living room so that is what we're here to do today oh my gosh we have so much to do we have all so much to talk about beginning with the summer reading program but cannot back up a little bit before we get it oh i know it's already started well get right into it ok it well before we get in you know we always have a ton of information and a ton of things but since the last time that we like we're actually together to do book because we've had like a sink a demonic or another events and all of that so i just want to see a dog say any memories for you ok because i found this after i told you the story of the godfather ok on sitting on my desk chair does this hanging actually on my desk chair i don't know how that could've happened ok well just in case that's all right because you know how we always like to do the revenge is sweet thing i just would like to bring back a fond memory of  now it's a little blurry that just might be a good thing for you in action shot it is an action shot should i show you first no i'm not going to show you know for sure this isn't the shannon apparently and i think i was in my own so this is true this is true you never know it could happen but hanging a donkey's head from my desk chair and all that was what i was nobody came into work the next day and the donkeys head was literally like hanging from her chair not like he was flashback yeah a little flashback from the last time we were together all right as you know we are bookends although i wore my my little sweater today because i'm always cold and and i was thinking about us wearing the shirts today and thought if we were like on the red carpet or in hollywood and we showed up with the exact same thing it would be would be like a catfight or something and i don't know who designed the start so i can't really say anything about our design no we can't we can't we can't we don't and i've actually got out of the summer reading program the nationwide summer reading program seen all starts with the kick off so i should defer but ok so i brought i brought you something but find they don't even decide that on this is actually for your husband for justin now i want to say year every year until you came into the picture i was the one that was always on hotdog duty at our kickoff yes ok well justin kind of has kindly offered to help and it's kind of taken over a little bit hot and even though i've told the kids that i'm on hotdog duty and you know that with the movie popcorn iraq with that all right so i'm passing over to him just to get him ready and prepped and handing over my hot dog fork and the first pack of hot dogs now t and then asked for a bag all right so we are having your name engraved on here and now but i should have put his name on there yeah we are having the kickoff party on saturday june fourteenth and it is true  little bit of fun but just in as we are doing hotdogs at a barbecue and popcorn and drinks and what else games it is also in prizes and that's the time that the actual sign up for the  info you can sign up starting june fourteenth for the actual program will start the week of june twenty third so if by chance you can't make it kick off which that would be a loss for you because it is going to be the party of the summer of course there but if you can if your vacation so we've got that at least we have the kickoff party started up we're going to get everybody signed up for this for the summer right i know we're going to talk about some other things but can i just like one little piece of information this is like remember last time like i talked about what was my tidbit it's that feeling on the inside let me let me just real quick send us your statistics or statistic well i just feel like i need to offer just a little bit of information because this one the article came out of the school library journal  and it says it says summer reading programs boost student achievement which for us is a no brainer of course we know that but a lot of people in the summer time i think look at their schedules and try to pick and choose what they're going to do right because everybody gets you know it's crazy and you have vacations and we expect that because we don't expect the kids to be there every single time right but listen to this yes it says in the summertime in fact more kids partake in public library summer reading programs than playing little league baseball oh and as so what our goal yet is very cold especially since sports is a you know it's always such a huge summer thing right and taking part in a local summers library reading program significantly improved reading school skills which is really no surprise and then instead of losing knowledge and skills during the summer months kids who attend reading programs actually show gains so we're no we're not surprised by that but johns hopkins center for the national center for summer learning found that by the end of fifth grade students who didn't read during the summer lag two years behind two years behind their yet behind their book reading peers and that's not good so that they you know they've gone on to study and thought that at the point when the children read to reach third grade is when you will start seeing significant summer slide which you know i want to talk about a little bit next time when we're together but they you know of course again this is just encouraging them to read and what a better way write it rewarded for reading and i really am bright and have fun so right so different or each there's different classes according to your age and we do different things we'll do science experiments obviously since our theme is science invokes and maybe video clips and all that fun stuff but then you also get a reading log where you get to record for every hour that you spend reading and for a are you spend reading and get a ticket of some kind that you get to collect throughout the summer and then at the end of the summer we have a huge store that we put on that you can redeem all your tickets for prizes and what i always tell the kid really the best part about it is you get to pick whatever you want to rewrite to have any requirements on that so if you're reading the harry potter series the summer great if you just want to read a bunch of ranger rick magazines the summer whatever long as you're reading something that you like to read that's for all right all it matters it doesn't have to be a r book or anything like that whatever you want to read for the summer and then long as you're reading absolutely as long as that you know what's cool about that so you could read what every want to read and then you get to get what ever  little we have books and movies and toys and candy and all kinds of fun stuff in our store so i was the kids you get to read every one and you get to pick whatever you want as a prize so it kind of is a win win  absolutely completely up to you as the reader you had to pick now exactly where it's i want you to read a certain thing or maybe you want to get ahead on your books this summer that's great to really just read whatever you want and enjoy your summer and enjoy reading exactly i was at pleasant valley and i don't have friday i think and talking to the parents over there in the exact saying exactly what you're saying and talking with mrs mcwilliams over there and i went through all of this you know explain exactly what we do and then i hit them with it i said but i have to be totally honest with you i said and i because i don't want you to come to the kickoff and sign the children up and be shocked that we actually charge for this event and they looked at me like and i said yes five dollars for the entire summer i know they lasted a laugh five dollars for the entire summer right and and just team is is entirely student led basically like a children's you can come into the programs than you still are reading on your own or having an adult read with you or in it or sibling but teens is entirely run by the te so there's no particular class per se like we do with children's because for teens schedules and work schedules it doesn't usually work the best friend so you get to the same thing that you get to read whatever you want to read but instead of having a store i have to ask it's not our theme to iraq hold off so the way that it works is for every book that you complete reading i have book summaries they're very basic i'm not going to make you write a book report over the summer but you'll have like you write the book on  e five stars or however you whatever you think it is and maybe write something basic about the books like maybe your favorite character or your favorite scene something along those lines and have a ship paper it's really like an no brainer ok but i collect all those thing for everyone you turn and you get a ticket for these raffle that we have going on and i have about ten baskets all the ruffling off and i was full of books and movies and crafts supplies and video games whatever we can come up with all kinds of fun stuff and there  it's basically just so i can keep track of what you're reading because i like to see what it was being read to and i might even some of our books you'll see when you come into the teen or have a slick a bookmark sticking out of them that says i should have brought one but it was s o maybe linda rated the scale this book five stars because and i i won't use your last name but it kind of says it's a nice peer review so when you have the absolutely no will this person somebody like this book so it must be good they gave it five them it five stars yeah so that helps when you're choosing books to read too but going back i do save all these books slips and the end of the summer i totaled them and then my top three readers to top the three teens that read the most over the summer i think i last year had one that read like i was thirty books in the summer which is a lot of books for one summer that is they get an i tunes gift card at the end of summer so lots of fun stuff so you have also a chance to win prizes and not only this is something new that i did this year not only do you get a ticket for it actually get i think it's three tickets for a book you finish you also get a ticket just for checking a book out so say you're going to check out five bucks for that for those two weeks come see us the children's desk and we'll give you tickets for the raffle so you get the tickets just for checking them out and then you get in more to it's when you finish reading them and i so bonus for you lots of chances and we also give you tickets for just for coming to our programs we have not only have the summer reading challenge we have special programs going on throughout the entire summer every day the week we have something on mondays we have dungeons and dragons and puzzles on tuesdays made of crafts on wednesdays ping pong thursdays they do video games and fridays is our trading card club and that's all summer long so just for coming to any of the you get chances to win prizes so that's a lot of fun we'll have cupcake challenges throughout the summer and we have moving vans around the summer and movie ticket to go see the fault in the fault in our stars which is comes out of that weekend so you get to the movie to go before the following yesterday's for sunday so you get to go see the fault in our stars of the night for the matinee on sunday so just for coming what do you consider that teens write in up so there's kind of i give i tell a sixth graders you can kind of pick and choose because the way that our children's program works is it goes through sixth grade so if you want to come to that you  can or you can do teen program you can kind of do it everyone if you want to be more independent and do the program you can or you can do the children's program it really doesn't matter to us long as you're reading exactly whatever works best for you and whatever you know your friends are doing whatever you want to do whatever ok excellent yet you know what and actually made me think of another point about being independent a lot of families ask us if they are not able to make it in the summer of two to the program that they're actually signed up for if that's ok and absolutely i mean we want you to be a part of it and you will still get they will still receive a reading record and you'll still keep track of your reading right and you'll still bring it in when you can and have it you know filled out and logged in by you know the facilitator or one of our volunteer helpers and still be able to participate in the prizes at the end and in the summer time again we don't expect everybody to make every single one because we have a k chanson right thing and things come up it's a hot ninety degree day and you'd rather know they would not rather be in the poor they'd rather be in the air conditioning library when i go the pool after exactly one read by the pool and one group that we did not talk about that we both are involved in our little ones the under the preschool and under we do these programs year round we still do them through the summer although it's more condensed we don't have as much time because i always tell the parents we had to learn to share we share the room very young and we have to school age kids so to have that going on so everyone's reading all summer long whether you are six months sixth grade or sixteen you can read all summer long oh well put well you know do the thing i don't yet name a book that you do i know i could see the smoke funniest ted arnold fly guy books i love them i know this is this one is called pet for fly guy brand new and it is ted arnold's first picture book you know the other one of that we have we do have a catalog under easy readers but it could go under the picture books as well and fly guy of course is a fly that the owner made calls fly guy and now fly guy wants his own path a pet for the pet for the fly guy and then they'll go through here and has i just love like the picture of a sim that and they are really good for new readers exactly you know to be read to but do you have anything new yeah i have some good ones well i just got this one and i thought it was perfect for our collection because i've had so many teens say to me that the law of this dr who dr who has been on for like fifty years i think i'm not i don't personally watch it but it was huge in britain and now it's becoming the major phenomenon over united states and teens especially are loving this dr who so thought that there's a lot of dr who books out there so i figured why not get them if they like them so there is a special actually it's a story collection it is on the fifty year anniversary and it has a love in doctors eleven stories so it's short stories which is awesome because if you're not tells you in the front you know which store what stories what so if you only are only care about a certain one you only have to read a certain one that's what's cool about the story collections you don't have to read the entire book right sense nice or individual stor this one is the day one of those but i don't know as an i q i actually took this book home to read it with my family because it made me like l o l for real yeah you know it's so funny and my girlfriend used to always draw crayons with faces it was like her thing really i don't know i was like her weird thing in high school she just it is crimson faces she called them happy crazy yeah so can if you're watching i'm talking about your heavy currents but this movie think of her because they have all these crayons with these faces and these crayons go on strike  like going on strike they don't want to be used anymore and so they're writing these letters right owners duncan yeah and they're tired of being their color for their specific uses like this one the red is tired of being you know  marks an apples and yeah it's really fun to do like i did it made me laugh out loud for real definitely good one of that is nice yeah good choice on the award winner and i'll say the other word winner this year was flora and