Your children can really dig reading this summer,
thanks to the Summer Reading Program at the Royalton Hartland Community
Library. The six-week-long program offers children in two age categories
fun things to do and see this summer, but they will learn a lot too.
This
summer’s theme is “Dig Into Reading” and every Thursday will feature
activities for elementary aged children and story hours for the
preschoolers with reading selections that uncover the wonders of the
world around us. All programs take place at the library, 9 Vernon Street
in Middleport.
Program Fun and Activities for Children Grades K-4
Kids
love dinosaurs and they will dig them even more after the first program
entitled Digging Dinos that takes place on July 11 at 2 p.m. Folks
from the Buffalo Museum of Science will be at the library to show off
some real finds from ages ago.
The
following Thursday, July 18, will have the kids rocking when Buffalo
and Brandy are at the library with a Dig Into Reading musical
performance. On July 25, the Buffalo Zoo will be Digging Animals when
they come to visit. August 1, Rick Merritt will be digging into the
tasty science of bubblegum and ice cream. The digging continues on
August 8 as Pete the Pirate talks about digging for treasure.
The
K-4 Summer Program ends August 15 when the Wondermakers, an interactive
story theater group from Buffalo, close with their rendition of “I Dig
Stories”. All of the library’s K-4 programs are at 2 p.m. and are about
an hour long
Story Hours For Ages 2 - 6
All
Summer Story Hours for children 2 - 6 years of age will be offered
weekly beginning on Thursday, July 11 through Thursday, August 15 at
11:30 a.m. As dinosaurs are very popular with younger children too, the
first program is entitled Dinosaurs Dig.
Future
programs include Excavators Dig on July 18; Who’s Digging in My Yard on
July 25; Dig, Plant, Grow on August 1; Buried Treasure will be told
August 8; followed by Digging for Gold on August 15.
These
programs, funded by a Grigg-Lewis Foundation Grant and sponsored by the
NIOGA Library System, promise to be fun as well as educational. Both
children and their families are encouraged to attend.
The
Royalton Hartland Community Library provides residents a wide variety
of programs and materials that can be found on the library’s website at www.RoyHartCommunityLibrary.com . For more information or to register, call the library at 735-3281.
