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66 Reading: The Sport of Champions!
Celebrations Program Chapter
By Tina Hager
The Texas Reading Club is a celebration in itself! Kids are out of school and more families are
coming in to use the library. Use this time to build so much excitement about what the library
has to offer that they will keep coming back during the non-summer months and bring their
friends. Though the celebration programs can be used before, during, or to conclude the summer
programs, they can also be used throughout the year, making the Texas Reading Club manual an
important year round professional resource. The main idea is to select what you want to use and
have fun!
Books to Share
So, You Want To Have Some Fun?
A-Tisket A-Tasket by Ella Fitzgerald.
Fun and Games in Colonial America by Mark Thomas.
Good Night Pillow Fight by Sally Cook.
Mary Smith by Andrea U’ren.
The Pillow War by Matt Novak.
Wiggle Waggle by Jonathan London.
Books to Show or Booktalk
The Birthday Doll by Jane Cutler.
Boom Chicka Rock by John Archambault.
Camp Granada: Sing-along Camp Songs by Frane Lessac.
King of the Playground by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.
Monk Camps Out by Emily Arnold McCully.
Outside the Lines: Poetry at Play by Brad Burg.
Bulletin Board
What’s Your Game?
Cut out enough rectangles from white paper to outline the bulletin board area. Add large black
dots or use a black marker to create circles to make dominoes. Place the paper dominoes on the
bulletin board, matching the numbers end to end. Add the title “What’s your game?” to the
bulletin board. See if anyone notices that your game is dominoes. If someone notices the
matched ends, give them a small prize or an inexpensive set of dominoes. Oriental Trading Co.,
www.orientaltrading.com, sells very inexpensive sets. Encourage people to write down the
names of games that they like to play and post them on the board for others to see. This will also
help to decide what games to get for the library if you want to start a circulating game collection
or host a family game night.