Teen Summer Reading Program
2010 TEEN SUMMER READING PROGRAM:
Get Your Green On @Jay-Niles Memorial Library This Summer!
READ, RETURN, AND REPEAT
Taking books out at your library is recycling! Why buy and read once when you can borrow? It is easy being green! Come to the library this summer to enjoy activities around being Green and enjoying the natural world. We will kick off the Teen Summer Reading Program with Jennifer Armstrong. She will do a concert/workshop on June 15th @ 6:30 p.m. Her program is called Green and Growing. It reminds us that Every Day is Earth Day. Armstrong will talk about Julia Butterfly Hill and her “Green Kit” and will share songs and stories.
When you sign up you will be given a reusable tote bag. Every time you bring in your tote bag to take out more books and/or return them, you will be put in a drawing for a prize (limit: one time per day).
For every hour read, the librarian will add items to our nature mural. You will not have your own chart, but can watch the progress of the group. Bring in your reading log regularly so that we may track how much everyone is reading. Books are great, but remember: magazines, comic books, graphic novels, and newspapers also count for reading!
Bring in photos of nature through out the summer to put on display. For inspiration look at the work of famous nature photographers such as Ansel Adams, Bill Curtsinger, and Frans Lanting .
The Schedule:
On June 22nd at 6p.m. Kim LaRoche will be presenting an Origami workshop. She will be demonstrating the traditional Japanese folk art of paper folding. Teens will be making creations based on objects/creatures in the natural world.
On July 1st at 1p.m., we will be going on a nature walk. We will meet at the North Jay Granite Park and walk on their one mile trail. We will also take a peek at the granite quarry there. Please go to the Town of Jay web site to get directions: http://www.jay-maine.org/granite-park.html. This page will also provide you with more information about the park. Don’t forget to wear a comfortable pair of walking shoes.
July 8th at 1p.m. (weather permitting) we will be making nature prints. These white and blue prints are made by taking objects from nature (such as leaves, flowers, insects and shells) and placing them flat on sun sensitive paper. These items will need to be left in the sun for 2-5 minutes. The “paper” is then taken and put in water and then dried flat to “develop.”
On July 15th at 2p.m., we will try our hand at making recycled paper. We will be taking scrap paper, newspaper, and leaves (for a added texture), a blender, a bucket, water, a square pan, window screen, rolling pins, a measuring cup, tea towels, and natural dyes and making our own recycled paper.
On July 19th, we will have a visit from children’s and young adult author Anne Sibley O’Brien. O’Brien lives on an island off the coast of Maine. She has illustrated 25 picture books, some with collaborators and some she has authored herself. She often collaborates with Margy Burns Knight of Winthrop. Some of the books that have worked on together are: Talking Walls; Who Belongs Here? An American Story; Welcoming Babies; Talking Walls : The Stories Continue; and Africa is Not a Country. She has also collaborated with Juanita Havill on Jamaica’s Find and 6 other Jamaica books. A couple of her own books she has illustrated are retellings of Korean tales: The Princess and the Beggar and The Legend of Hong Kil Dong: the Robin Hood of Korea (graphic novel). Her visit to Jay-Niles Memorial Library will focus on her new young adult book: After Gandhi: One Hundred Years of Non-Violent Resistance, a collaboration with her son Perry Edmond O’Brien. This book contains 15 highly readable portraits of social activists. The visit will focus in part on Wangari Maathai and the Greenbelt Movement, but also on social and environmental activism in general.
A program that you may decide to take part in this summer is a common reading of the book Hoot, by Carl Hiaasen. We will purchase a limited supply of books. If you are interested, please sign up at the beginning of the program so that we will know roughly how many books to purchase or to borrow from other libraries. We will be showing the film and having the discussion on July 27th. The film will start at 6p.m.
August 3, 2010-Our End of the Summer Reading Program party will be a Disco Dance Party complete with disco ball. We will be playing a great mix of disco favorites. Don your polyester and come out for a great time!!! Break out those disco moves!
Please come and take part in our 2nd Annual Teen Summer Reading Program! There is a little something for everyone.
“Be the change you want to see in the world.” Mohandas Gandhi