Reading Challenges
Carver Memorial Library encourages everyone, kids, adults, teens, and families, to take on our Reading Challenges! We encourage you to read widely and explore the library and the world around you. This summer the theme is “Imagine Your Story,” celebrating folk and fairy tales, imagination, and storytelling.
To complete each challenge, log reading and activities to earn an embroidered patch/badge. Independent readers read 5 books (appropriate to your reading level) and do 5 activities related to the theme. Family readers/children being read to/pre-readers read 10 books and do 5 activities. This summer the challenges are Fairytales, Maine History, Searsport, and STEAM.
Read often! Try to read for 50 days this summer, or set your own goal.
Read widely! Try reading new topics, new formats or in new places. Try Scholastic Summer Reading Bingo.
Learn! Do activities related to the fairytales, Maine History, Searsport, STEAM, or wherever your interests take you.
New Take and Make activity kits every Thursday at the library this summer.
Track your reading and activities:
Track your reading challenges with our paper log sheets (at the library, or download below), or online with Beanstack, a website and app. Beanstack lets you use one account to set up logs for a whole family of readers. Note: when choosing your challenges, the challenges are set up separately for Family readers or for independent readers. For details on the app and web versions, see below,
To complete each challenge, log reading and activities to earn an embroidered patch/badge. Independent readers read 5 books (appropriate to your reading level) and do 5 activities related to the theme. Family readers/children being read to/pre-readers read 10 books and do 5 activities. This summer the challenges are Fairytales, Maine History, Searsport, and STEAM.
Read often! Try to read for 50 days this summer, or set your own goal.
Read widely! Try reading new topics, new formats or in new places. Try Scholastic Summer Reading Bingo.
Learn! Do activities related to the fairytales, Maine History, Searsport, STEAM, or wherever your interests take you.
New Take and Make activity kits every Thursday at the library this summer.
Track your reading and activities:
Track your reading challenges with our paper log sheets (at the library, or download below), or online with Beanstack, a website and app. Beanstack lets you use one account to set up logs for a whole family of readers. Note: when choosing your challenges, the challenges are set up separately for Family readers or for independent readers. For details on the app and web versions, see below,
Maine Bicentennial and Searsport 175th Challenges
Celebrate by reading books and doing activities related to Maine History and Searsport. Download a log sheet here, or pick up one at the library.
Maine History
Reading: What books count? Fiction or nonfiction, biographies or memoirs of Maine people, books about Wabanaki people and culture, books about a traditional Maine industry such as maple sugaring or logging, historical art or architecture in Maine, a book by a vintage Maine author, etc.
Activities: Do 5 activities having to do with Maine history. Visit a historic site or local monument, attend a event on Maine history, make a craft about a historical topic, watch a Maine historic film, write a review of one of the books you read, or come up with your own ideas.
Searsport
Reading: What books count?
Fiction or nonfiction, biographies of Searsport people, books about seafaring or the China trade, living in a small town, or other topics with a local connection, a book by a Searsport author, etc.
Activities: Do 5 activities having to do with Searsport. Visit a historic site or local monument, make a craft, attend a Searsport event, volunteer in the community, visit the Museum in the Streets, write a review of one of the books you read, or come up with your own ideas.
Celebrate by reading books and doing activities related to Maine History and Searsport. Download a log sheet here, or pick up one at the library.
Maine History
Reading: What books count? Fiction or nonfiction, biographies or memoirs of Maine people, books about Wabanaki people and culture, books about a traditional Maine industry such as maple sugaring or logging, historical art or architecture in Maine, a book by a vintage Maine author, etc.
Activities: Do 5 activities having to do with Maine history. Visit a historic site or local monument, attend a event on Maine history, make a craft about a historical topic, watch a Maine historic film, write a review of one of the books you read, or come up with your own ideas.
Searsport
Reading: What books count?
Fiction or nonfiction, biographies of Searsport people, books about seafaring or the China trade, living in a small town, or other topics with a local connection, a book by a Searsport author, etc.
Activities: Do 5 activities having to do with Searsport. Visit a historic site or local monument, make a craft, attend a Searsport event, volunteer in the community, visit the Museum in the Streets, write a review of one of the books you read, or come up with your own ideas.
Fairytale Challenge (Badge art TBA.)
Download a log sheet here, or pick one up at the library.
Reading: What books count? Fiction or nonfiction, collections or retellings of folk or fairytales, books about storytelling and oral traditions, books with fairytale creatures or elements, etc.
Activities: Do 5 activities having to do with fairytales. Draw a fairytale character or scene, write a story, tell a story, make a craft, build a cardboard castle, memorize a nursery rhyme, write a review of one of the books you read, or come up with your own ideas.
Download a log sheet here, or pick one up at the library.
Reading: What books count? Fiction or nonfiction, collections or retellings of folk or fairytales, books about storytelling and oral traditions, books with fairytale creatures or elements, etc.
Activities: Do 5 activities having to do with fairytales. Draw a fairytale character or scene, write a story, tell a story, make a craft, build a cardboard castle, memorize a nursery rhyme, write a review of one of the books you read, or come up with your own ideas.
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STEAM Tag
Do five activities, one for each aspect of STEAM: Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math Many Take and Makes are STEAM activities. You can also choose your own! Download a log sheet here, or pick one up at the library. |
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