What's up this fall?

Welcome back to school, and back to the library to all our neighborhood students who've been away. What's up this fall? Homework help every day after school, both in English and Spanish. And our regulars know we are all about helping with math, writing, science fair, and all kinds of school projects and papers.

We have some completely great after-school activities coming up too- our ongoing learn-to-draw-and-write Comics class, for one- here's a couple of comics kids did.
The Comics Consortium (that's the group of all the artists who participate) has an anthology coming out, put together by awesome instructors / artists Walker Mettling and Andrew Oesch. This will be both the kids' work and work by other artists inspired by their work.
We're adding Cyberkids, super fun computer classes for upper elementary kids, and maybe a hip hop / creative writing/ poetry class. We definitely will have a photography project too.
Chess club has changed to 5:30pm every Thursday with Sam still coaching. And Fridays are still super excellent movie and game day, with great movies that are kid friendly. If you want to see a particular movie, talk to Lyndsy and Sara.
See you soon!

It's National Poetry Month, Fool!

It's National Poetry Month, and we had the great good luck to be visited by the following members of Ocean State Poets: Margie Flanders, Larry Krips, and Lynnie Gobeille. A couple of our own library users read as well: Sam LaFortune, and Asia Perry. Some audience members also took turns reading poems by our visiting poets, and a couple of us just read our favorite poems.
Below, Sam LaFortune reading from his phone. And below that, our visiting poets.

Saturn

Saturn

Saturn your rings are so bright
that they shine almost as bright as light.
Your colorful rings glisten in the dark
like the rainbow above Noah's Ark.
Your spectacular shape makes me think
of a person's head but not an egg.
Your rotate as if you're trying to get dizzy
but in your mind you're just being very busy.
You even revolve around the sun,
but when you're far way I don't think
it's that much fun.
If you went faster
in your rotation
there'd be a big disaster
You make our planets nine
which makes our solar system look very fine.

- Muktar S.

What's up at Poetry club?

This week, we looked at poetry by Gary Soto which talks about his neighborhood. We started by choosing a favorite place and drawing it so we'd be ready to describe it in our poems.

We talked about how you choose your favorite place and how you visualize it, as well as what form the poem might take. We're not done yet, so we'll post them next week.

Last week, at WPK's birthday party, we gave our friends and neighbors our first book of poems, which were about our library. We'll work on getting those posted, too.