Summer Reading Finale Luau is a Hawaiian Sensation!
Children and parents enjoyed a tropical Hawaiian luau as they celebrated two months of summer reading. Kids scrambled to finish as much reading as they could to earn entries into the grand prize drawing. Delighted by the array of fun toys and trinkets on the prize cart, kids were able to choose 3 prizes and 1 book for 20 hours of reading. Younger children earned drawing entries for each 5 books read, and teens earned 1 entry for each hour read.
There were 14,055 books read by kids and 4,421 hours read by teens, with 1,052 youth participating!
The finale luau featured crafts such as paddleball coloring, fan design and lei making with the Chelsea Center for the Arts. Kids jumped and splashed with toe fishing, giant beachball volleyball, and the fire truck bounce. Everyone enjoyed crooning a tune with karaoke, and danced away to the Hukilau hula and limbo. Face painting was a hit, along with refreshing snow cones. Winners of the grand prize drawing were announced before the fun Pollution Solution magic show.
A special thank you to all of our teen volunteers!! Without you the event would not have been possible!!
Thank you also to the Friends of the Chelsea District Library for their support of Summer Reading!
Another BIG THANK YOU goes to those who contributed to our Summer Reading prizes, including:
Aberdeen Bike & Outdoors, Arctic Coliseum, Cleary’s Pub, Just Imagine Toy and Bookstore, and the Masonic Lodge of Chelsea. Your generosity helped encourage the youth of Chelsea to read, read, read!
Did you read this year? Congratulations to those who read and won prizes!
Keep reading for your own summer fun!!
Did you know that fish need clean teeth just like you? Tiny creatures, like shrimp and gobi fish, brush their teeth for them. Big fish swim up to a place known as a “cleaning station” and little creatures swim in their mouths and eat the pieces of fish stuck in their teeth! If a fish didn’t have clean teeth the teeth would fall out and the fish would die! This is known as a symbiotic relationship, where both fish help each other. Miss Lisa, one of our librarians and a scuba diver, once ate doritos and went under water and let shrimp climb in her mouth and clean her teeth!
A flounder has two eyes on one side of its head! It starts out like a regular fish, but it likes to lay flat in the sand to hide, so when it is a baby it decides to slide one eye over to the other side. It takes a few days for the eye to slide over. Can you do that?
The parrotfish protects itself when it sleeps by blowing a huge spit bubble and swiming inside it. When a predator comes close to him it breaks the bubble, giving the parrotfish time to swim away!
The anglerfish lives deep, deep in the bottom of the ocean, several miles down where it is completely dark. It has a glowing tip on a piece of skin that sticks out in front of his mouth. Smaller fish can’t see the big fish, and think the glowy thing is a small jellyfish or fish, and swim up to eat it, and the anglerfish snap! eats the little fish. 
