 Hello friends in grades three through five at the Voriesville Elementary School. It's Mrs. Brown from the Voriesville Public Library and every year at this time I visit you in your classrooms to talk about the summer reading program. Well I can't visit you in your classrooms this year but I can certainly visit you right now and even though our summer reading program will look a little bit different this year we still have some really amazing fun things planned for you and your families to do. What's the theme for this summer? The theme is imagine your story. Do you know who this character is on my shirt? That's right it's Puss in Boots and you know what I notice about Puss in Boots? Puss in Boots is carrying some books so I think Puss in Boots is a reader which is really awesome and much like every year you would register online for the summer reading program. You would log in your books, log in your time, you would write reviews so that we know what you're reading and what you like and maybe things that that you don't like. Mrs. Rapocio will be providing you with a link for you to click on starting June 1st and this link is where you and your mom and dad or a trusted grown-up would log on and create your summer reading program account and this is where you will log in all of your books and all of your time read and just like every year at the library over the summer we give amazing prizes and these prizes will be awarded for top readers or for anyone who participates and do you want to hear about the first random drawing we're going to have? Well here it is for all the students in the Voriceville Elementary School who register starting June 1st on June 19th we will be having a random drawing for a $50 gift certificate for the Jericho Drive-in. Isn't that amazing? You can take your family out to go to the movies. How fun is that? Would you like to learn about some of the things that we have planned this summer? Let me share them with you. Some of you might remember four years ago we had Mr. Steves from Steve's Songs of PBS Kids and he came here to Voriceville and performed at the pack at the high school and it was so fun and amazing and I want to ask you if any of you might be interested in being a star because I had a wonderful conversation with Mr. Steve this week and guess what? He's going to perform for us here in Voriceville. It will be a Facebook live performance much like if some of you attended the elementary school assembly last month where you got to go in and hear a performer and you got to put some messages in and chat with the performer and some of your friends who are logged on too. It's going to work the same way and he is doing this exclusively for us here in Voriceville. And remember about a minute ago I asked you if you wanted to be a star? Well how many of you would like the opportunity to be featured live with Mr. Steve on that night? Do you want to know how you would be able to do that? Well we would provide you with links to some of his songs where you would do the dance moves and then you would send me that video. I would send it to Mr. Steve and he will include it that night of the performance when he is singing that song. Isn't that wonderful? How fun is that? So if you like to perform, if you like to jump around and dance, put on your dancing shoes and you could be a star along with Mr. Steve. Let's see what else we have planned for you. How about making fairy gardens or fairy houses? Mrs. Megan Vichio, some of you might know her. She has children who go to the Voriceville schools and she lives right here. She's a wonderful artist and teacher. She is going to teach you how to make fairy gardens and houses and all of those materials would be supplied for you. You can also pick out all some things that you might want to use from your own house or your own backyards and woods and what we want to do is to showcase your imaginations and creativity by having a virtual art show of all your fairy gardens and I am hoping to ask permission to have some of those fairy gardens or fairy houses displayed along the rail trail so that you, your friends, your family can go for a walk or a bike ride and enjoy seeing the creations that you and your friends have made. How many of you like magical creatures? If you ever think about a magical creature, what would yours look like? What would it eat? Where would it live? Would it be nice? Would it be mean? Would it be scary? Well you can imagine this in your own mind and Mrs. Leanna Hawkins, many of you might know her because she has children in the Voriceville elementary school and lives right here in Voriceville. We'll be leading us in a magical creature adaptation program and once again like the fairy gardens all of these supplies and materials will be provided for you for pickup at the library. How about an outdoor scavenger hunt? We'll have some wonderful activities for you and your parents to participate in. How about a drive-thru nursery rhyme and fairy tale? Maybe some of you older students like those of you going into fifth and sixth might even like to be involved in creating the scenes. This will be a fun drive-thru adventure for children and families of all ages where we will be acting out fun nursery rhymes and fun fairy tales. Do any of you like to take yoga? We're going to have a yoga class that Tricia Candifer will be leading and you would just sign up for that and log in on the night of the class and be able to participate. You can also invite mom or dad to do that with you. How many of you like birds? I know that I love birds. I love putting the bird seat in the bird feeder and just enjoying all the wonderful birds that we have here in North America. Well Leanna Hawkins will be leading us in some lessons in backyard adventures and we will even be able to do some bird watching and learn about all the wonderful feathered beauties that live here right here in Voriceville. How many of you have read the book because of Mr. Trumpet? And some of you may have read his other books. This is by Rob Bouye. Well guess what? Rob Bouye has agreed to help facilitate an online book discussion of this book so you will be able to talk to him on the screen with mom and dad and some of your other friends. Maybe some of you have read because of Mr. Trumpet. It's an amazing book. I love it. Or this is an opportunity for you to read that. How many of you like to make things? We will be having a maker club and this is for grades five and six so those are the students who are now in fourth grade and fifth grade. What does this maker club do? What will they be doing? Mrs. Stern Clarke will be giving some take-home projects and experiments and other activities and all of these supplies will be provided for you. You pick them them up at the library, you do them at home and we're hoping to showcase all your wonderful experiments and creations. Well friends I really encourage you to sign up for the summer reading program. Keep reading, log in those books, earn some prizes, learn and enjoy, have fun, create. We have some wonderful wonderful things planned this summer and I really look forward to seeing you at the library and you know what it's going to be very very soon. Have a wonderful day. Keep reading. Bye bye for now.