How do libraries benefit home schoolers?
One way is with read-aloud programs such as the one led last week by Donnie Storms at the the Calvert Library in Prince Frederick MD. Last week, Storms read Derek Anderson’s book “Romeo and Lou Blast Off” with enthusiasm peppered with questions to his young audience at the event, “Kids Just Want to Have Fun.” The activity was designed to engage homeschooled children in reading and learning about a specific topic. Last week, the book and activity that followed the reading were centered on the Arctic and Antarctic parts of the world.
Terry Tolentino of Huntingtown, a mother who was attending the event with her daughter, Katana, 6, said she found out about the workshop on the library’s Web site. While this was Katana’s first time attending the workshop, Terry Tolentino said she would “definitely” be coming to future events.
Storms said the library came up with the idea of the workshops in order to give homeschoolers a “chance to get out and meet other children who are homeschoolers.”
The book, incidently, is about adventures shared by two friends, a penguin and a polar bear. There’s a lesson in this…
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