Super Heroes!

Thursday, October 2 @ 6pm

School age children (grades K through 5) are welcome to join us for a celebration of Super Heroes! Children are welcome to come in costume if they like. Refreshments will be served.

Reader's Theater and Improvisation

 Kid's and their parents enjoyed an evening of reader's theater and improvisation last night March 7.  Miss Karin and Mr. Barber are teaching the kids about acting and improvisation.  We have a bunch of little actors and actresses in our midst.  It was a very fun evening.

Chinese New Year Program

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss

To celebrate Dr. Seuss's birthday we feasted on green eggs and ham and birthday cake of course.

Sea Serpent Fun

On June 17 school age children had fun learning about sea serpents and they made a sea serpent craft.

Chinese New Year Celebration

Chinese New Year/ Chinese Books and CD at Hobart Library


Taste of Asia - CD – Q.CD ASIA TA N25

Chinese New Year Crafts by Karen E. Bledsoe
JUV 745.5941 BLED

Bringing In The New Year by Grace Lin
JUV P LIN

Chinese New Year’s Dragon by Rachel Sing J
UV P SING

The Jade Stone, A Chinese Folktale, adapted by Caryn Yacowitz
JUV 398.20951 YACO

How the Ox Star Fell from Heaven Retold and Illustrated by Lily Toy Hong
JUV 398.20951 HONG

A Chinese Zoo adapted and illustrated by demi
JUV 398.20951 DEMI

The Beggar’s Magic A Chinese Tale Retold by Margaret and Raymond Chang
JUV 398.20951 CHAN

The Lost Horse by Ed Young
JUV 398.20951 YOUN

Chinese New Year by Alice K. Flanagan J
UV 394.261 FLAN

Tikki Tikki Tembo retold by Arlene Mosel
JUV 398.2 MOSE

Mouse Match by Ed Young
JUV 398.20951 YOUN

My Chinatown, One Year in Poems
JUV P MAK

The Magic Horse of Han Gan by Chen Jiang Hong
JUV 398.20951 CHEN

Chinese New Year by Dianne M. MacMillan
JUV 394.261 MACM

Chinese New Year by David F. Marx
JUV 394.261 MARX

Sam And The Lucky Money by Karen Chin
JUV P CHIN

Two of Everything by Lily Toy Hong
JUV 398.210951 HONG

Chinatown by William Low J
UV P LOW

They made Dragon Streamer Puppets.

Greyt Readers

On November 18, 2009 the Greyt Readers came to the Lake Station New Chicago library. Greyt Readers is a program where children can read to Greyhounds. The program was in celebration of Children's Book Week.

Pumpkin Painting

What is better than carving a pumpkin? Painting one of course! School age children had fun painting their pumpkins and pasting on beads and feathers. And using glitter, can't forget the glitter.

School Age: Crayon Resist

On September 24th school age children heard a fall story and made crayon resist paintings.

The story read was The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton.



What you need: crayons, paper, water colors, brushes, and water.



First have the children draw pictures with the crayons. Have them make thick lines and press down really hard when they draw. To get the best effect use light colored crayons.



Second mix dark water colors with plenty of water to dilute them. Then have the children paint over their crayon drawings with the water colors. The crayon drawing will resist the water color and will show through the paint.



To find different variations on how to do crayon resist simply google crayon resist and you will get several ideas.

IBT: Indiana Ballet Theatre

The Indiana Ballet Theatre is a non-profit organization that was established in 1980 by Gloria Tuohy. Ms. Tuohy's career has spanned 40 years of professional dance, teaching, choreography, and costume design in experience in England, Europe, and the United States. The IBT is dedicated to the art of dance and to enriching the cultural life of its community. They accomplish that through their education and outreach programs. The Indiana Ballet Theater came to the Hobart Library and put on an hour program. They first started by introducing themselves to the kids and how they became interested in dancing. They talked about the process of becoming a dancer and the type of gear you need to get started. The audience learned about the audition process, how to do stage makeup, the careers you can have from a dance background, and learned about the IBT organization. Along with all that the dancers demonstrated some of the dances and the moves it takes to dance flawlessly. The pictures below show some of the performances given. The very last picture shows the boys in the audience holding their arms out straight. They had to see how long they could hold it. Dance is hard work and they got a little taste of what the dancers go through.

To check out more about IBT: http://www.ibtnw.org/.

Creative Aquariums

On July 23rd school age children created their own aquariums. The best part is you don't have to feed the fish, because everything is fake. Using sand, moss, grow bugs, and much more the kids made some really great aquariums. I like the one below with the sand art at the bottom. Very Cool!