According to Rosen publishers: Every article in the subscription database, Teen Health and Wellness Center now includes a Translation Widget in the upper right corner. Users can instantly translate any article into Spanish, French, Chinese, Russian, Korean, and more. (Haitian Creole will be available later this summer.) This should help all of our community of [...]
Entries Tagged as '2009-10'
Teen Health and Wellness Center
May 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Secondary Topics
Tags: 2009-10·databases·translation
Is It Endangered?
May 13th, 2010 · No Comments · Elementary Topics
Grade 2 is embarking on an inquiry into how we share the planet. They are focusing on endangered animals and were in the library earlier this week looking for books and websites about different animal species. Not all animals are endangered, thankfully. To know which animals are endangered, grade 2 students – and other animal [...]
Tags: 2009-10·screencast·unit of inquiry
End of Year …
May 13th, 2010 · No Comments · General Topics
Overdue notices were distributed this week. Please make sure library records are cleared. Students who do not clear their records will not receive reports. All returning students, who have cleared their records, are invited to check out books over the summer. And remember all databases are available throughout the summer too. We are nearing the [...]
More Books
May 12th, 2010 · No Comments · General Topics
This past week students received their book orders from Scholastic. Purchases enabled the library to receive several bonus books that have been added to the collection. Lisa has been busy adding titles to the collection. The following novels have been added into Reading Resource collection: The Japanese Ninja Surprise (Flat Stanley’s World Wide Adventure) 35 [...]
Scholastic Book Club orders have arrived
May 10th, 2010 · No Comments · General Topics
The Scholastic Book Club orders arrived on Friday. Elementary teachers have distributed the books to the students who ordered. Secondary students are invited to pick up their order at the library’s circulation desk. Please come see us at the library if you have any problems with your order. Thanks to the IST’s community participation in [...]
Tags: 2009-10
Monkey Business
May 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Elementary Topics
Grade one is working on one of my favorite units—The Stories Unit Their central idea is … We all use stories to share our ideas, feelings and what is important to each of us. I had the opportunity to be a guest storyteller and share one of my favorite stories that has been around since [...]
World Language Collections
May 10th, 2010 · No Comments · General Topics
In celebration of our growing World Language collections, (these collections can be viewed here ) be sure to visit our current display on Chinese new book arrivals for young people. We have consciously tried to purchase titles that can be read in multiple languages.
The 100 Books Club
April 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Elementary Topics
Congratulations to the 8 IST elementary students who have checked out 100 books or more this year. They will be given a badge like the one shown on this post and they will be the first to check out one of our latest batch of new books, especially chosen for each of them. The 100 [...]
Grade 8 WWW
April 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Secondary Topics
Grade 8 continues the documentation of their WWW trip. If you want to send them a comment, you can link here. On Wednesday, they climbed Tai Shan, feasted on tacos, and spent the night on the mountain.
Panda Reading List 2010-2011
April 28th, 2010 · No Comments · General Topics
FLASH announcement! The new PANDA reading list for 2010-2011 has just been announced. Twelve books have been selected for each category. For more details on each title you can link to LibraryThing. My Library at LibraryThing YOUNGER READERS PICTURE BOOKS 1. All the World by Liz Garton Scanlon 2. The Book that Eats People by [...]
Tags: 2009-10·Panda Books
