Goth Girl Rising Trailer Contest!!!
Go to http://barrylyga.com/new/ggr-trailer-contest.html for details on this excellent contest.
Special programs for all ages
Thursday June 4 at Wister School at 1 pm Harmless T. Jester, master juggler and fire eater.
Tuesday June 9 at Wister School at 10 am Oklahoma City Zoo will present “Animal Orchestra”.
Bugbot parts list!
The Herbie Photovore
Parts needed for Bugbot
2 – Motors – can get from DVD player, cassette player, radio controlled car
1 – LM386 audio operational amplifier – can get from answering machine, computer modem or radio shack (#276-1731)
2 – Light sensors – can get from DVD, VCR, remotes, night lights or Radio shack
1 – 9-volt battery and battery connector – can get from toys, smoke alarms, alarm clocks
1 – Power switch – can get from radio controlled car, radio, anything with a sliding power switch
2 – Hose Clamps – can get from any hardware store (make sure they fit around the motors)
Body Frame Work – can get from thin flat metal, computer floppy drives, computer CD-rom drive case
1 – LED light any color
Optional Parts
1 – 5-volt Double-pole, Double-throw relay – can get from some VCRs, computer dial up modem
1 – Touch switch – can get from floppy drive, portable tape deck, and walkman
1 – 2n3904 or PN2222 transistor either will do fine most electronics, or radio shack or electronics store
1 – 10k Ohms resistor – can get from radio, DVD player, radio shack or other electronics store
1 – 10uf capacitor =10 micro Farads capacitor – can get from most electronics, or radio shack or electronics store
All parts can be picked up from most electronics store or found in most electronic equipment
Teen Summer Reading!!!!
Teen summer programs will be starting Saturday June 6 at 2:00 P.M.
On June 6, we are making a YouTube video.
On June 13, we are reconstructing t-shirts. Bring a t-shirt with you.
On June 20, we are altering hardcover books.
On June 27, we are making Bugbots / Junkbots. I will post the parts list separately.
Every Saturday at Noon we will have Wii Play.
D. N. Angel update!!!!!!
D. N. Angel volume 12 will be out August 2009 & D. N. Angel volume 13 will be out December 2009!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Recipe of the week: Homemade Oreos
2/3 cup of Crisco
1 box of Devil’s Food Cake Mix
2 eggs
1 tub of vanilla frosting (can buy in the cake mix section)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Mix Crisco, cake mix, and eggs with hands to form a cookie dough
Roll into balls the size of a quarter and place spaced out on cookie sheet
Bake at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes or until you see cracks in the top of the cookies
Let cool completely
Place a spoonful of frosting on the inside of one cookie and join it with the inside of another cookie to make your very own Homemade Oreos!
Recipe of the week: Salsa
1-23 oz can whole tomatoes
2 ½ tsp. garlic
1tsp. salt
3 whole jalapenos (pickled)
½ handful cilantro
Place all ingredients in blender and blend for about 2 minutes. Less blending will give you chunkier salsa.
Book of the week: The driving book
This outstanding guide covers important topics not mentioned in standard manuals such as automobile maintenance, getting gasoline, the differences between city and country driving, bad weather, the usefulness of cell phones in emergencies, and road rage. Plus this book tells you how to deal with peer pressure when you’re behind the wheel and how to tell your parents that you’ve had an accident.
Book of the week: The pocket guide to mischief
This book covers everything you need to know to pull the perfect prank (and even includes thoughts on how to beg forgiveness afterward). There’s information on classic practical jokes, mischief quizzes and tips on how to conduct a mischief duel.
Mischiefmakers can learn the basics– from putting a sprinkler under someone’s chair at a picnic, to how to handle a rubber chicken with ease. They’ll learn to trick their family with a glass of secretly frozen juice, host a rubberband chess duel, and instead of TP’ing someone’s house at night, sprinkle the lawn with instant potato flakes (the dew will puff them up).
Websites of the week: Origami- The art of paper folding
Origami, the Japanese name for the art of paper folding, comes from the Japanese verb oru (to fold) and the noun kami (paper). The word “origami” is now commonly used around the world. The only requirement for origami is a piece of paper, making it one of the most accessible arts. The basic technique of origami is folding, and many complex folds have been developed.
http://www.origami.as/home.html
You can also search origami in Google ,or another search engine, for more info.
Saturdays at the Library
Every Saturday is Movie & Wii day!!! Come join us at 9:30 for a movie and at Noon for Wii play! Games include Wii Sports, MarioKart, Wii Play, and Rock Band.
Book of the week: Scat
Scat by Carl Hiaasen
Hiaasen starts off this story—a hybrid madcap swamp adventure and cast-driven environmental whodunit—with the disappearance of a biology teacher after a fire breaks out during a field trip in the Everglades. The immediate suspect for the fire, at least, is a young miscreant, but friends Nick and Marta figure something else is afoot: it might have something to do with the nefarious oilmen slinking about nearby, as well as the rumor of an endangered panther and her cubs in the swamp. A generous cast of characters—each imbued with a few unexpected traits—flits about and provides most of the impetus to keep things rolling. Adding some emotional heft is the subplot involving Nick’s father; he returns home from Iraq minus his right arm, and Nick binds his own arm so that they can learn to become lefties together.
Book of the week: Total constant order
Total constant order by Crissa-Jean Chappell
Fin can’t stop counting. She’s always heard a voice inside her head, ordering her to listen, but ever since she’s moved to the Sunshine State and her parents split up, numbers thump like a metronome, rhythmically keeping things in control. When a new doctor introduces terms such as “clinical depression” and “OCD” and offers a prescription for medication, the chemical effects make Fin feel even more messed up. Until she meets Thayer, a doodling, rule-bending skater who buzzes to his own beat–and who might just understand Fin’s hunger to belong, and her struggle for total constant order.
Crissa-Jean Chappell’s candid and vividly told debut novel shares the story of a young teen’s experience with obsessive compulsive disorder and her remarkable resolve to find her own inner strength.
Book of the week: The Truth about Truman School
The Truth about Truman School by Dori Hillestad Butler
They just wanted to tell the truth. When Zebby and Amr create the website thetruthabouttruman.com, they want it to be honest. They want it to be about the real Truman Middle School, to say things that the school newspaper would never say, and to give everyone a chance to say what they want to say, too. But given the chance, some people will say anything-anything to hurt someone else. And when rumors about one popular student escalate to cruel new levels, it’s clear the truth about Truman School is more harrowing than anyone ever imagined.
Go to the Truth about Truman Website http://www.thetruthabouttruman.com/
Craft of the week: How to Make an Altered Book Safe
How to Make an Altered Book Safe
This craft project would make a cool homemade gift for mom, dad or teens. Choose the book with the recipient in mind – Dad may appreciate a book safe made from an old car manual or history book, while Mom would prefer to stash her cash in a sewing book or romance novel. If placed on a shelf with similar books, the altered book safe will fit right in and no one will ever guess its true purpose.
Caution:
Exacto knifes are VERY sharp. Although the instructions for this craft are relatively easy, it does involve deep cutting with an Exacto knife and may be dangerous for some people to do. Please proceed with this craft at your own risk.
# Supplies: Hard cover book of sufficient size
to allow a cut-out of 1/2″ to 1″ deep
# Exacto knife
# nail scissors or similar
# non-fraying fabric or felt for lining
# hot glue gun and glue sticks or strong craft glue
# scrap cardboard
# ruler
# pencil
Instructions:
1. If your book has a paper cover, remove it and replace it when you are finished making the book safe.
2. Open the book and decide how deep and how large you want the hollow opening. Measure and mark the width and height of this rectangle on a page that is at the depth that you have chosen, measuring the depth from the inside of the back cover. The cut side near the center of the book should be far enough from the center to allow use of the ruler as a straight edge for cutting; usually this means at least a ruler width away from the center line.
3. You may need to support the side of the open book that you are not cutting, so that the other pages lie flat as you work. If so, use another book placed under the open front cover to support it. You could also use a rubber band to hold the loose pages to the front cover and away from your work area.
4. Begin cutting with the Exacto knife, using the ruler as a straight edge on each side of the rectangle, cutting down through about a 1/4″ inch of pages. Take particular care with the corners to ensure each cut meets the cut that joins it.
5. Remove the cut out rectangle that you just created and discard. Use nail scissors if it is necessary to trim the sides straight.
6. Lay down the pages that now have an opening cut in them, and draw around the inside of this rectangle, on the page directly below, so that you may repeat the cuts exactly.
7. Repeat steps 4 to 6 until you reach the back cover. Place a piece of scrap cardboard inside the back cover as you work on the last section, to avoid scoring or cutting the back cover with the knife.
8. Cut fabric or felt to fit the bottom of your rectangle. Measure the depth, and cut one or more strips of fabric to this size, with enough length to cover all four sides of the rectangle.
9. With the glue gun, place enough hot glue in each corner of the rectangle and up the sides to secure the pages in place, forming your “book safe.” This will be covered by your fabric lining.
10. Use hot glue to secure the side strips of fabric all around the rectangle, being careful that the fabric does not extend anywhere above the opening or the book will not close properly.
11. Finally, use hot glue to fasten down the bottom lining fabric. Cut away any glue “strings” once the glue has cooled, and close the book. If you have one, replace the paper book cover. Your book safe is now ready to hide money, valuables or keepsakes in its secret compartment!
Recipe of the week: No Bake Cherry Cheese Cake Recipe
No Bake Cherry Cheese Cake Recipe
1 Can Sweetened Condensed Milk
1 8oz. package cream cheese
1/3 cup lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
1 graham cracker pie crust
1 can “pie filling” cherries
Blend sweetened condensed milk and cream cheese. Gradually blend in lemon juice and vanilla. Beat until firm. Pour into piecrust. Chill for 3 hours. Add chilled cherry topping.
Website of the Week!
Haven’t yet joined the Twilight craze? Well, the DVD releases next Tuesday, March 23 and the race will be on for those who haven’t yet seen the movie. Want a little info on the upcoming New Moon? Visit Stephenie Meyer’s site and look for links to what’s new in the world of teen vampires.
http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/index.html
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2009 Printz Award: Jellicoe Road
Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
“What do you want from me?” he asks. What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him. More.
Abandoned by her mother on Jellicoe Road when she was eleven, Taylor Markham, now seventeen, is finally being confronted with her past. But as the reluctant leader of her boarding school dorm, there isn’t a lot of time for introspection. And while Hannah, the closest adult Taylor has to family, has disappeared, Jonah Griggs is back in town, moody stares and all.
In this absorbing story by Melina Marchetta, nothing is as it seems and every clue leads to more questions as Taylor tries to work out the connection between her mother dumping her, Hannah finding her then and her sudden departure now, a mysterious stranger who once whispered something in her ear, a boy in her dreams, five kids who lived on Jellicoe Road eighteen years ago, and the maddening and magnetic Jonah Griggs, who knows her better than she thinks he does. If Taylor can put together the pieces of her past, she might just be able to change her future.
