Dona’s Bears – A program about England

Posted on July 12, 2011 by swkls

DCPL kids see the costumed bears, play pass the patato, and dance to Scottish music! One of our favorite programs! (Photos 7/6/2011)

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Garden City Zoomobile visits DCPL

Posted on July 12, 2011 by swkls

Garden City Zoomobile visits DCPL over 200 parents and children attended.

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Teen Summer Reading at Rolla Library

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Cindy

Our teen program is 5th grade through 8th grade and we had a great time this year. I have been kind of slow to get their videos done so here they all are! We had a Wii day, a mother shared their Wii so we had three sets. The tie-die t-shirts we did turned out awesome, we used Simply Spray that we bought through Amazon. It was simple and the kids did it all, I went on youtube and showed them 3/4 videos on how it worked and then we went outside and had some fun. We ended with water games and a luau, I forgot to take a picture of the food table but at the end we had a hula contest and the kids had a great time.

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Summer Reading at Rolla Library

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Cindy

We had a great Summer Reading this summer, lots of kids and lots of fun. Our extension agent came and gave us a talk on where our food comes from, Farm Bureau came and we made ice cream in a bag and 2 teachers came to talk about Australia and sand art.

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Cool Tool!

Posted on July 6, 2011 by swkls

Today I discovered this online tool called Go Animate.  With this tool you can create animated videos with just a few clicks.  The hardest part is figuring out what you want the characters to say!

Ruby from Lane County Library created this video using the tool to promote their Summer Reading Party.
GoAnimate.com: Summer Reading Party! by lanelib

Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It’s free and fun!

I also created a quick video promoting SWKLS Tech Day.
GoAnimate.com: SWKLS Tech Day. by janellerenae

Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It’s free and fun!

If you need help using this tool let me know and I will be glad to help!

Janelle

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Scott County TEENS Geocache

Posted on June 29, 2011 by miss millie

The TEENS along with Lake Scott State Park Ranger, Greg Mills, Scott County Record Newspaper Editor, Rod Haxton, Miss Stephanie and Miss Millie went Geocaching at Lake Scott State Park.
GARMIN generously donated 5 handheld GPS Geocache units to the Scott County Library. The Library and Park will be working together to plan more Geocaching Adventures when it is cooler. The temperature was a 108° :-p. But we had FUN!!!!

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Scott County POOL PARTY

Posted on June 29, 2011 by miss millie

We celebrated Summer Reading Program at the Pool! Everyone that read all their books got to attend a Pool Party!!!

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Teens “Take Tea” at Hamilton County Library

Posted on June 29, 2011 by swkls

Last week, teens at the Hamilton County Library traveled to Europe for tea time. As they arrived they were handed menus for the day’s tea party. Everyone was a great sport as they tried various flavors of tea, cucumber sandwiches, and Devonshire cream with English tea and butterscotch scones. Included on the menus were fun tea facts for the teens to share with each other. The fact explaining how to properly hold and drink from the tea cup was a favorite… pinky out! Everyone received a copy of the Devonshire cream and butterscotch scone recipes to place in their Summer Reading Passports.

    

    

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Summer reading at Protection Township Library

Posted on June 29, 2011 by swkls

Were into our 4th week of summer reading.  Today we passed around a Map of Africa, and most of the children could tell me what country we were going to. 

We read the book “Vacation in the Village” by Pierre Yves Njeng

Each colored a mask and took home pages to color about the 4th of July

We decided after we were done we should of used markers to do our mask.

 

 The two sitting in the chairs, are very busy, rest are talkers.   What Fun we have, they do like being read to.

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“Bikes, Books, and Better Living” Visits Hamilton Co Library

Posted on June 29, 2011 by swkls

“Bikes, Books, and Better Living” is a cross-country bike trip formed by an uncle, Kevin Vrabel, and his two nephews, Andy Underwood and John Vrabel. They are riding to raise awareness for literacy as well as better living. Along the way they are stopping at local libraries to share their message and show pictures they have taken along their route. We were honored to have hosted this group during our reading program and to be one of only two stops in the State of Kansas.

The following is from the Facebook post written by Kevin Vrabel. He shares his thoughts on the group’s time cycling through Western Kansas, visiting our library, and interacting with the children in our Summer Reading Program.

June 22  Hamilton County Library, Syracuse KS to Garden City, KS (54 miles)
The ride was fast. We were taking the long, gentle slopes of western KS with ease with our San Gabriel and Rocky mountain muscles and lungs. We snake along with little conversation and a sure, steady cadence as the miles blend one into another; 22, 23.5, 25 mph. At times we are a tight pace line with each leader grinding into the crosswind until they decide it is time for a new arrowhead. Other times we ride three abreast on a smooth, wide shoulder; thank you Kansas for caring for your berm. We will not speak of the glories of Colorado while we are on your soil and we salute you. Thank you for helping us ride as fast as we care to go on a day where we felt faster than the day before.
Heroic Deeds
Some heroes are born by chance; being at the right place at the right time and doing the right thing. By chance or fate, some heroes are made. Some find fame on the screen or fields of play, but are cutaneous heroes who fade under close scrutiny. As a child, it was the baseball diamond where my heroes lived. As an adult, I look back and see that ballplayers were just ballplayers after Lou Gehrig died. His acts of heroism were well before my time, but he was a Rushmore-ready hero if there ever was one. His legacy lingers still like the echoes of his voice; a dying man, telling the Bronx faithful how luck had shined his way. Epic heroic.
Today my heroes are not found in stadiums or silver screens. Their heroism is wrapped in humility but can be seen in the eyes of the children they serve. Imagine this. In the town of Syracuse KS, where the high school graduating class was 35 (not 350), just 35; 70 children turn out for a summer reading program at the local library at 10am on a Tuesday morning. Some walk or ride their bike, but 70 of them come. Marilyn leads the Tuesday group which range to the 4th grade. They wear T-shirts that proclaim “One World, Many Stories” and they smile and laugh at their public library.
Amy leads another group exploring the wonders of journaling and helped with today’s group as we were their guests. A third of the group played games of corn-hole and ladder ball in the neatly trimmed grass with Andy, John and Pop-pop who reminded the young throwers while his medicine bag dangled; “underhand is easier”. Another third was read to inside the library central while the rest sat in chairs and questioned me of our trip as we projected pictures on the screen above my trusty Trek. Every 20 minutes the groups of three rotated under Marilyn’s watchful eye.
“Has your chain ever broken?”
“Do you get tired?”
“I can fix a tire without removing my wheel. Can you do that?”
When we talked about reading and writing they showed varied interests from history to vampires to silly stories. For some boy journaling was too “girly” while the biggest boy in the group confessed to journaling to “keep track of his life”.
They hoisted my bike and asked me to do the same. They spun the wheel to watch the speedometer go and they left the library the way they came to it; smiling and laughing and happy to be there.
After photos in front of the building, Amy and Marilyn invited us to lunch and we sat and heard the stories of success. They felt blessed to have us there and we knew we were blessed by having them in our day. These are my heroes today. Three hours with them and you feel blessed and your day has become better than the day before and you ride faster than the day before. So Syracuse KS will echo in our ears and when we sleep tonight there will be children in yellow T-shirts reading, smiling and laughing. Thank you Hamilton County Library, Amy and Marilyn. Epic Heroic.

      

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