![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
My Read Across America Party!
Mar. 4th, 2011 12:16 pmLast night I had a very successful library program, which I'm a bit puffed up on, so let me share it here.
I'm going to, once we get all settled in the new building, host a Family Fun Night for elementary-aged kids (the group that seems to get the least programming opportunities) and their families monthly or so. So far it's been more like every three months, but with the moving confusion it's not happening any more often than that. In December I had a great program on Picture Books for Older Readers ("Older" meaning "Elementary" in this case), which only three families showed up for, but they had a GREAT TIME so it's still a success, and possibly they passed the word on to others for this time around...
...or, possibly, the promise of "FOOD" on the brochure had something to do with it...
...ANYWAY, so THIS Family Fun Night was a Read Across America Day Party-- BELATED, because Read Across America Day is TECHNICALLY March 2, Dr. Seuss's birthday. Only there were already a knitting club AND a scrapbooking club meeting in the library Wednesday night (this will NOT be a problem in the new building!), so we threw this party on Thursday night instead, which is okay, because to be perfectly honest I have this problem of thinking Read Across America day is actually March 3, anyway. Because I am the library's resident Literacy Nut, who actually thinks library programs ought to encourage reading in some fashion, I was going to Celebrate The Fun Side of Easy Reader Books.
After all, you uninitiated people, this is the gift Dr. Seuss gave to the world: making simple easy-to-read beginning books ACTUALLY FUN as opposed to banal.
( Pictures and Details under the cut, because pictures are BIG, dude )
I'm going to, once we get all settled in the new building, host a Family Fun Night for elementary-aged kids (the group that seems to get the least programming opportunities) and their families monthly or so. So far it's been more like every three months, but with the moving confusion it's not happening any more often than that. In December I had a great program on Picture Books for Older Readers ("Older" meaning "Elementary" in this case), which only three families showed up for, but they had a GREAT TIME so it's still a success, and possibly they passed the word on to others for this time around...
...or, possibly, the promise of "FOOD" on the brochure had something to do with it...
...ANYWAY, so THIS Family Fun Night was a Read Across America Day Party-- BELATED, because Read Across America Day is TECHNICALLY March 2, Dr. Seuss's birthday. Only there were already a knitting club AND a scrapbooking club meeting in the library Wednesday night (this will NOT be a problem in the new building!), so we threw this party on Thursday night instead, which is okay, because to be perfectly honest I have this problem of thinking Read Across America day is actually March 3, anyway. Because I am the library's resident Literacy Nut, who actually thinks library programs ought to encourage reading in some fashion, I was going to Celebrate The Fun Side of Easy Reader Books.
After all, you uninitiated people, this is the gift Dr. Seuss gave to the world: making simple easy-to-read beginning books ACTUALLY FUN as opposed to banal.
( Pictures and Details under the cut, because pictures are BIG, dude )
