Saturday, December 22, 2012

Christmas Wish List

During Family Night @ the Library on December 13th, the children made a stocking and added pictures of the toys they are asking Santa to bring them for Christmas. A template for the stocking was provided for the children to trace and cut out.


After making their stocking, the children looked through a toy catalog and cut pictures out to add to their stocking.













When the children finished creating their stockings we hung them on the chimney with care, in hopes that a special jolly fellow would come by to look over the lists.


Another activity for the children and their parents to work on during the evening was a Gingerbread Man Glyph. Parents read the instructions and the children had to add features to the Gingerbread Man based on the criteria for each decoration.





Everyone enjoyed standing near their stocking to have a picture taken.








Saturday, December 8, 2012

Visit from Santa

Wow! We had a 41 families visit the library for Family Night @ the Library last Thursday night! Maybe Santa needs to come to Kinkeade every Thursday night! (I don't think that is possible. He is pretty busy at this time of the year especially.)

It was wonderful to see so many new families in the library. I hope they continue to come back each week to see what is going on at the Kinkeade Library. I set up a digital photo album to show all of the pictures I have been taking each week. I saw a lot of parents viewing the pictures. I think they were very surprised at all of the fun they have been missing out on each week.

Like I said earlier, Santa visited Kinkeade this past week during Family Night @ the Library. He was visiting so families could purchase photo packages as a fundraiser. There was also a movie and cookies in the cafeteria. So a lot of fun things were happening at school on Thursday night and I am so excited so many came into the library. We had at least ten new library cards issued.




Santa was a little too busy to come visit me in the library and I was so busy in the library I didn't get to go down to see him. Ms. Dansby shared a picture of her son, Dylan with Santa so I could include at least one picture of him.









We even got to welcome three new Star Families during all of the excitement. Mrs. Baker (our school principal) has been anxiously waiting for her daughter to return to Texas so she could have her picture taken and added to our Star Wall. She was all smiles when Amanda came to Family Night @ the Library!

Welcome to the newest Star Families @ the Kinkeade Library. We are so excited to have you join on for Family Night @ the Library.

The Baker Family

The Guerrero Family

The Holley Family

Saturday, December 1, 2012

Welcoming Christmas

I put the families who attended Family Night @ the Library to work decorating the library for Christmas. They created beautiful handmade ornaments for the library Christmas tree and made paper chains for decorating the book shelves.







Our tree turned out beautifully and I know everyone who visits the library will feel the joy that went into the making of each and every ornament. Smiles were on the faces of everyone during the evening of creativity. One of my little friends even took over the iPad in order to take a picture of my smile.
Thank you to all who came out to help decorate the library.













Next week, December 6th, Santa will be coming to Kinkeade to visit. We will not be having an activity that evening. I do not want to take away from all of the activities that will be going on at school that evening. There will be a movie, cookies, and pictures.

 Lifetouch will be at the school taking pictures. You can purchase packages of pictures, which range from $10.00 - $45.00, with cash or a check on sight, or using a credit card online. If you don't have access to a computer to make a credit card purchase, you are welcome to come to the library to purchase picture packages online.

Picture Packages :

$45 Santa Package includes :
1- 8x10; 2 – 5x7, 4 – 3x5, and 24 – wallets

$25 North Pole Package includes :
1 – 8x10; 2 – 5x7, 4 – 3x5

$25 Reindeer Package includes:
24 – wallets

$10 Package D includes:
1 – 8x10

$10 Package E includes :
2 – 5x7

$10 Package F includes:
8 – 2x3 wallets