February 21 is International Mother Language Day. ISB High School students have made posters that are now displayed in the MS/HS cafeteria and HS hallways. Below is a small sampling of the posters. Please come to the HS to see more! About 40 languages are represented on the ISB student body.
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Posters for International Mother Language Day 2018
February 15th, 2018 · No Comments
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A series of short trailers from Patchwork Films
May 15th, 2017 · No Comments
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Mother Tongue reading box
May 2nd, 2017 · No Comments
In this Grade 3 classroom at ISB, children have access to books in their mother tongue.
Thanks Caryn Macky
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Supporting mother tongue in the ES classroom
March 21st, 2017 · 2 Comments
It’s good to see teachers doing the quiet, small things that send powerful messages to kids. In this example from Grade 3, the teacher sponsors a child in a read-a-thon to read in both her languages. The learning here is multidimensional.
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Here are the languages the world is trying to learn
March 21st, 2017 · No Comments
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Mother tongues at school
February 14th, 2017 · No Comments
Don’t just speak English, teachers told
Thanks to Avery Udagawa for this article.
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Mother tongue in the classroom
January 31st, 2017 · 1 Comment
Contrasting languages in Ms Macky’s Grade 3
Lots of opportunities for children to talk about how languages work to make meaning.
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Mother Tongue ideas for the classroom
September 21st, 2016 · No Comments
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How do we enable multilingualism at ISB?
September 6th, 2016 · No Comments
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‘Let if Go’ in 25 languages
August 16th, 2016 · No Comments
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