May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month
Like most commemorative months, Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month originated with Congress. The month of May was chosen to commemorate the immigration of the first Japanese to the United States on May 7, 1843, and to mark the anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869. The majority of the workers who laid the tracks were Chinese immigrants. Click here for more information about this month.
Summer Reading is Coming Soon
SUMMER READING PROGRAM • PROGRAMA DE LECTURA DE VERANO
June 1 - July 31, 2020 • Junio 1 - Julio 31, 2020
IMAGINE YOUR STORY CUÉNTAME TU HISTORIA
Track your reading, complete activities and earn raffle entries! Open to all ages.
¡Rastrea tu lectura, completa las actividades y gana entradas al sorteo! Para todas las edades.
The library will use Beanstack to log reading and activities for Summer Reading 2020 just as we did for the Spring Reading Challenge. Everyone will need to sign up for a Beanstack account to win prizes. You can sign up online at www.santacruzpl.org/srp or call
831-427-7713.
We will also have paper logs for everyone who wants one.
More information coming soon!
We are living in historic times!
It's not too late to start a journal of your everyday activities and feelings and encourage your students and children to do the same. In 10 or 15 years when students are studying history these journals will be important primary sources. They will be even more important when today's children are parents and grandparents. Many will be asked what life was like in the time of COVID-19 and the answer will be found in these journals.
Thinking ahead to summer, the State Library and California Library Association are planning a statewide community history project encouraging Californians of all ages to submit their art, stories, journal entries, and poems for the COVID Diaries Project. This will be a snapshot of the thoughts and feelings of Californians in the time of COVID. More information to come soon.
City of Santa Cruz Parks and Rec Summer Registration opens today May 20
City of Santa Cruz Parks and Rec will have a summer program this year. Some will be virtual and some will be in person. Following the guidelines in the Public Health Order, and in thoughtful consideration of the risks and well-being of participants and staff, Parks and Rec will offer the following summer programs.
Summer Camp at Harvey West Park: Our dynamic summer camp staff is back to offer two 3-week long sessions of camp! Per the Public Health Order, camps are limited to twelve participants per group. Register for Summer Camp session 1 or 2 and staff will divide participants into groups based on age, siblings and friend requests when possible. cityofsantacruz.com/summercamps. Summer Classes: Parks and Recreation staff is currently working with instructors to transition their programs to either online or in person classes in accordance with the Public Health Order. Stay up-to-date on class offerings at cityofsantacruz.com/register. Virtual Junior Guards: Junior Guards has gone virtual! Participate in our free Virtual Guard program all summer. Keep up your JG skills with our weekly workouts and learn about water safety from our Beach Lieutenants. Learn more at cityofsantacruz.com/guards.
Go to the SCPL YouTube Channel for programs for all ages. You can find out what's coming on the library's virtual calendar in the middle of our home pageor go directly to the YouTube Channel page for recorded storytimes, crafts for kids and adults, chapter books readalouds, and more.
It's updated and interactive with resources for Teens by Teens.
Prevent Summer Slide
Life Skills - Valuable Learning while
Sheltering in Place
Household chores involve using math and reading skills to follow directions and organizational skills for time management.
Parents are their children's first teachers and everything they do at home is teaching and modeling for their children. Keep it up all summer long and children will come back to school in the fall with reading and math skills honed by a fun-filled summer of cooking, gardening, making a schedule, and helping others while developing life skills and self esteem.
Attention Teachers!
The Tumble Book Library is an online collection of animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. TumbleBooks are created by taking existing picture books, adding animation, sound, music and narration to produce an electronic picture book which you can read, or have read to you. Also included are games and puzzles. TumbleBooks are created in flash animation. You will need the Flash plug-in for your browser and a computer set up for sound. Santa Cruz Public Libraries subscribe to Tumblebooks and you can find the link on our Kids Page here.
For a limited time - until August 31, 2020 - you can also access other products from the Tumble Book Library by clicking on the link to Find Books and Movies and then clicking on the far right Tumblebooks tab:
Offers an Information Concierge for Teachers now and throughout the summer
Do you need help with a special project for your class? Need a specialized bibliography from our collection of ebooks? Need a list of age/grade appropriate titles that are available in class sets? We can help with that! We can also provide tech help and try to arrange virtual class visits for the end of the school year. We can help as you plan for the next school year.
Contact us atk12@santacruzpl.orgorgo to the Contact Us box on the left hand side of ourhome page.
While We Are Closed
1. Teacher Newsletter will come out with a new edition every week on Wednesday afternoon. Please share with colleagues and parents.
2. Interested readers can sign up for the Teacher Newsletter here.
