On February 2nd  we celebrated the 100th days of school

In the morning announcement, Teachers jumped 100 times to a jumping song -Students participated in some activities related to the 100 days celebration such as learning 100 new words and multiplication tables that ends in 100.

The Library Staff prepared a display with books that talks about that special day.

CIC host in January 22nd a big event called VANAS TEACHER CONFERENCE.

The Librarians from all schools , got together  for a job alike

Here are some ideas that can help you at home before and after your child do the check out procedure in our Library.

1. Check with your child when his/her class goes to the school library and watch for a book come home.

2. Help your child to choose a special place at home to keep the books so that he/she will always know where it is.

3. Read your child’s book to him/her and encourage him/her to read it to you. Reading together promotes a love of reading that will last a lifetime.

4. Help your child  remember to bring the book back to school to his/her class.

Just as important, let your child see you read. Showing that you value reading will influence your child’s opinion about books and reading. Make that influence a positive one and visit us here at CIC Library. Parents are also more than welcome to check out books from the Elementary and / or Secondary Libraries.

This week, your child will begin checking out books from the Library . Each student from Kinder to grade 5 can check out 2 books. Students records for checking out books will be monitored by the ES Library Staff and overdue reminders and charges will be sent as needed.

We want this to be an exciting step on the road to reading and learning for you and for your child.

Interesting Data Bases for Teachers

ERIC:http://www.eric.ed.gov/journals

- The Education Resources Information Center - is an online digital library of education research and information. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC provides ready access to education literature to support the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and

ERIC Gopher Menu for  ESL Teaching Ideas -Gopher://ericir.syr.edu:70/11/Clearinghouse/Adjunts/ACLE/Digest -Contains suggestions for the teaching of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills to ESL students in grades 7-12.

National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education: http://www.ncbe.gwu.edu- Funded by the US Department of Education , collects, analyses and disseminates information related to the effective education of linguistics and cultural diverse K-12 learners in USA.

World History Sources; http://worldhistorymatters.org/i -Is an online resource center designed to help high school and college world history teachers and their students locate, analyze, and learn from online primary sources and to further their understanding of the complex nature of world history, especially the issues of cultural contact and globalization.

Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/index.html- he Library of Congress is the nation’s oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections.

Big Universe
(www.biguniverse.com)

This picture book site is one of our favorites. Mostly geared for elementary and early middle schools students, big universe offers 660 plus- books colorfull enough to capture any child imagination. There´s also weekly Reader and time for kids supplements.

• We will start putting Lexile Labels in about 28.740 of our books.

• We have more than 12,487 books in the Elementary Library and, more than 15,454 books in the Secondary Library.
• We checked out 6,803 items in 2008.
• We are asked for help about 30 to 50 times a day!
• We subscribe to 30 magazines.
• We also have books in other languages like Japanese, Portuguese, French, Spanish.

Some of the activities that have taken place in the Library over the past 113 years are: Staff meetings, Study Hall, After School Homework, Parents Meetings,  JMUN & SAMUN meetings, Advisory periods.

YOU ARE MORE THAN WELCOME TO VISIT US AND ASK FOR HELP.

All teachers are invited to display their students class work and projects in the Library’s Black Wall.