The Worth County Library located in Grant City held our Summer Reading Program the first week of June. With a population less than 2,000 supporting our library, this program would not be possible without our community supporting us with many volunteer hours and some donations. .
The program is open to elementary students. We are proud to report that 103 students were registered this year which is over 60% of the local students participating. We ran the program for two hours Monday through Thursday and then on Friday we took a field trip to Kansas City.
This year’s theme of ‘Color Our World’ was used for curriculum. A snack and making a craft was included in the daily itinerary.
On Monday Joni Hawk, children’s author of ‘Big News in the Barnyard’ books, came to visit. Her books are about barnyard animals so we included a fun barnyard for the children to interact with. Kandi Hughes, an author/illustrator, held an interactive session on writing and illustrating.
During our quick two hours on Tuesday, Selina O’Connor showed the children everything that goes into quilt making. Jonell Cook presented a session on craftsmen’s skills used to make numerous handcrafts from tooling leather, knot tying, yarn and thread projects and more. The Worth County Extension helped with sidewalk chalk art. Patti Spainhower worked with children to make energy balls using a recipe, and to top it off we began a tie-dye pillowcase project.
On Wednesday Tucker Owens brought his guitar and shared his songwriting expertise and gave a presentation on various amplifier and audio equipment. Recording artist, Josh Daniels, taught a vocal introduction class. Besides the craft of the day which was a tea light lantern, everyone completed their tie-dye pillowcase project.
Thursday was all about the theater. Worth County High School students involved in the Tiger Tales Theater along with Nanci Drury presented videos, costumes and fun information highlighting the school’s productions. Children had one session on writing scripts and playacting. Another session included some fun theater games. For the final session, the children made puppets as their craft of the day.
Friday was the big field trip to Kansas City. The trip for us is over two hours each way. In the morning we visited Legoland Discovery Center and in the afternoon the activity was trampoline jumping at Sky Zone.
Needless to say we were a little exhausted finishing the busy week. Not only did many of the children fall asleep on the bus ride home, but so did some adults.
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