Letters To Santa!

The library had placed a drop box where learners were asked to write a letter to Santa. They were asked to write about one act of kindness that they had shown to their friend/s or family members recently.

We saw that the learners were excited about the event and eager to participate. 

The library had also Christmas theme related books on display and the children loved the display and borrowed most of the books too.

During the read aloud sessions, the librarian read aloud Christmas related picture story books to the kids.

Merry Christmas & Season’s Greetings to All!

      

 Book Reading Bingo Challenge

The library conducted a Book Reading Bingo activity for the whole school community from Mid-November to Mid-December. This was an incentive program designed to motivate and reward students for reading a variety of books, authors and genres. They were given a grid of genres to complete in a nine box bingo activity. Non-fiction as well as fiction were part of the reading exercise with specific genres to include such as comics/graphic novels, biographies/autobiographies, local/Indian authors, animal stories, real life stories, second language books...

There was a great response from our learners, especially from the primary section who earnestly borrowed books from genres that they would have otherwise ignored or overlooked meeting the key objective of the challenge of providing exposure to different types of authors and books. At the end of their reading and completion of the entire grid or even of certain lines prizes in the form of certificates and badges were given out which served as motivation to the other learners.

 

 

Book Fair @KC High

“A book is a gift you can open again and again.” — Garrison Keillor

A book fair was held in our school for pre primary, primary and middle school learners. Tulika Publishers, Karadi Tales and Scholastic India were invited. The book fair was held for 3 days. Every day the fair remained open from 8.30 a.m. to 2.30 p.m. 

We saw enthusiastic learners with their parents visiting the stalls to buy the books of their liking and interest. It was a great to have such a varied collection of books under one roof.
The one thing that fascinates me the most about book fairs is that it gives a chance for book lovers to directly get in touch with publishers. Moreover, publishers get first hand information about customer preferences.

 

Read Aloud 

Milli's Marvellous Hat is a cute book by award winning author Satoshi Kitamura. The storyline goes: Millie can’t afford to buy the lovely new hats she sees on display in the hat store but the man who works there offers her a solution. Millie would need to use her imagination and she could have any hat she likes. In addition, she could also change her hat many times a day to suit any occasion.

To increase reader interaction and enjoyment of the story, after reading aloud the learners were given hands on tasks which showed them how to make paper hats with newspapers. The learners of grade 1 enjoyed this origami activity .

 

Citation and referencing session

A citation and referencing session was conducted for grade 7 learners. Academic integrity is often only communicated as a policy or set of rules. Therefore to make it simpler for learners to grasp its importance, at the beginning a warm up activity was conducted. Next they were briefed about   basic rules of citation, what are the different types of citation styles and when and how to cite the sources was explained to the leaners. The learners were also given a demo on how to use easybib for generating online citations. This workshop was conducted in two batches.

 

'Twist a Tale’

A competition called ‘Twist a Tale’ was organised for the primary and middle school learners. In this contest the students had to give their own ending to any of the famous fairytales they have read or been read to in the past. The key to the contest was for learners to learn to creatively relook at the conventional ending, and in doing so it provided impetus to generate a creative and personal manner of ending their favourite fairytale. We received an overwhelming response from our learners across grades.

 Poem to Share

“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” – Robert Frost. With that  in mind, we invited budding poets to put their thoughts, emotions, sounds, feelings and senses to write poems of everyday interest.

Some brave students came forward and submitted their writings. We even had the middle school second language learners write poems in hindi.

Finally the poems were displayed on the library bulletin board.