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Thursday, March 15, 2012

Scholastic Book Fair


We invite you to visit our Scholastic Book Fair and experience a celebration of reading that provides families the opportunity to get involved in a universal mission: encouraging kids to read every day so they can lead better lives.

Our Scholastic Book Fair theme – Book Fair Luau! It’s a Reading Celebration! – is part of an exciting reading event that brings to school a wonderful selection of fun, engaging, and affordable books kids want to read. Giving kids access to good books and the opportunity to choose their own books will motivate them to read more. And like most acquired skills, the more kids practice reading, the better they’ll get.

We are excited to announce that you will be able to purchase books online during this book fair. These purchases will also benefit our school. From March 28 through April 8, go to Indian Knoll's book fair website and follow the link at the bottom of the page to place an online order. All orders will be sent to the school after April 8. This is a wonderful opportunity for out-of-town relatives to purchase books for the children in their lives. You can write a personal note, and there is no shipping cost.

In addition to purchasing books for your home library, you may wish to consider adding titles to your child’s classroom library. Each teacher has made a wish list of books that will enrich classroom lessons and encourage classroom reading. You can view teachers’ wish lists when you visit the Book Fair.

Reading is vital to every child’s success, and raising kids as readers means getting involved while they’re young. Now is the time. Since there will never be a substitute for a parent’s direct involvement in his/her child’s education, please make plans to visit our Book Fair. We hope to see you there!

Book Fair Dates and Shopping Hours:
Friday, March 23: 7:30 AM – 2:30 P.M.
Monday, March 26: 7:30 AM – 2:30 PM
Tuesday, March 27: 7:30 AM – 7:30 PM (Visit us during Cultural Arts Night!)
Wednesday, March 28: 7:30 AM – 2:30 PM
Thursday, March 29: 7:30 AM – 6:00 PM (Visit us when you pick up your child from school!)
Wednesday, March 28 – Sunday, April 8: 24/7 online ordering



Use your smart phone’s QR code reader to view the Indian Knoll Scholastic Book Fair website!

Destiny Quest App


There is a new app for your smart phone or tablet that allows you to view your child’s library account. It is the Destiny Quest App. This is free and available for both Apple and Android devices. To get the app, visit your device’s app store and search for Destiny Quest. Setting up the app is very simple. All you need is the CCSD server address, which is: destiny.cherokee.k12.ga.us.

Then choose Indian Knoll. Your child will log in using his/her Student Network Login ID (which is also the AR login) as the user name and regular computer password as the password. Students must be logged in on a school computer before this will work at home. Please contact your child's teacher or the media specialist if you are unsure about this.

The app allows you to search for media center resources, discover the ten most popular titles and any new additions to the media center, and view account information, including current and past checkouts.

We use this app daily in the media center and find it to be extremely helpful in locating the books we want. I hope you enjoy using this very useful resource at home as well!