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TD Summer Reading Club 2007
Lost Worlds Summer Reading Club 2007
Ideas from Workshops
Have a draw and use the draw entry forms to collect your TD Summer Reading Club statistics.
Do a mural program during March Break that promotes the upcoming TD Summer Reading Club theme. Use mural paper or wallpaper and greys, golds and rusty colours to paint the pictographs and petroglyphs. If the images are small, ask the artists to recreate them even bigger. All participants can help to arrange the images, and the staff can glue the mural together. Advertise the program for ages 6 and up. You can even post your mural image on the library website as part of you Summer Reading Club promotion.
Make sun masks, using a corrugated box.
Make the Summer Reading Club certificates extra special for those who read nine or more books by adding a gold seal.
Create a chapter-a-week continuous story and ask the children to illustrate each chapter. Post the illustrated story in you Wall of Fame area. One library created a story which featured Daphne the Dinosaur as the heroine.
Have the kids create their own lost world using boxes, paper towel rolls and other found recycled materials.
Great websites:
www.scissorcraft.com
www.papertoy.com
Offer a Read-To-Me club and encourage families to keep track of the book they read with their child.
Invite an entire school to your library and register them for library cards as well as the TD Summer Reading Club. One library signed up 400 kids in a single day!
Keep a binder of written book reports for other readers to browse through. Reward the book report writers with a small incentive such as a mood pencil.
Create a time machine spinner to help kids decide which Lost World to visit next. The spinner can incorporate all of the Lost Worlds destinations.
To create a very large image on the wall of your library story room or program space, copy the image onto acetate then use an overhead projector to project it at giant size so that you can trace it out. Great for creating dinosaurs!
Highlight interesting collections related to the TD Summer Reading Club theme - amulets, coins, or even antiques that the children have never seen.
Create a line drawing of the poster for use in colouring contests.
Check to be sure that your local TD branch has copies of the TD Summer Reading Club poster.
Suggestions for future TD Summer Reading Club themes:
Have a contest to gather suggestions from the kids about future themes.
Environment/Our Planet
Libraries
Trailblazers –astronauts, pioneers, inventors, explorers, sports heroes
Sports- but not Olympics
Arts, music, dance and cinema
Read Across Canada
Storytelling – oral and written
Famous Children’s authors
Fairy tales, legends, folk tales
Enchanted Forests- fairies, sprites
Animals, Pets, Zoos
Jungle/Environment
Under the Surface – water, ground, feelings
Netherworld – other dimensions
Pirates
Flying – balloons, angels, airplanes, fairies, birds
Miniature Worlds
Worlds Underground
Wilderness, Nature – wild animals
Environmental – Outdoors, camping, scouts
Future Worlds, robots
Olympics
Canada and our Environment
International Year of the …
Amazing Race
Marvellous Memories
Around the World in 60 Days
Time Machine
Magic
You Can’t Beat a Fifth Grader
Avoid themes that involve the supernatural.
The “Lost Worlds” Lost & Found
A Story created especially for
The Toronto Public Library’s “Dial-a-Story”
By: Katherine McGreechan
Clara and Andre, while walking ‘round town,
Stumbled upon a strange “Lost & Found”
As they opened the doors, its wonders unfurled
For the things that were found came from the “Lost Worlds”!
Piled high atop shelves were all kinds of maps,
There was even a mummy—kept under wraps.
Ancient swords on the wall once echoed with “claaang”
And the drums on the floor might be played with a “BANG”!
There were togas and tunics tossed on a clothes rack
And an old suit of armour stood waaay in the back.
Turbans, fedoras—so many hats to be worn…
A pirate cap with feathers, a helmet with horns!
Carved masks a plenty from many a land—
Wooden or painted and none of them bland.
Not to mention the jewellery—bracelets and rings
Necklaces, kerchiefs, and all kinds of things!
Do you know that strange place even had its own zoo?
With camels, and snakes, and a monkey or two!
And a mighty big dinosaur that could let out a “ROAR!”
Was thankfully sleeping; barely mustered a snore.
There were sails from ships that once caught the waves
And bits of some paintings that had been part of old caves.
The space, in fact, was filled with much art
So many samples, in whole or in part.
Beautiful mosaics, broken pieces of glass
Stonework, pottery—it was some kind of stash!
And let’s not forget the statues of gods
Goddesses too among ends and odds.
Stored within chests that opened with “creeeek”
Were gold coins and silver—just take a peek
And spy all the treasure that once lay buried
Rubies and diamonds, the gems were quite varied.
There were so many objects just scattered around
That fabulous, wonderful, strange “Lost & Found”.
Kites, chocolate pots—a fantastic array
All stumbled upon by Clara and Andre.
“But what about me?!”—I can just hear your plea
So I’ll tell you a secret and I’ll give you the key—
You can find treasure too; it’s not all that hard
Just come to the library and remember your card
For the key to adventure on a hot summer day
Is a library visit or a mouse click away.
The “Lost Worlds” are waiting so come take a look
And find what you’re missing inside a great book!