GERMAN MARATHON READING

It becomes a tradition that the German language teachers together with our library, organize the Marathon.

We started since 2006, and become a custom, that in Christmas our students come and present short parts from their favorite books.

Each student read only 3 minutes, beceause there were more than 200 participants!

At the end each reader received a gift from our school library.

We think that it was a real success. We have a new record of participants! Our school library thanks to the teachers for the collaboration!

Photos: http://picasaweb.google.com/kkisslaci/Maraton?authkey=hmyTTgFIIwI#

American Corner

On Thursday (11.12.2008) we started again the American Corner.

Our guest was Erin Aldrich, a Peace Corp volunteer in our county. She was discussing with our students about the Thanksgiving and Christmas.

We think that the American Corners organized in our library gives the opportunity for our kids to know better the culture of USA, and to practice the language with a native speaker.

And Erin was great! We hope that we shall collaborate with you in the future! Thank you!
And thank you for the English teachers, who help our library to organize this event!

Photo: http://picasaweb.google.hu/kkisslaci/AC11122008?authkey=G3HvQf2a3Ko#

School Librarian Meeting in Băile Tuşnad

The Harghita County and the Covasna County school librarians organized a professional meeting at Baile Tusnad. It was the last chapter of the International School Library Month. It was organized on 14th of November. I know that it was late, but because of some organizational problems it was not possible to put it earlier.
About the program:
1. Mardirosz Ajka, Egyed Daniela and Borbé Levente was talking about the situation of the school libraries and CDI's in Harghita County
2. Kiss László presented the management of a project, more clearly the management of the ISLM in the Mikes Kelemen High School Library.
3. Opait Carmen presented the new school library laws.

The celebration ends with a party. It was a real success! It is the first time when the school librarians from the two counties met each other.

More photos: http://picasaweb.google.hu/kkisslaci/HarcovMet?authkey=iXAtJEHuPMA#

Fairytale Day

This is an important celebration in our school library too. Today we commemorate our storytellers who lived and worked in our region like Benedek Elek, Ráduly János and Nagy Olga. They are well known not only here, but their masterpieces are parts of the Hungarian culture.

We didn't forget the other great storytellers too. Today, we organized an exposition with their books. The children who entered in our library received as a gift children magazines like Kispajtás, Szemfüles and Cimbora . Pictures about the celebration: http://picasaweb.google.hu/kkisslaci/Nepmese?authkey=eP2K0Z8kPsI#

October? International School Library Month in the Mikes Kelemen High School Library!

This year is better from the others, because we have a whole month to celebrate the school libraries! This means a lot of work, but a lot of satisfaction too.
The ISLM theme for this year -Literacy and Learning at Your School Library- inspire us to do the following projects in October:

1. International Bookmark Exchange Project
Our partner is Creative Secondary School from Hong Kong / China
We participate with 62 students in this project.

2. International E-mail Exchange Project
Our partner is Sanford Middle School / Alabama / USA
We participate with 28 students from the 6th grade in this project. Each of our student will have an American partner. Each Thursday we (the two school librarians) shall send a topic and the partners will work together

3. School Librarian Meeting.
We -the Covasna County Association- shall celebrate together with the Harghita County Association the ISLM. This will be on 31th of October. The two librarian associations are sections of the Romanian Librarian Association (ABR).

About the partner schools:

Creative Secondary School from Hong Kong / China

Contact: Sarah Ho Teacher Librarian
Basic Facts:
- New Co-educational DSS secondary school opened in Sept 2006
- English Medium of Instruction (EMI)
- Chinese taught through Putonghua- Full capacity 30 classes, 5 classes / year, 900 students
- High teacher/student ratio at 1:15
- Small class sizes (below 30)
- IB Candidate School for Middle Years Programme (MYP)
- Choice of new Hong Kong Diploma or IB Diploma in the senior school
- Implementing New Hong Kong Secondary Curriculum through the MYP framework
- Vertical House system for pastoral care and academic schemes
- Comprehensive Scholarship and Fee Remission schemes

More about this school: http://www.css.edu.hk/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

Sanford Middle School / Alabama / USA

Contact: Patti Henderson Media Specialist
Basic facts:
- Enrollment: approximately 710 students
- Grades: 5th - 8th
- Core Curriculum: English/Language Arts, Math (Algebra I optional for eligible 8th graders), Science, Social Studies, and Physical Education
- 7th & 8th grade Enrichment: 7th grade: drama & reading/writing workshop
- 8th grade: career technology & keyboarding Remedial reading or math Chorus Band Annual Staff

Homepage: http://sanford.lcm.schoolinsites.com/
About the school library: http://sanford.lcm.schoolinsites.com/?PageName=

They Know Us!

Our school library is well-known from now one in Swede too! The Astrid Lindgren Project organized by the Skolbibliotek Syd gives us the opportunity to to enlarge our horizons.

Read more on: http://mikeslibrary.blogspot.com/2008/01/astrid-lindgren-celebrations.html

International Children's Book Day

This time we changed the usual celebration. This time we celebrated our best readers in the 2007-2008 school year. The winner of each category (I-IV, V-VIII, IX-XII grade) and her friend was invited in our library for a pizza! They were very excited: they can eat in the library, and the librarian is their waiter!

The winners of this (2008) edition are:

Bordás Andrea II. A. grade (44! visits)

Orbán Kinga VI. D. grade (19 visits)
Jákob Noémi X. B. grade (16 visits)

More photos on: http://picasaweb.google.com/kkisslaci/ICbookday?authkey=X7_So9y5GH4

Attaaaaack!

This year the children from the first grade become our reader earlier. We wanted to do their registration later, in the end of April, but they threat us with strike! Wow! This is the dream of every librarian! So, this time we organized their first meeting with the library a month earlier. We organized some special classes for the 1st graders during which we did their registration too. These days become very crowded. Hopefully their enthusiasm will continue on the upper grades too.
More photos on: http://picasaweb.google.hu/kkisslaci/Marc191stGrade?authkey=-GYZo6Os39I

Flat Mikes in Omaha / NE / USA

This month Flat Mikes visited the second grade students from the Rose Hill Elementary School. The school is situated in Omaha.
Omaha is the largest city in the state of Nebraska, USA. It is the county seat of Douglas County.
The students from the Rose Hill Elementary presented their school library to their guest. They were excited that they received such an exotic visit.
Flat Mikes was sent by the 3rd grade students from our school. ''He'' is the winner of their drawing contest.

Photos about the visit: http://picasaweb.google.hu/kkisslaci/FLATmikes02?authkey=Yl1Epb10xiA

More info about Omaha / Nebraska :
http://www.visitomaha.com/
http://www.omahazoo.com/
http://www.omahachamber.org/chamber/GOCVB.aspx
http://www.joslyn.org/
http://www.omahabotanicalgardens.org/
http://www.visitnebraska.org/
http://www.ngpc.state.ne.us/

Visiting the Transylvania University Library

On 29Th of February the school librarians visited Transylvania University Library in Brasov.
Corina Florea, our colleague, presented to us the library, and it's activity.
The Transylvania University Library was built recently.
Visiting it, it was an unforgettable experience for us!

See photos on http://picasaweb.google.hu/kkisslaci/Metodikafebr29?authkey=VLdzKB20AzY

Astrid Lindgren Celebrations

Skolbibliotek Syd (School Library South)
is a regional Swedish organisation for librarians, teacher librarians, teachers and other parties interested in school libraries. They work in the south of Sweden and they have more than 200 members. In Sweden there are several library organisations. Their organisation has two independent sister organisations in other parts of Sweden.

Skolbibliotek Syd (School Library South) in the south of Sweden invited the Mikes Kelemen High School to participate in an Astrid Lindgren project.
Astrid Lindgren was a Swedish children's book author and screenwriter, whose many titles were translated into 85 languages and published in more than 100 countries. She has sold roughly 145 million copies worldwide. Today, she is most remembered for writing the Pippi Longstocking books, as well as Karlsson-on-the-Roof book series.

2007 was an Astrid Lingren year. She was born in November 14, 1907.

Our School have received from the Swedish association a Pippi Longstocking-bag with a book about Pippi and materials about Astrid Lindgren. They sent us a questionnaire in which we had to answer about how well known is Astrid Lindgren in Romania. They also wanted to know more the Romanian school librarians and especially about our school. We sent pictures of our school and library. We organized a little painting contest and an exposition about Pippi Longstocking with the readers of our school library. We sent the drawings to Skolbibliotek Syd too.

Pictures about the activity: http://picasaweb.google.hu/kkisslaci/AstridLindgren

We also recommend these links:
http://www.astridlingrensworld.com/
http://www.astridlindgren.se/pippi/index.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pippi_Longstocking