Another lesson of the circle “Let’s speak Kazakh!” on the theme “Musical alphabet” was held on May 20th with the participation of pupils of the kindergarten “Carnation”.
The video “Alphabet” helped the children to remember new words and expressions in the Kazakh language. With the help of a magnetic board, children composed words for different letters of the Kazakh alphabet.

On May 17th , a regular meeting of the literary club “Qauyrsyn qalam” took place in the library.
The club has replenished with new young novice talented authors. Among the participants of the meeting, who presented poems of their own composition, were: student of “School-gymnasium №41 named after Akhmet Baitursynov” Ayaulym Yerlan, student of “Secondary school №48” Gulnisa Nazhmadinova, students “Secondary school №63” Mikhail Gorobtsov , Anzhelika and Margarita Kabakova.
At the round table with the children, a conversation took place about the books recommended for reading this year by the republican action “One country – one book”. Many works are already familiar to our readers. The children were especially interested in the book by D. Rowling “Harry Potter” translated into Kazakh.

The meeting with the social entrepreneur, the founder of the Green Tal social workshop from the city of Nur-Sultan, Emin Askerov, began a new season of filming for the “Formula of Success” television project.
A new film set, new guests, new members, new ideas – this is where the project started in 2021.
Emin Askerov helps with employment to representatives of socially vulnerable segments of the population of Kazakhstan (disabled people, graduates from orphanages, single mothers, former prisoners), he is also the founder of the school of social entrepreneurship and a trainer in public speaking and business.
On May 17, 2021, students from gymnasium №93, gymnasium named after V.I. K. Satpayev, Karaganda Commercial College, a special boarding school No. 1 for children with visual impairments and a regional boarding school for children with musculoskeletal disorders. (28 people)
The audience warmly welcomed the guest. The participants were eagerly awaiting the interview and went straight to the questions.
Emin’s devotion to social activities arose thanks to his mother, who worked in this field for many years. She conveyed to her son the idea of how important it is to help people.
It was interesting for the children to learn about how the future social entrepreneur’s childhood passed, with whom the guest was friends, whom he was in love with, what he was inspired by when he decided to devote his life to his main occupation, what qualities in a person he considers the main ones, what he enjoys, what he reads and much other.
The guest, whose biography included a period of music lessons, and work in the criminal investigation department, and teaching at Nazarbayev University, and a period of trial and error in the business sphere, knew what to share with the guys.
The young entrepreneur advised the children to “find themselves and do what they love”, and in order to be successful “forget their fears, set goals and strive to achieve them”. “95% of success is you, 5% is external circumstances. It all depends only on you who you will become, ”said the guest of the program.
Emin showed himself to be an extraordinary person who cannot exist within the boundaries of some rules. The conversation turned out to be very lively and interesting. Questions came not only from the audience, but also from the guest himself.
When the time came to choose the best question, Emin showed his originality in this too – he chose not one person, but all. And he promised to soon send everyone memorable gifts – GreenTal-puzzles.
Under the terms of the program, the guest could ask one question to the children, and he sounded: “What should be changed in the education system?” It turned out that the program participants are very concerned about the quality of education in the country and would like to improve it.
Traditionally, the meeting ended with a book gift. From the organizers, the main character received a gift book “Words of Edification” by Abai Kunanbayev.

On May 16th, the next lesson of «The Free Style» art workshop took place. The head of the circle told the children that the art of embroidery is one of the very ancient folk crafts.

Regular readers of the library took part in the circle: pupil of the 2nd “B” class of gymnasium №93 Korkem Erkin, Milana and Alina Tolchevy, the pupils of 2nd and 6th grades of secondary school №78  learned to embroider with beads. In the old days, such embroidery was used to decorate women’s hats, skullcaps, saukele and camisoles.

At the next lesson of the circle “Let’s speak Kazakh!” the children of the senior group of the kindergarten “Ayim” got acquainted with the new words of the Kazakh language on the theme “Spring”.
Using game technologies (quizzes, riddles), the head of the circle Zeykenova Zh. helped the children learn the main signs of the spring period.The children watched with interest and enthusiasm the educational video for preschoolers “Spring is coming ” and memorized new words and expressions.

On the eve of Defender of the Fatherland Day, the library hosted an online meeting with a police colonel, participant in the Afghan war, assistant head of the Karaganda Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan named after B. Beisenov, Toktabekov Sergali Zhumagululy.
Sergali Zhumagululy was drafted into the army in 1986. Served as deputy commander of a motorized rifle platoon in the Porvan province of Afghanistan.
Now the police colonel works at the Karaganda Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan as an assistant to the head of the academy for combat units.
During the dialogue, S. Toktabekov told about himself, his life path, how he became a participant in hostilities.
At the end of the event, our guest called on the young generation to love their Motherland, to protect it from the enemy, to be patriots of their country.

On the 6th of May , 2021, an awarding ceremony was held for the winners and participants of the city competition of theatrical performances “I will tell you about the war ” with the presentation of Diplomas and valuable gifts, the holding of which and the summing up of the results was postponed from 2020 to 2021 due to the epidemiological situation in the country at that time.
9 schools in our city – school №20, 34, 56, 85; School №17, Gymnasium №9 and Orphanage for children with disabilities and others presented theatrical performances, literary and literary-musical compositions to the jury members.
The jury members reviewed the works of the participants in online and offline formats and determined the winners of the competition:
Grand Prix – School № 34, for the production of “Kesteli Oramal”;
I place, school №20, for the literary composition “Bauyrzhan Momysh Uly”;
II place, school №85, for staging an excerpt from the story “Son of the Regiment” by V. Kataev;
III place, Gymnasium №9, for the literary and musical composition “Reading Terkin”.
The rest of the schools were awarded with letters of thanks and valuable prizes.
The jury of the competition highlighted three participants by establishing nominations with the presentation of Diplomas:
For “Best Actress” – Syzdykova Albina, a student of school №34;
For “Best male role” – Damir Sadvokasov, student of school №20;
For “Best episodic role” – Toktasyn Damira, a student of school №34.
A musical gift to the participants was the song “Katyusha”, performed by Islamgaziyeva Rusalina, and the choreographic group “Impulse”, Children’s Art School № 2 UNESCO Club.
All participants in the competition will be awarded with Diplomas within a month.

On May 5th in the library within the framework of the social regional project “Dad can do everything”, a round table “Family reading: a passing tradition and eternal value” was held under the auspices of the Year of Support for Children and Youth Reading in Kazakhstan. The event was moderated by the head of our library Uataeva B.K. The organizers of the event set out to discuss topical issues about the importance of reading in a family setting, about the reasons for today’s rejection of reading by a significant part of children and adults, as well as about finding opportunities for cooperation between various organizations to overcome this trend.
The participants of the round table meeting were the teacher of the philological faculty of the Karaganda University named after academician E.A. Boketov, associate professor, candidate of philological sciences Rustemova Zh.A .; methodologist of the Educational and Methodological Center of the Department of Education of the Karaganda region Zharkeeva G.B.; senior lecturer of the Karaganda branch of the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Zhanseitov A.T., senior lecturer of the Karaganda branch of the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Yermagambetov E.M., head of the innovation and methodological department of the library Zhusupova S. Zh .; head of the department of services for children of middle and senior school age of the library Podgainova M.N.
The invited guests the Eginbaev and Vasilechko families – the Winners in the “Reading Family” nominations of the “Reader’s Benefit” holiday in 2020, 2021, shared their reading experience.
The round table moderator managed to organize a lively, interested exchange of views on various aspects of the problem raised.
The common thread of all the speeches of the participants in the event sounded the assertion that it is possible to raise the prestige of children’s reading only with the active promotion of children’s reading, consistent, thoughtful cooperation of the family, preschool and school institutions, and children’s libraries.

On the eve of Defender of the Fatherland Day, the library hosted an online meeting with a police colonel, participant in the Afghan war, assistant head of the Karaganda Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan named after B. Beisenov, Toktabekov Sergali Zhumagululy.
Sergali Zhumagululy was drafted into the army in 1986. Served as deputy commander of a motorized rifle platoon in the Porvan province of Afghanistan.
Now the police colonel works at the Karaganda Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan as an assistant to the head of the academy for combat units.
During the dialogue, S. Toktabekov told about himself, his life path, how he became a participant in hostilities.
At the end of the event, our guest called on the young generation to love their Motherland, to protect it from the enemy, to be patriots of their country.

On the eve of the May holidays, the library was visited by children accompanied by social workers of the “Department of social assistance at home in the Kazybek bi district of the city of Karaganda” of the Department of Employment and Social Programs of the city of Karaganda.
On April 27, an educational lesson “National Unity – Friendship of the Peoples of Kazakhstan” was held for our guests. Librarians talked about the importance of preserving folk traditions, respect for the culture of people of different faiths and