Reading Pictures 

 “A picture is worth a thousand words” is a common expression many of us use. But how many of us have pondered as to why people say it? This is especially important in an increasingly digital age where we are bombarded with images. Not all of them connect with us but the ones that do are important – we need to understand why and the process involved in it especially the description, analysis and interpretation.

Considering this we organized a session with grade 7 students in order to address three important aspects of visual literacy. 1. What do you see? (the real) 2. What do you think about that? (opinion or judgement or interpretation) and 3. What does it make you wonder? (imagination and making connections).

Students were asked to work in small groups. One student enjoyed the activity to such an extent that he did not submit his work after the activity was over as all other students in their groups did. He asked for more time to work on it in his after school time and redo it on his own properly before getting it in.

 

 Getting the KC Media Centre Organised

Over the last 2 ½ months we have been sorting, arranging, classifying and organizing the entire library collection.

One by one we took down books from the shelves, sorted and classified them into broad categories.

In order to create some additional shelf space for section wise books, we weeded out old and outdated textbooks, sample copies and damaged books. Furthermore, we have also been able to segregate, categorize and provide space for major sections such as the Primary, IGCSE & IBDP textbooks, reference books and teacher resources. We have put temporary signs on the shelves to indicate location of major genres and types of books. This in turn has helped students and teachers locate books better than before. However, we are still short of shelve space for certain books and hope this is addressed.

There have been Teachers and Students who have been helpful by taking up small library tasks. A Special thanks to a few 8^th graders who came forward and volunteered their help lately.

We hope this is a starting point and lot more things that need to be taken care of can be completed quickly.

 

 

 Roald Dahl Day 2022

For Roald Dahl Day, KC Media Center organized various events for a week.(13th-19th Sep) Sep to  Following activities were for grade 1 to 5 learners.

1.Redesign your favourite Roald Dahl Book Cover

2. Write a Thank Note to your favourite author

3. Book versus Movie(Comparison)

4. Read aloud Short Stories-by guest teachers.

5. Vote for your favourite  Roald Dahl Book.

Literature circle

Literature circle – building independent and critical readers. Two sessions were organized for grades 6   and 7. During the two sessions the librarian spoke about the rationale of why teachers have selected books for literature circle and how each book is in its way a special read. In addition, important definitions were covered such as pleasure reading versus close reading, the importance of annotation  and annotation symbols and finally there were some sample journal entries shared with students in order     for them to start their journey as well as take effective notes and reflect on their readings along the  way.

 Design a Bookmark Contest 2002 

Design a Bookmark Contest 2002 was organized for primary learners grade 1 to 5. We received an overwhelming response from our enthusiastic learners.

We had numerous entries with very creative designs and some of the designs were exceptional. There were three winners from each grade and the contest was judged by visual arts students. Choosing the winners was a very difficult task for our panel of judges

A huge thank you to all those learners who participated in this competition with such enthusiasm. Congratulations to the winners

 

Research Skills for IB1

Research Skills for IB1

August 2022

The librarian gave a two sessions on Research Skills to new IBDP 1 students. In these session students learnt what is research , why research plays a vital role in IBDP, the importance of keywords, how to identify types of information sources, how to use smart strategies to search the internet, how to evaluate website sources, using Boolean operators, and how they can make optimum use age of the EE webpage that is exclusively designed for them.