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Welcome to 2020
Summer Reading Dig Deeper: Read, Investigate, Discover! We have decided to hold a digital Summer Reading this year due to COVID 19. We will have logs, chances to win gift certificates for turning in reading logs as wekll as attending programs and commenting on them or sending us your challenge and gift bags. All programs will be available at 10:00 AM on their assigned day. We will have Weekly Challenges on Tuesdays, Book Talks (for different age groups) on Wednesdays and programs on Thursdays & Fridays. Please see the links below. The programs will begin on June 2nd and end on August 7th. We appreciate your understanding as we develop this new digital Summer Reading! We think it will be a lot of fun! We hope you will be willing to try out the program with us this summer! The program is open to all ages. Parents-if you are reading to your children the time counts for you and for them, so adults are encouraged to sign up! If you listen to Book Talks that time counts for your reading log also. Join us for all of the excitement this summer!! |
https://www.readerzone.com/ or the app on your phone.This is the site where you will log your reading hours. You will need the code: 61057
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flipgrid.com/elmwoodpubliclibraryThis site isn't working the way we need it to, so everything will now be on the YouTube channel!
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https://www.youtube.com/
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Everyone knows how wonderful it is to lose yourself in a book. Lose yourself and now you will be rewarded! You will be asked to read three hours per week. You may log your time any time you want during the week. There will be ten weeks of reading this year. If you read three hours per week you will earn a prize from a local business (such as Toot's Treats, Jordan's, Palace Theatre, Elevate, Kartville), plus be entered to win one of six gift certificates to restaurants in the area. Of course, we would like you to read some fiction, non fiction, biography and poetry each week. If you listen to Book Talks on Wednesday that time counts for your reading logs. You may read books, magazines, newspapers or listen to audiobooks/eBooks or someone reading. We will have three sets of gift bags, so if you read three hours for two of the first three weeks (Weeks 1-3 June 1st-June 21st), two of the next three weeks (Weeks 4-6 June 22nd- July 12th) & two of next three weeks (Weeks 7-9 July 13th-August 2nd) you will have a chance to win one of 27 gift bags with cool prizes like passes to the Chidlren's Discovery Mueseum, the Riverfront Museum, Caterpillar Vistor's Center or Wheels O'Time Museum, gift certificates to Christ Orchard, Fired Up, Applebee's, Uptown Cafe, HyVee or Walmart. If you turn in a log on Week 10 (August 3rd-8th) you will have a change to win a Kindle. We will have pictures of the gift bags posted on the web site soon. We will randomly draw winners. Here is a break down of the ten weeks:
June 1st-7th
June 8th-14th
June 15th-21st
June 22nd-June 28th
June 29th-July 5th
July 6th-12th
July 13th-19th
June 20th-26th
June 27th-August 2nd
August 3rd-8th
In addition to turning in reading logs, you will be able to participate in Facebook Live programs with the Girl Scouts of Central Illinois on Mondays (beginning June 8th). These are divided in to age groups. One week will be K-2nd grade & the following week will be 3rd-5th grade. On Tuesdays we will issue a Weekly Challenge on the YouTube Channel and you will have a week to film your response and send it back to us. We may post some for everyone to see, so please make sure your parents approve your response being posted and/or your first name being mentioned. We will have Book Talks on Wednesday for different age groups on our YouTube Channel. We will also have programs each Thursday & Friday. Most of these will be on our YouTube Channel, but a few will be on Facebook Live (June 5th & 26th). If you send a recording back about the Weekly Challenge or share a comment about what you liked about a book on Book Talk or what you thought of a program (what you liked or what you learned), you will be entered to win a gift certificatet. We will randomly draw three winners each week.
If you don't have internet service or phone data, but would like to partipate, you may call in your weekly log on Wednesdays from 10:00 AM -1:00 PM. A librarian or volunteer will call you back and fill in your online log for you.
If you have any questions, please fill free to email us at: elmwoodlib@gmail.com or call 309-742-2431. We hope you will be patient with us as we learn how to make ditigal Summer Reading work! Things will be different this year, but we think they will be just as fun as in the past! We hope you are ready for a summer of adventure!!
We are hosting a Blind Bid in support of Summer Reading. Local companies have been very generous in their donations.The blind bid will last until August 31st.
The items in the Blind bid are: $25 gift card to Red Carpet Car Wash (minimum bid begins at $13.00), two tickets to a production of any show at Corn Stock Theater (expires 9/5/21) ($44.00 value) (minimum bid begins at $20.00), a ride for your child with the Elmwood Fire Department on a fire truck ($20.00 minimum), 2 free admission to 4 venues from the Peoria Park District (Glen Oak Zoo, Owens Center, Children's Discovery Museum & River Plex) ($69.50 value) (minimum bid begins at $30.00) & an overnight stay and two buffets from the Par-A-Dice Hotel ($153.00 value) (minimum bid begins at $70.00).
If you would like to place a bid, please send an email to elmwoodlib@gmail.com or a private message to our Facebook @elmwoodlibrary. We will let everyone know on Facebook throughout the bidding time frame how the bidding is going for the items, so keep an eye on the page and bid again if it is something that you would like to have for yourself or to use as a gift. We thank the businesses for donating and you for being a part of our 1st Blind Bid!!
Robot Casserole Online Coding Camp
Join us July 7th and 10th at 1:30 for a virtual camp with Morrison & Mary Wiley Library to learn about basic coding with FIRST Robotics Competition Team 1736 Robot Casserole! Ages 9-12 will use the free to use VEX VR website to learn how to code basic robot movement and put that knowledge to use using the VEX VR playground. On Tuesday students from Robot Casserole will show you how to use the software and give you challenges to complete using the software. Then on Friday, you will be able to show off what you’ve been able to accomplish. To register please email Jack from Robot Casserole at jackthenerd4866@gmail.com. Registration is due by June 30th.
Pictures & Descriptions of the 1st Session Prize Bags are under the Picture tab under the More Tab at the top of the page.
June 1st-7th
June 8th-14th
June 15th-21st
June 22nd-June 28th
June 29th-July 5th
July 6th-12th
July 13th-19th
June 20th-26th
June 27th-August 2nd
August 3rd-8th
In addition to turning in reading logs, you will be able to participate in Facebook Live programs with the Girl Scouts of Central Illinois on Mondays (beginning June 8th). These are divided in to age groups. One week will be K-2nd grade & the following week will be 3rd-5th grade. On Tuesdays we will issue a Weekly Challenge on the YouTube Channel and you will have a week to film your response and send it back to us. We may post some for everyone to see, so please make sure your parents approve your response being posted and/or your first name being mentioned. We will have Book Talks on Wednesday for different age groups on our YouTube Channel. We will also have programs each Thursday & Friday. Most of these will be on our YouTube Channel, but a few will be on Facebook Live (June 5th & 26th). If you send a recording back about the Weekly Challenge or share a comment about what you liked about a book on Book Talk or what you thought of a program (what you liked or what you learned), you will be entered to win a gift certificatet. We will randomly draw three winners each week.
If you don't have internet service or phone data, but would like to partipate, you may call in your weekly log on Wednesdays from 10:00 AM -1:00 PM. A librarian or volunteer will call you back and fill in your online log for you.
If you have any questions, please fill free to email us at: elmwoodlib@gmail.com or call 309-742-2431. We hope you will be patient with us as we learn how to make ditigal Summer Reading work! Things will be different this year, but we think they will be just as fun as in the past! We hope you are ready for a summer of adventure!!
We are hosting a Blind Bid in support of Summer Reading. Local companies have been very generous in their donations.The blind bid will last until August 31st.
The items in the Blind bid are: $25 gift card to Red Carpet Car Wash (minimum bid begins at $13.00), two tickets to a production of any show at Corn Stock Theater (expires 9/5/21) ($44.00 value) (minimum bid begins at $20.00), a ride for your child with the Elmwood Fire Department on a fire truck ($20.00 minimum), 2 free admission to 4 venues from the Peoria Park District (Glen Oak Zoo, Owens Center, Children's Discovery Museum & River Plex) ($69.50 value) (minimum bid begins at $30.00) & an overnight stay and two buffets from the Par-A-Dice Hotel ($153.00 value) (minimum bid begins at $70.00).
If you would like to place a bid, please send an email to elmwoodlib@gmail.com or a private message to our Facebook @elmwoodlibrary. We will let everyone know on Facebook throughout the bidding time frame how the bidding is going for the items, so keep an eye on the page and bid again if it is something that you would like to have for yourself or to use as a gift. We thank the businesses for donating and you for being a part of our 1st Blind Bid!!
Robot Casserole Online Coding Camp
Join us July 7th and 10th at 1:30 for a virtual camp with Morrison & Mary Wiley Library to learn about basic coding with FIRST Robotics Competition Team 1736 Robot Casserole! Ages 9-12 will use the free to use VEX VR website to learn how to code basic robot movement and put that knowledge to use using the VEX VR playground. On Tuesday students from Robot Casserole will show you how to use the software and give you challenges to complete using the software. Then on Friday, you will be able to show off what you’ve been able to accomplish. To register please email Jack from Robot Casserole at jackthenerd4866@gmail.com. Registration is due by June 30th.
Pictures & Descriptions of the 1st Session Prize Bags are under the Picture tab under the More Tab at the top of the page.
