May 24, 2019

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"Lunch and Learn" sessions will be held on Friday, May 31, 2019, for all interested 5th & 6th-grade students. Grace Larochelle, Head of Children's Services at the Bedford Public Library, will be here to discuss the summer reading program, as well as the opportunity to become a Jr. Librarian. She will be conducting 4 sessions during lunch times. A nut safe table will be established for these sessions. Interested students will be allowed to carry their lunch from the cafeteria or bring their lunch to the library to listen and learn! Please encourage your child(ren) to come and hear about the program.

Additional summer reading opportunities will be hosted right here at the McKelvie Library this summer! These "Relax and Read" events will take place on:

Monday, July 1, 2019 from 12:00-2:00pm 
Tuesday, July 16, 2019 from 12:00-2:00pm
Tuesday, August 13, 2019 from 12:00-2:00pm 

The students (grades 4-6) are invited to pop in or stay, check out books, and participate in readers' advisory. If a 6th-grade student checks out books during the summer, there will be a box for McKelvie books at the Ross A. Lurgio Middle School Library when school re-opens for the next school year. The Bedford Public Library will be open as well, but I feel strongly that students should be able to access their school library space during the summer. Students can be dropped off at the center side entrance off of County Road. There will be sawhorses and signs marking the way to the library. Please walk your child in to relax and read!


Please consider helping to keep your McKelvie student's home library current by participating in our second annual Summer Reading Book Swap! This will encourage kiddos to keep reading over the summer! This swap will be held Wednesday, June 5th, through Friday, June 7th. Students will be able to bring in 1-2 gently used, grade-level appropriate books to swap out for another 1-2 books. This will hopefully generate some additional excitement about reading over the summer months! "A Universe of Stories" is a common theme to those libraries involved in the Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP).

Please help your child remember that all library books are due back by June 3rd.

Have a great weekend and please be mindful of all who have sacrificed their lives for our freedom! ~Mrs. Cote

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