnered the most interest, but there were several close seconds. The Pre-K teachers were thrilled about the 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten and the special needs educators were pleasantly surprised by the breadth of materials we offer for differently abled students! The teachers were super engaged with Lorraine and I, asking lots of questions and giving feedback about what materials would be most helpful in their classrooms. We also had several teachers check out a “Blind Date” book (wrapped mystery books). They thought the idea was really cute! All in all, we had a wonderful time talking with the teachers about our resources and we were showered with a lot of love and appreciation from everyone in attendance." – Katie LeDuc
The Inflatable Zoo at Sharon Forks Library
127 children, 88 adults
"Today everyone thoroughly enjoyed the inflatable zoo program. The presenter was amazing at keeping the audience engaged and entertained throughout the program. He weaved in learning points about animals along with a good amount of magic. The children didn't stop laughing till the end of the program. The presenter made sure to keep even the grown ups engaged. He asked for dads to volunteer and there were three dads upfront as volunteers too ! The presenter knew exactly how to keep the attention of the audience across all ages . In a fun entertaining way the children got some nuggets about animals along with a sumptuous dose of magic ! Ms. Amy talked about summer reading in the beginning and we also gave out our summer coloring pages and activity sheets at the end of the program. Everyone left with huge smile on their face." – Anu Murari
Magic with Ken Scott at Hampton Park Library
188 children, 114 adults (two shows)
"Ken Scott presented a great program and was terrific at interacting with the kids. A couple of the kids he used as volunteers were such good sports and Ken allowed one of them to present his own magic trick for everyone. He used several books in his show and did magic tricks related to the books. The crocodile puppet got lots of laughs. There were lots of positive comments from parents and caregivers as they were leaving." – Kelly Hollis
Photo of the week:
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| So many new library patrons were registered at the FCS New Educator Orientation! |
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