Language Diversity Day

In the galaxy of languages, every word is a star.  

To celebrate Language Diversity Day, February 21 2016, the Modern Language Department invites the community to participate in this event by creating stars related to different subject areas and in diverse languages spoken at AIS. Do this during the week of February 15-19. Student creations will be displayed in the library during the following week, which is Library Tech Week. 

You can start by creating a star with the meaning related to a discipline (a celestial body, an athlete, a graphic design, a movie star, etc.) and illustrate it. Add your creativity to express your idea. 

The diverse WBAIS community is invited to create a star and to write the word STAR in their native language.

Grade 5

Library collection of books in other languages

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.