We’re on vacation. We hope you’ll take the time to catch up on your reading! Be sure to visit the library OPAC‘s Visual tab for recommended reading lists and online children book sites. If you have checked out books for the summer holiday, remember that they are due back on August 15, the first day [...]
Entries Tagged as '2010-2011'
Images, scholarly writing and news from around the world!
May 18th, 2011 · No Comments · General Topics
We have three amazing new sources of information available to the IST community. Britannica Image Quest Britannica Image Quest is a wealth of digital imagery searchable by category, collection or key word search. Each image is Getty Images, SuperStock, Science Photo Library, The Granger Collection and many many more. You can choose to download, email, [...]
Tags: 2010-2011·database·databases·imagequest·jstor·newsbank
Poem in Your Pocket
April 26th, 2011 · No Comments · General Topics
Mark your calendars! Poem in Your Pocket Day is on Friday, 29 April. Participating is very easy: Keep a poem in your pocket that day, and share it with everyone! Here are a few photos of our youngest students practicing sharing their poems. These nursery and kindergarten students are reading poems extracted from Hand Hand [...]
Happy Birthday, Emil
April 26th, 2011 · No Comments · General Topics
Happy birthday, Emil! We’re sorry it took us so long to write up the post. We hope you are enjoying Pelle the Conqueror. It is a Danish novel set at the turn of the century about a Swedish boy and his father who immigrate to Denmark. They do not have an easy life but they [...]
Tags: 2010-2011·birthday club·books
Poetry That Sticks!
April 16th, 2011 · 4 Comments · General Topics
April is Poetry Month and we’re off to a sticky start! See some examples of the poetry our community has been creating. Be sure to come to create more on our giant magnetic poetry board.
Happy birthday, Emilia!
March 28th, 2011 · No Comments · General Topics
Happy birthday to Emilia and thanks for the donation of Bitte Every Woman, by Martin Anderson Nexø. This is a three-part novel set in Denmark and follows the life of Ditte from childhood to adulthood. This novel was originally written in Danish. As the Birthday Book Club recipient, Emilia is the first to check out [...]
Tags: 2010-2011·birthday club
We Love Edheads!
March 19th, 2011 · No Comments · Elementary Topics
Grade 1 is currently studying simple machines as part of the PYP theme, How the world works. As for all PYP units, there are links to useful websites for this unit. One of the most fun is the Edheads Simple Machines activities, but Edheads has a bit for everyone. See how to get to Edheads [...]
Tags: 2010-2011·just plain fun·POI·recommended websites·tutorial
Double Birthday Month
March 17th, 2011 · No Comments · Elementary Topics
Congratulations and double thanks to two IST Birthday Book Club recipients! This month, Zak in grade 4 and Poppy in preK celebrated their birthdays in the last two weeks with donations to the IST library. The Birthday Book Club works like this: Parents sign up their children with a low fee of 150RMB. They state [...]
Tags: 2010-2011·birthday club
Panda Book Award Winners!
March 14th, 2011 · No Comments · General Topics
And the winners are….. for the Younger Readers category (nursery to grade 2) for the Middle Readers category (grades 3 to 6) [...]
Tags: 2010-2011·Panda Books
EasyBib Schools Edition
March 9th, 2011 · No Comments · General Topics
Many of you already use easybib.com to create MLA citations when you are doing research. Now, EasyBib is even more useful. Register Go to easybib.com from a computer at school and you will have the option to LOGIN or REGISTER. If you do not already have an account, choose REGISTER. Use your IST email address as [...]
