What a great way to spend your summer with kids at your local library. Every summer San Diego County and Public libraries offer Summer Reading Program at their branches. It’s a wonderful way for kids to read over the summer while having fun.
If you go a library near you, there’s a chance they have a list of their Summer Reading program schedule. It will tell you the events and times. The events can be a Mad Science show, Magic Show, Animal Show, Crafts, Jump Star Rope, Music, Story Time and many more. Even Ronald McDonald came to jazz up the summer.
Our favorite is the program at Poway library because the time is right for us. We usually come every Thursday morning at 10.30 to to watch the show and borrow books.
Here’s a list Summer Reading Children’s Programs at Poway Library 2012.
- Summer Reading Kickoff – June 12 ,10:30 am
- Crafts – every Tuesdays, 10:30-11:30 am
The crafts are: Dreamcatchers (June 14), Silvery Moon (June 19), Wishing Well (June 26), Worry Doll (July 3), Dream Jar (July 10), Animal Masks (July 17), Decorate a Pillow Case (July 24)
- Entertainment – every Thursday, 10:30-11:30 am
The entertainments are: Animal Magic (June 21), Literature Comes Alive (June 28), Mad Science (July 5), Swazzle Puppet Show (July 12), Ronald McDonald (July 19), USA Jump Stars (July 26)
- Storytime Under the Stars – June 20 & July 18, 6:30 pm
- Summer Reading Finale Carnival featuring The Tumble Gym Bus — Tuesday, July 31, 10:30 am
And here’s what happening at Carmel Mountain Library every Thursday at 3:30 pm.
- Wild Wonders, animal program – June 21
- Mad Science, fun science – June 28
- Sparkles the Clown , clown fun – July 5
- Hullabaloo, music program – July 12
- Craig Stone, magician – July 19
- Story Ship, storyteller – July 26
- Raggle Taggle, music program – August 2
- Literature Comes to Life, theater – August 9
- Pacific Animal Productions, animals – August 16
Do you know that at the library if a kid read 10 books he/she will get a prize? Babies to teenagers can enroll. Just sign up online and log your book reading time until you reach certain quantities of books or hours. Here’s where you can sign up:
This time the prize my kids got for completing the goal are one free book (only at Poway), small toy, coupons for free kids meal at Wendy’s and Chick-Fill-A, one free Churro at Rubio’s, a Legoland coupon and many more. Hey, who don’t want a free Churro? And my kids were happy to eat free at Wendy’s and Chick-Fill-A already.
You can sign up at a public and a county library but you can redeem only once per library per summer. This give total 2 prizes per kid. Each library has a certain time limit when you can redeem your prize so keep that in mind when logging your reading time.
To search for events at San Diego Public Library visit San Diego Public Library Calendar of Events.
To search for events at San Diego County Library visit San Diego County Library Calendar of Events.