Any youth from newborn to 18 years old are encouraged to register for this year’s Summer Reading Program with the Jefferson Public Library.

Youth Services Librarian Bailey Mount says there are four age groups this year, including newborns to pre-kindergarten, kindergarten through fourth grade, fifth through eighth grade, and a high school group for ninth through twelfth graders. She points out the 70 programs that are planned for the Summer Reading Program have to do with this year’s theme of “Read, Renew, Repeat.”

“And the way we’re talking about it at the library is it’s a summer focusing on nature, conservation and restoration.”

Mount says in keeping with the theme, kids and families can get the activity packets and log their reading hours digitally. Mount points out other new activities include a garden on the east side of the library where K-4th graders are going to grow flowers, along with an outdoor movie and paint yoga for the middle and high school youth.

“We’re getting a bunch of bedsheets, roughly cutting them out to the shape of yoga mats. And we’re going to set up at Russell Park (and) tell the kids, ‘Hey, wear clothes that you can get paint on’ and what we’re going to do is we’re going to get a yoga instructor to come out with us and we’re going to do our poses, but we’re going to have paint on our yoga mats, so we’re making art while we’re exercising.” 

Mount adds registration goes until June 5th and all of the programs officially start on June 10th. Click the link below to sign up online.

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