Thomas Dale High School Library

Students hope to bring holiday cheer to the troops by creating cards @ our Holiday Mail for Heroes event. It's not too late to send a card! Come by the library, & turn one in to our mailbox by 12/1!

Teentober is over, and Ms. Myers’s 4-odd and Ms. Smith’s 2-even read the most minutes at main campus! Fun was had by all at the donut and apple cider parties they won. Great job reading, Knights!!

Thanks to all our veterans! Have a great Veterans Day weekend!

Celebrating Native American Heritage Month, students got a preview of books by Native American authors and created and played some Native American games!

The first zen board of the year is complete! What do you see? 📷

The Day of the Dead is celebrated in Latin America each year on November 1st & 2nd. Sra. Walker’s Spanish 4 & 5 class created an ofrenda, a decorative tribute to someone special they’ve lost.

Student Book Club celebrates Halloween by competing in horror trivia, choosing horror books, and making boo bags.

Happy Halloween from your TDHS library team! After trick-or-treating, go read a booooooook!

Ready for a scare? At Fright Knight Time in the library, students previewed horror books, listened to ghostly tales, created horror stories, played Monster Mash Trivia, entered to win books & more!

It's back to summer! We celebrated our summer readers in the main campus library with snacks, prizes and book talk fun! Keep reading, TDHS, and log your minutes on Sunday for the Teentober Readathon!

Dozens of students registered to vote today in the main campus library! Ms. James, Deputy Registrar, was on hand to help us out. If you haven’t registered yet, you can still do it online at bit.ly/tdhsvote. You have to be 18 years old by November 7th.
Every vote counts!!

Mrs. Jones's English classes enjoyed a book tasting at the "Library Cafe". They "tasted" different genres and sampled new titles in an effort to find the book for them.

Sra. Walker’s Spanish 4 & 5 students studied and discussed different Hispanic & Latino artists’ self-portraits.

On Wednesday, they will use the makerspace to create their own self-portraits. Will they be more abstract like Picasso or more cultural like Kahlo? We can’t wait to see!

The Teentober Readathon has begun! Both main and west campus are rewarding a donut and apple cider party to the English classes with the most minutes read in October! Turn in your weekly minutes on Sunday to:
Main: bit.ly/teentober23
West: bit.ly/teentoberwest
Thomas Dale

In the mood for horror or fantasy? Saw Kristen Simmons & Lauren Blackwood. See their books as prizes in upcoming events. Don’t forget to turn in your summer reading bingo by 9/29!

September 22 is Hobbit Day! Students celebrated Bilbo and Frodo's birthday with a reading from The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien and a library hobbit adventure!

It's Batman Day Eve in the main library! Students celebrate the Dark Knight by learning about Batman's creators, checking out books, participating in trivia & games, & driving the Batmobile!

Let's Talk Books! Student Book Club held its 1st meeting for 2023-2024. We were excited to share our love of books, take a pic with favorites, & discuss ideas for this year!

Movie Trivia was our theme for Library Orientation at main this year! 9th and 10th graders visited different “theaters” to answer trivia questions and learn about the library. Then they created movie posters with the info they learned. Do you know what Maine town is the setting of “It” and other Stephen King stories? 🤡🎈

Math in the library! Ms. Smith's students used Gale databases, Discovery Ed and eMedia to find probability and statistics vocabulary words in context.

Checkout is in full swing in the TDHS library! Mr. Yeisley's class enjoyed some reading time in the library. It's a great day to check out a book!