Wow, it looks like hot days coming our way this coming week… makes me lazy just thinking about it! Fortunately, we have some “cool” beach reads for those of you picturing yourself at the ocean…

Not this Tuesday, but the following Tuesday, July 26^th at 9:30 am, our families with youngsters kindergarten through eighth grade, have been invited to Russell School for a CLiF event. The children will be entertained for about a half hour and then will select a free book to take home… all to promote and encourage reading. Please reply at the end of this missive if you are interested… we need to know grade levels so we have adequate books. It promises to be a fun time!

Summer Reading – Week 3

Preschool through Lower Elementary Grades – Monday and Saturday 10:30

This week it is all about Jellyfish…Did you know that some jellyfish glow in the dark?... and that the largest jellyfish is called a Lion's Mane, "Cyanea capillitia", and grows up to 3 feet across???
Our story will be Stella, Star of the Sea, by Marie Louise Gay
Our Take and make craft is a Jellyfish Suncatcher. 
We will have a brand-new Guessing Jar. 
Congratulations to last week’s winner, Lincoln Strassell!!!
Come in and find Walter the whale hiding in the kids’ section of the library1

 Middle Schoolers – Wednesday at 4

 So proud of our tweens and the way they have tackled our weekly challenges. We all know a lot more about whales and sharks as well as the location and spelling of the major oceans. This week our tweens will be reporting in on the largest and shortest sharks in length and how they did measuring them out in their yards… and then we will start in on this week’s challenges and share our findings in two weeks. (July 27^th at 4 No Meet-up next week.).

•  Challenge 1: Our geography challenge is to identify and color each continent in the world and then carefully label each of the oceans we have talked about.
• Challenge 2: Our research challenge has to do with the words ‘oceanography’ and ‘’oceanographer’. Oceanography is the study of the ocean and all its complex relationships with the planet. This includes the study of weather, ocean currents, and sea life, and every other topic associated with the ocean. An oceanographer is a special kind of scientist who studies the ocean.

There have been many well-known oceanographers besides Jacques  Cousteau. Can you research and find the names of three oceanographers and tell something about their accomplishments.

Challenge 3:  Select, check out, and peruse a book on oceanography. Select three interesting facts, write them down and be ready to share at our next meet-up.

Challenge 4: Read each day and meet your sommer reading goal!

Adults – Any Time

Challenge 1: Email me with the title and author of a book you have read and enjoyed. Can you add a line or two of why you liked it?

Challenge 2: PLEASE stop by the big round table and lend a hand to assembling our Undersea puzzle. The good news is that Angie has the outside done and the colors separated!

Challenge 3: Check out these five new additions to our fiction shelves…

1.     Glory Road by Lauren K Kenton… “brims with faith and family, second chances, and new horizons”

2.    The Judge’s List by John Grisham…

3.    You are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks… “a fiendishly smart cat-and-mouse thriller”

4.    Book Lovers by Emily Henry… “ one summer, two rivals, and a plot twist they didn’t see coming”

5.    The Good Left Undone by Adriana Trigiani… Eli Hilderbrand says “a wonderous novel of storytelling, love, war, religion, and that which defines us all: family, and (yes) inspiring”

Well folks, that’s it for this week… see you at the library!
Susan and the Library Ladies