Sebastián and Joaquín have done some curation work in the Lower Library!

They drew a selection of their favourite spooky titles to celebrate October season. This shows a lot of agency from students!

Whenever 1st Grade comes to the Library they have so much fun: they read aloud and silently, to themselves or to eachother... and even to the plushies! who accompany them in their reading adventures. They find in the Library the coziest space inside school and don't hessitate to get themselves comfortable!

PK students and families received a surprise this week! After listening to "Kiwala conoce el mar", a story by Ana María Pavez, Constanza Recart and Paloma Valdivia, each student took home a customized SC Library paper bag containing a Kiwala template and the steps to assemble it. This way students could recreate the story with their families.

We even recieved some pictures from families who had a good time making their own Kiwalas.

El día 22 de agosto fue el Día del Folklore, y estos alumnos de Lower School prepararon una presentación sobre el tema ✨

El concepto de Folklore denomina a las expresiones de una cultura. Es decir, refiere al conjunto de costumbres, creencias, artesanías, canciones que pertenecen e identifican a una cultura en su carácter tradicional y popular.

Margot Loyola (1918-2015) fue y sigue siendo a la fecha una de las grandes maestras del folklore chileno. Dedicó su vida a la investigación y recopilación de canciones y bailes chilenos como también latinoamericanos.

El extracto declamado por nuestro alumno es del tema “La guitarra”.

Reading is a tool that allows children to learn more about themselves, others, and the world around them.

Art can also be a powerful tool for expression and can help foster rich learning! Which is why drawing post-reading is an amazing way for children to use their imagination and creativity to showcase -and develop- their reading comprehension.

With good reading comprehension, children can imagine rich stories of their own, and draw and write wonderful things too!

Pk is finishing their unit called "How We Express Ourselves".

Miss Vale and Miss Anne read "Maybe Something Beautiful: How Art Transformed a Neighborhood" by F. Isabel Campboy to the children and that lead to amazing reflexions connected to the IB community.

Students also did some post-reading drawing and did their own representations of art transformation.

1st Grade students line up so Miss Vale can check out their books! All LS students know the Library Protocols:

• Take off your shoes before using the mats

• Treat all books with care

• Keep quiet when listening to a story

• Select your book and line up so the Librarian can check out your book

• Return your books in the dropbox

¿Saben cómo se formaron los lagos en el sur?

El libro Licanrayén de Mireya Seguel Burgos nos lo cuenta con ilustraciones.

Miss Anne lee una historia Mapuche junto a 4to básico que cuenta cómo se formaron los accidentes geográficos en Chile, esto se conecta con la Unidad sobre Land Forms y como estas afectan la forma en que vivimos 🇨🇱🌎

Lower Library hosted the Book Launching of our Create a Book Club! This club started off during Book Week, a couple of weeks ago!

A group of 7 students of 4th and 3rd Grade participated with passion, commitment and lots of imagination, writing and designing a wonderful story with their illustrations, binded together to create a book🥰

During the Launching, students and teachers got to see part of the process registered by Miss Anne and read the final products!

The participants were accompanied by their teachers and classmates, and received a diploma of participation and a little token from the Library: an author starter kit, to accompany them in their many creative stories to come! ❣️

They listen to stories and reflect upon the plots, characters and concepts; they browse the shelves and learn to choose a fitting and interesting book our of a selection made by Miss Vale and Miss Anne; they learn to share and care about the spaces of the Library, and find a cozy spot to read comfortably... they enjoy themselves!

What does the Library and a Lab have in common? 🤔We want to tell you about a special session!

Miss Vale read "Do not Lick This Book!" by Idan Ben-Barak, the story of Min, a microbe that takes us into a journey on microscopic worlds🔬 The children learned about microbes in this book, particularly where they are located and how easily they can be transferred from place to place. This led to a discussion about germs and different kinds of viruses and diseases, and how they are transmitted from place to place, people to people.

Then the students did a little experiment, with the help of Miss Vale and Miss Erika, the Lab Technician⚗️

As part of the Unit "How we express ourselves", where we have been learning about Democracy and participation, we read about the life of Harriet Tubman, a woman born into slavery who freed herself and then helped free hundreds of slaves in the 1800’s in the US.

Years later Martin Luther King Jr. fought for the abolition of segregation, we learnt from the book "Martin’s Big Words" by Doreen Rappaport.

While reading, children were taking notes in their personal whiteboards. At the end, they shared their ideas with the class and now with you!

"I have a dream…"

Miss Anne and Miss Vale read a book called "Only One Of You" by Linda Kranz with Kinder.

In this book, the fish Adri receives messages of wisdom from her mom and dad: appreciate beauty, there are times to speak and times to listen, and of course... There is only one of you! ❣️

The illustrations of the book are made with painted rock fish.

After listening to the story we went outside, and each child was set to find a stone that would represent that he or she is special! Then they coloured it with paint sticks. The rock was taken home so the children could share a message from the book with their parents 🥰

Here's PK reading a book to understand why we came to school with different colored socks today!

We read "Las preguntas de Delfina", by Marisa Aguirre, the story of Delfina, a girl with Down Syndrome and all the questions she asks herself about her life and the world.

What questions do you ponder about?

Miss Anne reads "Library Lion" by Michelle Knudsen (illustrations by Kevin Hawkes) to 2B📚

The children enjoyed the story and participated in the reading by making lion sounds and sharing their feelings about following and breaking rules! They learned a lot about community agreements.

"Sometimes there's a good reason the break the rules. Even in the library."

What a good reading session! ❣️