HPS Summer Learning Opportunities

Summer Activity Guide

 

Community Literacy Programs

Holyoke Public Library
Summer reading progam and calendar of summer events

Bookworm Wednesdays
Present completed Book Report Form and children receive free admission to a select children's film every Wednesday at 10:00 am July 6th for six weeks.

Barnes and Noble Reading Program
Kids read any 8 books, print and complete the
Summer Reading Journal, and receive a FREE book.

Red Sox Reading Game
Kids who complet their pledge to read nine books, one for each position on the baseball field, are entered into a drawing for prizes. Student winners and their teachers are awarded pairs of tickets to a Red Sox game at Fenway Park. Five grand prize winners receive tickets, bookstore gift cards and baseballs autographed by Jason Varitek . The grand prize winners also participate in an on-the-field recognition ceremony.

Improve Your Vocabulary: www.freerice.com
Students can increase their vocabulary while helping to donate rice to hungry people around the world via www.freerice.com . For each answer you get right, 10 grains of rice are donated to the United Nations World Food Program.


Summer Job Opportunities

Careerpoint 850 High Street Holyoke, MA 01040
Tel: (413) 532-4900


57 Suffolk Street
Holyoke, MA 01040
Phone: (413) 534-2000
Fax: (413) 534-3730