Reveal Your Summer Reading

Summer Reading Chain is growing every day. It's already a half way through the library inner glass wall.  The chain demonstrates how much reading was done this summer by everyone from the WBAIS community.

We encourage every student, parent, and staff member to contribute to the activity by writing a title of each book they read this summer on a strip of colored paper and staple it to the Summer Reading Chain in the library.

Library kicks off the new school year: Sharing Summer Reads

What can be better than sharing book discoveries with friends and colleagues? In the week before students came to school, teachers got together to discuss books they were fascinated with over this summer. Everyone feels that conversations like this unlock the enjoyment of reading and contribute to professional growth. Can't wait to meet again!

Three things I liked about last week

• The anticipation of seeing new books in August and the excitement from breathing in their scent that sets your mood on new adventures and learning, helped me through the process of allocating money for them for next year.

• Ilana's Book Club with Brownies gathered its members around Into This Air by Jon Krakauer. It was a special time to share our personal reactions to Jon Krakauer's detailed description of the disastrous ascend and descend of the Mount Everest.

• For the first time at WBAIS, we celebrated our multicultural community and its linguistic  diversity. Students decorated posters with words in their native languages. 35 languages that our students speak at home are: Afrikans, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Gujarati, Guarani, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu,Thai, Turkish and Ukrainian.

We are going to use these colorful posters during Library Tech Week  that starts next week. Students will continue practice their mother tongue languages in Language Diversity Booth.