piers touched public library i miss shannon and i miss linda and we're here to give you all the information that you need to know from your peters township public library especially for what's coming up right yes super busy in the months to the next segment i have some real international stuff but for this segment it has to do with every library i'm going to talk about something that we talked about last year at this time called the summer slide and we know what that is we want to talk about that because this is another reason well the reason why reading in the summer so important right and why our summer programs are huge not only are our summer programs huge because they're wonderful they are we do a really good job but also because of the importance of reading your round yes so i'm going to go for the summer reading facts ok according to the i read summer reading program website and this is stuff like i said i went over last year but i think needs to be refreshed on everybody's mind absolutely why you need to keep reading through the summer right summer reading facts number one the benefits of summer reading are clear national research from the dominican university finds that students who participate in public library summer reading program scored higher on reading achievement test at the beginning of the next school year than those who did not participate makes sense right yes you know because that's what the summer slide is a summer slide a sliding board and yes and a kid and i don't know if they could see there's a little sliding board and on this picture and that's exactly what happens if the kids just don't do anything you do that's kind of a use it or lose it you know you want to keep your your mind in everything active so that's important and that's what the summer slide is is to not yet not let it go exactly now parents of children enrolled in the public library summer reading program reported that  us that the children spent more time reading over the summer they read more books they were well prepared for school in the fall and read more confidently right yeah it seems obvious that young people experience learning losses when they don't engage in educational activities during the summer that makes sense research into research spanning one hundred year shows that students typically score lower on standardized tests at the end of the summer vacation so at the end of the summer vacation they score they score lower yeah if they get they haven't done anything for that what that makes sense if they would take the same test at the beginning of the summer they would do significantly better because it's at the end of the school year and i think stand they have that slide they do nothing yeah so that's what i worry about too is you know a lot of parents are like what am i going to do with the kids all summer i can have them jost you know sitting in yeah and not games are exactly exactly so you want to get a reading all right to succeed in school and life children and young adults need ongoing opportunities to learn and practice essential skills of course summer reading clubs reminds books right to get through whatever they want or worry about a are points right now offense to the schools you know but the a are you know i mean that becomes a big issue for the kids at school trying to get their points in and reading things just for the points and not necessarily for something they enjoy because i need one point that has to be super can be super easy right or you know or whatever and yeah yeah one point i was a rabbit that's cool yeah how many points you need thirty two when do you need t buy tomorrow good luck have you heard of gone with the wind there you are reading let me see there's of course as we know there's so much to see and to do at the library we know that we have all kinds of things always going on way to me tell you what's in with children who read in the home and use the library perform better in school and are more likely to continue to use the library as a source of lifelong learning so that's good we have a lot regulars that come to the library of all ages i know that we would hope and i think i have to say i have to agree with that like my daughter i'll use my daughter as an example you know like i grew up liking you know reading and liking to read and using and coming and becomes natural you know like think about it like some kids just think about the it's go to the mall and write we just part of our life is let's go let's go to the library books let's see if there's any  why reading summer reading is important they show a picture i don't know if you could see it on this report but it's a picture where are we showing i don't know if that it's really small of like you said show and the kids on the slide it said they're actually was a good way to lead into it all that we're talking about right that's why we have our shirts on that's just that is the statistics as parents are bringing their children to the library this summer right but if you go until you know an eight year old you should come to the library this summer and read because centers around superheroes and also community here that is heroes and just talk about heroes for animals and all different kinds of heroes for your environment right oh yeah it can go you can go and we talked a little bit last time but i yes this guy now i know that gave them a picture they're going to be putting up a picture of oh the guy oh sure the guy with the birds i'm not sure that i'll have a pelican or a just dock  to be showing that was it he may have own here she comes i'm sure she he has all kinds of birds and this is mine this is my bird i always tell the kids about my little sochi her name is sochi in the recent being is i had that she's a cockatiel you'll see here and my first cockatiel was a male and his name was sydney and the reason his name was sydney is because we got him he was born we bought the kind of bottom as an egg you know you watch it develop at the store the place that we bought it and it was during the sydney olympics so we just named him sydney well sochi was born during the sochi olympics which was really funny  did it come up i was going to say yeah a little look at that a little gel she's happy she's a good bird so if you think she's adorable way to see that guy and there's a picture like i said i gave it to them so he's going to be a lot of fun so please be there and that's like june sixth as our kick off that saturday and he's coming at eleven thirty twelve thirty thirty thirty i believe right it's twelve thirty to one thirty if an animal you know you don't but he actually rescues a lot of these birds so we bring minutes because he is what i would consider a hero for animals just like a lot of people you know rescue animals or work in shelters or you i thank you honey i love you my pretty girl and then she'll say you're a good girl yes i am a good girl that's all we know so far but that's more than sydney did and i thought that cockatiels i thought the males talked more and graduated from college one just finished her freshman year of college and you just have to make this you know township wide the now yeah we're going to be the proud mommy of a baby in october yes exactly that's what's really cool yeah well congratulations think you're happy think you could see it now and then what are we off to now right well we we talked about that at the birds and we have so many ok thank you let me know when you want me to come a grabber ok never a dull moment blog site for those days but our first book in june will be actually back to back to june thirteenth and that is pirates past noon so we're going to all things with pirate sun oh yeah so that will be fun one of our favorite things to the light and actually you can use that big i'm like oh did we skip it you know you just throw us off i mean i bring in a bird and everything it's it becomes a bird brain ok so my book  clubs they are switching days as well because you know i always talk about in the summertime everything gets switched up because we have to incorporate not have to we love to incorporate all the elementary kids and the book groups that i do will be on tuesday nights now and my girls book group it's the one i do all year be tuesdays june ninth so that's the second tuesday of each of the three months of february or three months you're already there going to is already in wonderland exactly what i did yeah we're a little were a little off today but that's nothing unusual so yes we're going to do alice's adventures in wonderland and then we're also starting for the summer we'll see how it goes we're going to do an american girl book club yeah which you are with the my american girl advisory advisor because she you are so into it and yeah i never grew out of it yeah i remember when we had my green doll and oh that's right freaked me out a little they actually messed up product yeah and that's pretty bizarre but we are doing so we're going to try that because american girl is so huge our first one is a book that we're going to read as felicity saves a yes which is excellent one  ill be good she says she is actually a hero for animals because in that story there is a horse that is being stream lee mistreated and by his owner and so she has to decide what  ok so we are book but let's talk about some books yeah sometimes we actually get to that don't we sometimes we never even get close i know but i know she was she ok ok we're good now i feel like i'm checking o n my baby is she ok just wait some random take on ok so this one is and it's been on for a few years but i wanted to bring it up because every summer there is a book  that we have multiple copies of and ordering more and it doesn't matter because they will not stay on the shelf and i can guarantee i'm making event right now we'll see if i'm right that john green's paper towns is going to be the hot item this summer  was the fault in our stars yeah by john gray we have like eight or nine copies i don't see it on the shelf once they it's going to be paper times also last summer of no other big hot item was the virgin trilogy oh that's right and that will continue to be a hot item again this summer because the sequel is now is it is a coming out the movie is already been out so that other one yeah it should i'll call it my summer boredom busters ok especially for all the road trips you know so and i've actually been telling all the parents about this in my classes the this past week because it was our last week of spring of showing some of the new things that we have because people are and they're predicting that you know road travel you know by automobile it has to be up because gas prices down and everything so they're going to be a occupied again and not necessarily with their d s games and their little things i mean not that there's too much wrong with that but we've got better things yes talk about literacy all right so here's all your options for the car all right all right i'll start with this one i love this i grabbed this one because i love the book secret garden secret garden these are so much fun so people don't really it's just like having your i pad or your i pod yes you know yeah even  yeah they're really kid friendly and that shows you on here exactly what button does what all is configure it all comes with a lanyard that goes on so clips on you can just have it around your neck and listen all you need to do is provide your own your bonds we used to provide them at the lucky and they'll be if somebody leaves one in here we used to have batteries and all of these and it's really bizarre to say that we had to stop because they would come back without the battery and you're like we're constantly putting batteries and yes exactly there's for visual children little they're like little t v s yes and it has all the stories on it these charge up and so they're they've already lost a good time it does and you don't need batteries or anything and then when you pick one of these up they watch the store you can also put in headphones on the backs of these are like this one has five stories in it i mean five really good ones i picked this one because as corduroy i love corduroy harry the dirty dog curious george  really good stories we have all the ones from different ages to yes yes definitely i mean from really little to older this is brand new oh you know what let me do this one first because i brought it because of you with your magic trick these are called these are book packs these are fairly new actually you know few months ago they did yeah it gives you the play away which i just showed you that you listen to but it gives you the book to follow along and kids like that yes you know we get a lot of that would you have it on you know the play away and do you have the book and you know and sometimes they don't necessarily match yeah so you can read along while you listen great for them to learn going to have and will have them ready for summer but i love how they feel yeah they're really nice script to them that's really kid friendly they are shot approved yet these are these are they're calling them launch pads and they are their own little yeah yeah a little tablet that's pre loaded with all of these different games and they're all educated don't say that they're all educational no they're not they're all really fun and this also they follow a theme to yeah they all have themes so we have a bunch of them and they are in different ages different themes different and i think we started out with like thirty of the writing of a lot of them yeah and these are what i would never say perfect but kid friendly and good will yeah and they'll be they're perfect for the cartoon they are and they start as well so now you can you can charge in your car and stuff but these are charge and it's all touchscreen and again very kid friendly you guys this township is going to rock for things to do with the kids they will not be going in there saying i'm bored are we there yet are we there yet or are there yet because they're going to be doing all this fun stuff absolutely