Here are a few posters I made for our Grade 6 social studies classes to read around ancient lives. Our G6 curriculum is pretty heavy on the ancient civilizations - moving from the IB / MYP system it's the first time I've seen the American Curriculum in full force with a text book and doing … Continue reading #DecDisplays – Ancient lives
Kind of following on the post about teens yesterday, here is a poster of nonfiction and fiction books around social media, one of the obsessions of most (young) people today. Our G8 social studies class looked into social media as part of their identity unit, and one of my displays this year was fiction and … Continue reading #DecDisplays – Social Media
Most educators, parents, adults would agree that this is a really hard time to be a teenager. When my own children were teens I kept reminding myself that they were at the chrysalis stage, in process of becoming beautiful butterflies and that everything, particularly in their brains was in the mush of reconstituting itself. Today's … Continue reading #DecDisplays – the chrysalis years
After the debut of my "read around" posters for sciences, our Drama teacher request to have some for music and drama. She's one of my "best" middle grade / YA readers and has read so many of the books on our core lists, including many of the sequels to the books. It's truly a fantastic … Continue reading #DecDisplays – Music and Drama
One of the fun things about chatting to students about what they want to read when a book is out and they "need it" is what aspect of the book appeals to them. Towards the end of the last school term I had a bunch of historical fiction books out on display following our G8 … Continue reading #DecDisplays – The spies we love
Following on from Friday's post, here are 4 posters for Grade 8 / 13 year olds - the G8 protagonists poster, our G8 core collection selection, the same for Year 9 at Tanglin Trust School (thanks Katie Day) and Oberoi International School's OIS Reads! Middle Grade poster (thanks Sarah Ducharme). By Nadine Bailey – middle … Continue reading #DecDisplays – Grade 8 / 13 year olds
Following on from yesterday's post, here are 4 posters for our Grade 7 / 12 year olds - the G7 protagonists poster, our G7 core collection selection, the same for Year 8 at Tanglin Trust School (thanks Katie Day) and Oberoi International School's OIS Reads! Middle Grade poster (thanks Sarah Ducharme). By Nadine Bailey – … Continue reading #DecDisplay – Grade 7 / 12 year olds
Living up to the quote attributed to Edison "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." we librarians try to find ways that we can get books into the hands of our students that will be "the one(s)" that set up them up for reading success. Today features some of the … Continue reading #DecDisplay – Grade 6 / 11 year olds
First published in 2006, this revised and expanded edition of Genocide updates information and case studies through the beginning of 2024. This allows the author to address both the brutal October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas on Israeli communities and a music festival, and the Israeli Defense Force’s bombardment of and withholding of humanitarian supplies from Palestinian … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Wednesday: Genocide, revised & expanded edition
For today I have a few posters for reading around the Sciences. There are some really cool books around that make Science engaging and visual. Of course as well it's really cool when authors manage to weave science into fiction - like the Simon Mayo "Itchcraft" action books about an element hunter - which is … Continue reading #DecDisplays – Reading around the Sciences
Global Literature in Libraries Initiative 