Rock Island, IL: SHAZAM! Kids who sign up for summer art, drama, and math programs at Rock Island Library can be real superheroes when they return to the classroom in the fall.
Library summer learning programs helps prevent the "summer slide," a term for learning losses that occur when reading and other academic skills aren't used. Add Arts Education Partnership research that indicates that art and drama helps children do better at mastering reading, writing, and math, and there are some supersized reasons to take advantage of the library's Every Hero Has a Story summer reading and education events.
Registration opened April 15 for Super Charged Art, Faster than (the speed of) Math, and Secret Identity Drama Club at the Rock Island Main Library. Details for the weekly programs include :
Super-Charged Art: Meets Tuesday, June 16 to July 14, from 2:00 to 3:00 pm, in the Main Library Community Room. Art can be your superpower, too, with a little help from art mastermind Gloria Burlingame. This class reinvents major works of art, often with a book connection. Works will be displayed at the library until July 14. Enrollment open for children going into 3rd through 8th grades.
Faster than the Speed of Math: Meets Tuesday, June 16 to July 14, from 3:15 to 4:00 pm, in the Main Library Community Room. Faster than the speed of sound! Able to jump high buildings in a single bound? How do superheroes do it? Join us for some super-powered math projects with tutor Elizabeth Russell. Enrollment open for children in second to 6th grades.
Secret Identity Summer Drama Club: Meets Mondays and Wednesdays, June 15 to July 8, from 1:00 to 3:00 pm, Main Library. What's your alter ego? Practice the acting skills you need to keep a secret superhero identity by putting on short skits and improvisation exercises with friends, under the direction of Angela Rathman. Enrollment open to children in 4th grades and up.
Registration is required. To sign up via the online calendar, register on the first date of each program. Registering once enrolls participants for all sessions. Participants may also call the Main Library Children's Room at 309-732-7360.
Summer art and drama programming is presented with funding from the Geifman Fund for Art and Drama of the Rock Island Public Library Foundation.
For information on any of the programs and services mentioned, visit library locations or the website at www.rockislandlibrary.org, follow Rock Island Library on Facebook or Twitter or call 309-732-READ (7323).
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