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| Early birds waiting for the program to start |
- Summer reading has fully begun. By the end of Monday we had over 500 kids registered. This is due in large part to my assistant, who I skillfully scheduled at the most busy times of the week...it has been a pretty easy kick-off, as these things go but I have still gone over my "Celebrating the Chaos" post from last year a few times! This year is, overall, going so much more smoothly. Fewer programs, fewer big extravaganza programs - I feel like I should feel frantic, but there's no reason to!
- I heartily recommend Science Alliance. They offer a lot of different science-based programs and they can handle my crowds! We hit 125 for this show, thanks to some moms who spread the word to the local homeschooling group. Unfortunately the a/c wasn't working, but you can't have everything...
- School group came on Wednesday. About 35 kids, beautifully behaved as always. I got them signed up for summer reading and helped with lots of book requests. Next year I'm going to work on the biography collection.
- Thursday we had a slow start to Lego Club, the weather is a bit iffy, but 44 people came overall so that was quite enough, even if it's nothing compared to last year.
- Friday was crazy busy. I left around 4 and then came back Saturday to handle more busy and get the planting (finally) done.
Some Projects Completed/In Progress This Week
- Nothing. It's summer reading
- Playgroup with Pattie
- Toddlers 'n' Books (2 sessions) (Pattie)
- Science Alliance: Repto-mania
- Books 'n' Babies (Pattie)
- Lego Club
- Go Go Garden: Planting and Guessing
What the kids are reading; A Selection
- Messenger by Lois Lowry
- Where are the Cirque du Freak books?
- Lots of discussion of manga with fans who only come in during the summer
- Son of Neptune (finally enough copies!)
- Mustache Baby and "making" books (from school visit) all checked out - gave her Mo's Mustache, Mustache by Mac Barnett, and Chloe's Lion.
- Parent-defined reluctant reader who only likes Minecraft and Wimpy Kid. Recommended the Minecraft novels (which are checked out), Nick and Tesla, and DK Adventures.
- 3rd book in the Wings of Fire series
- Easy readers for a beginning/struggling reader (multiple requests) Elephant and Piggie, Biscuit
- Books about the military - suggested Bearport for easier reading levels
- Allie Condie's Crossed - mysteriously missing.
- Books about leading/social change - suggested Be a changemaker
- Books about sewing
- Minecraft
- Lexiles, but thankfully the parent let the kids pick out something they were just interested in - I found scary stories for one and Bone for the other
- Another Bone request
- My big fat zombie goldfish (from school visit)
- Dinosaur books for summer school
- School visit - Captain Underpants, Star Wars, magic tricks, pop star biographies
- Beginning chapter mysteries (didn't phrase it this way - child was reading Hardy Boys and it was too hard) gave them Buddy Files.
- Mom of 5th grader who is reluctant to read - after some discussion of his tastes, I picked out Scientists in the Field and Desperate Adventures of Zeno and Alya
- Recommended Detective's Assistant
- Requests for the panda book I brought to school
- "the blue book" I brought to school - turned out to be El Deafo
- More mysteries
- Harry Potter (two shelves and I bought more but they're still almost all gone)
- Teen novel nobody in our system owns, something horror-ish? I made a note to purchase and put it on hold.
- Still waiting for the 7th Wings of Fire - not out yet.
- Struggling reader - had them read a sample of an easy reader and then picked out a number of beginning easy readers. Really need more of the very beginning ones.
- and lots, lots, lots, lots more
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