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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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Week of Code!

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

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 ...

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...