Max Community Library
Summer Reading Program
The Max Community Library Summer Reading Program is an annual program for children ages Pre-K through Sixth Grade that promotes a love of reading, teaches children how to use library services, and provides many fun, reading-related activities throughout the summer.
Will B. and Emme L. at Summer Reading Finale Picnic 2010
2010 Max Summer Reading Program Ends with a Splash
(from the McLean County Independent, August 26, 2010)
As summer comes to a close and school begins again, area teachers will be glad to find that some of their students have spent the summer reading.
The Max Community Library’s Summer Reading Program concluded on August 12th with its Finale Picnic in the Max City Park. The program started in early June and, according to Director Vanessa Kramer, served 35 Max area children--aged Pre-K through sixth grade--throughout the summer. This year’s program carried aquatic themes: Make a Splash at Your Library, for Pre-K through second grade, and Make Waves at Your Library, for kids third grade and older.
The summer’s activities included story times, crafts, an art project with staff of the Taube Art Museum of Minot, a popcorn and movie day, and a visit with personnel of the Max Ambulance service, including a tour of an ambulance. Activities for the older group also included a book club--for which they read Old Yeller--and a library treasure hunt that taught library use skills. The Finale Picnic celebrated the activities and accomplishments of the summer with play time and lunch in the park. Thirty children, along with family members, staff, and volunteers, attended. The children all received books and program memorabilia and prizes, and the yearly fifty dollar savings bond prize was awarded by random drawing to Ryley Lee.
The Max Community Library Summer Reading Program was made possible by monetary donations from area businesses, as well as contributions of time, energy, and resources from parents, caregivers, and volunteers. This year the program received the assistance a number of teen volunteers, who added extra energy to the events along with their helping hands.
Here’s hoping that the Summer Reading participants will now enjoy riding the reading wave into the new school year and making a huge splash in their classrooms.