CHALLENGES FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY!

Early Learner Challenge

READ AND/OR LISTEN:

(ages 5 and under)

Earn a digital badge for every 10 books read. Read or listen to books, log them on Beanstack and earn digital badges.

READING GOAL:

Read 50 books to earn a “completion” digital badge and your Early Learner Reward Pack!*

ACTIVITIES:

Early Learners earn weekly activity badges for completing weekly early literacy activities. These fun early literacy activities help build language and literacy. Click here for the Digital Summer Fun Calendar and log on Beanstack.

ACTIVITY GOAL:

Follow along with our print summer calendar, or complete in any order! Earn all the weekly digital activity badges and be entered into a grand prize drawing. You will also earn a special “Countdown to Kindergarten” completion certificate.

ACTIVITY GOAL

Earn the weekly digital activity badges and be entered into a grand prize drawing. You will also earn a special “Countdown to Kindergarten” completion certificate.

TEEN CHALLENGE (ages 13-18)

READ AND/OR LISTEN:

Earn a digital badge for every two hours of reading. Read each day this summer and track your progress on Beanstack.

READING GOAL: Complete 16 hours of reading to earn a “completion” digital badge and your Teen Reward Pack!*

ACTIVITIES: Complete an activity and earn a digital activity badge.

ACTIVITY GOAL: Earn all the digital activity badges and be entered into a grand prize drawing.

CHILD CHALLENGE (ages 6-12)

READ AND/OR LISTEN:

Earn a digital badge for every two hours of reading. Read each day this summer and track your progress on Beanstack.

READING GOAL:

Complete 16 hours of reading to earn a “completion” digital badge and your Child Reward Pack!*

ACTIVITIES:

Complete an activity and earn a digital activity badge

ACTIVITY GOAL:

Earn all the digital activity badges and be entered into a grand prize drawing. Click here to go to the Child Gameboard.

ADULT CHALLENGE (ages 19 and over)

READ AND/OR LISTEN:

Earn a digital badge for every two hours of reading. Read each day this summer and track your progress on Beanstack.

READING GOAL:

Complete 16 hours of reading to earn a “completion” digital badge and your Adult Reward Pack!*

Complete an activity and earn a digital activity badge.

Earn all the digital activity badges and be entered into a grand prize drawing.

*Contact your branch for pickup information

Be ready for Broward County Libraries (BCL) to dazzle you with unexpected, imaginative programs in June, July and August! Welcome to our summer!

We’re excited about celebrity guests – they’re coming! I can’t wait to personally interview hilarious Florida Man and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dave Barry on June 16 at Main Library. Be with me when we talk about his first new book in a decade, Swamp Story. Come meet Dave and get a book signed. At Stirling Road Branch in July, the South Florida Hollywood Historical Society brings us Bryan Norcross, Fox News meteorologist and legendary hurricane specialist, to give us The History of Hurricanes in South Florida.

Also in July, stars from the Florida Panthers Summer Reading Tour, including Stanley C. Panther himself, come to South Regional/ Broward College Library to mingle with you.

We’ll be buddying up, learning and feeling good with the 2023 Summer Learning Program theme: “All Together Now,” about kindness, caring and unity in diversity. Adults, children, toddlers and teens – let’s all join together for discovering, exploring, and above all, appreciating one another for our differences.

DIRECTOR’S DIRECTOR’S PENDING APPROVAL

Together let’s dive deep into a feel-good summer in June as we Learn How to Be Kind to Sea Turtles at Southwest Regional Library and become an expert on Sea Turtles of South Florida at the Dania Beach Paul DeMaio Branch. Want to know What Lurks Beneath? Get a glimpse underwater with Bob from the Future and BCL’s own submarine at Sunrise Dan Pearl Branch in July. Teens and kids are called to become ocean preservationists at two July Pompano Beach Library programs, “Coral in Crisis” and a special field trip to Biscayne Bay.

We love our furry friends as well, coming together to cuddle at the Foster Kitten Workshop at Miramar Branch and at Deerfield Branch for Adopting a Pet in Broward County, both in June. Katie’s Kids Yoga has wonderful classes all summer, including Kindness with Pets at Weston Branch in June. Make this the summer that you enlist pet-therapy pooches who want to be your child’s best pal, confidence builder and reading partner. Turn a child into a champion at Wags &Tales and watch grades rise!

Sincerely,

Allison Grubbs

All Together Now is about the library as everyone’s favorite hangout, without regard to ability, identity or ethnicity. Sensory Supportive Musicpresented by Whole Vibes Music Therapy in June is a group for children who learn differently and need a sensory-friendly environment.