Battle of the Books Teams & More

The Battle of the Books Club took a test to determine student placement on teams.  There will be 3 teams of 5 to 6 sutdents that will compete on June 25th at 2:00pm in the Multipurpose rooms. 

All library books are due June 19th, parents, please help students find their overdue books.  Our Seven Continent Club is growing as more students are finishing their passports.  It is not too late to join.  For more information see the library's web site about the Seven Continent Club.

Students were also send home a summer reading log from Barnes & Noble.  Students that fill out the reading log and take it to Barnes and Noble will receive a free book.  They can then get another log from Barnes & Noble and continue read and get free books all summer.

Battle of the Books

Battle of the Books Club continue to meet during lunch.  Students need to have read at least 10 to 11 books by our meeting today.  On May 30, there will be a quiz to decide team placement.

Book Club Meetings & Exciting Events

Don't forget the K-2 & 3-5 Book Clubs meet this week.  K-2nd Grade will meet Thursday, March 14th at 8:00am and discuss Jumanji.  3rd through 5th Grade will discuss The Journey that Saved Curious George. We will then use Google Earth to follow the path the Rey's took to escape the Nazi's.

Discussion questions for both clubs are available on the website.

Congratulations to all the Storytellers at the Garner Storytelling Festival, I received many positive comments on how well they did.  Breakfast and a Book was also a big success with great attendance.  We hope that you have a great track out.  Remember you can still joing the Seven Continent Club, all you need to do is read, read, read!!!!  See the library website fore more details.

Culture Arts Night

The Specialists will be hosting Culture Arts Nights on Tuesday, February 12th 6:30-8:00pm.  All students are welcome to come and bring their family.  There will be 6 centers and students and parents will rotate with their grade level. The centers will include Storytelling, Musical Performances, Art project, Physical Education Activity, Spanish and a Technology Activity. 

Our Storytelling Club needs to meet in the library at 6:20. They will be performing for all grade levels so they will stay in the library for most rotations.  See you there. 

Denmark - Holidays Around the World

Here is a short video that shows an overview of some of the students experiences when they were traveling around Denmark using the new iPod Touches!

Students Travel to Denmark

Students have been traveling to Denmark to see how they celebrate the holidays.  Students have been using the library's new iPod Touches to scan QR codes.  

QR codes are placed around the library on displays about Denmark. For example when they scan the QR code by the Little Mermaid, it takes them to a video I created about how Hans Christian Andersen wrote the Little Mermaid and why it is important to Denmark. 

If they scan a QR code at the Lego store on the Copenhagen Stores, they will be linked to a video that tells them that Legos were created in Denmark and show them Legoland in Denmark.  Below is a rough video link overview of the project that I created for another grant.

Hope everyone has a Happy Holidays and we will see you in January!

Don't forget the Barnes & Noble Book Fair!

Don't forget the Barnes & Noble Book Fair is Tuesday night, December 4th in Cary (760 SE Maynard Road).  The Chorus and Storytelling Club will be performing.  Come shop for Christmas any time during the day - just tell them you are from Timber Drive Elementary and we get credit for books for the library.  Activity times are in the last blog and most of the activites are from 5:00-7:00pm. If you can't make it Dec. 4th, you can shop on line using the BookfairID # 10889392 and we will get credit from Dec. 4th-Dec.9th.
Hope to see you there.

Barnes & Noble Book Fair

Tuesday, December 4

Time: Shop all store hours

Tell them you are a Timber Drive  Shopper!

Barnes & Noble- Cary 760 SE Maynard Road

3:00pm-8:00pm –See the Timber Students’ Art Gallery

5:00pm – 6:00pm New Scavenger Hunt

5:30 Make a Bookmark

6:00pm  Hear Timber Drive Storytellers

6:30pm • Hear the Timber Drive Chorus

Taste the Timber Drive Special Drink!

Shop on line using Book Fair ID# 10889392

The library will receive 15% of instore purchases, 10% of online purchases.

Come support the Timber Drive Library

Storytelling & Book Fair

The Storytelling Club starts Tuesday, October 23 8:15am in the library.

The Bookfair class schedule is now available, click the link to the website, click under Book Fair.  It is not too late to volunteer for the book fair. We still need items for the raffle, red, white & blue plastic tablecloths, and patriotic decorations.

Please sign up to volunteer for the Book Fair

Parents,
The "Read, White & Blue Book Fair is coming!"  You should have received information about signing up to volunteer through the PTA newsletter.  Please feel free to send that in, but I am going to try something new this year.  I have created a volunteer link for the book fair through VolunteerSpot.com to try and make it easier.  This website is also suppose to send reminders out.  Please volunteers, the book fair cannot be successful if we do not have an abundance of volunteers.  Our book Fair Co-chairs this year are Donna Hayes and Angie Ellis.  The link below is if you want to volunteer through Volunteer Spot.

http://www.volunteerspot.com/login/entry/544170998019

Book Clubs & More

Parents & Students,
We had a great Orientation meeting for the Parent/Student Book Club.  If you missed the meeting, it is not too late to join.  Check out the library's webpage for information about the next meeting, book, and discussion questions. 

Battle of the Books is well under way. We currently have 47 members and we had an animated discussion about the books yesterday.  Students can still join if they wish.  They will need to have read 2 of the Battle books by our next meeting Sept. 27th.  Battle of the Books students are encouraged to keep a notebook with questions from the book and to take notes about the book after reading.  Students that did not have a notebook were given one yesterday.  Parents, you can help your child by reading a book aloud to them or checking out the audiobooks from the public library. More information is on the Timber library's website

Book Club Meets this Friday, August 24 - 8:00am Library

Don't forget the 1st Parent/Student Book Club meeting of the year this Friday, August 24th, 8:00am! No preparation is needed.  We will read the book and then we have an activity on the iPad.

 Discussion questions for the November Book Club meetings are posted on the library webpage now.

Introduction Meeting for K-2 & 3-5 Book Club

First meeting 8:00am on August 24th, in the library.  Parents and students are invited to come, we will be discussing the book Energy Island:  How One Community Harnessed the Wind and Changed Their World by Allan Drummond.  I will read the book aloud so that everyone can participate.   Jennifer Caraballo has volunteered to help coordinate refreshment for future book club meetings.  She will have sign up sheets available at the meeting.  Look forward to seeing you.

See the Timber Library's New Website!

Find out about the Parent/Student Book Clubs, Storytelling Club, Battle of the Books Clubs, Seven Continent Club, Book Fair and much more!  We are excited to have a new webiste.  Come visit us at http://timberdrivelibrary.weebly.com/

Dewey on vacation!!!

Dewey & I are excited to be back!  Thanks to the Deaton family who took Dewey on a nice vacation over track out!!!  We might have to change Dewey's name to Dewey Deaton Decimal!  We can't wait to have everyone come to library the first week for orientation.  Our orientation will cover HOWLing in the library and computer lab, library and computer lab procedures, internet safety and CHECKING OUT BOOKS!  YEAH!   Thanks again to the Deaton's for taking care of him and providing him with a new filter and supplies.  There is a library wishlist under my profile, but we always need Clorox Wipes and tissues.  Parents, you are welcome to volunteer in the library anytime.  We need help with shelving books, helping students check out, decorating, and much more. Welcome back!

2012-2013 Battle of the Books list

Here is the Battle of the Books list for students for the coming year.  Battle of the Books is open to all 4th and 5th graders.  Students meet during their lunch time in the library.  There are multiple copies of these books available in the library.  Students can listen to audio books from the public library as well.  We will meet about once every 3 weeks.  As the competition gets closer, we will meet more often.  Students will need to read the books from the list and take a test at some point during the year to show that they have read the books.  Students will receive a sign up form during orientation with more details.

North Carolina Elementary Battle of the Books List

2012 - 2013 Title	Author
A Dog’s Life: The Autobiography of a Stray	Ann M. Martin
Because of Winn-Dixie	Kate DiCamillo
Becoming Naomi Leόn	Pam Muñoz Ryan
*Found  - *The Missing Series - Book 1	Margaret Peterson Haddix
How to Steal a Dog	Barbara O'Connor
Lawn Boy	Gary Paulsen
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH	Robert C. O'Brien
The Mystery of the Lost Colony	Carole Marsh
Peace, Locomotion	Jacqueline Woodson
Poppy	Avi
Ruby Holler	Sharon Creech
Runaway Twin	Peg Kehret
Savvy	Ingrid Law
The Last Holiday Concert	Andrew Clements
The Lemonade War	Jacqueline Davies
Tuck Everlasting	Natalie Babbitt

I'm back!! Come see me in the library!

Hey everyone, this is my last day in Denmark and it rained, rained, and rained.

The Danish have a saying, "There is no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing choices."

We started the day at the National Museum.  It was absolutely fabulous.  I honestly thought it was better than some of the Smithsonian museums.  It was a great learning experiences.  They have whole classes come visit and they have a whole section set up as hands on exhibits for kids.  This room is set up as an old classroom.

If you remember Hans Christian Anderson's story, The Princess and the Pea.  The Prince's mother wants to test all the princes prospective brides to see if they are real princess.  She does this by putting a pea under a whole bunch of mattresses to see how the princess sleeps...

 Read the story in the library if you want to know the whole story, but in the end the prince puts the pea in his treasure room.  This is the pea that has been saved for several hundred years in the treasure room.

Students work together to build a brick wall in the children's museum.

In the afternoon, we went to Sweden on the train over the Oresund bridge.  We found out that it is Midsummer's Night.  Everyone wears a flower crown and they dance around a Maypole.  They eat Herring, potatoes, and a thickened cream.  This holiday is as big as Christmas. Almost everything in the town was closed except the train station.

Pippi Longstockings was born in Sweden.  We have several Pippi books in the library.  I was always jealous of Pippi who got to live by herself and had a very exciting life!

This is Malmo, Sweden.  It was only sprinkling at this point.

 Here is a Pippi Longstocking Statue and fountain.

The entire town has beautiful flowers in the same color as the girls' crown.  We tried to get a flower crown, but you have to order them ahead of time from the florist.

This is the castle in Malmo that we hiked through the pouring rain to see.  Notice the moat that went around the castle.  This was built around 1500.

We finally found an old fashioned windmill in the park. Windmills now are really wind turbines used to create electricity.  This windmill was probably used to pump water.

Well, I will be living Sweden tomorrow about 7:30am in about 7 hours.  We lose 6 hours flying home.  It will be Saturday night before I get home.  See everyone next week at school.

Hey everyone, we started the day with  a trip to the Vestforbraending Recycling & Waste Treatment Plant.  Notice the motto is, One man's trash is another man's treasure.  Denmark really thinks of the big picture and takes their role in the environment seriously.

Denmark recycles 70% of its garbage, 23% goes to the incinerator to create electricity to heat water for the city. and only 6% goes into the landfill.  If you wonder how Denmark achieved this, companies and citizens can recycle for free.  They then charge a fee per ton of garbage that can be incinerated and  an even high fee for garbage that must go to the landfill.

 As we toured the Waste Treatment Plant, we learned about the hidden cost of buying goods.  If you buy an iPad, the elements that go into that iPad have been around the world 8 times to be created.  What does that do to the environment?   Denmark is trying to get it citizens to think about how much is enough?

 Did you know how much you can help the environment by recycling?

 One ton of recycled aluminum saves 10 tons of CO2.  How - By using recycled aluminum we do not have to mine and use the many chemicals, and energy that is involved in creating aluminum.

 Denmark have really cool trashcans for recycling.  There is  a section for cans, paper, plastic and bottles.

 I would really like to challenge all of you to look at your garbage and see what you can do to recycle more and produce less garbage.

After this we went to the Science Center and Hostel in Soro to tour the camp and to learn what Denmark is doing to promote talent and innovation in science and to learn more about modern technology.

  

Denmark select about 2 gifted students from every classroom to go to Science Camp to learn more about innovation and creativity in science.  They are challenged and have use of some of the most amazing science equipment I have ever seen.

This is  3-D imaging equipment.  Students come several times over a  two to three year period to work on projects.

We got back to the Hotel late so several of us went to Tivoli Gardens for dinner and to see the oldest amusement park in the world.

The place was very beautiful.  We didn't ride any rides, because it cost too much, but the place was very beautiful.  They had a really cute Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale ride.  Most of the other rides were way too crazy for me.  Airplane that swung around upside down and swings 200 feet up in the air!

 Anyway, it is late so I hope everyone had a good day today.  Tomorrow, I am off to the National Museum and hopefully Sweden.