Children say goodbye, see you soon! to Miss Vale and give her some wonderful letters, as she goes into her maternity leave 💞 Everyone will miss you Miss Vale!
4°D collaboration with 6th Grade Design & Tech Integration: by creating and evaluating videogames teaching about Earth's layers!
Miss Anne is telling a wonderful story about Jane Goodall and describing her love for animals and nature. 2nd Grade really enjoyed it! We even had a Jane Goodall doll accompanying us during the readaloud!
3rd Grade came by and had a wonderful time reading with Miss Anne and learning about light and how sunlight becomes electricity!
Kinder B enjoying the last day of the week doing what they do best: buddy reading!
Joaquin just finished his story and came to the Library to present his work. Will he be the new horror master? The new Stephen King?
Natalia and Josefina from 7th grade improvised a Readaloud for LS students, and received a round of applause. Well done girls!! The book was “Who is the Mystery reader?” by Mo Willems, one of our most beloved authors.
3rd Grade finished recording their Library Play, "Theseus and the Minotaur", getting ready for Open House... They have worked so hard and come so far, learning lines, choreographed fights and interpretation 🥰 We are so proud of them! Parents will be able to enjoy the play soon, on Open House week! Enjoy some of the pictures!
Reading all together!
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!
Watch the interview we did to Sebastián.
Everyone looks so focused!
Miss Anne and Miss Vale are working on the creation of a Kamishibai, and a very entertaining activity for PK and Kinder!
4th is enjoying their first day of no masks! ☺️
They did some drawing while reading about the Biography of Isaac Newton, this activity works as a kind of note-taking that allows students to record the essential ideas of a readaloud! By recording a visual idea, pupils are able to assign meaning to images which helps them remember facts and ideas easier and quicker.
Impressive!
3rd Grade is practicing their play for the upcoming Open House! 🎭
Children got to know three favorite authors of the Library: Tod Parr from the United States -who loves dogs- is one of them!
Another one of our favorite authors is Keiko Kasza from Japan. Santiago and Rafaela shared amazing facts about wolves and Japan!
It is wonderful to see students feel so comfortable around the Library! Sometimes they read alone, sometimes in groups and other times they enjoy the company of our Plushie Reading Buddies!
As part of the Unit related to the uniqueness of our country, we read the book "La Niña Violeta", a book that tells and shares the life and legacy of Violeta Parra. 2nd Grade drew their impressions while listening to the story!
It's September!!
In the Library we are celebrating and promoting the reading of national literature 🇨🇱 in all levels!
For example, in this display made by our dear teacher librarian, Miss Anne, children can randomly pick a book written by a Chilean author 🥰
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!
Auditions and tryouts for the upcoming play "Theseus and the Minotaur" for the 3rd Grade Open House ☺️ The students are giving it all portraying the characters of the Ancient Greek myth!
2nd Grade read "Gabriela, la poeta viajera" by Alejandro Toro and then used the iPads to explore all the places Gabriela Mistral traveled to, using the amazing tool of Google Earth! 🌎
Thank you to the Tech Integration team for their incredible support!
Prekinder loves Library time and always find the coziest corners to browse a book and look at the pictures!
Como parte de la Unit relacionada con Chile, con Prekinder leímos el libro "La pequeña Lilén" de Víctor Carvajal, la historia es sobre una niña mapuche que pierde el Kultrun de su abuela y sus amigos la ayudan a recuperarlo 📚 Luego los estudiantes tuvieron la oportunidad de tocar un Kultrun de verdad y explorar sus sonidos y riquezas culturales.
3rd Grade listens carefully to the Greek Myth of Arachne, as told by Miss Vale with the help of some puppets.
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!
Miss Vale reads to PK students and shows them what reading for pleasure is all about ✨
Readalouds are fundamental in early ages. They provide a model of expressive reading, helping children recognize emotions and make sense of new words and phrasings.
It’s been proven that reading aloud motivates children to read, and in the library we know it drives students to choose their own books, even doing readalouds to eachother!
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.
Miss Anne and Miss Vale are so happy to present the prettiest corner in the Lower Library: the Outdoor corner, a special space where children can experiment, touch, think, learn about and be inspired by Nature! Our motto is: "READ NATURE", and children are encouraged to come and get comfy, read, or just hang around this space surrounded by Nature's best.
"There was once a man who believed he owned everything and set out to survey what was his."
As a part of the unit "How we organize ourselves" 4th Grade has been studying landforms and natural resources reflecting about the role each of us has in the use and protection of them through the SDGs (Social Development Goals).
At the library we read the amazing book "The fate of Fausto", a fable by Oliver Jeffers. The children then thought of the moral of the story and connected the moral they discovered to nature, ownership and our own role in life. Some students connected the moral to the SDGs of poverty and gender equity!
Please read them all here.
Pre Kinder read "Giraffes Can't Dance" by Giles Andreae with Miss Vale, this time the Library session was held in the Classroom and supported by visuals: videos and images of the book! Later on, PK students drew their own versions of the characters!
Kinder's book selection for the day! This selection focuses on Feelings, which is a topic they are discussing in Kinder, but also features other topics that are loved by the children: lego, planes, dinosaurs and more!
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
Miss Anne reads "The Fate of Fausto" by Oliver Jeffers to 4th Grade and together they discuss about natural resources.
1st Grade did a Mindfulness session today in the Library: the goal was to focus in the here and the now... Afterwards they enjoyed a book called "I Am Peace: A Book Of Mindfulness” by Susan Verde and discovered the power of being fully in the present moment.
Peace✌🏼
¿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 🇨🇱🌎
Every day, Miss Anne and Miss Vale curate a special selection of books for Lower School students to choose from...
Some of the books are related to the Unit each class is working on, others are the most popular amongst the students and some books are special recommendations from the librarians 😊📚 it's a Mixed selection!
There are so many options to choose from and so many different strategies to choose the perfect book!
Smaller students gather around Miss Vale and Miss Christine for reading time!
Pre Kinder students enjoyed the Story Telling of the day and then decided if they wanted to read books or draw their favourite books scenes! Making decisions and showing agency 🥰
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! ❣️
1st Grade is doing a fantastic "Book Research" about the Human Body, they are researching books about the topic, gathering information of the source and rating the content of the book!
Great job, First Grade! 👏🏼
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!
Miss Anne reads "Elmer" by David McKee to Kinder 🥰 They really enjoyed the story!
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⚗️
They exchanged the liquids from different sets of cups and mixed them up together; in some of the cups there was water and in others there was a mix of water and starch. They had to mix and find the cups that contained "the virus", to do so they would add a few drops of iodine (it reacts with starch making it go dark purple) to make the reaction.
The children found that even if "the virus" was only in one cup at the beginning of the experiment, by mixing in the different cups the virus got transferred to most of the cups... just like with microbes in the story!
Sitting down for reading is so... Boring! Lower school students prefer to lie down 😂 How do you read?
Leyendo en Castellano
Prekinder en una sesión de Biblioteca con un cuenta cuento en Castellano, como fomento lector de la lengua materna, para ir encantando a todos los alumnos en el increíble mundo de los libros 🥰
La actividad consistía en pensar en alguna comida que les gustara mucho que quisieran compartir 🍽️
4th Grade in the Library! 🤗
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…"
Library activity with Miss Anne and Miss Vale!
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 🥰
Readaloud time!
Miss Vale reads "The Duckling Gets a Cookie!?" By Mo Willems to Kinder 🥰
World Down Syndrome Day!
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?
1st Visit to the Library!
1st Grade's first time checking out books from the Library! 😍 Miss Vale and Miss Anne handed out special bookmarks so they use them on their library books.
Everyone is so excited to be taking a book home!
Enjoy 🥰
2nd Grade Library Sessions
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! ❣️