Dream-zine - Kinsley Library

Kinsley Library
Volume 4
DREAMZINE
Summer
2012
Articles
“Life’s too short, so hop aboard the ride. Keep your eyes wide open, and your hands way up high.
Life’s too short so scream now and then, cry a little, laugh a lot, and make sure you’ve got friends.”
Kelly Triplett
KIDS DREAMING BIG AND READING BOOKS
The Kinsley Library summer reading participants began reading May 23, 2012. Activities at the
library began June 4th and included Dream Spinners, 2% Club, Nightmare at the Library, Party Planners, Paper Dreams, Dream Big Inside a Computer, Night Walk, and Star Gazing on the Weaver’s Hill.
Every Thursday was Dreamland where the kids learned about bats and crepuscular, raptors, and
saving for your dreams. Everyone came in costume for the Nightmares and Dreams Party. The
program ended July 2nd with a blowout party for everyone who met their goal. The party was a
big success. The participants watched a magician named Eric Vaughan; he had a lot of magic tricks
to show the kids. The kids ate hotdogs, chips, and milkshakes. Then they walked over to the public pool and went swimming and ate watermelon.
This year 111 kids successfully met their reading goals. They read over 2,300 books. 47 volunteers assisted the small library staff of clerk Sara Hackett, librarian Rosetta Graff, and Director
Joan Weaver in providing all of the activities.
Dreamland
2
Dream Spinners
4
2% Club
5
Nightmare at the
Library
6
Party Planners
7
Breakfast Program
7
Paper Dreams
8
Dream Big Inside a
Computer
9
Star Gazing
10
Dream Quest
10
Night Walk
11
Thank You!
12
DreamzineStaff
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DREAMLAND
During week one of Dreamland the kids got
the chance to learn about crepusculars and
bats. They played games like kick ball, colored a crepuscular scene, and ate breakfast.
To the left:
Rosetta Graff
helps the
smaller kids
make owl
masks.
Here the fourth, fifth, and sixth graders are
learning about Kansas animal skins.
Izzy Bowman comes out of Rosetta’s
homemade bat cave.
The kids’ coloring pages are drying after being
washed with gray paint to look like the dawn.
Preschoolers wear their finished owl masks,
Ashton Lofing and Brooklyn Pickering
color the animals that come out at dusk
and dawn.
In week two the Eagle Valley Raptor Center
visited the Kinsley Library program with some
unusual guests. Ken Lockwood brought owls,
falcons, and other raptors, and shared many
interesting facts about them all.
To the left: Ken Lockwood
shows the great horned
owl. It is North America’s
largest owl.
The children intently watch and
listen to the presentation.
Above and below: Charlie holds a
Spectacle Owl from South America.
Ken Lockwood presented his great
horned owl, Templeton!
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Ken Lockwood talks to
Hanna, the Harris Hawk,
from southern Colorado.
Julia Perez and Trevor Brokar feel
the animal pelts making sure to
brush the fur the right way.
Dream Big, READ!
Week three’s theme, Save for a Dream Day, was presented by the Bank of the West. Lindsey Johnson and
Darla Stegman talked about how to save money for the
future. The kids had fun painting and decorating their
own little “bear” banks, eating breakfast, playing games,
and singing the theme song.
To the left:
Lindsey Johnson
and Darla Stegman
are telling the kids
how to save
money.
Andrea Menard and Susan Andersen
decorate their “bear” piggy banks.
The preschool kids painted and decorated
their own “bear” banks.
Saige Carey decorates her
bear with spirals and dots.
Jyles Hambleton carefully
works on his bear.
Lindsey Johnson tells a story about a
grasshopper who wouldn’t save for the
winter like the ant.
To the right: Caitlin
Gleason and Tegahn
Ford paint their bears.
Finally in week four it was the Nightmares and Dreams
costume party. There was a haunted maze, a weirdly
delicious breakfast, a Dream Walk with prizes galore, a
storytelling witch, and the world premiere of Midnight
at the Library. A group of teens called Party Planners
planned and carried out a great party (see page 7).
Jyles Hambleton came as a Zombie.
Everyone watches the world premiere
of Midnight at the Library,
Paisley Lovesee makes
a beautiful witch.
The fourth and fifth graders are
enjoying the haunted maze.
To the left: All of the
kids came to the party
in their costumes.
Deb Seevers tells spooky stories.
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Everyone enjoyed decorating their bears.
The kids wait for the music to
stop during the Dream Walk
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Dream Spinners
Spin into your dream with the Dream Spinners group!
Every week they enjoyed listening to Rosetta Graff
read books about making dreams come true. All of the
dream spinners showed their appreciation for the Kinsley Library through arts and crafts. The kids in Dream
Spinners are very creative, and since they are young
children, they have great imaginations. The Dreams
Spinners expressed their dreams by writing it on a star
they decorated and by making a picture on paper using
markers. It’s amazing how big of dreams that they
have! These kids are very determined to make their
dream come true.
Canvas Lovesee works on his masterpiece.
Kristopher VanZandt creates his dream.
The kids celebrate the Japanese Star Festival
with a parade of waving wishes
Ashtyn Reiling, Shariah Kent, and Cortney Craft are some
of our fabulous kindergarten stars!
Trevor Brokar, Amyelia Fox, Zachary Douglas, Payton
Ritter, and Cadence Alvarez show off their dream pictures
Danica Floyd fills her store
shelves with dreams
Rosetta Graff and Brooke Williams help Shariah Kent
act out her “occupation” charade for the other kids.
On the right: Emily
White, Lilyann Fox,
and Caitlyn Herrmann
act out an occupation.
Far right: The dreams
spinners send their
dreams off with a red
balloon.
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2% Club
Sierra Reyes decides what color of chalk she wants.
Welcome to the 2% Club! The 2% Club inspired the kids to
believe in themselves and then their dreams will come true.
You just have to work for your dreams.
The 2% Club ranged from 3rd-5th grade. In this group, the
kids got to listen to stories told by our librarians. These stories helped the kids understand that they should not give up
on their dreams.
The 2% Club was a hit! The third week, the club members
even got to listen to Rosie Cutrer, a professional story teller!
Besides being entertaining, she showed them how a real storyteller tells her stories. It gave them an idea of what they can
do in high school if they want to be in acting.
Rosie Cutrer, the storyteller, entertains the kids.
Right; Josena Frame gets a bear for a boyfriend.
“98% of the population
are followers, while the
2% are the inventors,
leaders, and dreamers.”
Kindyl Heinz is working on her dream to be a
fashion model, while Keaira Menard draws her
dream of becoming a vet.
Rosetta Graff watches Aston Lofing throw her
dream tied to a mandarin orange into a banyan tree.
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Joan Weaver gives advice to Toshea Dupree, Tashan Dupree,
Jasmine Carias, and Sierra Reyes to help them draw their
dreams.
Right: All the kids march in the
Japanese Star Festival parade.
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Nightmare at the library
This year’s video was Midnight at the Library. It was about a
sleepover at the library that ends up as a zombie clan. The librarian, played by Megan Andersen, first takes Aubrey Oswalt and
Tayla Ferguson to look at more books. Then they go missing, so
the librarian takes Cristy Holguin and Marianna Ordaz to help
find them, but they come up missing as well. Then Jackie Baca
and Susan Andersen are cornered by the zombies and also get
turned. After they were turned, they danced, and went outside
to terrorize the community. They all had
a lot of fun filming, getting the costumes
ready, putting the zombie makeup on,
and editing the movie. The advisers were
Dawn Thorp and Joan Weaver. The
movie premiered on June 28th at the
Nightmares and Dreams party. It can be
viewed at the library’s website at
www.kinsleylibrary.info
Cristy Holguin
Aubrey Oswalt
Megan Andersen
Tayla Ferguson
Mariana Ordaz
Jacquelin Baca
Susan Andersen
Cast Party
After the filming was done, the girls ate, and played hide & go seek and tag in the dark library.
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Dream Big, READ!
Party Planners
This year’s program had a Nightmares and Dreams costume party. A group of girls planned a maze, story telling, Dream Walk, Madam
Tyree’s Fantasy Factory (breakfast), a costume contest, story telling, and a movie premiere. For drinks it was milk, but it was flavored and
colored so it became “Dragon’s Blood and Bog Water.” They made a coffin where you could reach in and feel brains, guts, ears , toes,
eyes, and a heart. Debra Seevers dressed as a witch to scare the kids with ghost stories. (See page 3 for more pictures.)
The Party Planners were: Megan Andersen, Margarita
Holguin, Susan Andersen, Cristy Holguin, Tayla
Ferguson, and Aubrey Oswalt
Margarita and Aubrey set up the maze’s entrance.
Tayla plays in the coffin to scare the others.
Summer Food Service Program
543 breakfasts were served this summer. Rita Brown was
the site supervisor. Pat Hetzel and Arrowhead West
helped serve the breakfasts.
Pat Hetzel serves Tayla Ferguson and Tiana
Ferguson milk, Pop-Tarts, and bananas.
To the left:
Jaren Hambleton and
Luke Taylor
eat breakfast
at the Fair
Building .
Fourth through sixth graders are
eating breakfast at the party.
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Kayla Kindsvater and Josena Frame pick
up a Rice Krispies Treat, banana & milk.
Tommy Luchavez, and Gavin Alvarez
dig into waffles in the library.
Kids enjoy a candy frosted muffin from
Madam Tyree’s Fantasy Factory.
Kids enjoy their breakfasts
outdoors at the Fair Building.
Rita Brown is helping with the
breakfast muffins for the party.
Talyn Sexton picks up breakfast from Rita
Brown, Donna Lewis, and Mike Dyer.
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Paper Dreams
Tommy Luchavez looks at his artwork after he
was finished making his scrapbook page.
Jennifer Gleason (right) and Caitlen Gleason (left) use
the computer to print pictures of dream characters.
Amy Becker shows the group designs for
scrapbooks pages during week 2.
Amy Sollock helps Ashton Lofing design her page.
Keaira Menard works on her own dream
character scrapbook page.
Tashan Dupree and Toshea Dupree work on their scrapbook pages.
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Paper Dreams was a scrapbooking class that is held every year. Each
week, a different teacher suggested page designs. The participants
did a great job and had fun creating pages for their scrapbooks.
They brought pictures from home, and the librarian took pictures
for the pages. Everyone will remember what they did when they
grow old by looking at their pages.
Luis Holguin cuts paper for his scrapbook page.
Megan Andersen inserts a page.
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Dream Big Inside a Computer
Don Benish knows all about computers and taught this group
how computers work. He also gave out 3 free computers. The
3rd week he drew names and gave 2 computers to Victor Ordaz and Josena Frame. The 4th week the lucky winner was
Keaira Menard. Everyone learned a lot about computers.
Don Benish shows Victor Ordaz (left) and Josena Frame (right) the free
computers that they can choose. Ben Benish looks on.
The girls looked inside the C.P.U.
Victor Ordaz cleans inside his C.P.U.
Don helps Toshea Dupre, Sierra Reyes, and Josena Frame demonstrate
binary numbers and how they relate to the computer.
Left: From left to right:
Ben Benish, Tommy
Luchavez, Keaira
Menard, Andrea
Menard, and Josena
Frame listen as Don
show how computers
have developed.
Right: Don explains to
the group about the
operating system.
They took apart a computer to learn what was
inside and how to care
for it.
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Star Gazing
On June 27th, Librarian Joan Weaver, held a night at her house called Star Gazing. Steve Andrews came out with reflecting and refracting
telescopes. The event was from 8:30 p.m. to about 10:30 p.m. They started out with playing a drum. They got special permission from the
drum to play it. After a while they all gathered around the campfire as Steve talked about his interest in the night sky and star gazing. He
said that there is something different about every night sky, whether it’s a star appeared that wasn't there the night before or if it’s an
eclipse. He talked about the different types of telescopes. There are three types of telescopes; reflecting, refracting, and compound. He
didn't have the compound telescope so he brought the reflecting and refracting telescope. Then we got to look through the telescopes.
We looked at Mars, the Moon, Saturn, and the International Space Station. We also tracked a few other stars and looked for the very first
star in the night sky. After we were done looking at the stars, we sat around the campfire and had smores.
To the left: Thackery Gray,
Keaira Menard, and Andrea
Menard track the stars.
To the right: Steve Andrews
from the Southwest Kansas
Library System talks about his
interest in star gazing and how
it all started.
Thackery Gray, Tayla Ferguson, Ivy DuBois, Madison McElwain, Rachel Alvarez,
Joan Weaver, Andrea Menard, and Jasmine
Carias played the drum together.
To the right: Madison McElwain looks
through the telescope to see Saturn.
Below: Steve Andrews helps
Thackery Gray find Saturn in the
telescope.
To the left, Andrea Menard,
and to the right, Thackery
Gray, enjoy the smores that
they made with the campfire
that Joan Weaver had going.
Right center: Tayla Ferguson
roasts her marshmallow for
the smore that she will make.
Dream Quest
Dream Quest was an “On You Own” project. Participants came to the library and grabbed a slip of paper. Every age group had a different
color of paper with different tasks on the paper appropriate to their age. The one task that was on every slip was to read Dream by Susan
V. Bosak and Oh! The Places You’ll Go! by Dr. Suess. They also wrote out their dreams, made a picture of their dreams, talked to an older
person about their dreams, and did a community service or act of kindness for someone else. Twenty-six kids completed the Dream Quest
and got a Palace Theater movie pass. Congratulations to those who successfully finished it.
Center: Ashtyn Riley, Emily Douglas,
and Zachary Douglas are three of the
26 kids who successfully completed the
Dream Quest.
Above: Jasmine Carias works
on her Dream Quest picture in
the 2% Club. Jasmine finished
her quest.
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Right: Isabellah Molina brought her
Dream picture and paragraph to the
library as part of her successful quest.
Dream Big, READ!
Night Walk
Night Walk was on June 20th from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Kids from three years old to second grade came to the city room with their favorite
man and had lots of fun. When they arrived, the kid and his or her favorite man took a picture together. Then Joan Weaver and Rosetta
Graff told stories. After the stories, Jeff Peterson, Scott Anderson, and Mike Herrmann dressed up like astronauts and told puns about
living in space. They made picture frames and put the picture with their favorite man in them shortly after the skit. Lastly James DuBois
helped with a story. He was ‘The Man in the Moon’. All the kids had fun and enjoyed the night with their favorite man.
Chris and Chantel Sexton
Carrson and Jason Brokar
Scott and Macy Anderson
John and Oakly Ritter
Jeff Peterson and Courntey Craft
David Brokar and
Tucker Ferguson
Jeff Peterson and Justice Craft
James and Ivy DuBois
Jeff Peterson, Scott Anderson, and Mike
Herrmann do the astronaut skit together.
Macy, Trenton, and their father Scott
Anderson put stars on their frames
Mark Werner and Shariah Kent
David Brokar and Titan Ferguson
Shariah Kent and her grandfather Mark Werner make a
picture frame together.
John and Payton Ritter
Hershel Maxwell and London Brokar
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Chantel and her father Chris Sexton
take the paper off of the stickers.
James DuBois helps out with
The Man in the Moon skit.
Scott and Trenton Anderson
Jason and Trevor Brokar
Josh and Wesley Schmitt
Josh and Tyson Schmitt
Mike Herrmann and Luke Taylor
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THANK
YOU!
The Kinsley
Library Board
would like to thank all of
the people who made the summer
reading program a great success.
They are the ones who turned
our BIG DREAM into a reality.
They are the ones who keep children reading and learning over the
summer. Please thank them when
you see them.
Kinsley Food Pride — Jay Schroetlin
Vierthaller Kesson Optometry
Crystal Obee
Palace Theater
City of Kinsley
Kinsley Recreation Commission
Kinsley City Pool
Edwards County Extension Service
Edwards County Arts Council
Southwest Kansas Library System
Friends of the Kinsley Library
Arrowhead West
PROGRAMMING
LIBRARY STAFF
Joan Weaver, Director
Rosetta Graff, Librarian
Sara Hackett, Clerk
BREAKFAST PROGRAM
Rita Brown, Site Supervisor
Pat Hetzel
Donna Lewis
Patricia Herrington
Mike Dyer
Eagle Valley Raptor Center
Ken Lockwood & Charlie
Kansas Wildlife & Parks
Chris Shrack
Bank of the West
Darlene Stegman & Lindsey Johnson
Eric Vaughan-Magician
TEEN VOLUNTEERS
Katie Dizmang
Scout Frame
Caitlin Herrmann
Cristy Holguin
Margarita Holguin
Ana Ordaz
Aubrey Oswalt
Laurin Wagner
Brooke Williams
VOLUNTEERS
Julie Ackerman
Lynette Anderson
Steve Andrews
Tina Andrews
Amy Becker
Don Benish
Julia Butler
Cassie Burkhart
Alice Fisher
Jennifer Gleason
Virginia Gleason
Vicky Haskell
Mary Kallaus
Marcile King
Nancy Mundhenke
Jeanne Padgham
Terri Parry
Brenda Pickering
Judy Reed
Kathy Schroeder
Debra Seevers
Amy Sollock
Dawn Thorpe
Connie Watkins
Jane Wenstrom
Kay Williams
Irene Woolard
Emily White
Dream
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The Kinsley Library Board
thanks this year’s Dreamzine
staff for producing this great
magazine of the activities of
the summer reading program.
Cover & 7: Tayla Ferguson
Pages 2 & 3: Megan Andersen
Pages 6 & 7: Susan Andersen Pages 8 & 9: Tommy Luchavez
Pages 4 & 5: Andrea Menard
Pages 9, 10 & Editor: Aubrey Oswalt
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