Annistyn Schebaum, Charlie White, and Nash Stevens color their bug crafts during summer reading at the Fairfax Library. Also pictured is instructor Alicia White.
Courtney Driskell reads a book about fire trucks to Maddie Sundermann and Grayson Wood at the Tarkio Summer Reading class for three- and four-year-olds Tuesday morning, June 20, 2023, at the Tarkio Library.
Summer Reading attendees Crew Martin, Leevi Driskell, and Stason Sundermann planted mini pollinator garden seeds Tuesday morning, June 20, 2023, at the Tarkio Library.
Jayne Martin reads a book while the students do crafts in the 1st-4th age group at the Tarkio Library’s Summer Reading.
Volunteer Katey Kroeger helped the children play dress up with fun costumes. They read “Harold and Hog Pretend for Real” by Dan Santat.
In Rock Port, the 3- and 4-year-olds let their imaginations run wild by making their own cardboard creations, from tractors with farmers to dungeons with dragons to choo-choo trains.
The Atchison County libraries held the second week of the Summer Reading program on June 20 and 22, 2023.
In Rock Port, the 3- and 4-year-olds let their imaginations run wild by making their own cardboard creations. From tractors with farmers to dungeons for dragons and choo-choo trains, the kids had so much fun creating their own special vehicles. Volunteer Katey Kroeger, along with helpers Amanda Vette and Elaina Kroeger, also helped the children play dress up with fun costumes. They read “Harold and Hog Pretend for Real” by Dan Santat.
The 5- and 6-year-old group had a great time with volunteer Krystal Leichliter. They made puppets during craft time and each one turned out different with their own unique personalities. Krystal read them “Hugo and the Impossible Thing.”
The older groups met on Thursday at the library. One of the main themes of this year’s “All Together Now” program is teaching kids how everyone is different but together, we can all find things in common and grow to learn in understanding everyone’s differences. To go along with that them, volunteer Tiffanie Gaines read the group the book about Helen Keller. She led them in a sensory demonstration by having them close their eyes and guess items that were placed in their hands that they had to feel and smell to try and identify each object. They also had fun with “Spot the Difference” searches. The third and fourth grade group talked about friendships and made bookmarks for others. They read “The World Needs More Purple People,” “Kindhearted Crocodile” and “Little Blue Truck Makes a Friend.”
In Fairfax, the Summer Reading kids read “Little Yellow Bee” by Ginger Swift, “Love Bug” by Jess Moorehouse and “I Eat Poop: A Dung Beetle Story” by Mark Pett. They talked about making friends and how everybody is different and may like different things. For craft time, they colored doughnuts and made their own bugs with paper plates, construction paper, googly eyes and pipe cleaners.
In Tarkio, the 5- and 6-year-olds were all about discovering beneficial relationships right in our own backyards. They learned about bees and butterflies. They started off by reading two books: “The Honey Makers” by Gail Gibbons and “Beware!” by Bob Raczka. They had a science demonstration of pollination while listening to “Flight of the Bumblebee” by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. They discussed how butterflies perform similar roles to bees in pollination. For crafts, they planted mini pollinator garden seeds and made butterflies and moths.
