New Library Lego Wall

The Imperatore Library kicked off the addition of a lego wall to the library makerspace with a week-long challenge to the middle and upper school students. Using both a set of challenge cards and their own imaginations, students made a wide variety of designs. As students experimented, they improved their spatial awareness and problem solving skills. Check out some of the creative constructions below and stop by the library to add your designs to the mix.

The lego wall is added to the library makerspace.

Lexi created a Plinko game, just like the one featured on the gameshow The Price Is Right. If you drop a marble down the contraption, it will bounce around on the lego pegs inside and depending on how it bounces, will end up in various slots at the bottom. Drop the marble from a different slot and that will change the marble's course.

Stasiu completed one of the challenge cards and created a new flag design.

Election Survey

With the upcoming election, we created a survey for the middle and upper school students and faculty to see what issues are most important to our community. Some of the issues in the survey included: immigration, national security, terrorism, economy, health care, race, trade, crime, guns, abortion, environment, and education. Stop by the library or the Hajjar Stem Video Wall to see the full results posted.

Art in the Library

May was a busy month for art in the library, with three shows including a selection of Bojagi art tiles, submissions from the literature and art challenge, and the final project from the sixth grade PBL on City Design. Check out some photos from each event below.

Bojagi Art from the Korean Culture Club:

Literature and Philosophy Art Exhibition:

6th Grade City Design Remix Project:

Thank you to all the amazing artists who have had their work displayed and to art teacher Mrs. Brusky for helping to organize each show.

National Book Awards 2015

The National Book Award winners will be announced next week. The purpose of the National Book Awards is to recognize the best of American literature. In order to include more books, the National Book Foundation has recently changed the rules. First, ten books are compiled for the longlist, then that gets narrowed down to 5 finalists and finally one winner is chosen in each category. Familiarize yourself with the finalists before the announcement of the winners next week and feel free to check out one (or more!) of the titles we have in the library.

Fiction:


Nonfiction:


Poetry:


Young People's Literature:

Show Off Your Summer Reading!

Summer offers the time for DE students, faculty, and staff to catch up on reading and the start of school gives us the opportunity to share that reading with the community. In the library, we issued a summer reading challenge to take a photo of yourself with some of the books you read this summer. Check out a few of the more creative photos we've received below and stop by the library to see more. If you haven't sent in your summer reading selfie, it's not too late! Just email your photo to Mrs. Shaurette or Mr. Petkus.

Alexandra Tarsinov '18

Kirin Mueller '20

Danielle Roman '15

Jimena Vivian '20

Math Teacher Mr. Goodrich