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...

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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