We Went Ape!!!

Our Let's Go Ape! Program, produced by Ms. Tiffany, was a HUGE success! We made monkey masks and sang monkey songs. We had a puppet show featuring Monkey and Alligator. And, Ms. Tiffany even read a silly monkey story! In the end we had a drawing and everyone got to take a monkey home! Fortunately for the parents, the monkeys were of the blow-up variety.

Spinecrackers Bookclub

Recently the Spinecrackers Book Club met to talk about the book Dragon's Keep by Janet Lee Carey. In this book the main character, Princess Rosalind, is born with a dragon claw where her ring finger should be. Her mother, the Queen sees this talon as a major flaw that must be corrected. However, when Rosalind is taken away by a dragon, she finds that her talon is not a flaw but a thing of beauty.

The pictures above are the dragon talons made by some of the Spinecrackers members.

Home School Book Club

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I think even the moms had a good time!!

Our New Home School Book Club!

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This is a picture from our first meeting! I think everyone had a great time discussing the books we read. The Penderwicks seemed to be the most popular!! Check out the blog below to see what we are reading for the next meeting.

A New Book Club!!

Our next meeting will be November 9 at 1:30. The books that were chosen for the next meeting are Deep and Dark and Dangerous: a ghost story by Mary Downing Hahn and The Broken Bike Boy and the Queen of 33rd Street by Sharon Flake. Readers are welcome to read both books or just choose one. These books should be available for pickup at the Children's Desk at the John's Island branch by Thursday, October 25.

Deep and Dark and Dangerous
Ali is thrilled to join her aunt Dulcie and 5 year old cousin, Emma, on their trip to the family lake house. But, Emma starts having nightmares about bones coming out of the lake. And, then she meets Sissy, a not-so-nice new friend who somehow seems to be creepier than the bones nightmare! Only the mysterious lake house knows the dark secrets of the past and Ali is curious to find out what the secrets hold. But, at what cost?

If you're not in to ghost stories check out our other pick: The Broken Bike Boy and the Queen of 33rd Street. Queen (yes, that is her given name) has a hard time making friends. Mainly because she believes she is truly a Queen and that people should bow down to her. When a new kid shows up at school, Queen is rude to him and cannot understand why others are nice. She has to learn the hard way that in order to make friends you have to be nice to people.

your children's department is safety certified!

The children's staff recently hosted the training staff at MUSC as they taught us and our patrons techniques for Infant, Child, and Adult CPR as well as what to do in the event that someone is choking. Now we all hope that we never need to use any of this great knowledge!