Teacher Talks: Get Away @ Your Library

The Library Read Week Theme "Get Away @ Your Library" inspired librarians to offer irresistible activities. Both students and teachers were engaged in Teacher Talks - a lunch-long presentation about the experiences that teachers had while living abroad. The first-hand knowledge of living in Ethiopia, Japan, Nepal, and Cambodia as well as of cultural values, legends and folk tales were shared with the community during the Library Read Week of 2015. Listeners tasted ethnic food.

Niclas Thein presents on Ethiopia 

Ms. Daryn talks about Nepal.

Ms. Gardner shares her experience in Cambodia

Mr. Shappell and Ms. Shappell talk about Japan

Ms. Merav Grindlinger presents a Japanese legend 

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.