Summer Reading Program 2023: Touch a Truck!

The rain held off and we had a successful Touch-a-Truck event last night at the Gordon-Nash for our first Summer Reading Program family event. 

Kids visited each vehicle to hear from the driver about how his or her work helps our community. The town's grader and the NHDOT trucks help to keep roadways safe for cars and people. After the Waste Management truck collects trash from the big green WM bins, some of it gets turned into electricity! The police cruiser and the fire truck help with safety in our town. When the fish raised at the fish hatchery have grown, the hatchery truck delivers them to New Hampshire rivers and lakes and lets them free. The tow truck had a big flat bed on the back - long enough to move a disabled car or small truck to a garage for repair. And other big vehicles help with building or repair projects in our community.

Thanks to the following businesses for their vehicles, for their knowledgeable and patient drivers and owners, and for the small gifts to help kids remember this special event.

New Hampton Public Works Department

New Hampton Fire Department

New Hampton Police Department

New Hampshire Department of Transportation

New Hampton Auto Towing & Recovery

New Hampton Fish Hatchery

Waste Management

Jeremy Hiltz Excavating, Inc

The New Hampton School

March Events for Kids

"Take Your Child to the Library" Day 2023

 Thank you to the families who "dropped in" with their children today for our special library event!

Bookmarks to create!

Book-based LEGO Challenges! 

Story-related coloring, word searches, tasks, and games. 

A bag of goodies, a granola snack, and a free book!

He built a car - just like the boy in the story!

Love Stories for Little Kids

February is a month for love, so today we read two stories about the subject. The Cow Loves Cookies by Karma Wilson is a story about animals and the foods they love. Doesn't it make you wonder why the Cow loves cookies? We also read my favorite love story, Love Is My Favourite Thing by Emma Chichester Clark, written from the point of view of the author's dog, Plum. It's such a fun story! 

At craft time, we fashioned animals or people or scenes using hearts. Cut-out hearts, stick-on hearts, 

glittery hearts, plain hearts, all kinds of hearts. Pretty creative!

And look. Someone made a chair for our Pete the Cat. 💙

November Events

2022 Summer Reading Program, with Oceans of Possibilities!

We at the Gordon-Nash Library are so excited to offer this year's in-person, Summer Reading Program to area children and families. Our Tuesday evening family programs and our Thursday Storytimes are all ocean or water-themed. We have reading logs and stickers so kids can easily track reading progress. Wednesday LEGO time is back, with the addition of a few STEM programs. And we'll be holding an end-of-summer raffle with fabulous prizes generously donated by our local businesses.

Details are below - email or call with questions. Be sure to bring your kids to sign up. Keep an eye on this page for updates, Like our Gordon-Nash Facebook page, and look for weekly emails. We can't wait to see you and your family at the library this summer!

2022 SUMMER READING PROGRAM AT THE GORDON-NASH LIBRARY:

OCEANS OF POSSIBILITIES!

Saturday, June 18 or June 25: 11:30-1:30: Kick-off event to SIGN UP for the Oceans of Possibilities Summer Reading Program. Wear your pirate gear, take some pirate selfies, make a pirate craft, pirate games, books, and activities - and maybe some treasure! Pick up reading logs & stickers to track reading progress, and earn a ticket for our end-of-summer raffle with fabulous community-sponsored prizes!

Tuesday Night Family Events 

• June 28: Special Build-a-Bear type workshop, by invitation only, for the first 20 kids to sign up for the Summer Reading Program after June 17. 

• July 5 at 6pm: Movie Night: “Oceans” rated G. Air-conditioned, downstairs at the library.

• July 12 at 6pm: Whales & Seals Storytime, with Hands-On Interactive Experiences Led by Marine Docents From UNH. On the lawn under the maple, across from the library. Bring a blanket and bug spray.

• July 19 at 6:30pm: MiniBoats Across the Ocean: How a student-made boat sailed across the Atlantic (and how to follow other miniboats now at sea!). Presentation with Sheila Adams & Students from Rye Middle School. Downstairs at the library. 

• July 26 at 6:30: Aquatic Critters from The Squam Lakes Science Center. On the lawn under the maple, across from the library. Bring a blanket and bug spray.

• August 2 at 6pm: Movie Night: “The Little Mermaid (Rated G) - the interactive/sing-along version! Air-conditioned, downstairs at the library.

• August 9 at 6:30: Melodious Zach’s Seaside Review. Back by popular demand, Zach Benton with songs, comedy, skits, and friends from the ocean. On the lawn under the maple, across from the library. Bring a blanket and bug spray.

• August 16 at 6:30: Ice Cream Social on the lawn under the maple, across from the library. Bring a blanket and an ice cream topping to share!

Wednesdays: Drop in LEGO or STEM programs from 4-5pm, upstairs in the library.

Thursdays: All-ages Storytime from 10:45-11:45. Ocean-themed stories & a craft & fun with your friends. 

For questions or additional information, call or email

Christine Hunewell, Children’s Program Coordinator

chunewill(at)newhampton.org

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Please support our raffle donors! 

Jeremy Hiltz Excavating, Inc ● Store#2369 Tilton Walmart ● Rossi’s Italian Ristorante & Pizzeria ● Subway of New Hampton ● White Meowtain Grooming ● Pinnacle Kitchens ● Newfound Coin & Jewelry ● Twin Designs, Home of Diane the Turtle ● New Hampton Community School ● Lafayette Family Resort-Wells, ME.

The Gordon-Nash Library at New Hampton School

69 Main Street, New Hampton, NH 03256

603-677-3740

2022 Summer Reading Program

 

GORDON-NASH LIBRARY

2022 SUMMER READING PROGRAM 

"Oceans of Possibilities"

Tuesday Evening FAMILY PROGRAMS

Tuesday, July 5th 6-7:30pm
MOVIE NIGHT: Oceans (rated G)

Bring all your kids and start off the Summer Reading Program viewing spectacular footage of the Earth’s oceans and the marine life under the sea. Film will be shown in the air-conditioned community room - please enter through the downstairs entrance. 

Tuesday, July 12th. 6-7pm

WHALES & SEALS

Explore the lives of the whales and seals in our ocean waters. Special Storytime with hands-on science activities and experiments led by volunteers from UNH’s Marine Docent program. On the campus lawn across the street from the library. Bring blankets/chairs, bug spray.  

Tuesday, July 19th, 6:30-7:30pm. 

MINIBOATS ACROSS THE OCEAN

Join Rye NH Middle School students and teacher Sheila Adams as they share their experiences tracking a student-made boat they launched to the sea. These kids and their boat made national news last winter - come and find out why. Also, learn from them how to track the many miniboats that are at sea right now. Program will be held in the community room of the library - please enter through the downstairs entrance. 

Tuesday, July 26th, 6:30-7:30pm

AQUATIC CRITTERS FROM THE SQUAM LAKES SCIENCE CENTER

Water is essential for life on our planet. From marshes and ponds to lakes and rivers, aquatic communities support an amazing array of life. Join a Science Center naturalist to meet three different live animals who depend on New Hampshire’s waters. Learn about their habitats, adaptations, and populations. On the campus lawn across the street from the library. Bring blankets/chairs, bug spray. 

Tuesday, August 2nd 6-7:30pm

MOVIE NIGHT: The Little Mermaid (rated G)

Interactive scripts and fun props will bring The Little Mermaid to life during a special screening of this movie. Sing along with Ariel as you watch with your family and friends. Film will be shown in the air-conditioned community room - please enter through the downstairs entrance. 

Tuesday, August 9th 6:30pm

ZACH BENTON’S “SEASIDE REVIEW”.

He’s back! Melodious Zach! Sing-along music, comedy, skits, and more from this local talented performer. On the campus lawn across the street from the library. Bring blankets and chairs, bug spray and water. 

Tuesday, August 16th at 6:30 

OUR FINAL CELEBRATION

An ice cream social! We provide the ice cream; you bring a topping to share. Also, bring chairs and bug spray. On the campus lawn across the street from the library, in the shade of the maple tree.

ALSO

Every Wednesday: Drop-in LEGO or STEM times 4-5pm

Every Thursday: All-ages Storytime - Stories & a craft, friends & fun. 10:45-11:45am

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Gordon-Nash Library at New Hampton School
69 Main Street
New Hampton 03256.
Summer Reading Program - June 18th to August 18th

Please support our raffle donors! 

Jeremy Hiltz Excavating, Inc ● Store#2369 Tilton Walmart ● Rossi’s Italian Ristorante & Pizzeria ● Subway of New Hampton ● White Meowtain Grooming ● Pinnacle Kitchens ● Newfound Coin & Jewelry ● Twin Designs, Home of Diane the Turtle ● New Hampton Community School ● Lafayette Family Resort-Wells, ME.

November Saturday

 Lots of fun at the library today as kids and families dropped in to decorate leaves as place cards for their Thanksgiving tables. Won't relatives and friends be surprised to see their names displayed so beautifully? Such variety and imagination shown today - and fun! Happy Thanksgiving!

Gordon-Nash Library at New Hampton School Summer Reading Program 2021

Spring!

I think it's finally Spring! Those trees that had flowers last week are getting leaves this week! Hooray for Spring!

This week's take-home craft is a flower arrangement on a cup. Each flower is made from two white circles, colored or cut, with a pipe cleaner glued between them. Twisty pipe cleaner stems make the flowers look "Spring-y"! The cup can be decorated using the special-cut paper in the kit. A cute spring arrangement for someone special!

Happy Spring!

Maple Syrup Season

Watching maple syrup being produced is a rite of Spring for kids in our area. If you can't get to a sap house this month, check out the nonfiction and even fiction books we have that show some of the sugaring process. 

How is Maple Syrup Made? by Grace Hansen. This title will take readers through the process of bottling maple syrup, starting in Canada where there are lots of maple trees. Readers will learn how maple syrup is gathered, processed, and bottled for them to buy and enjoy on their pancakes. Nonfiction.

Maple Syrup by Lynne M. Stone. Describes one the favorite North American trees that offers one gift after another, including hardwood for building, beauty with its leaves, and a favorite taste, maple syrup. Nonfiction.

Maple Syrup from the Sugarhouse by Laurie Lazzaro Knowlton. Maple syrup season is here! Kelsey and her father begin harvesting sap from sugar maple trees. Join their family and friends in this farm-to-table process of turning sap into maple syrup. Includes maple syrup facts in the back matter to make this perfect for an educational story time. Fiction.

Sugaring by Jessie Haas. Nora wants to find a way to give the horses a special treat for helping her grandfather and her gather sap to make maple syrup. Fiction.

Sugarbush Spring by Marsha Wilson Chall. As winter melts into spring, Rosie and her grandfather collect sap, and then the whole family works through the night to make maple syrup. Fiction.

We also have books about pancakes! Yum!!

Wow! It's Already Week 5!

What a great week we had with activities last week! Many photos are already on the Gordon-Nash Facebook page, and I'll be adding them here a little later on this morning. But, in the meantime, here's the link to the activities for Week 5 - and, if you have some more, keep the photos coming from previous weeks. https://bit.ly/3hZe7lA

Week 4! Here's some more!

Here we are in the last week of July and staring the fourth week of our most unusual Summer Reading Program. If you're just now finding this, jump in this week or on any of the previous weeks and start having fun! 

It's great to hear that kids are reading and taking advantage of various ways to get books! Don't forget - if there's a favorite that you're looking for or a book you're anxious to read, let us know and we'll try to make that happen!

Before we get on to Week 4 activities, here's a quick look at some photos from Week 3. It looks like there was lots of fun with bridge-building activities! Some to help the Billy Goats get past the Troll...

and some to support cans of food!

Beautiful painted rocks from this week's Bingo sheet.

A water picture for our Photo Challenge:

And an original poem about summer:

Hamburgers, hot dogs, watermelon, s'mores

Lots of meals to eat outdoors

Unless it pours. 

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Here's the link to our Week 4 activities: https://bit.ly/302ieqU. This week, there will be opportunities to be better engineers than the those three pigs were! There will be another puppet musical to watch and our Storytime read-aloud will be a different version of the Wolf and Three Pigs story. Be sure to check out the two Bedtime Math posts - one features fascinating physics and the other one is really funny! Cool down yourself and your family with crafty fans. And our writing challenge is to create a song! If you do, send it to me - and I'll sing it for you!

Keep sending in photos for this blog and our Gordon-Nash Library Facebook page. 

Keep reading and having fun!

Keep cool!