Dress up as a book character
Story lunchtimes during Love Reading Week
For our Love Reading Week everyday we had wonderful storytellers come and read for our students at lunch time. At 12 o’clock everyday we had a teacher come and read to students. At 1pm we had students from the High School speech debate group come and read to their friends.
Mr. Rendon reading a story to student at lunch time.
Mr. Murphy reading to student at lunch time.
Student loves storytime.
Ms. Waters reading her book to the student.
Fun time.
Ms. Waters read the book called Bebek of the Bosphorus.
Student from HS Speech and Debate
Student from HS speech and debate.
Student from HS Speech and Debate
Wonder Wall for our Love Reading Week
Our wonder wall for our love reading week.
Student answering the question.
What is your favourite book?
Student answering the question.
Put down the answers.
All the answers.
More answers.
Love Reading Week With Ree Gillett
Visiting author, Ree Gillett and Freddy Frog visiting Marmara campus today.
Ree and our librarians at Marmara campus.
Meet Ree and Hailey hedgehog.
Students enjoyed Ree telling a story.
A little help from our students.
Flying a kite.
Time to meet Freddy Forg.
Looking at people's book trailers
Grades 4O and 4M are looking at book trailers. To develop our own rubric for judging our book trailers we looked at the book trailers below asking what are the strengths of this book trailer and what are the weaknesses?
Love Reading Week is coming – and so is author Ree Gillett
Love Reading Week will be held 11 – 15th February. We are very fortunate to have writer Ree Gillett come to our school. She will be with Marmara Students (PS to grade 4) on Monday 11th February and with Hisar students on Tuesday 12th February. Ree writes the Ferndale Tales with characters Freddy Frog, Hailey Hedgehog, Chester Chipmunk, Michael Mole and three little mice who live deep in a wood (forest). Ree will be bringing Freddy Frog with her and reading from her book Freddy Frog and the lost kite. She is writing a new book in this series and will speak to our students about this too.
Our students can purchase a copy of Ree’s book Freddy Frog and the lost kite just bring 10 Euro or 24 TL to the library before Tuesday 5 February.
Ree Gillett with her book and Freddy Frog
Freddy and Hailey
Our library on your mobile…
All students, staff and families can download the Destiny Quest App in Apple and Android systems.
To activate the app once you have downloaded it you will need to enter our school’s catalogue address which is https://iics.follettdestiny.com Then you will need to enter your username and password. Don’t have one or can’t remember it? Ask one of our librarians for help.
Now you can browse our catalogue for the books we have in our library. You can place holds, look at our new books, almost all the things you can do on a computer with Destiny Quest you can do with your mobile device. ENJOY
Grade 8 Humanities – using Quick Reference and EBSCO for research
When completing research for any subject don’t forget to start with the resources in your library – log in to Destiny and see what books are available.
Quick Reference Section – Encyclopedia, Dictionary, Atlases
One area that you may not be used to using is the Quick Reference Section. The encyclopedias here can provide some very useful information. It is best when using an encyclopedia to go to the last volume first – the index volume and search for your topic there. The index will let you know which volumes and page numbers to go to for information on your topic.
Our online encyclopedia Encyclopedia Britannica may also provide useful information as well. Password information is available in the library and on the library pages in your student planner. Choose your search terms carefully – here I used “Imperialism Nigeria” to find some useful information.
EBSCO is a collection of online periodicals and journals and is useful to more in-depth research Username and password information is available in the library and on the library pages in your student planner. When you log in select the database called EBSCOhost Research Databases. Before you enter your search words you will need to select which databases you are interested in – I suggest Advanced Placement Source, Funk and Wagnells New World Encyclopedia, MAS Ultra – School Edition, Middle Search Plus and TOPICsearch.
Click continue and then add your search words. I suggest for this assignment you write “Country History Imperialism” so if you are researching Nigeria your search will be “Nigeria History Imperialism“.
Once you have your search results you should further refine them to Full Text only then the articles you get will be able to be downloaded and saved to be read later. See the gallery below to see the screen shots of the process described. Mrs Bond and Mr Johnson can help you use this great research tool.
EBSCO home page
Choose Full Text to get complete articles.
Select which databases you require – click continue
Read books online in your own language
The International Children’s Digital Library has books online in many languages including English, Turkish, Korean, German, Spanish, Hebrew, Persian/Farsi, Portuguese, Thai and many more. It is FREE to join this library and you can enjoy their collection using any kind of computer.
Why not read a book together with the whole family today?
E-books available anytime – anywhere – anyhow
Your library has ebooks available for loan right now. All you need to do is log on to Destiny using your username and password. In the find box write “ebooks” and all our ebook collection will appear. You can look at the ebook online and see if it is a good book for you. If it is then you can download it and read it on any computer. Below is the ‘Slide into reading’ display- a cold winter’s day is a good time to slide into a good book.
