County Libraries Plan Summer Reading Program
This summer the Forest, Morton, Lake and Sebastopol libraries will be hosting the summer reading program Get a Clue at your library.
Get a Clue will have reading programs for older children as well as younger children.
Get a Clue is a sleuth themed program in which the children will find clues and solve mysteries while reading.
Forest Children’s Librarian Paula Wells said a host of activities will be available for participants.
Forest Police Chief Mike Lee will be on hand in Forest to teach the participants the importance of being fingerprinted. He will also show the children how law enforcement solves real mysteries by bringing along some of the tools used during investigations.
New to Forest’s agenda is the fifth grade and older program. The library will have guest speaker, illustrator Chuck Galey who will give the older children tips on how to get started in illustrating and making it a profession.
The older age group will also have a movie night in which the 1985 movie “Clue” will be shown.
The children attending the Forest library program will be digging for dinosaurs, dancing and singing during the interactive watts up jam and they will have fun with the movie “Nate the Great” on an old-fashioned movie reel.
The children will make a Get a Clue box and will collect items that serve as clues to solve the mystery at the end of the program.
The k-4 age group will also be entertained by Inky the Clown.
Participants at all libraries will enjoy a puppet show. Forest will have their programs on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
On Thursdays during the duration of the Get a Clue, the volunteers of the Forest program will have a reading program for the children at Crudup-Ward Activity Center and R and W Christian Academy Daycare.
“They hope to reach out to the children who would not be able to come to the library for the program,” Wells said
In Morton, the participants will become investigative scientists. Herpetologist and children favorite Terry Vanteventer will entertain and answer questions about snakes and reptiles.
The children will also get a movie night complete with popcorn. Morton will have their program on Thursdays at 2 p.m.
The Sebastopol program will feature a visit from the Sebastopol Fire Department and refreshments will be served. Their participants will also enjoy a movie and popcorn and they will be watching “Rikki Tikki Tavi.”
The Sebastopol program is on Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m.
Lake will be calling all summer sleuths for a scavenger hunt on June 12. The library will host Scott County Sheriff Department’s Billy Patrick, who will speak to the children and Forest Police Chief Mike Lee will be fingerprinting the kids.
Newton County Sheriff’s Department will also be on hand with their drug dog June 21. The library will also provide a movie and popcorn.
Lake will have their program at 10:30 a.m. on Thursdays. Lake Branch Manager Selena Swink said she is excited to have the program in the mornings.
“Since we have new hours, we were able to have the program in the morning so the children will be more comfortable,” Swink said.
For more information on the summer reading program, log on at www.cmrls.lib.ms.us or call Paula Wells at the Forest Library at 601-469-1481; Tina Mauney at the Morton Library at 601-732-6288; Elvis Butler at the Sebastopol at 601-625-8826; or Selena Swink at the Lake Library at 601-775-3560.
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