Due to COVID-19 this summer will look a little different. We are sad to say that we will not be offering any in-person programs due to safety concerns. We are excited this year to send you on an adventure to become a knight with our reading log and offer STEAM challenges to earn badges. Be sure to check our Facebook page for online activities.

A Bead A Badge Program

Participants will be divided into three categories by grade (grade promoted to in the fall).

Reading Log Procedure

● Summer Reading = 8 weeks or 54 days. ● Minutes include reading or being read to. ● Completing ¾ (30days) qualifies readers for an entry into the grand prize drawings. ● To complete the reading log the participant will need to read for 40 days, which qualifies readers for another entry into the grand prize drawings and the Happily Ever After Badge. ○ Birth - 2nd grade: 20 minutes per day ○ 3rd - 6th grade: 40 minutes per day ○ 7th - 12th: 60 minutes per day

Bead Procedure

Along the way the participants will earn the following 8 colored beads:

1. yellow - Once Upon a Time 5. purple - Learning Chivalry 2. black - Becoming a Page 6. blue - Attending a Ball 3. green - Ton of Training 7. red - Defending the Realm 4. white - Becoming a Squire 8. pink - Becoming a Knight

A bead request form is included in your packet. Follow the directions on the form and turn it in, in the envelope provided, to receive your bead! A ball chain necklace will be provided (while supplies last) to display your beads on.

Badge Procedure

You will be able to earn up to 11 badges this summer. There are pages included for each badge and instructions can be found with the badge portion of this packet. If the participant completes all the badges (excluding the Happily Ever After Badge), they will receive an entry into the grand prize drawings. An envelope is included in this packet, to be used to turn in completed badge challenges and bead requests. We will return this envelope to the participant with the badge or bead earned. Please keep the envelope to reuse. Badges can be displayed with your beads on your necklace or pinned to clothing, like hats or scarves. If you would like a ribbon to display your badge, please let us know.

Prizes

This year we will be doing grand prize drawings for baskets containing items and services from local businesses.

Reading Logs and all other challenges must be turned in by July 24th at 5:00 pm to be considered for the grand prize drawings.

Grand Prize Drawings will be held on July 31st, at 11:00 am live on our Facebook page. Only one prize per Participant.

A huge thanks to our Sponsors:

Webco A.T.T.I.

Rotary Club

Diamond Pharmacy

Tincher Custom Homes & Remodeling

Palo Pinto Retired Teachers Association

Mike Smiddy, Attorney at Law

Women's Club

In-Kind Sponsors:

Adam’s Family Optical Hickey’s Dairy Queen Pizza Hut Bennetts Office Supply McDonald’s Premier Properties Clark Gardens Metro Foods Sit n Sip Books Funky Monkey MW Senior Center Taco Casa Golden Chick Next Time Around Resale Whataburger

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 6 Day 7 Day 8

You Become a Page

Day 14 Day 13 Day 12 Day 11 Day 9

You Become a Squire Practice! Practice! Practice!

Day 16 Day 17 Day 19 Day 18 Day 21 Day 22 Day 23

You Learn Chivalry

Day 24 Day 31 Day 29 Day 28 Day 27 Day 26

You Defend the Realm You Learn to Dance and with Your Knight Master Attend a Ball Happily Day 32 Day 37 Ever Day 34 Day 36 Day 38 Day 39 Day 33 After

You Pass Your Test and Become a Knight FAIRY TALE FUN BECOMING A KNIGHT

The front of this paper is your reading log. Every day that you read your minutes have a parent mark the day. You got a chain in your packet with a bead on it. The certificate is called Once Upon a Time. You can earn 8 beads and certificates this summer for reading, each bead is for a different part of becoming a knight. The story below will explain what a knight is and how you become one. If you get Bead #7 – Fighting with Your Knight-Master, you will also get an entry into the prize drawing. If you get to Happily Ever After, you will get a badge, and another entry into the prize drawing.

The Path to Becoming a Knight

Once upon a time, the world was ruled by kings. A king was responsible for his lands and the people in them. This was called a realm. In order to make sure all the people in the realm were safe, the king would train knights to watch his lands and keep the bad guys out. Becoming a knight started at an early age, usually around 10 years old.

First they would become a page. They would go to the palace to live, study and train. They would go to school to learn the things you study: reading, writing, history, and geography, but they were also taught battle strategy. Instead of playing sports or skateboarding, they were taught horse- riding, camping and survival, and fighting. They would train with staffs, swords, short bows, long bows, cross-bows and knives. They would also learn to fight without weapons. In addition to going to school and training to fight, they would have a job to do; tending horses, helping in the kitchen or taking messages back and forth.

Knights were also supposed to be chivalrous, this meant that they were always supposed to be brave, kind and helpful to others weaker than themselves, gracious (nice) when winning or losing, and loyal to their king, country, friends and family. This also meant that they had to take classes in etiquette (manners and polite behavior).

After 3 or 4 years as a page, they would become a squire. As a squire they would do all the things they did as a page, but they would also be picked by a knight to be his helper. When the knight went out to fight, his squire went with him and kept his weapons and armor clean and dry. They would also serve their knight master at banquets (large gatherings of royal or rich people eating to- gether), just like a waiter or waitress serves you in a restaurant. They would also be required to at- tend parties with their knight master where they would be required to dance. They called these par- ties a “ball”.

Then, after 3 or 4 years as a squire, they would take a test. If they passed the test, the king would make them a knight. As a squire they would have done some fighting, but when they became a knight they would do a lot more fighting; bad guys, like thieves and bandits, as well as monsters, like trolls and dragons.

And they lived happily ever after.