by Library | Jan 16, 2015 | Class resources, Library News
Grade 1 is investigating challenges and how we overcome them. In the library yesterday at Hisar Mrs Paze and I read the book “Hands and Hearts” by Donna Jo Napoli. Donna Jo will be with our school in March as our first ever writer in residence. Hands and Hearts is about a mother and daughter’s day at the beach. Together the play and talk – only they use sign language to talk. Donna Jo has included 15 signs in her book and yesterday we tried to learn some of the signs. We also tried to find the sign for “read”. Here is a link to the American Sign Language website to find the sign for “read”
The students loved learning sign language and discussed how people who are born deaf might learn how to talk using sign language. Below are some photos of one of our students who joined us after the story had been read – he is reading it himself and trying out the signs.
by Library | Jan 14, 2015 | Class resources, Library News
Grade 6 Resources for Philosopher information
Places to look to help you find three different sources of information about your philosopher.
- Destiny Quest: https://iics.follettdestiny.com Your own username and password to log in.
Search for the philosopher name in the find box and then click on the “Web site” tab. You can filter the results to your grade level. You will find websites about your person.
To cite the website you can put the website in a resource list and then make a citation from the list.
- Encyclopedia Britannica online: http://school.eb.co.uk/ Username: istanbulics Password: Britannica
Select Intermediate level or Beginner depending on your level of English then put the philosopher name in the find box
You will find articles, video and photographs. To cite the article or video look for the cite button.
- EBSCOhost: http://search.ebscohost.com/ Username: s4091389 Password: password
Once in the main screen select Searchasaurus. Put your philosopher name in the find box. You will find newspaper and magazine articles.
Click on the article you want to read. Click on the “HTML” and at the top of the page is the citation information.
- Watch Know Learn: http://www.watchknowlearn.org/ No log on necessary. These are videos found by teachers. Use the search box and put in your philosopher’s name. Be careful with the results as there will be some videos that are for senior high school. Each record has the age of the students for whom it will be useful. Teachers rate these in terms of helpfulness.
To cite copy and paste the url.
WHY are your citing your sources?
So your teachers can see that you have used – a website, an article, an encyclopedia entry, a video.
HOW can you cite your sources? Easybib add on in Google Docs
by Library | Jan 9, 2015 | Library News
Thank you to all the students who purchased books with the Greenhouse Scholastic Book Club earlier this year. Today the books we chose from the credit you earned for the library arrived. 70 books – half for Marmara and half for Hisar and an additional 16 books for a special event with grades 5 and 6.
Happy Librarians with new books
by Library | Jan 8, 2015 | Library News, Literacies
With another snow day you may be looking for more things to read – why not log in to Destiny and start to add books to your shelves?
Destiny Quest
You can use the find box to find books you have read, you can use “My Info” tab to add the books you are reading now and you can look at what your friends are reading and their recommendations and add the to your want to read shelves. This is a great way to keep track of what you have read and would like to read.
You can add recommendations and reviews. Here is a short video on how to use shelves and write reviews of books you have read on Destiny.
by Library | Jan 7, 2015 | Library News
With snow days some of our students may well finish the books they have borrowed from the library. we do have some great collections available online. One is Tumblebooks – this is a subscription website so requires a username and password. Our school username is: istanbul and the password is books. This website is for our primary school students.
Tumblebook Cloud
Tumblebooks
Tumblebook cloud has ebooks for Secondary students and better readers. In this collection are Shakespearean plays, graphic novels and books in French. Our username is: istanbul and the password is: login. We also have audiobooks available through Tumblebook’s Audio Book Cloud same username and password at the Tumblebook Cloud. In this collection are audio books in Spanish
Enjoy these book and keep warm.
by Library | Jan 6, 2015 | Library News, Library reports, Uncategorized
Library report November and December 2014
Successes
International Language Story Reading (Any suggestions for a better name for this?) We held this event just before International Day – Thursday at Marmara and Friday at Hisar. This year we tried to have secondary students reading to the primary students. This did work well but once again our resources are limited. I am still trying to work on finding a way to develop the International Languages Sections of the library. Thanks so much to all my primary colleagues who hosted and at times read in the sessions. Our librarians, Maria and Ozlem were reading in Swedish and Turkish respectively.
Extended Homeroom sessions with grade 7 and 8 The students in these grades have completed a light introduction to using the library and Destiny. They also have had a holiday reading selection time – Thursday before the Winter break we had grade 8 mingling with EY3/4 finding the books they wanted to read over the break. Thanks to the homeroom teachers of grades 7 and 8 for taking the time to be with us.
Greenhouse Book Fair and Book Club Thanks to the PTA our students are buying their own books through Greenhouse Bookshop. So much money was raised in this first part of the year that we have been able to purchase some new titles for the library and begin our book selection for a future “Battle of the Books”
Challenges and Opportunities
Coming events: January Author visit – Anna Wilson – and launch of Battle of the Books
February Love reading week.
March Writer in residence – Donna Jo Napoli
Author visit to Marmara Primary – Anna Wilson will be with us at the Marmara Campus on Friday 23 January. She will be working with EY5 – grade 3 in the morning and then with upper primary students in a writers workshop in the afternoon.
Battle of the Books – well a skirmish. I promised to keep you posted. We have selected some titles and will trial this when the titles ordered start to arrive. Many of the titles are coming through Greenhouse Bookshop. I offered this as an option for exploratory for middle school – but no one selected it so it looks like this will be a grade 5 and 6 event.
Possible move to new location Thank you for the opportunity to be involved in the workshop with the architects. I have also visited Robert College’s brand new library. They redesigned and refurbished their old library. It is truly impressive. My goal for January is to create a vision document about the future of the libraries at IICS.
Orders this is a big job for the library and the form changes every year. I will work with John in the new year to see if there is any way we can improve the system and the forms involved. This year the Google doc did not print out well.
Statistics Ozlem has started to gather circulation statistics for the library we are already well up on borrowing for this year. I will analyse the data and write more in the January report.
Inspirational quote for this season
“Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it’s much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!”
― Neil Gaiman
Amanda Bond
Teacher Librarian
