Kanawha County Public Library system will offer a variety of free children's programs as part of its annual Summer Library Club, which runs through July 25.
Kanawha County Public Library system will offer a variety of free children's programs as part of its annual Summer Library Club, which runs through July 25. Combining free programs with great reading and other rewarding activities, the club allows children ages 12 and younger to earn prizes by reading or listening to books.
Participants may register for the club online at www.kanawhalibrary.org or at their local branch library. Children must have a library card in their name.
Following is a schedule of free programs scheduled in June. Please call the host library to register.
Healthy Summer Challenge
How fit are you? Here's your chance to see! Susan Heater from the WVU Extension Agency will lead four consecutive weeks of physical challenges and healthy habits. Grades K-6. Registration required.
Riverside Public Library: Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m.: June 17, 24, July 1; Nitro Library: Mondays at 11 a.m.: June 15, 22, 29, July 6.
Early Literacy Flannelboard Workshop
Before children learn how to read, they have to master six important skills. Telling flannelboard stories is one way to help children from ages birth to 5 with these skills. You and your child will learn about flannelboards and make the characters in a flannelboard story to take home. Limit 15 families. All ages. Registration required.
Clendenin Branch Library: June 16, 6:30 p.m.; Main Library: June 18, 10 a.m.
Paint-O-Saurus!
Create an original watercolor and learn techniques to improve your skills. Paint dinosaurs with Kanawha County Schools art teacher Thad Settle. Limited to 15. Grades 3-6. Registration required.
June 16: 10:30 a.m., Riverside Public Library; 2 p.m., Sissonville Branch Library.
June 20: 10:30 a.m., Dunbar Branch Library; 2 p.m., Main Library.
June 26: 10:30 a.m., Marmet Branch Library; 1:30 p.m., Elk Valley Branch Library.
Kanawha County Public Library system will offer a variety of free children's programs as part of its annual Summer Library Club, which runs through July 25. Combining free programs with great reading and other rewarding activities, the club allows children ages 12 and younger to earn prizes by reading or listening to books.
Participants may register for the club online at www.kanawhalibrary.org or at their local branch library. Children must have a library card in their name.
Following is a schedule of free programs scheduled in June. Please call the host library to register.
Healthy Summer Challenge
How fit are you? Here's your chance to see! Susan Heater from the WVU Extension Agency will lead four consecutive weeks of physical challenges and healthy habits. Grades K-6. Registration required.
Riverside Public Library: Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m.: June 17, 24, July 1; Nitro Library: Mondays at 11 a.m.: June 15, 22, 29, July 6.
Early Literacy Flannelboard Workshop
Before children learn how to read, they have to master six important skills. Telling flannelboard stories is one way to help children from ages birth to 5 with these skills. You and your child will learn about flannelboards and make the characters in a flannelboard story to take home. Limit 15 families. All ages. Registration required.
Clendenin Branch Library: June 16, 6:30 p.m.; Main Library: June 18, 10 a.m.
Paint-O-Saurus!
Create an original watercolor and learn techniques to improve your skills. Paint dinosaurs with Kanawha County Schools art teacher Thad Settle. Limited to 15. Grades 3-6. Registration required.
June 16: 10:30 a.m., Riverside Public Library; 2 p.m., Sissonville Branch Library.
June 20: 10:30 a.m., Dunbar Branch Library; 2 p.m., Main Library.
June 26: 10:30 a.m., Marmet Branch Library; 1:30 p.m., Elk Valley Branch Library.
Paleontology:
Since dinosaurs no longer exist, the only way we can learn about them is by studying their bones or fossils. The Traveling Classroom from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh will talk about how scientists look for bones. What is it like to be a dinosaur hunter? How do scientists tell the difference between dinosaur bones and other animal fossils? Questions like these and more will be answered in this fun program. Grades K-6. Registration required.
June 17: 10:30 a.m., Elk Valley Branch Library; 1 p.m., Cross Lanes Branch Library; 4 p.m., Main Library.
June 18: 10:30 a.m., Marmet Branch Library; 1 p.m., St. Albans Branch Library; 4 p.m., Dunbar Branch Library.
The Nelstones
With more than 20 years' experience in stone carving, Al and Penny Nelson bring their love of the art to share with children. Participants will help create a stone carving for the library and leave with a bracelet or necklace made from the chunk they took from the stone they worked on. Each workshop is limited to 30 participants. Ages 4 through 12. Registration required.
June 23: 11 a.m., Cross Lanes Branch Library; 3 p.m., St. Albans Branch Library.
June 24: Noon, Clendenin Branch Library; 3:30 p.m., Dunbar Branch Library.
June 25: 11 a.m., Main Library; 6 p.m., Riverside Public Library.
Mary Cassatt Presents: You're a Masterpiece!
Mary Cassatt, born in Pennsylvania in 1844, was one of the few women to join painters Monet and Renoir as an original Impressionist. Carol Sabbeth brings art history to life in her portrayal of Mary Cassatt. Listen and laugh to Cassatt's tale as she dresses audience members to match paintings by Monet, Renoir, Degas and Cassatt. Sabbeth is the author of the book "Monet and the Impressionists for Kids: Their Lives and Ideas, 21 Activities." Ages 5 and up.
June 25: 10:30 a.m., Marmet Branch Library; 3 p.m., Clendenin Branch Library; 6:30 p.m., Sissonville Branch Library.
June 26: 11 a.m., Cross Lanes Branch Library; 2 p.m., St. Albans Branch Library.
June 27: 10:30 a.m., Riverside Public Library; 1 and 3 p.m., Main Library.
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