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Starting June 16th, summer library hours are 12:30 to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, until camp ends July 25th. The Library will be closed June 9th – June 13th and July 28th - August 8th. On August 11th, the Library will reopen from 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, until regular school hours resume on August 25th.

Enrolled Lower School students may check out books if they have a parent-signed summer reading form on file in the library.

Our summer club for students, GO FOR THE GOLD, has rewards and prizes for completing challenges.Our Olympic theme celebrates the summer games that will be held this August in Beijing. Click on the tab above. Check with your local public library for summer hours and activities, too.

Lower School Summer Reading lists are linked here for your convenience:  PreK K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8.

Upper School Summer Reading 2008 (from the English Department)

Does the library have...? Check the library catalog. (It will tell you if it's checked out, too.)

Email the Librarian: scslibrarian@hotmail.com

Complete a total of five different challenges over the summer. Each completed challenge earns a reward, and when five are completed you'll win your medal. Turn in your completed challenges by e-mail, snail mail or in person. New challenges will be added each month through the summer, so come back each month to find out what's new. Challenges must be completed before August 26th, the first day of school.

Countdown to summer's end! Final challenges!
Are you still reading for the fun of it?

Challenge #10 - CORRESPOND
Write a letter to the librarian about this Summer library club. What was good? What was bad? What would you want to change? Did you learn anything about the the Olympics? Did you learn anything about the library? (Answer at least three of these questions.)

Challenge #9 - READ ALL ABOUT IT
Find some magazine articles about the Summer Olympics. From the Lower School Library page select the magazine database. Search the subject "Olympics". From the list of magazines, send me the names of three different magazines that had articles about the Olympics in June or July. If you're in 5th-8th grade, pick one article and send me a proper source citation for it that you would use in a bibliography. Remember, we always give credit when we use someone else's work. [Hint: Look at the bottom of the article.]

Challenge #8 - CREATE A STAMP
Use the stamp template to create an Olympic postage stamp. The design should include artwork about the Summer Olympics, the name of the country issuing the stamp, and the amount of postage. The artwork can be your own drawing or photo or graphic, or any copyright free graphics. Send me a copy.

Challenge #7 - SOLVE THE PUZZLE
Solve the Olympian Jigsaw Puzzle. The picture has flags from several nations in it. If you're younger than 5th grade, from the Jigzone site, email me an Olympic sport puzzle with your solve time for the Olympian puzzle and tell me the country of one of the flags in the message. If you're in 5th-8th grade, identify two of the flags when you send me a puzzle and your solve time.

Challenge #6 - SHOP THE OLYMPICS
Go to the Licensed Products pages for the 2008 Olympics. Tell me how much it would cost to buy everything on this shopping list:

  1. One (1) Welcome to Beijing Mascot Pin set Model # 001582
  2. One (1) set of the First Day Cover of the Mascots Stamps Model # ZGYE-B1
  3. Two (2) Colored Sleeve Mascots T-shirts Model # 000830

If you're younger than 5th grade, just send me the total RMB yuan. If you're in 5th-8th grade, convert the answer from RMB yuan to dollars and send me your answer in dollars.

Challenge #5 - SEND AN ECARD
Pick an Olympics ecard and send me a message that tells me what city and country hosts this year's Summer Olympics. Send it to scslibrarian@hotmail.com. Be sure to include your name!

Challenge #4 - SEARCH THE WORLD
Find the six Summer Olympic cities on the map below. Click on the torches to identify them. Send me two lists:
1. A list of the cities' names in alphabetical order, and
2. A list in the dates and names of the cities in reverse chronological order. (Start with 2008 - Beijing and go back in time.)


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Challenge #3 - SPORTY WORDS
Complete one of these activities from the Reading is Fundamental website:
1. Complete a sporty poetry splatter to match your age. Follow the directions to fill in the blanks for Being Tall or Swoosh or Favorite Game.
2. Use Word Builder to start building your own word search. (Click on the button that looks like this: Start) Pick SPORTS and follow the directions to put the four Olympic sports in the word list into the puzzle and fill in the spaces around them.
When you finish one of these, you can use the Print Screen function on your computer to take a copy of the page, which you can then paste into your email to scslibrarian, or you can print it and mail it in or bring it in to the library
OR
You can create your own Olympic word search using at least four words that relate to the Olympics
OR
3. You can write an acrostic poem about a summer Olympic sport. The online acrostic poem tool can help.

Challenge #2 - RESEARCH
Find out about the Olympics in an encyclopedia. (Try our online encyclopedias.) List the events in the pentathlon in both the Ancient Olympics and the Modern Olympics, and tell me which article in which encyclopedia you used.

Challenge #1 - READ!
Read over the summer and earn a reward. Turn in a reading log. You need 60 minutes of reading or being read to if you're in PreK-2 grade, and 90 minutes of reading if you're in 3rd-8th grade.

Here are sites for information on the Olympic Games

Here are some Olympic-themed games:

 

  
 
 
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