by the peters township public library and i missed the our goal is to bring you information about peter's touch a public library and we'd laugh and just say right into your living room where i liv having our kickoff on the fourteenth very starting right now exactly so now starting on june twenty third we will be starting the actual programming in the plainest and if you missed it the sign ups the registration on the fourteenth you can register all the way up even past the actual start date bill ability and yet as long as are still room come in and sign up there's there's plenty of room and it goes for eight  weeks so it's not really like you're going to miss much but ok i have to get into the spirit yes our theme i had last episode our theme is so everything we're doing this summer is going to involve sciences only we're going to be  that's right i kind of mumbled they have got the better personality than they do they're not very friendly well he has to be because he's kind of like our mascot for the summer reading i think his name is dr doctor you know really right here oh i kid you not dr b to share i've been taking dr moody to the schools and telling them about our science program and that they'll have a chance to see especially if th i won't go there is to say takes me back to my chemistry days in high school i was always really good i was good i like chemistry but i had a girlfriend who hated it and the teacher didn't care for her either because she was kind of so what am i going to do with him i'm going to hear that walk just keep him a little propped up he might look a little sluggish oh he's old is it as i said all right wait now i have to get prepared as i that i'm going to revise or like that ok what you're too young is that what you say i don't think i could pull it off quite yet well i'm not going to go there all right i don't know what that says about maine all right so this is going to well i have to be ready because we have a lot of stuff going on to do and before you know what i'm actually ready for community day now that's appropriate community day where well yeah it's hot it's hot and theme and so we're thinking ok you know we always try to bring something that has to do with our summer reading team so we decided to connect one of our favorite dr seuss books bartholomew in the black to what we're absolutely and i just thought of another reason for wearing this ok while you were talking not that i wasn't listening or listening one hundred percent but this is so we could like i could go incognito in the parents won't recognize me when they're all very angry with us that their kids are the way so yeah you there it's going be a lot of fun and if you bring this guy to you know what one of the things too that i didn't talk about yet but this summer we are having the carnegie science center science on the road oh it it is so cool that they do that that they are coming to our library to the library we have to pay for it i don't know if it's in our i don't know if i put that i don't think i put the program no not on that one it is on the you have an updated one oh ok i brought the and that i did anyway there's a there's a saturday in july and a saturday in august that we have the science center coming to the library to do science things and one is called like science concoctions and the other one is called science creations and the difference between them is the things that they're going to make right and then the children will get to take home things from that too and it's and unfortunately though for that library give us a call if you're ever if you ever need to date of when something's going to happen or when you want to sign up so i always check check there for our charities that you know what i told the kids that this summer instead of going on the computer to look up like taylor swift began or who else are they looking up these days this more is or anybody more popular than taylor swift now i'm glad being behind it i don't know ok well whatever i told them to quit looking that up and look up your your local library and see all the stuff that we have right you know i mean my gosh you know quit and then i was teasing them i said summer is not the time to try to up your level and again like like to connect what we're talking about to you what's going on in libraries across across the state so yes and knowing that you know we like to know that we are like top in the nation and we are and they and they like to take a look at what we're doing last time we were together we talked about the benefits of doing a summer reading program or getting a you know it it almost feels too obvious to even say it but i still think that it needs to be said so that parents can remember that there are definitely benefits this one and this was something that we talked to the mrs mcwilliams and i talked to the parents in pleasant valley about with the summer slide and she had a beautiful video on it that really kind of says it all but this article is an article on ways it was actually two articles this one's three ways to prevent summer slide i'm not going to read them totally able to give some highlights in this one is ten ways to prevent the summer slide in the summer slide as we talked is you know if the children do not read or do anything through the summer then they slide right back down to where they were you know when they start in the fall they lose it they start in the fall and then it's almost like starting over at that age when you read over the summer you kind of keeps your brain working throughout the summer and keeps exactly keeps you fresh and ready to go and surprisingly there suggestions are i'm just going to go through a little bit of them aren't even nessus sara lee just constant books it's just constant reading just constantly keeping your mind on now this one this suggest said this they could call it six books to summer success research shows that reading just six bookstore in the summer may keep a struggling reader from regressing and of course those six books that you can't you know if you're in sixth grade and you're just picking dr seuss i mean they they want you to read write something at you and age well i'm your age level they also suggest read something every day every day here is you see that everything from the newspapers read schedules t v guides magazines stuff on websites food channels and even suggest you know to continue reading to your children you know continue reading reading out loud with them right and then all of these activities that all require some extent you know some piece of reading whether you're cooking because they're reading menus or planting a garden just the field trips going places i like this one because i have a app for the summer i phone it's a learn a new word each what it is yet it is because you know some of them that you need thing to do with their child at home everybody has something with an app base to it whether it be your kindle or your i got or whatever and you know what's the word of the day or what's the more of the there their word press so that was yeah i can love find all kinds of information i just tell you in this is one thing i'm going to and with this with the summer slide thing the one game i was telling the parents about there were some kids in there as well on friday is that when we were when my children were really young i loved to drive and do road trips and we'd pay maybe you've done this too where you play that we called the alphabet game and you have to look for the alphabet on the signs that's what you would start with a and then you hate to root against each other but you're always thinking like ok let me see if i counted my head if you figure and you try to see where you're going to end up because you didn't want to end up with like the cue or something that's hard to take turns around you take turns that i like i have a and i'd see a signing go ok vancouver whatever a and in the next person we go b when you can't use anything from the sign you have to keep going keep looking and then do that what a fun way to spend time reading vaal on the road i it is fun all right so that's my my summer slide very very cool you know bird middle of june now finishing up june and july we're still going to be going strong with our summer reading program and for july for the teens because last summer for the first time we did the it's called the thirty day drawing challenge and i was amazed by the feedback that we've gotten that was piled on the successful things we did last summer i had so many kids involved in this and it was really cool because i remember that that was fun yes so since it went so well michel we're absolutely going to do it again yeah they every day through the letter started one days in july but for the first thirty days of july i do a different read different drawing challenge and it can be anything it might be a self portrait it might be draw a word draw your name it might be something as simple as using your favorite color or some of them are a little more in depth where you have to draw like a life changing moment so and then at the end of the summer you bring your sketchpad and that's where the first several people that sign up for this actually do get a free sketch pad to use you bring your sketch pad into the library to me  sometime in july over the last day of july or beginning of august and i look through all your drawings make sure you've done them all now you don't have to have any kind of artistic talent whatsoever it's just something fun to do a nice you know activity for the summer and you get then ten tickets for our prize baskets which i talked about the last episode for every hour you spend reading or different programs that you're involved in throughout the summer you get we have bassett's ruffling off for teens which are the sixth grade and sixth grade through twelfth grade so much that every team that just played last summer donated one of our drawings to the library to display in our team and we've actually had a lot of them displayed for quite some time because i can't bear to take them down because they're just so good i brought a couple to share this one is done by a scene room for since last summer because i love them so much ignored the rest of them so hopefully i'll have even more artwork that i can display next summer oh do do i start i'm starting it for you ok ok ready so this is what we're go outside ok all right so that's that's myself portrait so then when you're playing pictionary with me and i could start your thing when it gets to i have to draw an animal ok so here's what i suggest if you were ever playing pictionary with me and it's an animal for the summer and you know kind of connecting our reading with other activities so it's really really excited about to bring it back if anybody should feel very good about doing it yeah it's a lot of fun so excellent all right so i want to talk let me just mention to we don't want to run out of time i know through the summer you're talking about things that are still going on as well and you're going to be doing your art thing are the book groups right so this is the the book for that will be much a treehouse for july have a go ahead finish ok what have you got to be good at the beach to do anyway this is it and if the girls out there it's a girl's book group usually from valve third grade even though i do have some second graders on up  falling we're actually going to doing this the second sorry in july not the first saturday in july and we'll be reading dolphins at daybreak which is another big treat because dolphins yeah it's fun and i chose i read it because i if i was saying something really not so nice and you know in their language and spanish dolphin which is something i might be saying hi how are you an english dolphin but it might have been like you smell bad excuse me in spanish dolphin so i'm just checking to see what is in your actually lie on their backs like this and you hold on to their i guess their flippers and they pull you back or is it their nose in the water and you can kind of lie was the coolest thing i've ever done but i could not speak to them so there was today i'm going to have to work on my time for what i'm going to speak about american english all right moving on so another funny thing we have going on in july is one of our favorite comic book heroes for it yeah everybody in libraries and bookstores and calling folks stores across the globe are going to be celebrating batman seventy fifth birthday and i was like well i know we have many batman fans we actually have one child that comes to our library every week and dresses up like batman so you're watching we're talking about you and i i told his mom one day i was like you know i feel so much safer in the library when batman is so done i'm in for real may or may not be joining us that that means birthday party but then we thinking about batman i was like you know what i really the batman fan base doesn't really have a limit on age like well no because then they've come back see when i was thinking of the batman thing i was thinking like are we thinking like the maybe we'll show an old batman cartoon and that may or may not appear we'll find out we have to see if you can talk about me and agent i heard yet of the joker has released him and out here in peter's township at our wonderful life where we have such great