Category Archives: Library
JS Library and HOTS in the Junior School
View the SMORE Applying Higher Order Thinking Skills in the Junior School.
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Book Week School Library Tour
Tour School Libraries for Book Week.
Welcome to Children’s Book Week. You are invited to tour school libraries and see what they are doing for Book Week this year and take a peek into their library.
Various school libraries have added their details to the Google Form and these have been added to Google Tour Builder.
Select the link below to view the tour in your web browser (select – Play Full Screen).
Navigate using the navigation buttons at the bottom of the Google Tour webpage (use link above). Alternatively, you can download the KMZ file (for Google Earth) and play it there.
The JS School Library Tour 360
Post from RICOH THETA. – Spherical Image – RICOH THETA
Post from RICOH THETA. – Spherical Image – RICOH THETA
Causation and Change: then and now
Use the slider on the images below to see how the College has changed over the years.
In the beginning to an aerial photo of the College.
The building of the Worship Centre
The Multi-Purpose Hall
The COLA (Covered Over Learning Area)
The Junior School Library – causation and change
Images created using a Juxtapose slider tool.
Coding the JS Library with Emoji
Students explored the potential of images as a way of communicating through the use of emoji.
In Week 1 classes read the first shortlisted picture book.
This is an emoji message of two book titles in the JS Library.
Students also went on a Lit Trip using Possum Magic and the Google Map organised around books and the continents.
and we have classified the Non-Fiction using Emoji.
Book Week, school library and virtual tour
TOUR THE WORLD THROUGH SCHOOL LIBRARIES
We are looking at touring other #school #libraries through a virtual tour. Can you help us?
Celebrate Literacy in the JS Library Term 3 Activities Week 1
Week 1 Literacy Celebrations Term Three
READ AROUND THE WORLD CHALLENGE
We have been exploring the annual Book Week theme through the lens of the PYP. The theme is Australia My Story Country which we have adapted to exploring story through World Stories (using the continents as a way to organise these countries).
We have selected books from each continent that can be shared over the course of the term.
Week 1 JS Library Makerspace
Explore the world through BeeBots
Students programmed the BeeBots to travel the world after answering a series of country and continent questions in a group of their choice. These students successfully were able to execute a programme and troubleshoot. The BeeBots and the world map are available each break for students to continue their world exploration.
Additional Resources
Sort country names into continents
Classes read the first of the Shortlisted Books for sharing and review.
Week 1 Shortlisted Book
Aaron Blabey Piranhas don’t eat bananas
Resources
- Aaron Blabey – Picture Book Maker from Story Box Library – YouTube
- Yellowbean learning ideas for Piranhas don’t eat bananas
SMORE: The JS Library Space and Makerspace Term 2 in Reflection
JS Library Virtual Tour
The Junior School Library
Search – Ask –Learn – Connect
Tour the JS Library using the tools below.
The interactive thinglink below is one way to virtually visit the JS Library.
Select a link to view a space or feature in the JS Library (hover over the image).
Tour the JS Library using a spherical 360 degree image.
The images below were created using a 360-degree camera that takes 360 degree spherical images. You can zoom, freely navigate or allow the image to scroll around without user input.
Have fun and explore the space.
Making Connections space
Post from RICOH THETA. – Spherical Image – RICOH THETA
The Campfire, Book Nook and Reading spaces
Post from RICOH THETA. – Spherical Image – RICOH THETA
The images below are just a few of the photos of the JS Library spaces and some the things we do here.
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- The JS Library
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- The Book Nook to Making Connections
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- View towards the entrance
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- The Campfire classroom area
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- Making Connections
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- Borrowing
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- Breaktimes
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- Stitched images
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- Makerspace
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- Design Thinking
PYP and the Teacher Librarian: Job Like Day
PYP TEACHER LIBRARIAN: JOB LIKE DAY
The job of the Teacher Librarian in a PYP school is hard to explain to someone who is not familiar with a contemporary library in an educational setting.
This library does not look like the cliched ‘read a book’ to children and discuss it situation. This is just one component to the learning engagements that will occur.
PYP Teacher Librarians are adding value to the teaching and learning experiences of those in the school community.
The library and the role of the Teacher Librarian has reading and literature promotion embedded in the teaching and learning at the core.
It is also is about classroom teaching, planning, collaboration, mentoring and training.
It does include all the Essential Elements of the PYP, just like a PYP classroom teacher has to consider BUT it also is about visioning, resourcing, budgeting, collection management AND changing culture and attitudes.
It is a role that embraces change and challenge.
It is about Educational Leadership!
Above all it is about supporting and challenging others to be life-long learners and supporting them on the learning journey.
St Andrews will host a ‘Job like day’ later in the term.
This below is just a snippet of the what the day beholds.
