When is the last time you and your family visited your local library? Hopefully, it's not taking you long to answer that question. Certainly most homeschooling families visit the library quite often during the school year but what about during the summer break? Libraries across the nation, including our local Beaufort County Branches, are offering exciting reading contests, programs and activities designed to keep everyone reading, children, teens and adults, during the summer months.
The summer reading program this year is called, Be Creative, and you can still join in all the fun. This week the Beaufort County Branches are hosting a nature education program featuring, Low Country Naturalist, Tony Mills from the LowCountry Institute who brings with him a host of lowcountry animals and will talk about the Lowcountry Ecosystem. We caught the program this morning at the St. Helena Island Branch and had a great time along with a lot of other kids from local summer programs and their counselors, learning about animals that are indigenous to this area as well as some that are transplants and adapting here.
Thursday morning, cartoonist Dave McDonald will be at the St. Helena Branch showing the basics of drawing cartoons. Mr. McDonald, lives in Charlotte, NC and created a coming book character called Hamster Sam and he is becoming very popular. We are looking forward to gaining a few tips from Mr. McDonald on Thursday morning at 10:00 but you can also catch his presentation at the other branches as well. Visit the Beaufort County Library website for the calendar of events and see when more of these exciting presentations and activities are taking place at a library branch near you!
