06/11/2026
Log your reading in Beanstack and you could win prizes for YOU and for TBK8! 🇺🇸 📚 ❤️🤍💙
🇺🇸 Celebrate America’s 250th birthday with the Read, White & Blue Summer Reading Challenge! Log reading minutes in Beanstack from May 25 to August 3, completing Bingo activities and earning badges. Read ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, print books, and more.
Student Prize: Finish your Bingo card to enter for a chance to win a personal library book pack and $500 for your school library.
School Prize: The schools with the highest participation will win an author visit from Greg Neri.
All HCPS students and teachers are enrolled. Visit the HCPS Hub and click the Beanstack icon to start: http://hub.hcps.net/! Winners announced the week of August 17. 📚
06/10/2026
🖍️✂️📝Who has ordered SCHOOL SUPPLIES FOR 2026-27? You can order thru the 1st Day School Supplies store and items are delivered to school for you and your student in August.
🔗 Order here https://1stdayschoolsupplies.com/gs/26392
🛒Or, families that wish to purchase supplies on their own can use our school supply list on the TBK8 wepage here >>> https://hillsboroughcountypsfl.sites.thrillshare.com/o/turnerbartels/
06/09/2026
TBK8 is a Summer Breakspot location! The Lower Campus Cafeteria is a location for FREE summer meals for Hillsborough County kids and teens. Breakfast hours are 7:30am-9:00am and lunch hours are 10:00am-12:00pm. Check the link below for FAQs. 🍎🥕🧇🥗🌯
https://www.summerbreakspot.org/about/
06/08/2026
❗️Calling our 2026-27 6th graders ❗️We want YOU at our Summer Bridge Camp! Meet the 6th grade teachers, tour the middle school campus spots and participate in team building activities. So fun! Secure your spot below for the July 21 & July 22 6th grade event.
Sign up below. ⬇️⏬️⤵️
https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=-f2oEP_CDU6cGR_iwYgWSmhUVsecA2BArl50mnMotmpUNUdERElJSDRWSzRQRTVLQVhVNVVEWk81RS4u&route=shorturl
06/05/2026
☀️ 🍕🥠 📚Who likes FREE FOOD? Pizza Hut! Panda Express!
Summer 2026 reading incentives have officially begun! Students that track their summer reading can earn free yummies from Pizza Hut and Panda Express this summer. Reading material can be any type: myON book, other e-book, book from your home library, book borrowed from the public library, magazines, travel brochures...anything that gets your child reading and engaged this summer!
Find more contest details at https://www.bookitprogram.com/ and https://community.pandaexpress.com/read-with-me
Find out more about all the summer reading contests at our TBK8 webpage >>> https://hillsboroughcountypsfl.sites.thrillshare.com/o/turnerbartels
Happy Reading and Bon Appetit!
06/04/2026
☀️ ⚽️ 📚Where are the Rowdies fans? Today’s Summer Reading focus is the Score Through Stories summer reading incentive! ☀️ ⚽️ 📚
The 2026 Score Through Stories summer reading incentive has officially begun! Any student that reads for 5 hours over the summer can earn 2 FREE TICKETS to a Rowdies game! And other fun Rowdies gear along the way to. Reading material can be any type: myON book, other e-book, book from your home library, book borrowed from the public library, magazines, travel brochures...anything that gets your child reading and engaged this summer!
Find more contest details at https://www.rowdiessoccer.com/score-through-stories/
06/03/2026
☀️ ⚾️ 📚Calling Rays fans! Today’s Summer Reading focus is the Reading with the Rays summer incentive! ☀️ ⚾️ 📚
The 2026 Reading with the Rays summer reading incentive has officially begun! Any student that reads for 24 hours over the summer can earn 2 FREE TICKETS to a Rays game! And other Rays gear along the way to their 24 hours of reading. Reading material can be any type: myON book, other e-book, book from your home library, book borrowed from the public library, magazines, travel brochures...anything that gets your child reading and engaged this summer!
Find more contest details athttps://mktg.mlbstatic.com/rays/documents/y2026/Reading_with_the_Rays_Game_Card.pdf