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Children’s Summer Reading Program, “On Your Mark, Get Set…Read!” http://www.sawyerfreelibrary.org/childrens-summer-reading-program-on-your-mark-get-set-read/ Thu, 16 Jun 2016 23:14:48 +0000 http://www.sawyerfreelibrary.org/?p=7417 […] Read more]]> Child Facebook CSLP2016

It’s Summer Reading Program Time! This year’s theme is “On Your Mark, Get Set, Read!” Come join the library for a summer of fun, exercise, reading, and learning!  The children’s room has a great collection of books about sports, athletes, fitness, and wellness. You can also read whatever you want!  See our exciting schedule of activities below and don’t forget to sign up for the summer reading program and Topsfield Fair Read and Win program to earn prizes on our Summer Reading Program Page.

Summer Reading Program Events

Some programs require registration. You can register on the library calendar of events.

June 25, Saturday, 11:00 a.m.: New Balance-Newell Stadium – Teen Summer Reading Kickoff with Lolli-Hoops, Families with children elementary age and up are invited to come hula hoop!

July 1, Friday, 10:00 a.m.: Children’s Summer Reading Kickoff with Jungle Jim. Take in a Balloon Magic Show: The Reading Olympics and try your hand at cupcake decorating (and eating) while you sign up for the summer reading program and enter our raffles to win prizes! (Library Friend Room).

July 8, Friday, 10 a.m.: Kamishibai Storytime with Rachel Grinstead-Babson. Kamishibai is a traditional Japanese form of storytelling using picture cards. This is a great chance to learn about Japanese history and culture while hearing fascinating stories. (Library Friend Room).

July 13 and July 20, Wednesdays, 3:30-4:30 p.m.: Yoga for Kids.  On Your Mark,Get Set, Read! Join us for a session of yoga for kids as part of our summer reading program. Ages 6 and up! (Library Friend Room). Registration required: July 13, July 20

July 15, Friday, 10:30 a.m.: Wonders of the Earth: Crystals and Fossils. We will have lots of scientific fun learning about crystals, fossils, and the geology of the earth with John Madama. (Library Friend Room). Earn a book buck!

July 19, Tuesday, 2:00 p.m.: Davis Bates, Storyteller. Celebrate the magic of summer with Davis Bates, who will be leading us in a “Summer Reading Song & Story Celebration.” (Library Friend Room).

July 26, Tuesday, 11:00 a.m.: Cape Pond Ice Tour. Experience a tour of the day-to-day happenings at Gloucester’s historic ice company. Dress for a freezer! Participants will meet at Cape Pond Ice at 10:45am. Space is limited and registration is required. (Meet at Cape Pond Ice, 104 Commercial St., Gloucester).

July 29, Friday, 10:30 a.m.: Light, Optics, and Illusions with John Madama. Come learn about light, optics, and illusions. (Library Friend Room). Earn a book buck!

July 30, Saturday, 11:00 a.m.: Family Zumba at the YMCA. Aerobic fitness with Latin American music and moves. Registration required. (Class meets at the YMCA).

August 2, Tuesday, 2:00 p.m.: Meet NFL Superbowl Champion Mike Flynn! (Library Friend Room).

August 16 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.: Countdown to Kindergarten (Citywide Event). 5:30 p.m. at the Library: Meet Beatrix Potter, with a performance by Carol Finn.

Regular Programming

Dads and Donuts, Saturday, July 23 and Saturday, August 6 at 10:30 a.m. A fun morning of donuts, playtime, songs, stories, and hands-on activities. All are welcome.

Lego Club, Mondays: June 27, July 25, and August 29 at 2:00 p.m., ages 6 and up, registration required. Join us for some Lego building fun! Registration required: June 27, July 25, August 29

Minecraft Club, Mondays: July 11 and 18, August 8 and 22 at 3:30 p.m., for children going into grade 1 and up. Come explore new worlds in Minecraft, learn advanced tricks, and make new friends who share your love of the game. Registration required: July 11, July 18, August 8, August 22

Science Club, Friday: August 19, at 2 p.m., grades 2-5. Come explore eye-opening science activities! Registration required: August 19

Summer Storytimes, Wednesdays at 10 a.m., Thursdays in August at 10 a.m.

Zyla Club, Wednesdays, 3:30 Grades 2-4. A new club for reading with Zyla the Therapy Dog and Friends. Read stories, play with a dog, and make dog crafts! Registration required: July 6, July 13, July 20, July 27

 

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Mind-Bending Reading

In light of the summer reading theme of “Exercise Your Mind”, I am presenting some novels that look at the world from odd angles, portray unusual viewpoints, and explore thought-provoking stories.

The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker – What happens when the underpinnings of how life works starts to unravel? In The Age of Miracles Earth’s rotation is slowing and with it twelve-year-old Julia’s world starts to distort. The world’s governments decide to keep society on a twenty-four hour “clock-time” schedule, but some cannot or will not change, and the “real-time” people become more isolated and eventually shunned. Others, including Julia’s mother, have physical side effects. This novel looks at how fragile our civilization is, through the eyes of a young girl coming of age.

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood – This dystopian novel with a feminist viewpoint is a haunting, perverse portrait of male domination of women. In the near future, a war-torn United States is now the land of Gilead, where the strict theocratic government rules and nuclear waste is rendering large swaths of the population sterile. Women are reduced to three limited roles: wives of commanders, considered moral and who have limited power; “Martha”s who do the domestic work; and handmaidens, still fertile women forced to breed for the ruling class or be banished to hard labor. Offred (“of Fred”, the commander to whom she “belongs”) tells of her life as a handmaiden, and shares her memories of being a wife and a mother before the war. Written in 1985, the theme is never more relevant than in today’s world of religious extremism.

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender – What if you are privy to the intimate emotional life of someone without them knowing? That is the gift and the burden that faces Rose Edelstein. Biting into her mother’s homemade lemon-chocolate cake for her ninth birthday she discovers she has a magical insight to her mother’s hidden despair. Soon she has awareness of the secret emotional existence of her father and brother. Eating develops into an exercise in trying to avoid emotional mine fields, and her life becomes a world of seeing what she doesn’t want to know or knows how to deal with. This is a novel that stays with you long after you have read the final chapter.

The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger – Time travel is notoriously difficult to write about – there are logistical holes to cover and difficulty in maintaining emotional investment in the story. Niffenegger does a fairly adept job at both. Henry has Chrono-Displacement Disorder, causing him to travel to different time periods of his life without warning. His future wife Clare first meets him when she is six and he is thirty-six; Henry meets Clare for the first time when she is twenty and he is twenty-eight. Weaving around the paradoxes and disconnects is a story of love and faith in each other.

The Martian by Andy Weir – Space travel is always fertile ground for enlarging the scope of the imagination. When a novel introduces an alien planet and mixes it with real-life science, it’s a formula for a mind expanding adventure. Mark Watney, left for dead on the Martian surface, has to find a way to survive until he can be rescued. The problem? Well, you can start with the fact that he has no way to communicate to Earth that he is still alive. Then he has to find a way to feed himself for the years it might take for him to be rescued. Clever, resourceful, and really humorous, Mark’s diary entries show the true nature of human existence in a harsh, unforgiving world.

Helen Freeman

 
 
 
 
Helen Freeman is the Technical Services librarian.

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Where is it?

During the month of June, the Matz Gallery proudly exhibits the work of several area photographers in the “Where is it?” exhibit.

The photographs record the less noticed but equally stunning views of Gloucester. We invite library patrons to visit the exhibit and see if they can identify these sights. Every location is accessible to the general public.

Eighteen photographers participated.

Paul Aquipel

Donna Ardizzoni

Sandy Barry

Bill Bazel

Steven Douglas Carr

Bob Cullen

Nicole Dahlmer

Susan Dalton

David Fernandes

Maria Galante

Law Hamilton

Phil Lerardi

Christine Maney

Bob Potts

Lois Ricci

Corey Ricci-Munn

Jacqueline Richard

Ellen Royalty


“Where is it” runs from June 1st to June 30th in the Matz Gallery at the Sawyer Free Library,2 Dale Ave. Gloucester.

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http://www.sawyerfreelibrary.org/2016-summer-1/ Wed, 01 Jun 2016 09:00:06 +0000 http://www.sawyerfreelibrary.org/?p=7146 […] Read more]]> staff picks summer

This year’s summer reading theme for adults is “Exercise Your Mind”. Since the overall summer reading theme is exercise and wellness, I combined exercising your body and exercising your brain.

How Bad Do You Want It by Matt Fitzgerald – This book explains the latest theory of how the brain regulates endurance performance, which is called the Psycho Biological model. It describes how conscious self-regulation of thoughts, emotions, and behavior can have a dramatic influence on endurance performance. In other words, the mind and body are distinctly connected. How Bad Do You Want It? reveals new psychobiological findings

* Mental toughness determines how close you can get to your physical limit.
* Bracing yourself for a tough race or workout can boost performance by 15% or more.
* Champions have learned how to give more of what they have.
* An important way to improve performance is by altering how you perceive effort.
* Choking under pressure is a form of self-consciousness.
* Your attitude in daily life is the same one you bring to sports.
* There’s no such thing as going as fast as you can―only going faster than before.
* The fastest racecourse is the one with the loudest spectators.
* Faith in your training is as important as the training itself.

The greatest athletic performances spring from the mind, not the body. Elite athletes have known this for decades and now science is learning why it’s true.

Trivia Quiz: The Best Family Quiz book Ever! – Trivia competitions are a fun way to exercise your mind and help keep it sharp! This book has over 4000 trivia questions. The questions cover a wide range of subjects to test the general knowledge of the most seasoned quiz fans. There are over 4,000 quiz questions on a wide variety of subjects that will appeal to all quiz fans. The book also includes an introductory section on how to run a quiz night. It has many helpful tips and ideas.

 
How To Think Like Einstein by Scott Thorpe – This book expands on critical thinking. It presents an appealing way to look at everyday challenges in the home and office. This book will help you challenge old ways of thinking and to improve your creative and problem solving skills. Innovator and author Scott Thorpe guides you step-by-step through the process of freeing yourself from your “rule ruts” so you can dream up amazing (and doable) solutions to the seemingly impossible. I like the steps showing how to identify and break the usual thinking patterns we automatically use, and how to come up with innovative and viable solutions by using a different point of view. With brand-new material for today’s readers, this new edition will reveal how you can solve problems in astonishing ways, including:

      • thinking like a bug
      • organizing a party
      • learning the game of poker
      • pretending you’re James Bond
      • acting like a millionaire
      • and more!

Brain power : improve your mind as you age by Michael J. Gelb and Kelly Howell – Virtually everyone fears mental deterioration as they age. But in the past thirty years neuroscientists have discovered that the brain is actually designed to improve throughout life. How can you encourage this improvement? Brain Power shares practical, state-of-the-evidence answers in this inspiring, fun-to-read plan for action. The authors have interviewed physicians, gerontologists, and neuroscientists; studied the habits of men and women who epitomize healthy aging; and applied what they describe in their own lives. The resulting guidance can help you activate unused brain areas, tone mental muscles, and enliven every faculty.

Brain fitness : anti-aging strategies for achieving super mind power by Robert M. Goldman – As a cofounder and director of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, Dr. Robert Goldman has at his fingertips all of the latest scientific research on what each of us can do not only to retain all our mental powers as long as we live but also to actually strengthen and improve our mind-power as we age. Now he shares that information, in a layperson’s terms, with numerous self-tests, information charts, and quizzes, so that we all can improve memory, sharpen concentration, reduce stress, learn to sleep better, and–above all–ward off the devastation of Alzheimer’s disease. Goldman discusses the many nutritional supplements, vitamins, minerals, and medications that have been proved to enhance mental fitness, providing specific doses and regimens. But beyond that, he also describes particular exercises and lifestyle techniques designed to sharpen mental acuity.

Valerie_Marino

 
 
 
 
 
 
            Valerie Marino is a library assistant at Sawyer Free Library.

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