Kansas Reads to Preschoolers Week
Kansas Reads to Preschoolers week is November 12th -18th. This is the second year for this event, it is held the same week as National Children’s book week and National Education Week.
This year the book chosen by the commitee was Bunny Cakes by Rosemary Wells, it’s a Max and Ruby book. Max & Ruby want to make a cake for grandma’s birthday. They have very different idea’s as to what the cake should be.
To celebrate this week the library had a special story teller for story hour. Nadine Poss from Poss Real Estate here in Richmond, she consented to come and read the story to the kids. Nadine also made a donation to the library which was used to purchase a copy of the book for each of the story hour kids.
After the story the kids made bunny chalkboards out of CD’s and felt. After the craft they decorated cupcakes with pink icing and candy hearts and gummy worms. The kids and Nadine really enjoyed themselves.
Many thanks to Nadine Poss for her generosity and for reading to the kids.
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October at the Library
It’s the month of October at the Richmond Public Library and what are we up to?
In October there is always a Halloween Craft Day. This year it was on Monday, October 23rd @ 5:00. The kids got to make Bottle Cap Spiders [very cute], Glow-in-the-Dark ghosts [yes they really glow] and Bat Mobiles, the kind you hang, not the kind you drive. The kids really like making crafts in our small town, so we try to make them at least every major holiday.
On Wednesday, October 25, 206 the Story hour kids went Trick-or-Treating. Every year the Richmond Public Library story hour kids trick-or-treat the businesses on Central street. Central is Richmonds main street. The kids go from business to business and trick-or-treat. I am not sure who has more fun, the kids or the business people.
In October there is also a Haunted House in Richmond. Not at the library, but the libraries two librarians can be found there. There is also a city counsil member, and ex library board memeber and most year Richmond’s city clerk [She got married Sept. 30th so will not be helping this year]. This year the Haunted House people have decided to give a donation to the library.
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Kansas Library Card
Do you have a Kansas Library Card?? They are FREE you know? You can get one from you local library. These card will allow patrons to access certain statewide databases from home or your local library.
The Kansas Library Card is a free service of the Kansas Library Network Board, the Kansas State Library, and the University of Kansas Medical Center.
To reiceve a Kansas Library Card you need to be a resident of the State of Kansas. That’s all. Your librarian will give you a personal identification number on your card and the date of your birth. Cardholders can login at www.kslc.org to access licensed reference and reserarch databases from thier computer at home, school, work, or other location.
Some of the databases available are Firstsearch- Full-image articles from over 4,000 electronic journals and articles from 9,000 full-text journals are linked to databases throughout the service.SIRS Discoverer -Reference database for young researchers which helps students in grades 1-9 develop their research, writing, language and computer skills.
Heritage Quest – A genealogy database including entire U.S. Federal Census 1790-1930 and much more. Custom Newspapers – A full text database of over 160 U.S. newspapers and English language foreign papers. Worldbook – Including every article in the 22 volume print edition and much more.
Now they have added Free Online Tutoring! www.HomeworkKansas.org is open everyday from 4 PM -11 PM. Tutoring in Math, Science, English and Social Studies for grades 4-12 & College intro. Use your Kansas Library Card to login. What more can you ask for Free online tutoring. Live Homework help.
So if you do not have a card go to your local library and request one, it’s that easy, just ask. The you can login from any computer that has internet access with your pin number and date of birth.…
Story Hour to Start
Richmond Public Library is getting ready to start story hour back up. Story hour stops every summer since all the kids are in the summer reading program and starts back up in september after school starts. Story hour is every Wednesday at 11:00 a.m. Kids listen to stories, make crafts and enjoy a snack. there will aslo be craft days on Monday at 5:00 p.m. Kids can come in and make a craft, maybe have a snack and spend some time looking at books.…
Winners This Summer
This summer we had kids who read the most, adult who read the most, favorite colored picture, winners in the guess how many jars.. All these winner should be noted. So here is the list of library winners for the summer of 2006.
Damien Weber, Riley Roll and Justin Springer are the winners for most books read or listened to in the younger kids group. Chriss Moss is the winner in the teenage group for reading 50 books this summer. Darlene Springer is the adult who read the most books. She read over 60 books this summer.
This summer we had our second annual summer reading coloring contest. The kids are given pictures when they sign up for summer reading that have to do with the theme. If they want they can color them and enter them in the contest. The pictures are then taken to the community building during the Richmond Fair and the public votes on their favorite. Votes are tallied and we have the winners. This years winners were Kenzie Weber, Max Adams and Shelbie Morgan. Each winner gets a blue ribbon and a small prize. All entries recieve a ribbon.
We also had the guess how many contest this summer. Winner of the guess how many Mike & Ikes was Chloe La Duke, Winner of the guess how many Tongue Splashers was Kolby Goranson. Winner of guess how many pieces of bubble gum was Jake Kice. Winner of the gummi bears is still to be determined, since neither girl put their last name. We will check the hand writing and if that doenst work we may have to have a reguess on the gummi bears.…