Splash into New York State Water Science will kick-off the kid’s Summer Reading Program at the Pember Library. Join us for this free program June 19 at 10:30 A. M. Space is limited! Call the Pember Library at 518 642-2525 to sign up.
Presenting the program is Carol Parenzan Smalley, a children’s author who has written creative nonfiction science materials for leading educational publishers, a teaching artist who creates programs for the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and the recipient of an environmental engineering degree (with the focus on water) from Penn State. In this 90-minute hands-on program, participants experience water with their senses. They perform an auditory rainmaking activity (while learning about the importance of water to all living things). They croak with the frogs (including the wood frog, the state amphibian) while creating their own musical notation system to record the sounds of nature. They explore the physics of water by devising a musical water xylophone (to accompany the frogs). They capture a moment of water time using haiku (based on the River of Words poetry project). And, they experiment with Gyotaku, the Japanese art of fish printing (with a replica of a trout, the state fish).
Public libraries across the State encourage reading through the New York Statewide Summer Reading Program. In 2010, Make a Splash @ Your Library will be the children’s theme. Linda has programs planned through July and a party in August for those who participate. Dawn will coordinate Make Waves @ Your Library, this year’s teen theme. The adult summer reading theme is Water Your Mind, Read. Detailed schedules for each program will be available at the Pember Library.
The Pember Library’s summer reading program is brought to you in part by Federal Library Services and Technology Act funds, awarded to the New York State Library by the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services. Summer Reading programs are also supported by donations from Telescope Casual Furniture, Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics, Parkland Alpaca Farm, King’s Funeral Home, Donna Johnson Physical Therapy, the Granville Lion’s Club, and the Friends of the Pember Library.