Sanford Middle School Celebrates Sanford Middle School Celebrates

International School Library Day We will mail 300 bookmarks to our partner school by November 1, Our partner school is a secondary school – no Dr. Seuss books!

Bookmark Requirements Write the title, author & illustrator, and one or two lines about the book on the back of the bookmarks. Bookmark theme: to be announced! Can be any shape or style-be creative Only the best 300 will be shipped to our partner school, neatness is important!

Partner Schools for 2008 Creative Secondary School in Hong Kong- 360 Students Mikes Kelemen High School in Transylvania, Romania – 62 Students Our school and the school in Romania will send bookmarks to the school in Hong Kong.

Mikes Kelemen High School Transylvania, Romania Dear Sarah and Dear Patty, We are the Mikes Kelemen High School from Transylvania. We shall be your partner in the bookmark exchange. We live in Saint George City (Sfintu Gheorghe). In our school come children from 1st grade to 12 th grade. Is one of the best in the region. Sincerely yours, Laszlo Kiss teacher-librarian Mikes Kelemen High School St. George City Transylvania/Romania

Where in the world is Transylvania?

Mike Kelemen’s 2007 ISLD Celebration 2.A “Flat Stanley” exchange with Faith Academy in the Philippines. ci/FlatMikes# 3.“Join me in the library” photo exchange ci/ISLD2007# 1.A Graffiti Contest for 9 th Graders. The theme was Learning: Powered by your School Library. kisslaci/ISLDGRAFFITI#

Dear Patti, The school will start on 15Th of September in Romania. We can start other projects too for ISLM, but not earlier than 1st of October. Then we shall be ready. We are very fast and opened to everything. We had projects with other American schools too, here are some + in the attachment: online.org/events/isld/isld2006/isld2006c.html#romania We have computer lab. By the way I m a coach assistant too, but in badminton. I like the cycling too. This year in May I was riding to Istanbul. I did 1200km. I kept a diary: Best regards Laszlo Kiss Teacher Librarian Mikes Kelemen High School St. George City Transylvania Romania

2 nd Partner School Creative Secondary School- 362 Students Hong Kong, China Remember, all of our book marks and the book marks from Transylvania go to this school All of the book marks we receive will come from this school.

Creative Secondary School Hong Kong, China Dear Laszlo and Patty, I am sorry for the late reply as I am extremely busy for preparing for the new semester. I am excited to join in the bookmark project with you. Last year my school joined in this project and has got exchanging bookmark with a middle school in Maryland of the States. This year the day will be changed to a month. I am going to use the month of October to introduce various library programs to all the students. May we also share these programs with each other so that we can promote some popular programs for the students? I am going to integrate this project with Visual Art teachers as they will have a lesson of drawing facial images, so I am going to teach students to find articles and books about the Chinese Olympic gold medal heroes and they will draw those heroes on the bookmarks and introducing the personal details of those heroes too. As our students are Chinese, I think this topic would be relevant to them. What are your ideas of your bookmark project? Since I want to put this project into students' curriculum, we may start at the end of October and probably you will receive the bookmarks in November. Can you think of some follow up work after this bookmark exchange? Thanks for your sharing! Best regards, Sarah Ho Teacher Librarian Creative Secondary School, No. 3, Pung Loi Road, Tseung Kwan O, S.K.Hong Kong

Now, Where was Hong Kong?

About the Creative Secondary School……. Services and on-job experiences Realizing students' potential through co-curricular activities and facilities The House System emid=36

School Library The school library is located on the top floor of Block C, offering green fields and the best view of the sea. A third ICT laboratory is located adjacent and connected to the library, allowing the integration of inquiry-based learning and research through traditional book-based references and the Internet.

Who will participate? This year, only 7 th & 8 th grade students will participate in our book mark project. We will announce the theme in the next 2 weeks. Cardstock will be provided for your book mark.