Library News: Library Lunches, New Books, The Genius Bar, New Parent Library/Tech Moodle Page and Library Read Week Interviews!
Library Lunches have begun!
Third grade Library Lunch is on Monday, Sept. 22, and fourth graders have theirs on Tuesday, Sept. 30.
If your child would like to participate, then please email me, at ilocker@wbais.net by the afternoon before your child's lunch. Indicate whether your child will be bringing a (cold) lunch from home or will order from the cafeteria (either pizza, a tuna or cheese sandwich. The lunch is 20 shekels and comes with a drink and some fruit). I hope to see your children there!
New Books are here!
We have been working hard all week to get our new book order processed and on the shelves! The task is now done so come by and have a look! While you're here, don't forget to get a family membership to the library, entitling you to check out 8 books, in addition to what your children check out. New Library/Tech Moodle page for Parents!
We have created a new Moodle Library/Tech page just for parents! Scroll down the Community Portals menu and click on Library & Tech for Parents!
You will have to click Enrol to see the page. We will continuously update it so check back frequently!
The Genius Bar
If you’ve been to the library this school year, you may have noticed we have some new furniture in the back – high tables with stools. This is our designated “Genius Bar,” where high school students associated with the “Bridge” program will be available during the day to help our community with technology. Parents are also welcome to make use of our students’ expertise. The staffing timetable varies daily because of the nature of the high school schedule, but there should always be a student there every day from 10 – 10:45 am. The full timetable can be viewed here. See you at the Genius Bar! Tech Lunch at the Genius Bar
If you know Mr. Whalen, Ms. Sadovnik, Mr.s Veldkamp and Mr. Beasley only as your favorite teachers and library assistants, you miss a lot!
In preparation for Library Read Week, we are asking everyone to participate in our 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Interview! at http://bit.ly/1Bd2UTG. This week several avid readers shared their reading habits and gave valuable advice to others as well.
Here's how it works:
In preparation for Library Read Week, we are asking everyone to participate in our 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Interview! at http://bit.ly/1Bd2UTG. This week several avid readers shared their reading habits and gave valuable advice to others as well.
Here's how it works:
There are five questions. You answer one question with five sentences, one question with four sentences, one with three, one with two and one question with one sentence.
Mr. Whalen's interview is below and you can read others at http://bit.ly/YUUp27.
Mr. Whalen's interview is below and you can read others at http://bit.ly/YUUp27.
We will also have new interviews posted each week until Library Read Week!
Mr. Whalen:
1. How would you describe yourself as a reader?
I tend to be eclectic and random when choosing a book to read.
I tend to be eclectic and random when choosing a book to read.
2. What is your favorite genre?
If an author is good in what he or she write, I will enjoy that genre. Yet, as a general habit, I am drawn to political and espionage stories.
If an author is good in what he or she write, I will enjoy that genre. Yet, as a general habit, I am drawn to political and espionage stories.
3. What is the hardest thing for you to do as a reader?
Finding time, or making the time to read can be difficult. As well, the pace and evolution of technology has interfered with so much distraction and “noise,” reducing even more, the interrupted time to read. When the book is good, bad things happen in the kitchen and people go hungry.
Finding time, or making the time to read can be difficult. As well, the pace and evolution of technology has interfered with so much distraction and “noise,” reducing even more, the interrupted time to read. When the book is good, bad things happen in the kitchen and people go hungry.
4. If you could live in one of the books, what book would it be?
The world of Harry Potter and the magical, yet dangerous, world of Hogwarts fascinates me. The setting is both believable and complex; as the story straddles the mundane everyday world we live in with the dark world of evil and power. Ahh, to sit in a Professor Snape classroom next to Hermione and Harry as Ron messes up, yet again, would be a delight. Finally, who could resists taking a pitch and shooting across the skies in a rambunctious game of Quidditch?
The world of Harry Potter and the magical, yet dangerous, world of Hogwarts fascinates me. The setting is both believable and complex; as the story straddles the mundane everyday world we live in with the dark world of evil and power. Ahh, to sit in a Professor Snape classroom next to Hermione and Harry as Ron messes up, yet again, would be a delight. Finally, who could resists taking a pitch and shooting across the skies in a rambunctious game of Quidditch?
5. What can you recommend to our readers?
The recent resurgence of the cinematic Sherlock Holmes suggests young readers today may want to read some of the original Holmes stories by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. Harper Lee’s only published story, To Kill a Mockingbird, gives a poignant view of American family life, moral and radical tension in the deep South of the early 20th c. Any James Lee Burke police detective novel is worthwhile, given the vivid, graphic characters and narratives. Finally, a collection of Calvin and Hobbes comic strips by Bill Watterson (sadly retired) gives more insight into life, love, school and friendship than most serious books on the subject.
The recent resurgence of the cinematic Sherlock Holmes suggests young readers today may want to read some of the original Holmes stories by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. Harper Lee’s only published story, To Kill a Mockingbird, gives a poignant view of American family life, moral and radical tension in the deep South of the early 20th c. Any James Lee Burke police detective novel is worthwhile, given the vivid, graphic characters and narratives. Finally, a collection of Calvin and Hobbes comic strips by Bill Watterson (sadly retired) gives more insight into life, love, school and friendship than most serious books on the subject.
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