Storytime At The Branch

Children attending Storytime at the Rodman Branch Library will go on an adventure each week as marine biologists.

Children, ages 3 and up, will explore a different aquatic creature each week as part of RPL's Oceans of Possibilities summer reading program.

Storytime at the Branch sessions are held each Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. The 45-minute sessions include songs, stories and a different activity each week. Each storytime  concludes with a short video highlighting the sea animal of the day.

Kids are encouraged to bring a beach towel to sit on each week. After each session, they will be awarded a brag tag for attending. At the end of the eight weeks, those who have attended all of the storytimes will have an entire necklace of brag tags.

During the June 8 storytime - Dive Into Reading! - children will get their feet wet by talking about the ocean and read about a few fish. The activity will be a science experiment that will explore how fish breathe.

Topics for subsequent storytime sessions and their special activities are:

• June 15 - Jellyfish with a fruit cup jellyfish craft.
• June 22 - Walrus with a walrus treasure hunt.
• June 29 - Seahorse with a seahorse painting craft.
• July 6 - Penguins with an egg drop experiment.
• July13 - Narwhal with a narwhal wheel craft
• July 20 - Polar bear with a "who has the ice cube?" game.
• July 27 - Sharks with a shark headband craft.

No registration is required to attend Storytime at the Branch, which is supported by Friends of Rodman Public Library.

For more information, call 330-821-1313.