Serving Sutherland since 1915
Sutherland Public Library is working towards becoming an accredited library. One of the things we need to do is complete a survey of our town. We need to know the things that you like about our village and the things that we could work on. This is a very short survey and only has 11 quick questions. Click here to complete our google form survey: https://forms.gle/44xes9vZzSvDnZAs5
Thank you so much! Please let us know if you have any questions!
This morning we had twelve kiddos join us for space camp. We read books about the stars and talked about constellations.
Then we did some “star” yoga, which the kids really seemed to enjoy. There were a lot of giggles!
After that, we made chalk and star sticker constellations. Some kids made up their own constellations and some copied real constellations.
We had 8 teens join us for origami space camp last week.
We also realized that our sugar crystals from the previous week didn’t turn out as well as we had liked.
This week, we will try to build a globe structure using only tape and straws. I won’t be helping them at all. It’s all about working together as a team to figure out how to engineer the globe.
Last week, we read a book about the sun and then used forks to paint our own suns. This week, we will read books about the stars and we’ll try some star yoga. Wear comfy clothes! We will also make our own constellations.
I’m trying to do better about keeping our blog updated! For those that are interested in statistical data, here’s where we’re at with our summer reading program. Week 1, we had 53 kids attend a space camp. Week 2, we had 71 kids attend either a space camp or the Lego Guy. This week, we’ve only had one program (so far) and we had 31 attend this morning. We have about three times as many people through the door and we’re checking out about three times as many materials every day as well. I wish we could be this busy during the school year as well! It’s been a fantastic summer so far.
Today we read a book about the planets and then painted our own water color planets.
Our summer reading program started last week. I’ve been so swamped I haven’t had time to update the blog. I figured I’d better get to it! This week, we read a book about the sun and then made sun mosaics. We had 35 kids attend this morning. Thursday morning, we will paint our own suns with the pre-k and under group. Then Thursday afternoon, we will try our hands at making some origami Star Wars creations. I will try really hard to get pictures posted on here. You can still sign up for summer reading. We have 91 total kids signed up right now. 18 for the Pre-K and under group, 17 for the tweens and teens group, and 56 for the school aged kiddos.
Here is our slideshow from this mornings sun mosaics:
We are wanting to start a Friends of the Library group at our library. This group would meet monthly, probably in the evenings. Some things that other friends groups have done are:
We are looking for:
If you would love to learn more about helping the library as we go forward in our accreditation process, please let us know. We need volunteers like you to help us move forward.
This morning we had eight friends join us for a special story time. Last Thursday, our weather was very snowy and story time got canceled. We made it up today!
We read two books about pigs and did two fun fingerplays where we counted our five little piggies. Then we painted our pink pigs with brown “mud”.
Here is our March 2019 story time calendar.
Please note that March 14th we will be having a special bring your teddy bear (or other fluffy friend) to story time with you. Leave your friend here for the day or until Saturday, March 16th. Your friend will get into all kinds of mischief at the library. We will post pictures here on our blog and on Facebook.
We had four friends join us for story time today. There’s no public school so I think people were busy or were enjoying their day off.
We read two books about cows that said oink and talked about the wind.
We also did three finger plays about milking cows and the wind blowing.
Then we made wind socks.
Our letter of the week is “O” so we made purple octopus fingerprints.
