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 [...]
Entries Tagged as '2010-2011'
We Love Edheads!
March 19th, 2011 · No Comments · Elementary Topics
Tags: 2010-2011·just plain fun·POI·recommended websites·tutorials
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 [...]
Author Spotlight: Eric Carle
March 7th, 2011 · No Comments · Elementary Topics
One of my earliest school memories is sitting in Mrs. Gonzalez’s first grade classroom listening to her read Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle. My favorite part was hearing the words, “Teacher, teacher, what do you see? I see children looking at me!” The illustrations were [...]
Generous Donation of Korean Books
February 28th, 2011 · No Comments · General Topics
The IST library received a large donation of Korean language books last week. We thank Bo Kyeong and Do Won Kim for their generous donation. Please note that we cannot always incorporate donations into the library collection. Books that cannot be included with our general collection will be placed on the Swap Shelf outside [...]
Reading is Fun!
February 24th, 2011 · No Comments · General Topics
This is Jeremy Soulage, a French student in Gr. 9. Once finish reading the book La cité perdue de Z Jeremy would like to introduce it to more people as he really likes the story while it was not so easy for him to read though it is in French. This book is the French [...]
Tags: 2010-2011·Panda Books·reading·video
MYP happenings
February 24th, 2011 · No Comments · Secondary Topics
Grade 10 and the Personal Project There has been a flurry of activity in the library lately and yesterday afternoon at 4:30 marked the busiest moment yet! Grade 10 students hit their Personal Project deadline yesterday afternoon. Grade 10 students work frantically to meet the 4:30 deadline. The Personal Project is undertaken in the culminating [...]
Tags: 2010-2011·digitalstories·humanities·myp·personalproject·science
Panda Book Voting This Week
February 14th, 2011 · No Comments · General Topics
Time to vote! Voting on the Panda Book Awards starts today at IST and will continue throughout the week. The Panda Book Awards is an initiative started by a group of international schools in Beijing and by IST. The aim of the Panda Books is to promote reading for enjoyment and to build community. There [...]
Tags: 2010-2011·Events·Panda Books
New Books Just Hopped In!
February 9th, 2011 · No Comments · General Topics
Who doesn’t love the smell of new books? We certainly do and we’re excited to have received a new shipment of books just before the Year of the Rabbit. The books are on the shelves now and available for checkout. Come and see the new books. Stay and read a few. There is a wide [...]
