For youth logging their minutes in our summer challenge, welcome to another exciting week in our Youth Summer Reading!
The Land of Heroes for Elementary, Tweens, and Teens
First, here are the basics if you're new to our summer reading. If you haven't signed up yet or have any difficulties navigating this year's challenge, here are some important links to help:
- HRLS Youth Summer Reading Main Page - Learn about the challenge and how to sign up.
- Beanstack Video Tutorials - Need help registering, earning badges, or applying tickets to a drawing? Detailed videos can be found at this page.
- HRLS Youth Virtual Programs - View our online programs for the month.
- Download the June Calendar - Download and post this calendar to know what's coming up each week.
- YouTube Playlist for Past Virtual Programs - If you miss a program, find it on YouTube!
As the tutorials above will show you, logging your reading earns you badges and tickets. You can use these tickets for drawings for prizes. Additionally, you can do activities to earn more badges and tickets, and more chances to win.
Most of these badges come with reading suggestions, which leads to more reading, which leads to more badges and tickets! And since we will be starting holds for curbside pickup, you can look at this week's tagged list to put in the search engine for several great stories to place on hold for pickup. Be sure to check out details here on how to get your books.
If you watch a virtual program with a story included, it counts towards your logged reading and activity badges. Virtual programs have their own activity badges, so when you go online to watch, look for the corresponding badge and activity through Beanstack. The calendar will give you a hint for the badges to look for.
Each week we'll highlight an activity badge and activities, but keep in mind, you can work on these badges at any time during our summer reading challenge.
This week, we'll focus on the Land of Heroes Activity Badge and all of the virtual programs that accompany this. You will find these on Beanstack when you click on the tab for Activity Badges.
If you have an elementary, middle school, or teen reader who is logging minutes read, scroll until you see this picture:
Complete 3 activities related to the theme of Land of Heroes to earn a virtual raffle ticket.
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Read/Listen to a book inspired by this theme: search the Handley Regional Library System catalog using the the search term #youthlandofheroes or #yalandofheroes for ideas.If you'd like a description, you can download an print a pdf for Middle Grade Readers, or one with descriptions for Teen Readers.
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Create a superhero lair out of LEGO bricks or other building materials. Then, tell us what you made!
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Brainstorm a list of community helpers and ways they help us and keep us safe.
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Use Kids Infobits (found on handleyregional.org webpage) to learn about different people from history and the courageous things they accomplished.
Kid Infobits -
Create your own superhero complete with name, superpower, and story--can be shared via drawing, writing, video, cartoon.
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Brainstorm and decide on something you can do to be a community hero--research volunteer opportunities, give and/or make something which will help someone else.
We'd love to share in your successes! Post what you did and share with us on Facebook or Social Media by tagging @handleyregional.
Have fun this week in the Land of Heroes!