Thankfully, school in the town in which I work is running through June 26 this year, because something strange happened to May – it disappeared almost before it started.\u00c2\u00a0 Being out sick, quite unexpectedly, for a week certainly didn’t help my summer planning any, but also it does feel like May skipped by a bit too fast this year.<\/p>\n
With June almost here, I’m in my usual pre-summer reading frenzy: ordering prizes, asking for donations for raffle items (not a job I relish this year, in this economy), and prettying up the summer calendar before printing out and folding a million copies of that calendar.\u00c2\u00a0 On top of my usual summer planning, I also now have some additional planning to tackle: I’ve decided to run storytimes through the summer this year, and that means creating a summer’s worth of new storytime plans and feltboard stories to match.<\/p>\n
For all the work, though, I realized yesterday that it’s going to be a great summer.\u00c2\u00a0 We have the acclaimed magician\u00c2\u00a0Bonaparte<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0coming for a performance; musician and early childhood educator\u00c2\u00a0Hugh Hanley<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(Hugh is a local favorite) will give a “Circle of Songs” singalong;\u00c2\u00a0Jim Cruise, aka the Spoon Man<\/a>, who has a fabulous national reputation, will “spoon” the crowd; the Boston Museum of Science will be visiting with their “Science Magic”<\/a> program; and the Massachusetts Audubon Society <\/a>will be visiting with two mystery guest animals to present a program on Wild Animals of the Farm.\u00c2\u00a0 And, of course there will be library-run book groups, storytimes (infant, toddler, preschool, pajama, and Saturday storytimes), movie nights (5 family movies this summer:\u00c2\u00a0 Bolt<\/em>, Inkheart<\/em>, Hotel for Dogs<\/em>, Oliver and Company<\/em>, and Madagascar Escape 2 Africa<\/em>), an all ages Tie Dye event, and the Ice Cream Social and Finale Picnic.\u00c2\u00a0 Very busy, and LOTS of fun stuff.<\/p>\n So those of you who are patrons of my library now have a sneak preview of what’s coming this summer!\u00c2\u00a0 A nice little bonus for reading my blog – you know things that the rest of town won’t know until my first school visit on June 11!\u00c2\u00a0 Happy almost summer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thankfully, school in the town in which I work is running through June 26 this year, because something strange happened to May – it disappeared almost before it started.\u00c2\u00a0 Being out sick, quite unexpectedly, for a week certainly didn’t help my summer planning any, but also it does feel like May skipped by a bit … Continue reading June? Already? ~ Summer preview<\/span>