Gale Library Programs
Gale Library Programs
Join Crazy 8’s! Crazy 8’s is a recreational club that helps kids enjoy the math behind their favorite activities! We're nothing like your usual math club. With Crazy 8’s kids will build a glow-in-the-dark city, crack secret spy codes, toss a beach ball, make stick art, and play games like Toilet Paper Olympics. It’s a totally new kind of club for K- Grade 3 kids starting on Monday, Oct. 16th from 6-7 PM. Walk on the wild side and find out how insects and animals run so fast with all those extra legs! Sign up because space is limited to 12 people.
Sign your child up at the Gale Library for 1000 Books Before Kindergarten, a national program that is intended to promote reading together with your child. The more words and books a child is exposed to in their early years, the more likely they are to love reading and be more able to do it well!
So what’s this all about?
Our program is pretty easy.
Sign up in the Children’s Room at the Gale Library. You can then pick up a form to color in.
Read! You just have to keep track of how many books, not the titles (although you can if you’d like). If you read the same book again and again, it counts each time you read it!
The first time you reach 100 books come in to turn in your form, get a 1000 Books Before Kindergarten Book Bag and get another form. For every 100 books you read together,you’ll also put your name on our counting ladder until you reach your goal.
A few mile stones: at 500 books you get to pick a Treasure Chest book and then at 1000 books you can join us for a celebration and receive your certificate!
That’s it! Well, except that you and your child will have cuddle time and be building literacy skills and learning new things….
How can I get to 1000 books!?!
If you read just one book a day, you will reach 1000 in less than 3 years!
When can I start?
Any time! You can start when your child is just born or you can start when your child is four years old. You can start any month or at any time of year. Just come in and ask us!
Some more information:
1000 Books before Kindergarten Page (Good links about the benefits)
Join us to have fun and build with our Snap Circuits kits. These kits make learning electronics a "snap". You can build over 100 projects just by following the colorful pictures in the manual. Enjoy hours of educational fun at your own pace while learning electronics. You can make projects such as flash lights, doorbell, and AM radios. Come into the Children’s Room to learn more about it or call 382-4691.