Watch our Garden Grow!

On Earth Day (April 22), dozens of kids and adults gathered to make nature-friendly birdfeeders out of pinecones, learn about recycling and to help plant a small vegetable garden and herb garden on the library's terrace.

In addition to flowers, we planted 2 types of tomatoes, several types of mint, yellow squash, strawberries, hot peppers, spinach, dill, parsley, onions, radishes, basil and cilantro.

The veggies will be used to make snacks such as salsa for our youth programming.

Afterward, everyone enjoyed fresh fruit and veggie trays and took home starter plants for their own gardens.

All materials were either recycled or donated from patrons or businesses.

We want to thank the Friends of the Library, Ranger Charles Shelton, Pacific Mulch, Mimi Spivey, Daniel Orr and Edna Hargrove for their donations!

BREAKING NEWS! Megalodon Exhibit

Attention all participants of the Megalodon Illustration Contest, sponsored by the Museum of Natural Sciences.  If you submitted an entry for this contest, your ticket WILL NOT be mailed to you.  Instead, you can go to the Gift Shop at the Museum to pick up your free pass.  For questions, call the Gift Shop at 919-733-7450.

Contest Winners:

   PreK–K

1st Place: Skylar Kortte, High Point, “Shark Eating a Fish”
2nd Place: Matias Chazo, Asheville, “Lemon Shark”
3rd Place: Delta Joy McMullan, Raleigh, “Escape of the Fish”

Grades 1–3

1st Place: Ramzi Musleh, Durham, “Shark Menu”
2nd Place: Camille Zehner, Chapel Hill, “Sawtooth Shark”
3rd Place: Abby Macko, Raleigh, “Feeding Frenzy”

Grades 4-6

1st Place: Mohamed Thomas, Raleigh, “Megalodon”
2nd Place: Scout Hayashi, Chapel Hill, “Scalloped Hammerhead Shark”
3rd Place: Giunjan Shroff, Cary, “Megalodon: Largest Shark that Ever Lived”

Grades 7–9

1st Place: Erin Floyd, Wake Forest, “Whale Shark”
2nd Place: Ayla Gizlice, Raleigh, “Leopard Shark in Kelp Forest”
3rd Place: John Z. Lee, Raleigh, “Mr. Hammerhead Going for a Swim”

Storytelling Festival!

Storytelling Festival is coming!!!!!!


The Storytelling Festival is a free event for Vance County’s fourth grade and fourth-grade-level students during the day, and a free Family Festival in the evening.

It will be held on Tuesday, April 27, in the H. Leslie Perry Memorial Library.
Part I, the Fourth-Grade Festival, is held at different sites around the library during school-day hours. Participating schools bus their fourth-graders to the Festival for an hour of educational, inspiring tales from some of the best storytellers in NC (and beyond).


Sites for the event in the library include the Storytime Kiva, the Meeting Room, the Terrace, and the Children’s Reading Area.



Session times are 9:30 a.m., 10:45 a.m., and 1:00 p.m and regional performers include Ranger Charles Shelton, Kenya Allen, Leigh Lambert, Alice Sallins, Vernita “Nana Vee” Terry, Robin Kitson, Claire Ramsey and Markey Duckworth.



Participating Schools with fourth grade or fourth grade level-students include: Aycock Elementary, Carver Elementary, Clark Street Elementary, Dabney Elementary, E. M. Rollins Elementary, E. O. Young Elementary, Eaton Johnson Middle School, Kerr Vance Academy, L. B. Yancey Elementary, New Hope Elementary, Northern Vance High School, Pinkston Street Elementary, Southern Vance High School, Vance Charter School, and Zeb Vance Elementary.


Part II, the Family Festival, welcomes the featured storytellers from the day festival to provide an evening’s entertainment from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. for Vance County’s families in Perry Library’s Meeting Room. Children of all ages are welcome; an age guideline would be ages 5 and up. Children under the age of 10 need a grown-up present.

For 2010, we’ll be welcoming returning storytellers Ron Jones 

and Terry Rollins

 , as well as bring Vance County the family ensemble The Healing Force

  

and the music and stories of Logie Meachum

as our Featured Performers. 

This free program is sponsored by the Vance County Arts Council, the North Carolina State Arts Council and the Friends of the Library.

Young @ ART

The April Young @ Art session explored the cycle of life, as kids made 2 art projects: a caterpillar and a butterfly!

Springtime at your Library!!!

Oh, Springtime is here and the Youth Services area has been busy as bees with all kinds of activities. 

Around the first of the month, we decorated Bunny Bags and had an EGG HUNT out on our terrace.

Wii PLAY @ THE LIBRARY!

Wii've been going crazy lately at the Library.  Join us for a game, but just a warning, these kids are SERIOUS!!!

Young @ ART

Mirror images were the name of the game as everyone gathered for March's Young @ ART program.  Participants stretched out on huge sheets of paper and traced each other.  Then, they used crayons, colored pencils and markers to draw their life-size self portraits.  Check them out in the Youth Services area where they are still on display!