Jul 04 2009
Happy Fourth of July!
For your 4th of July viewing pleasure:
And, so we never forget:
Archive for the 'community' Category
May 21 2009
It Starts Today
Keep Reading This Summer! The SJCPL is starting sign-up today for their summer reading program. Programs are available for all ages: adults, teens, kids. See you in the library this summer. Have fun!
Apr 28 2009
Free Comic Book Day
What better way to kick off the month of May than Free Comic Book Day at the SJCPL Main Library on Saturday, May 2. Free Comic Book Day was started in 2002 and occurs annually on the first Saturday in May. It is no accident that it occurs the day after the release of X-Men Origins: Wolverine! Activities at the library will start at 9 am and there will be free comic books, while they last, courtesy of BuyMeToys.com . Ages 12-18 can participate in comic book gaming from 9:30-noon. Stick around to learn how to make your own folded book from noon until 1:30. SJCPL always puts on terrific programs. Check this one out.
Apr 24 2008
Way to go 8th Grade
8th Grade rocks! I’m reading with interest the conversation that the 8th Grade students are having on their Computer Class Blog. Keep up the good conversation. Remember that you have more information at your fingertips than any generation in our history. Use it. Also, you have more misinformation at your fingertips than any generation! Question it!
Feb 12 2008
Community Readers, continued
We were fortunate to have three of the University of Notre Dame Women’s Basketball players visit and read to our classes. Brittany Mallory visited with Miss K’s 1st Grade class and Amanda Tsipis with Mrs. M’s 3rd Grade class. Both classes heard Jimmy’s Boa and the Bungee Jump Slam Dunk, by Trinka Hakes Noble and Hoops with Swoopes, by Susan Kuklin with Sheryl Swoopes. Erica Williamson read some basketball poetry from the book Hoop Kings, by Charles R. Smith, Jr. One of the most amazing poems illustrated an “actual size” print of Shaquille O’Neal’s shoe sole on a fold-out page! Stephanie Menio accompanied each of the women and the classes were excited to find out that she had brought T-shirts for all three classes of students. The players were all gracious enough to stay and autograph t-shirts and bookmarks for the students. Thank you, from all of us. 
Feb 12 2008
The weather outside is frightful!
Due to our changeable Indiana weather, some of our guest readers were not able to come because school was canceled. We would still like to extend our thanks to our own Fr. John, Mr. Randy Ray from the Northern Indiana Center for History and Becky Bonham from the Studebaker National Museum for offering to come and visit with us. Hopefully we can schedule something with them at another date.
Feb 12 2008
Guest Readers
Our own Fr. Nate was our guest reader for Mrs. L’s 2nd grade class. He read one of his favorites, You Are Special, by Max Lucado. The students always enjoy this special book that reminds them of their own uniqueness . 
Mr. Tom Coxey from the YMCA of Michiana read to Mrs. L’s Kindergarten class. Teamwork was the theme of the story Mim, Gym, and June, by Denis Roche that the class heard. Working as a team and staying active can make anyone successful! Mr. Coxey also passed out copies of the Spring schedule and encouraged everyone to come and visit the YMCA.
Jan 28 2008
Community Readers
As part of Catholic Schools’ Week the library is hosting Community Readers during library class times for grades K-5 for the next 2 weeks. We kicked off our Community Reader program with our own Fr. Steve reading to Mrs. Y’s 2nd grade class this morning right after our Catholic Schools’ Week “Kick-off” prayer service. Fr. Steve read Why Christmas Trees Aren’t Perfect, by Richard H. Schneider. It was a wonderful story about generosity and not judging someone by looks alone. 
Miss K’s First Grade class was fortunate enough to have Mr. Lynn Coleman, Mayor Steve Luecke’s Assistant. Mr. Coleman spoke about some of his responsibilities as the Assistant to Mayor Luecke and his former work as a police officer. Mr. Coleman brought 2 of his favorite books to share with the class, The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein and Harry’s Sweet Dreams by Mark Tarner. Most of the students had heard both books so Mr. Coleman read a really lovely book called Our Tree Named Steve, by Alan Zweibel.
Jan 28 2008
St. Joseph County Public Library’s 16th Annual Science Alive!
It is once again time for the St. Joseph County Public Library’s Science Alive this Saturday, February 2, 2008. Check out the Countdown for events at the branch libraries leading up to the main event at the Main Library on Saturday. Feature presentations include Groundhog Day and Other Weather Myths presented by the WSBT-TV Weather Team, HealthWorks! Double Dare by the HealthWorks! Kids’ Museum, Nose, Nose: Secrets of the K-9, by the South Bend Police Department K-9 Unit, the Magical World of Science by Larry Wirtz and Eye to Eye With Indiana’s Creepy Crawlers by the St. Joseph County Soil and Water Conservation District. There will be several other science activities and exhibits around the building as well. Don’t miss it!
Jan 23 2007
Be There…
Mark your calender to attend this year’s Science Alive at the St. Joseph County Public Library on Saturday, February 3, 2007. This is the 15th annual fair and if you have never attended, you are in for a treat! Feature presentations in the Colfax Auditorium – Lower Level will include presentations from the South Bend Police Department K-9 Unit demonstrating Nose, Nose: Secrets of the K-9 – how the sense of smell is used by police dogs in tracking drugs, explosives and people (10:30 am) and Meet the Screech Owl and find out Owl You wanted to Know about the might mouse hunter and its life and habits (1:30 pm). There will be a presentation at 9:30 am of popular chemistry demonstrations from past Science Alive! events (9:30 am), learn about service dogs at 2:30 pm, discover some of our local creepy crawler reptile and amphibian residents at 3:30 pm as well as HealthWorks interactive Good Health Game Show at 12:30 pm and science educator Larry Wirtz and his Magical World of Science at 11:30 am. There will be interactive exhibits from 9 am to 4 pm on all three floors of the library with something for kids of all ages. The Countdown to Science Alive! starts this Thursday, January 25, with a kickoff at the Main Library. Other presentations will take place through the end of next week at all of the SJCPL Branches.
