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Come on Down to the Dewey Cafe!

Posted by Mallory Goetz on Tuesday, December 16, 2014, In : Reading

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 ab...

Grade 2 Caldecott Winners

Posted by Mallory Goetz on Tuesday, December 16, 2014, In : Reading

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 2^nd grade winners for best picture book art!

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Author David J. Smith Visits !

Posted by Mallory Goetz on Tuesday, December 16, 2014, In : Reading

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

Posted by Mallory Goetz on Tuesday, December 16, 2014, In : Reading

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...