Welome to July! This is the month for cookouts, sunscreen and BEACH READS! (Seriously though, don’t forget the sunscreen.) As always, the staff at BGM Library are here to provide free fun for all ages, so let’s get into what’s coming up!

 Keeping up with our Oceans of Possibilities theme, we have a slew of sea-themed shenanigans just right for the younger set, pre-schoolers through middle school through adulthood! Join us for five exciting fact filled weeks all about the ocean and its amazing creatures.

Preschoolers thru Lower Grades

 Stop in each week, add your submarine to our ocean mural and move it across the ocean as you complete each week’s activities.

Week One – Wednesday, July 5 at 3:30 – All About Whales
(This program will be repeated on Saturday, July 9^th at 10:30 AM)

·         Story time……. Ms. Jane will be reading Commotion in the Ocean by Giles Andrae and has a fun whale craft planned.

 Did you know the blue whale is the largest creature in the ocean? We invite you to meet our mascot, Walter the Whale. Each week he will be hiding in a different place in the library?  Can you find him?

 Our Hidden Creatures Aquarium is on display with new sea creatures to find each week.

 

Tweens/ Middle Schoolers

 

Week One – Wednesday, July 6 at 5 – 5:45 PM – All About Whales or come when you can.

 

·         Challenge 1: Help us research and display facts about whales… There is so much to learn and to share with our community

 

·         Challenge 2: What are the names of our Earth’s oceans? Can you name, locate, and spell correctly the top five oceans on our earth??

·         Challenge 3: Bring a friend and play a few games of Go Fish! Extra credit if you go home and play with a sibling!

 

·         Challenge 4: Set your reading goal for Week One and read!

 

When you have checked off all four challenges for the first week we will reward you with stickers and you will qualify for some fun prizes at the end of Summer Reading! You can stop by the library anytime to work on these challenges but, if you want to have fun with other tweens, stop by on Wednesdays from 5 to 5:45.

 

Adults

Your very favorite Beach Reads display is up and going… What is summer without a fun read one can not put down, a glass of iced tea, and lazy days!

That’s it for Summer Reading Week One….

Looking forward to seeing you in the library…  I am happy to report that I am feeling much better and have a pile of new books to process just for you!

Susan and the Library Ladies