Quick Facts
* You will need to create an account and have a valid e-mail address to sign up for courses.

* You are welcome to enroll in up to 5 courses.

* You have up to 6 months to finish each course.

* You have access to your course 24/7 via the Internet.

* Attend class and do assignments on your schedule.

* Each course has a real instructor who you may communicate with using e-mail.

* These are non-credit courses and are provided for your personal enrichment.

* These courses are not intended to be a substitute for any state, government, licensing, or educational requirements.

1)  To access Universal Class click the link below:

http://vermontstate.universalclass.com/register.htm

2) To access the classes use the following CODE:

2VSR@00000 PLUS your four digit Royalton library number  (Ex.:  If your library # is 4444, you’ll type in 2VSR@000004444)

The theme for this year’s Summer Reading Program was “One World, Many Stories.”  We created a story quilt over the 6 week program.  We started out with Africa.  Our quilt block went along with the book Wangari’s Trees of Peace, by Jeanette Winter.

The next week we “travelled” to China.  We made individual flannel boards and tangrams out of felt, along with our quilt blocks to go along with “Grandfather Tang’s Story, by Ann Tompert.

For Week Three we talked about immigration and made flag quilt blocks and featured the books Oma’s Quilt, by Paulette Bourgeois, The Josefina Story Quilt, by Eleanor Coerr, and The Tortilla Quilt, by Jane Tenorio-Coscarelli.  Week Four we read about refugees with the book Four Feet, Two Sandals, by Karen Lynn Williams and made cute flip flop quilt squares.

Week Five we were back home in Vermont.  Each of us made a family tree quilt block.  And here’s our finished quilt, hanging over the fireplace in our library!

And I don’t want to forget our finale performance.   The Penumbra Players were quite wonderful.  Our audience was a bit young to get the meaning of much of the dialogue, but they loved the performing and the adults thoroughly enjoyed the literary references!

2012 Spring Book Club to be announced!  Stay tuned!!

We hosted local author Kate George, celebrating the launch of her latest book “California Schemin’.”  This is the second book starring Bella Bree MacGowan.  The first book, “Moonlighting in Vermont” introduced Bree and many others who appear again in this second installment.  Pick it up here at the library and give it a read!

Our first book club was fantastic!  We enjoyed an inter-generational discussion as our public library group joined a local South Royalton High School English class for the night, to discuss Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird”.  What fun it was to get a teen perspective on this classic book.  We had 30 people, many viewpoints, snacks and lots of fun.  We look forward to our next discussion on Ruth Reichl’s “For You Mom, Finally”, to be held Monday, March 28th, 7PM, Royalton Memorial Library.

It was a small but dedicated group today.   A fishy good time was had by all as we read Marcus Pfister’s “The Rainbow Fish”

And then made our own Rainbow Fish

We read Stella Blackston and Clare Beaton’s “Secret Seahorse”

and Eric Carle’s “Mister Seahorse”

And made our own seahorses

And then for good measure we made our own hanging octopi/jellyfish

All in all it was a very productive, informative hour of fun!