Mikes High School Library

Happy Nevada Day!

2009-11-01T05:44:00.000-08:00

On 29th of October we celebrated Nevada Day. Erin Aldrich presented us Nevada State, her homeland.

International School Library Month

2009-10-31T14:01:00.001-07:00

This time we celebrate it with fairy tale reading marathon. Our high school students read for the 1-4 grade in the Mikes Kelemen School Library. We had more than 400 visitors!
We thank you to the XI. B grade students and to their teacher, Török Katalin for the cooperation and support!

Donation

2009-10-30T13:06:00.000-07:00

The Mikes Kelemen High School Library received 250 video tapes from our local Rotary Club. The tapes contain American movies, which are subtitled in Romanian. Thank you for all!

A Pleasant Surprise

2009-10-23T13:55:00.000-07:00

Jason Braswell from Oklahoma/USA visited us yesterday. He is a fomer Peace C. volunteer. Long time no see him, since he went back to USA. We were very happy to see him again!

International School Library Month

2009-10-23T13:52:00.000-07:00

Surprise! we didn't forget the International School Month! We shall keep it next week!

American Corner: Halloween Jeopardy

2009-10-23T12:08:00.000-07:00

Next week will be Halloween. So, we organized a Halloween Jeopardy.

Erin Aldrich was the quiz-master.

Our children enjoyed it very much.

MIKES KELEMEN DAYS

2009-06-03T11:44:00.000-07:00

The Mikes Kelemen Days we celebrated with lot of events. Two of them were very important for our library.

On 29th of may our Hungarian literature teachers organized a reading marathon for our students in the library. It was a real success. A lot of cildren come to read in our library. They read parts from their favorite books.

On 31th of May students, teachers and the librarian from our school visited Zagon, the village of Mikes Kelemen (1690-1761), the writer after whom was named our school.
In Zagon we visited the local museum,

we ate a delicious goulash made by our students (Höncz Lilla and Maksai Helga),
and visited the trees of Mikes.

We did all the route (60km totally!) running, on roller skates and bikes.

The best sportsman was Márk Előd, our former student, who run about 25 km.

The librarian run 3 km, and rode 57 on bike.

The marathon was organized by our coach, Mr. Szőcs Levente.

THE BENEDEK ELEK STORYTELLING MARATHON

2009-05-27T02:21:00.000-07:00

The Csipike Kindergarten together with our library organized this event.
At the beginning the librarian presented interesting aspects of Benedek Elek's life, who was one of our most famous tale writer in our region.

The Romanian and Hungarian children presented excellent, on their own language, the tales of Benedek Elek.
They were very well prepared by their educators.
At the end the little storytellers received gifts from our library.

We organized an exposition too with Benedek Elek's books.

ENVIROMENTAL PROTECTION MONTH IN THE MIKES LIBRARY

2009-05-19T04:04:00.000-07:00

Erin Aldrich and Mike Luke were discussing with our readers about the enviromental protection.

The discussion in the American corner was very interesting for the librarian too. I find out that a plasting bottle desintegrates after 450 year in the nature!

The Peace Corps volontiers visited us 14 and 19th of May.

DINNER IN THE LIBRARY

2009-04-08T13:50:00.000-07:00

Yesterday we offered The Best Readers' Awards.
Fazakas Réka became the first at the I-IV grades. Since 2008-09-15, she visited us 51 times and read 51 books.
Orbán Kinga (V-VIII) 28 visits and 52 books.
Böjte Éva (IX-XII) 28 visits and 45 books.
Mrs. Szőcs Torma Katalin, our vice principal, was our special guest. She give the Mikes Library prizes. Each best reader received a huge pizza, and the librarian was the waiter!
The children were very excited. The event it was a real succes!

TIME IS FLYING

2009-04-05T13:19:00.000-07:00

We had 3 very hard weeks.

1. We organized with Erin Aldrich and Mike Luke two American Corners.

a) Erin was discussing about the different type of media with our readers.

b) Mike put us to think about the urban sprawl.

2. We had at least 1 movie projection/day in our library. But once we had 3!

3. We sent back Flat Bridgette to the readers of the Rose Hill Elementary School / Omaha / Nebraska / USA).

4. We were hosts of events which were not organized by our library.

a) The 4th graders were reading, drawing and discussing THE LITTLE PRINCE by Exupéry, supervised by Mrs. Forró Viola, their school master.

b) Some teams were preparing for The 8 Hour Competition, organized by our school.

5. Our Librarian participated at the conference organized by the Romanian Hungarian Library Association. Title of the conference: Librarians and the New Challenges.

15TH OF MARCH

2009-03-15T01:53:00.000-07:00

The revolutionaries of 1848 are commemorated by our school library too. We did a little book exposition.
Read more about 1848 on http://www.colbud.hu/main_old/PubArchive/PL/PL22-Kosary.pdf

GUESTS FROM CSIPIKE

2009-03-09T04:32:00.000-07:00

On March the 05Th we had very spacial guests. We invited in our library the children from the Csipike Kindergarten.

They were very excited. The selves represented for them a perfect hide out, where they find a lot of ''treasures'', which they wanted to search, and turn over their pages.

For them it was a real surprise that a library is not only a shelf with books.

They promised that they will visit us again, when they will become students of the Mikes Kelemen High School.

JFK IN THE MIKES LIBRARY

2009-03-04T01:26:00.000-08:00

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Mike Luke), the former president of USA visited our school library. Our well prepared ''journalists'' were waiting for him. He received many questions about his family, his death and about his external and internal policy.

FLAT BRIDGETTE

2009-03-04T00:45:00.000-08:00

We received a beloved guest from the USA.

She is Flat Bridgette from Omaha.

She is painted by the readers of the Rose Hill Elementary School Library.

The Rose Hill students are very interested about, how the people live in the Land of Vampires. We present them our library, school and town. It's real profit for us, because we can show them our homeland as it is.

More info about the Rose Hill Elementary: http://www.ops.org/elementary/rosehill/LIBRARY/tabid/63/Default.aspx

BLACK HISTORY MONTH

2009-02-27T00:53:00.000-08:00

At the American Corner we commemorated those Afro-Americans, who has got a major contribution in the history of the United States. Erin Aldrich presented to us many people who are not so well-known to us, like Lorraine Hansberry, Odetta, Wynton Marsalis or Judith Jamison.

Photos: http://picasaweb.google.com/kkisslaci/BLACKHISTORYMONTH#

VALENTINE DAY

2009-02-18T12:29:00.000-08:00

It was Mike Luke's turn again. He was discusing about the Valentine Day with our readers. There was a workshop too, during which the children present their colleagues positive qualities.

AMERICAN CORNER: WINTER SPORTS

2009-01-20T03:21:00.001-08:00

Our new year activity started with the American Corner.
Mike Luke from Minnesota was our guest.
He was talking about the winter sports with our readers.
During the discussion we find out that the climate in Minnesota is almost the same as in Covasna County. It's very cold, and the favorite sport is hockey.
I was very happy that our students were talking in a very good English, even if the topic was so special, like winter sports.
Photos about the activity: http://picasaweb.google.com/kkisslaci/AMERICANCORNER15012009#

GERMAN MARATHON READING

2008-12-19T01:59:00.000-08:00

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

2008-12-13T05:00:00.000-08:00

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

2008-11-17T11:31:00.000-08:00

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

2008-09-30T09:26:00.000-07:00

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!

2008-09-26T02:37:00.000-07:00

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!

2008-04-14T23:25:00.000-07:00

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.

International Children's Book Day

2008-04-02T03:00:00.000-07:00

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