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Stop the Summer Slide!
Posted on: July 29, 2010
The summer has gone by fast! We have had a record number of children and teens sign up for our summer reading programs. As we all know, it is so important to keep reading during the summer. Unfortunately a lot of children lose much of what they learned the previous year. But it’s not too late to stop the summer slide for your kids!
Summer reading list books have been flying off the shelves. But remember, the library has hundreds of other choices that will all help your child succeed at reading and school. Here are some great books we recommend: http://www.wpbpl.com/kids/books_we_love.htm
Keep reading!
Free Family Fun this Saturday!
Posted on: July 22, 2010
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Didgeridoo Down Under
Saturday @ 2pm
Auditorium
See, touch and learn about the wild animals
of McCarthy’s Wildlife Sanctuary.
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Join us in the Auditorium!
Saturday, July 16 at 2pm
Did you step into the story last week? Our artistic and imaginative librarians created a Wonderland of activities for children to explore based on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Kids went through the rabbit hole, attended a tea party, made a Mad Hatter hat and more during last week’s program.
I recently read the original story and enjoyed the nonsense and imagination. I wanted to explore further the poetry in the book. The poems Alice recites throughout are based on works that were once well-known by children and adults alike. The versions in the story are actually meant to be parodies. Unfortunately, the joke is lost on most modern readers, but I am providing the two versions here for your enjoyment. More poem comparisons can be found at this link: http://www.durrant.co.uk/alice/
How Doth The Little Crocodile
Lewis CarrollHow doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spread his claws,
And welcome little fishes in
With gently smiling jaws!
Against Idleness And Mischief
Isaac WattsHow doth the little busy bee
Improve each shining hour,
And gather honey all the day
From every opening flower!How skillfully she builds her cell!
How neat she spreads the wax!
And labours hard to store it well
With the sweet food she makes.In works of labour or of skill,
I would be busy too;
For Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do.In books, or work, or healthy play,
Let my first years be passed
That I may give for every day
Some good account at last.
Free Family Fun @ Your City Library! Rock with Brian and the Boppets this Saturday!
Posted on: July 8, 2010
This Saturday, July 10
The West Palm Beach Public Library proudly present:
Mr. Brian and the Boppets
http://www.mrbrianandtheboppets.com/
2pm
Auditorium
Fun for the whole family!
Sponsored by:
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Start the Week With Words – America!
4th of July weekend is coming up, so now is the time to brush up on our National Anthem. There were four verses written; see if you can memorize more than one!
SPACE
The Star–Spangled Banner
The Anthem was written by Frances Scott Key in 1814.
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Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thru the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream:
Tis the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand,
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause. it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
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To learn more about the National Anthem and the US Government, check out Ben’s Guide to the U.S. Government for Kids. Great for all ages!
http://bensguide.gpo.gov/3-5/symbols/anthem.html
Turn in your reading logs!
Posted on: June 22, 2010
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