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A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,800 times in 2010. That’s about 4 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 23 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 33 posts. There were 423 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 731mb. That’s about a picture per day.

The busiest day of the year was May 14th with 70 views. The most popular post that day was News.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were occ.ibo.org, pypthreads.ning.com, alphainventions.com, mail.yahoo.com, and facebook.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for induslib, taranauts, how does an ib library look like, varun muppidi, and induslib.wordpress.com.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

News November 2009

Our Library October 2009
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Ask Librarian November 2009
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Book Review November 2009
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Library Week(Book Week) April 2010

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• Shilpa’s sick like a dog

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Realizing my interaction with the books of various genres, it seems to me that a major part of the knowledge which I hold right now has its sources in just those words – in just those books. Those words are ambiguous – each one has its own world of meanings, each such world when combined with another such world makes a whole lot of sense which I perceive by exploration in my own way – a genuine exploration. This exploration has been rigorous at least to me. Each time I re-read those words, I would perceive their meaning differently than what I would have perceived during the previous reading(s). Those guys just drag me and place me in the maze of their linked worlds, a maze which has divergent paths from each world to another. It is not a matter of getting out of that maze but of reentering the maze to explore differently without any sort of distortion.

I still remember when I first held a little rhyme book, I didn’t quite understand what those rhymes meant to me. It was only after having read an omnibus of great works in poetry that I could understand a little of the aesthetics of rhymes. I still remember when I was in my lazy times, knowing in depth never occurred in me just because I refused to read beyond the first pages of all those good books. It’s only after I had become open-minded in terms of my willingness to read has my knowledge expanded in its depths. Only after having read at least a small fraction of all the good books have they become my role models! Yes, role models!

Nowadays, I have desperation to express – express how much ever I want to and the way I want to! I have been staring at those books which express so brilliantly and effectively! I want to express just like them – I have all those books in my shelves and library, each one lying there as my role model. The inspiration from those busted my period of dormancy – my love for writing has germinated! But what is interesting here is that, some of my writing becomes independent and narrates its story by itself back to me! By seeing the other great books occupying such dignity and having such freedom to express, I too want to liberate. Looking back into the history of myself, my soul has been becoming bigger and bigger each time I would finish reading a book and it subsumed in my soul!

by Desdemona, Grade 6.

I really got excited when the library teacher told us that we were going to have a library week this week. It was from 18th of October to the 22th of October I waited till the end of the day for the library period because we could then go to the book fair that was set up in the AV room and we could chose what book we could buy on the PTM. When we went to the book fair I immediately started to choose what books I wanted to buy at the PTM. I saw many lovely books fully of stuff I liked to read. I also was looking forward for Thursday when I would be dressing up for the Character dress up. I wanted to dress up as Harry Potter even though i am a girl but Harry Potter is a boy. On 19th October (Tuesday) I had the Oral Book Review competition. I talked about the book Percy Jackson and the Lighting thief. I think I told well in the competition. On Thursday I dressed up as Harry Potter. Everyone looked at me like I was a ghost. we also had a book talk by Roopa Pai in the afternoon. I really liked the Library week because I had lots of fun. It was awesome.

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The specialist story teller Deepa Kiran and her session with the students was very interesting and entertaining. Students enjoyed her sessions. As a practitioner of movement therapy she has them incorporated into the story telling, was  very innovative.

I Must congratulate the students who have dressed up like characters from your favourite fictions and entertain the students, it was so fun to watch them at the same time it had a theme behind it, i.e., read, read & read.  few pics for you followed by a reflection of our students,

International School Library Day

Library Week - 2010

‘Library Week’ was – there was no other word for it – fun ! You might thing we had to sit and read for hours together, but as a matter-of-fact, it was nothing like that………

It started of with an assembly and Mr. Tucker came to give a brief speech on ‘reading’.

Later on, the younger kids (PYP students) got to do some activities. They colored, wrote stories and read and had the most enjoyable time ever.

Meanwhile, a Book Report Competition was being held for us MSPs. You had to talk a book review on any book you have read. The judges would choose who had done the best and award them. All the contestants were from 6th grade. Natalie got 1st place, Loren got 2nd place, and Rishika got 3rd place. Let me take a moment to mention the other participants – Desdemona and Anirudh!

Also, Roopa Pai the author of The ‘Taranauts’ series arrived to talk about her books and the forthcoming release of ‘The Race for the Glo Rubies’, the 4th book in the series. We did activities and puzzles on the books and had a fabulous time listening to her read a small snippet from book 3.

We also learned that Library Week was not just about reading, playing games or doing activities, it is held to understand the importance of reading and the impact it brings on us. It is fun, and effective in many ways. We improve our grammar and vocabulary too. Overall, Library Week was a great experience for everyone and we all are looking forward for another!

by Neha Pingili, Grade 6

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The students of Indus International School Hyderabad, enthusiastically and creatively designed the charts for the celebrations with the help of the Art Teacher Ms.Kruti. Earlier Design a logo competition was announced and the responses are superb. 

As part of the International School Library Day Celebrations activities like Book mark making with slogans of reading, Design a Book Cover, Story Writing, Poem writing and the Book Cover colouring for the tiny tots(PP1 & PP2 kids)are  conducted, Students took part in all the activities with much interest. The main theme of all the activities are the “Importance of Reading”. The celebration really has an impact on the students, school libraries help to provide the foundations for lifelong learning. School libraries matter and make a difference! Few pics for you

Indus International School 

Library

International School Library Day Celebrations – Programme Schedule

The main motive of the International School Library Day (Week) is to inspire reading habits among students and to motivate them to become independent readers. The Week long programme includes read-write-speak based activities like, story telling, book review writing, poem writing and story writing competition.

Book fair will also happen in the school premises. Motive behind is to make aware of the new publications, great opportunity to have an idea about the latest books.

Schedule: