Mallory Goetz

Come on Down to the Dewey Cafe!

December 16, 2014
This week in the Library, 4th grade students spent time in the Dewey Cafe -- where they applied their knowledge of the Dewey Decimal System and of how the library works by using a "cafe" setting.  Students dressed as either a customer who ordered a "meal" of books, a waiter who took the customer's order and searched for/picked it up from the shelves, or a chef who "cooked" the order by searching in our Destiny Quest library catalog.  All students inquired into and learned a little bit more about how to independently locate resources in the library and looked dashing in the process!
 
 
 
 
 

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Grade 2 Caldecott Winners

December 16, 2014

Caldecott Medal:

An award given to the illustrator with the best illustrations in a children’s book each year.

ISB Illustration Award:

After learning about the Caldecott Medal during their unit about How We Express Ourselves with Art, grade 2 students evaluated at least four Caldecott Medal or Caldecott Honor picture books.  Using a ballot, they chose which picture book to give their personal ISB Illustration Award.  Enjoy looking at the 2nd grade winners for best picture book art!

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Week of Code!

December 16, 2014
Week of Code
 
This week the ISB joined 5 million students around the world in celebrating Computer Science Education Week by taking part in their Hour of Code initiative.  Hour of Code promotes students learning coding basics in fun ways for 1 hour during the past week.  Why learn coding? Computer coding and programming are a skill necessary to creating new technologies, to innovation in our increasingly technological world, and are the basis of being able to work in the 1.4 million computing ...

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Author David J. Smith Visits !

December 16, 2014
This week author, David Smith, joined us at ISB!  On Monday, Mr. Smith talked about his book If the World Were a Village and the interesting, unanswerable questions about the world with the Lower School.  How many countries are there?  How many people in the world?  We explored the idea that no one really knows!  With the Upper School, Mr. Smith gave a talk on Borders and Boundaries in our world -- about how they should be a simple concept, but in reality are much more complicated than that!
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Grade 2 Extreme (Food) Weather

December 16, 2014
Juice Rain Floods Town!  Macaroni Hail Crushes School!
 
2nd grade read the picture book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barnett and then used their knowledge from the weather unit, combined it with their imagination and became weather reporters for the Chewandswallow Chronicle newspaper!  Students spent time brainstorming what types of real weather could be substituted by food, what disasters might stem from that, and then wrote a newspaper article about the food weather disaster!  S...

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Grade 3 Google Earth

December 16, 2014
Let's Go Places!
3rd grade furthered their work, with the How the World Works unit, in the Library by using Google Earth.  Students were asked to "go" different places on earth and explore the landforms found there.  As they worked, exclamations of, "I'm in Sweden!," "I'm at the South Sea!," "Where are you? I'm on top of Mount Everest!," or "Help, I'm lost in the hills of Ohio!" were heard.
 
 

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Grade 5 Bad Apples!

December 16, 2014
Research Wisely!
The past few weeks, 5th grade students have been researching famous people for their biography project.  In library class, students looked at what sources of information were good or not-so-good by evaluating them using a checklist and the "Bad Apple" activity.  Students are now researching away using only trustworthy sources; including the library's subscription to the National Geographic database[username: ISB; password: library].
 
 
 


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Grade 5 Research Unit

December 16, 2014
Grade 5 is starting their Library Research Unit in preparation for the PYP Exhibition!

In order to be prepared for the work with the exhibition this year, 5th grade will be honing their research skills. they started by taking the TRAILS Information Skills test to see what they already knew about researching.  Then, we will look at what skills we need to work on based on the test.  Here, in the picture below, you can see 5th graders having a Silent Conversation about what they think it means to...
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