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Success By 6

Wild About Reading


 


GET WILD ABOUT READING

Attention Preschoolers! Come listen to stories, participate in activities and enjoy an animal cracker snack.

Wild about Reading events are open to all ages, however books and activities are directed to pre-school children.

Families, daycares, grandparents, anyone with children, are all invited to attend! Child care providers who attend with the children in their care will be given a few children's books to take home for use in their daycare.

Listen to KMHL 1400 AM or KKCK 99.7 FM for weather related cancellations.

This event is sponsored by the Success By 6 Committee of the United Way of Southwest Minnesota.

 

Following is the schedule for summer 2013 - click here for printable version

 

 DATE

 CITY

 LOCATION

Tuesday, June 4
Hendricks Veterans' Memorial Park
Thursday, June 6
Marshall Independence Park
Tuesday, June 11
Minneota
Riverside Park
Thursday, June 13
Lake Benton
Garfield Street Park
Tuesday, June 18
Walnut Grove
Walnut Grove Park
Thursday, June 20
Granite Falls
Winter Park
Tuesday, June 25
Wood Lake
Freedom Park
Thursday, June 27
Ivanhoe
East Side Park
     
Tuesday, July 9
Cottonwood
City Park
Thursday, July 11
Marshall
Justice Park
Tuesday, July 16
Milroy
Milroy City Park
Thursday, July 18
Tyler
Band Shell Park
Tuesday, July 23
Tracy
Sebastian Park
Thursday, July 25
Slayton
Gullord Park
Tuesday, July 30
Canby
Central Park
     
Thursday, August 1
Lynd
Lynd School Playground
Tuesday, August 6
Marshall

Sunrise Apartment Lawn

(Birch Street)

Thursday, August 8
Marshall
Freedom Park

 


 

Wild About Reading events were held at several parks throughout our service area during the summer of 2012.  Each event featured music, puppets, reading of Imagination Library books by volunteers, activities and animal cracker snacks.   THANKS to all who attended, as well as all the volunteers who helped make these events such a success.

 

CLICK HERE to see some photographs from some of the events.

 


 

Wild About Reading events were held at sixteen parks throughout our service area during the summer of 2011.  Each event featured music, puppets, reading of Imagination Library books by volunteers, activities and animal cracker snacks. 


These events were open to all ages, books and activities were directed to pre-school children.  All were invited to attend!

 

Click here to see photographs from some of the events

 

 


 

Wild About Reading events were held at eighteen parks throughout our service area during the summer of 2010.  These events were open to all ages, however books and activities were directed to pre-school children.

Families, daycares, grandparents, anyone with children, all were in attendance!  Click Here for a scrapbook of pictures from Summer 2010 Wild About Reading events! 

 

 


 

WILD ABOUT READING literacy building events were held in sixteen area parks during Summer 2009.  The events featured music, reading of Imagination Library books by volunteers, activities and animal crackers.