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May 28, 2019
SPACE – “A Universe of Stories” Theme for 2019 Summer
Reading Program at Unger Memorial Library
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The 2019 Summer Reading Program kicks off on Monday, June 3 at Unger Memorial Library
and will continue throughout the month of June on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from
10:00 – 11:00 a.m. This year’s theme is Space, with the tagline “A Universe of Stories”
describing books, events and crafts for preschool through adult.
“In previous years we have limited the summer reading programs to children, mainly
preschool through fifth grades, but this year we are also going to add a few programs that will
be for teens and adults,” said Cynthia Peterson, Chief Librarian of Unger Memorial Library.
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“The theme of space was no accident since this summer marks the 50 anniversary of the first moon landing. Most
adults over the age of 55 will remember this event and we thought it would be fun to include some programs and book
discussions for combined teen and adult groups.”
The children’s programming will include demonstrations of drones and remote-controlled planes, paper airplanes, and
straw rockets showing participants the physics of flight. The paper airplane demonstration will culminate two weeks
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later with “The Great Paper Airplane Competition” on Wednesday, June 19. Children in grades K-2 and 3-5 groupings
will compete in duration, distance, and acrobatics with paper airplanes they have designed themselves.
The Science Spectrum in Lubbock will also do two traveling programs at the Library – one on stargazing in the Texas
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night sky on Monday, June 10 and the other devoted to how astronauts live and work in space on Monday, June 24th.
The children will also be treated to the music of Andy Mason, who promises to sing a song or two about space. The last
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program of the summer will be our annual Zumba program held on Friday, June 28.
The children will also be split into three groups for stories and arts and crafts to enable more age-appropriate books and
stories as well as crafts. Placement in groups will be based on the school year just ending to allow for children to have
basic and advanced reading skills, as well as those who have not yet begun to read.
“Previously the lower grades were combined with the preschoolers and that is not an optimum grouping,” continued
Peterson. “So this summer preschoolers will be in a separate group. Then there will be two older reading groups – one
group containing those who have just finished Kindergarten, first, and second grades and another reading group
containing those who have just finished third, fourth, and fifth grades.”
The teen and adult program will include book discussions on favorite fiction and non-fiction books about space each
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Thursday night at 6:00 p.m. On Friday, June 7, adults and teens are invited to a program by Dr. Erin Heath from
Wayland about space movies prior to 1969. Participants will then be able to watch the original 1953 version of War of
the Worlds with a discussion to follow. The event will be held at the Fair Theater (717 Broadway) and admission is $2.00
and concessions will be available.
For more information about the Summer Reading Program or Unger Memorial Library, contact Cynthia Peterson at
806.296.1149.
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