Dive into the stacks at the Okotoks Public Library this summer and enjoy some high energy fun as the 2011 TD Summer Reading Club gets set to make a splash!
Again this year, the Okotoks Public Library (OPL) will run the club on a drop-in basis. This means there is no need to pre-register and all classes will be free of charge. The goals of the Summer Reading Club (SRC) are to encourage and strengthen the habit of reading for pleasure, to create life-long learners, to increase children’s reading skills, and reduce summer learning loss in school-aged children all while they have fun at the library.
The classes will start the week of July 4 and run through to Aug. 17. Preschool children, ages three, four and five, are welcome into the library every Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Early readers, ages six, seven and eight, can participate in group activates on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings from 10 a.m. to noon; and youth between the ages of nine and 12 can stop in Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Complete details are available on the library’s website at www.okotokslibrary.ca.
The TD Summer Reading Club has long been successful in inspiring children to spend more time reading books and visiting their local libraries. During the summer of 2010, more than half a million children across Canada participated in programs offered at their community libraries and read more than 2 million books. Here at OPL, Amber Dalke will again facilitate the classes this year, and she said she is looking forward to having a swimmingly good time. To sample some of the fun activities Amber has planned and to find out more about the Splash! Celebrate Summer SRC, stop by the library’s booth downtown during the First Saturday event on July 2.
Families are invited to stop into the library on Thursday, June 30 from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. to listen to Canadian tales and participate in some fun Canuck activities in celebration of Canada’s 144th birthday. Learn about the national and provincial emblems and enjoy a slice of cake. No registration required.
