Summer Reading THANK YOU and UPDATE

THANKS
Another exciting Summer Reading Program is winding down! We've had a ton of fun this summer and hope that you have too!

We really enjoyed seeing some old friends again. Thanks to Tony M. for singing with us, reading to us, and helping us make musical instruments!

We had so much fun building bridges last year that we decided to do it again. Thank you, Miss Dana, for teaching us about West Virginia bridges and helping us build suspension bridges! 

Our friends from the Apollo Civic Theatre came to sing for us again this summer, and we loved hearing selections from their performance of Annie. They also brought the dog playing Sandy to visit, and some of our R.E.A.D. dog buddies came, too!

We would also like to send out a big thank you to the Friends of Hedgesville Public Library for their generous donation!

To round off July, the Maryland Zoo visited again with some awesome wild animals.

This summer was all about West Virginia's Sesquicentennial, so we had some wonderful new activities and presenters to celebrate all things local! For West Virginia Day, the West Virginia Raptor Rehabilitation Center came to show us a bald eagle, an owl, and a turkey vulture. We loved seeing the traveling museum from Dinosaurs Rock, touching fossils, and digging for treasure! After we built our bridges with Miss Dana, we learned about West Virginia legends and made our own Mothmen. Since coal is so important in our state, we loved having author Stacie Hutton read her book, Shovelful of Sunshine, and help us with coal-related activities. 

WHAT'S NEXT
We still have a few more things in store! 

The Summer Reading book sale will run from August 1-18, 2013. Bring in your reading lists, get your tokens, and shop away! We will also have a for-cash sale set up at this time. 

Our final program, Smooth Moooves, is at 10:00 AM on August 8, 2013. This is our fourth Healthy Lifestyles program with Jill Speelman, and we have had so much fun with her this summer! You can also do any craft you missed on August 8. 

STORY TIMES
As always, S.O.S. with stories and crafts for all ages will be every Saturday at 10:30 for the rest of the summer. Rising 5th and 6th graders have until August 12 to enter the "Book that Shaped Me" contest, and kids of all ages can still get Magic Tree House Reading Passports.

Thanks to everyone who came to our programs, checked out our books, and helped us have such a fun summer!