Ness City Public Library

113 S. Iowa Avenue – Ness City, Kansas 67560

Hats Off to You! Story Time Update

| November 12, 2011

Here is a little update from the past five weeks of story time sessions. Week two we read “Scarecrow’s Hat” by Ken Brown, a delightful story about Chicken who thinks that Scarecrow’s hat would make a great nest.  But she first has to swap various items with Badger, Crow, Sheep, Owl and Donkey.   For our [...]

Lap Sit Time Activities

| October 21, 2011

Sand Art Bottles!

| October 21, 2011

Scarecrows wear hats, too!

| October 21, 2011

Windy Day Story!

| October 7, 2011

…and the wind blew! We certainly picked the perfect book for the first week of our “Hats Off To You!” story time! Miss Jean read the book “Away Went the Farmer’s Hat” by Jane Belk Moncure. The farmer was in his field one day. The wind blew the farmer’s hat off his head. And away [...]

Hat’s Off to You! Story Time

| September 23, 2011

Hats, hats, and more hats!  There are all kinds of helmets, caps, top hats, stocking caps, berets, fedoras, bonnets, crowns, and many other kinds of hats.  Who wears all these hats?  We plan to find out, as ‘hats’ will be the theme of our fall story time sessions beginning October 4th and 5th for children [...]

End of Summer Pool Party!

| July 12, 2011

Nineteen summer readers joined us at the Ness City Swiming Pool on Saturday morning to celebrate the end of a very successful summer reading program! We played several relay water games, and had fun ‘trashing our neighbors back yards.’ Then spend some free time just enjoyed cooling off in the pool.  Following swim time, we held [...]

“One World, Many Stories” Summer Reading Ends

| July 12, 2011

Stories We Tell – Australia

| July 5, 2011

Fifth through Eighth Grade Summer Readers took a trip “down-under” – yes, to Australia, the only country that is also a continent.  We began with a short fact finding session about our very interesting neighbors who live in the Southern Hemisphere of our world, their country and some very unusual animals who share the “bush” [...]

“Stories & Fun From Around the World”

| July 5, 2011

The “One World, Many Stories”summer readers gathered at the United Methodist Church for their “Stories & Fun From Around the World” program.  Thirty-one children and fourteen adults welcomed our guest speaker, Ann Fitzgerald, who took us on a trip to Morocco a small country in northwestern Africa.  Ann shared stories and items her and her [...]