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. 

Library Tech Week 2009

You can't go wrong with the Where the Wild Things Are theme!

Elementary students

Elementary classes came to the library prepared. Each grade brought their own Wild Thing to present us their creativity.

Kids appreciated teachers and administrators reading their favorite books at every lunch during the whole week.

Technology inspired us to participate in a global collaborative project. Kids built digital books with students from other NESA schools with Storybird.com.

Middle and High School

Secondary students appreciated reading and library services at Library Tech Cafe that was opened the whole week for Middle and High school students in the library hall. Everyone could spend here their lunch and free period reading, playing chess and computer games or talking to their friends.

One of the distinguished activities during the week was a meeting of a HS book club students to discuss Book Thief by Marcus Zusak. Ms. Rose (Aviva Rosenzweig) was amazing at leading the conversation.

Do you want to see students in action?