The Indus School library will be transformed into a holiday bookstore during the week of Dec. 8-12, as the Scholastic Holiday Book Fair comes to Indus.
A variety of books and gift items for everyone’s gift list will be available. Hndreds of books from new and favorite authors, popular series, cool posters, and school supplies will be featured.
Hours are from 8:15 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, and from 8:15 to 8 Thursday, to enable students and parents to visit the library before and after the annual Christmas concert.
Parents are always welcome and encouraged to visit the library.
Falls Elementary School November Birthday Bookshelf members include, Benjamin Farmer, Parker Olson, Madalynn Saxton, Olaf Lindquist, Ashlynn McBride and Hunter Holler.
Holger Olesen and Bert Dahl discuss the pros and cons of their tablet stands made with recycled Legos, as Indus technology coordinator Dianne Tillman tries the stands out.
Indus technology coordinator Dianne Tillman is impressed with the simplicity of the bookend-and-clips stand featured by Anthony Vollrath, which could easily be a “do-it-yourself” project.
Family and Consumer Sciences students in the Single Survival class at Indus School recently learned about starting a micro business from a video by Carol Topp, a certified public accountant who has helped many teen entrepreneurs to be successful.
Following up on this introduction, students developed a business and marketing plan and created nine prototypes of iPad or tablet stands made from simple materials such as fabric, cardboard, Legos, corks, bookends and clips, duct tape rolls, etc.
As a class, they debated the pros and cons of each option. Then, they enlisted a pilot group of staff members to evaluate the options and help to choose the most marketable item and its potential selling price.
Based on this information, students created more collapsible fabric stands which will be sold locally to interested customers around school and at a holiday bazaar.
This simulation of developing, marketing, and selling a product introduced students to basic steps in creating a successful business, according to Indus instructor, Lois Lewis. The students also learned about design and engineering during this unit.
