In an effort to supplement the Summer Reading program at my library, and to celebrate the upcoming Olympics; I created an Olympic Summer Reading log. I know this will be a fun, extra competition for summer readers of all ages, as the challenges are easily adaptable for different age ranges. The picture below is probably mostly targeted towards students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
I choose the five rings of the Olympics as they are iconic and I wanted to make the challenge simple to complete. I researched some popular summer Olympic events, and then did looked online to see what had already been completed. I recommend checking out the following resources. A school librarian in Australia created a resource of Olympic themed activities, crafts, and a reading challenge<\/a>. Also, a library service in Canada created a very fun looking Adult Summer Olympic Reading challenge<\/a>, that I borrowed some ideas from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I created 5 challenges, one for each ring, and each featuring a summer Olympic event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Swimming: Read a book about water, water sports, with water on the cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Weightlifting: Read a book over 200 pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Artistic Gymnastics: Read a graphic novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marathon: Read for 30 minutes straight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Surfing: Read a book or chapter while standing on one foot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Patrons will have from July 26th to August 11th, the same time as the actual Olympics, to complete the challenge and turn it in for an extra summer reading prize. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to this reading challenge, my library will also be having a drop in craft featuring the Olympics, as well as an Olympic kid obstacle course. Let the games begin! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In an effort to supplement the Summer Reading program at my library, and to celebrate the upcoming Olympics; I created an Olympic Summer Reading log. I know this will be a fun, extra competition for summer readers of all ages, as the challenges are easily adaptable for different age ranges. The picture below is probably mostly targeted towards students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":233,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1646,22,1613,38,102],"tags":[2804,2805,977],"class_list":["post-31033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-amy-steinbauer","category-childrens-literature","category-professionalism-and-professional-development","category-programming-ideas","category-summer-reading","tag-olympics","tag-reading-challenge","tag-summer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/233"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}