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estown Public Library was built in 1915 and first served as a school. It has since become a small community library designed to serve the public of Jamestown and the surrounding community. We encourage you to post your thoughts on our service and the things that we offer to the public.
Please share with us how we can become better and further serve the population. All suggestions as to materials (books, DVDs , books on tape, etc. ) that you might have are welcomed. Any ideas about events and ways that we can become a more integral part of the community. 
estown Public Library was built in 1915 and first served as a school. It has since become a small community library designed to serve the public of Jamestown and the surrounding community. We encourage you to post your thoughts on our service and the things that we offer to the public.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Kids blow bubbles and learn about Ocean life
Children this week blew all kinds of bubbles outside Jamestown Public Library.
Students also drew and painted their own underwater scenes with oil pastels and a blue tempura wash.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Children Learn about Pond life and enjoy water activities at our summer reading program !!!
Check out our other pics of the fun we are having this summer at http://www.jamestownpubliclibrary.com/SummerReadingProgram.htm
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Make a splash, make waves, READ this summer !!!
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Summer Reading Program
Jamestown Public Library Summer Reading And Enrichment Program
Tuesdays, June 22nd through August 17th
Middle School Students
(Grades 6-8)
Tuesday afternoons @ 1 PM for appx. one hour
June 22– Digital Photography– Still and Videos
Digital Photography Scavenger Hunt
June 29th-- WII Resort Sports Competition
July 6th - Piedmont Environmental Center– H20 Around us
July 13th-Underwater Art
July 20th– Make waves with Drama
July 27th - Water Olympics/Blow Giant bubbles
August 3rd– Make waves with yarn –Learn to knit
August 10th - The Soap Lady make your own bath salts
August 17th– Make music waves with the Beatle Rock Band
(Xbox 360 ) competition
Suggested Reading List
Summer Reading Program Make a splash - Read !!
Ages- Preschool - 5th grades
Every Thursday morning, from 10-11 am.
Toddlers will continue to meet with Julia Ebel at 10:30 am.
Summer Program Schedule
June 24 – Flako and Ze Clownettes with Wet Magic / All ages
July 1 – Water Care & Conservation/ Water play in pool/Age 4-7
July 1 - Common Water - Project Wet/ Racing boats in fountain/Gr 3-5
July 8 – Piedmont Environmental Center/ water animals/ All ages
July 15 – Bathtubs & Bubbles/ Age 4-7
July 15 - Flotsum & Water Color paintings/Gr 3-5
July 22 – Natural Science Center/ All ages
July 29 – Pirates/ Crafts/ Ages 4-7
July 29 – Pirates & Treasure Hunt/ Gr 2-5
Aug 5 – Fire Safety & Fire Trucks/ Water play/ Age 4-7
Aug 5 – Flushing toilets/ Gr 2-5
Aug 12 – Mad Science - Life in the Sea/Age 4-7
Aug 12 – Mad Science - Is That Water? Slime/ Gr 2-5
Aug 19 – Finding Nemo / All ages
Suggested Reading List for Young Children
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Kids and Klaus Event
Many people in the community joined us for some holiday cheer on Sunday. Check out the events we enjoyed.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Storytelling Project for Jamestown Youth
“Let’s give ‘em something to talk about”…(Bonnie Rait, 1991 ).
That’s precisely the point behind a youth storytelling project underway at Millis Road Elementary and Ragsdale High schools. Hosted by the Jamestown Library and the Jamestown Historic Society, a class of fourth graders at Millis Road Elementary and Ragsdale High’s first year drama class, are learning the performing art of storytelling. Their trainers are professional storytellers providing 10-hours of instruction on how to become storytellers. A public performance at the end of the training will showcase the students’ talents to the community. Top performers will be invited to submit their videoed performances to the National Youth Storytelling competition in Pigeon Ford, Tennessee in February 2010, and to attend NC Storyfest Inc’s annual storytelling festival in High Point and Greensboro on May 21 and 22nd. The instruction is free and made possible through a grant awarded NCSI by the United Arts Council of Greater Greensboro.
The Jamestown project is spotlighting stories about historic Jamestown gleaned through interviews with Old Jamestown School alumni, descendants of the freed black Florence community and descendants of the original Quaker families that established Jamestown. Through these oral history dialogues, students will then create a dramatic persona of the person they interviewed and “tell” their memories and anecdotes to their audience.
We invite you to be in that audience supporting these Jamestown elementary children and Ragsdale High teens and their teachers who are so enthusiastically embracing this challenging project. The showcase at Millis Road is scheduled on December 9 from one to two o’clock and at the high school on an as yet to be determined day during the first week of December. We’ll keep you updated on the times and place.
Four other sites in Guilford County are participating in this same project: Win-Win Resolutions, the City Arts/Greensboro Parks & Recreation Folk Teen Center, the Vance H. Chavis Branch Library and Guilford County Schools (peer mentoring program at Penn Griffin Middle School) .
“First, catch your story. The really exciting thing is that they are all around—out there—just waiting to be caught…this “common possession of humankind…” Edie Garvey.
That’s precisely the point behind a youth storytelling project underway at Millis Road Elementary and Ragsdale High schools. Hosted by the Jamestown Library and the Jamestown Historic Society, a class of fourth graders at Millis Road Elementary and Ragsdale High’s first year drama class, are learning the performing art of storytelling. Their trainers are professional storytellers providing 10-hours of instruction on how to become storytellers. A public performance at the end of the training will showcase the students’ talents to the community. Top performers will be invited to submit their videoed performances to the National Youth Storytelling competition in Pigeon Ford, Tennessee in February 2010, and to attend NC Storyfest Inc’s annual storytelling festival in High Point and Greensboro on May 21 and 22nd. The instruction is free and made possible through a grant awarded NCSI by the United Arts Council of Greater Greensboro.
The Jamestown project is spotlighting stories about historic Jamestown gleaned through interviews with Old Jamestown School alumni, descendants of the freed black Florence community and descendants of the original Quaker families that established Jamestown. Through these oral history dialogues, students will then create a dramatic persona of the person they interviewed and “tell” their memories and anecdotes to their audience.
We invite you to be in that audience supporting these Jamestown elementary children and Ragsdale High teens and their teachers who are so enthusiastically embracing this challenging project. The showcase at Millis Road is scheduled on December 9 from one to two o’clock and at the high school on an as yet to be determined day during the first week of December. We’ll keep you updated on the times and place.
Four other sites in Guilford County are participating in this same project: Win-Win Resolutions, the City Arts/Greensboro Parks & Recreation Folk Teen Center, the Vance H. Chavis Branch Library and Guilford County Schools (peer mentoring program at Penn Griffin Middle School) .
“First, catch your story. The really exciting thing is that they are all around—out there—just waiting to be caught…this “common possession of humankind…” Edie Garvey.
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