Now that we’re on the other side of May holiday, time is flying! With all the busy activities and events happening in the upcoming weeks, try taking a moment to sit down a read a book. You’ll find that soon your scurrying mind will settle and your heart will be at ease.
五一假期转瞬已过，时光飞逝！面对接下来几周繁忙的活动与事项，不妨抽空静心阅读一本书。你会发现，浮躁的思绪将逐渐沉淀，心灵也会随之安宁。
Younger Primary G1-2 年级小学生
This week, we practiced the skill “I can write my opinion about this book” using the fun picture book Duck! Rabbit! and the interesting nonfiction book Hedgehog or Porcupine? We talked about what opinions are, how to find true facts in nonfiction books, and even explored a great website to help us learn more: FactSurfer. It was a fun and thoughtful week of reading and discovery!
本周，我们通过趣味绘本《鸭子！兔子！》和科普读物《刺猬还是豪猪？》来练习”我能表达对书籍的观点”这一技能。课堂上，我们探讨了何为观点、如何在非虚构作品中获取真实信息，甚至还发现了一个超棒的学习网站：https://www.factsurfer.com。这真是充满思考与发现的阅读周！
Older Primary G3-5 年级小学生
This week, our older students enjoyed The Story of Chocolate from the Usborne Young Reading series. These books are usually tucked away in a quiet corner, but their fun stories and colorful illustrations quickly caught everyone’s attention. By the end of the week, the series was almost completely checked out—what a sweet success!
本周，我们高年级学生品读了Usborne青少年读物系列的《巧克力的故事》。这套丛书通常静静陈列在图书馆角落，但其生动的故事与缤纷插画迅速吸引了所有人的目光。到周末时，整个系列几乎被借阅一空——真是甜蜜的胜利！
Library A 图书馆 A
It is with a heavy yet hopeful heart that I announce the end of secondary book checkout for this semester. Your librarians always work very hard at the end of the school year to track down and organize all the library books, which takes a lot of time! This was the last week for checkout, and ALL books are due on Friday, May 30th. But don’t be too sad–you still have three weeks to read the books you already have checked out. Ms. Claire would be happy to help you find any book you wish either online or available for purchase.
怀着依依不舍又充满期待的心情，我宣布本学期中学部图书借阅服务即将结束。学年末，图书馆老师们总是需要投入大量时间追回并整理所有馆藏图书——这项工作可不轻松！本周是最后借阅周，所有图书归还截止日为5月30日周五。不过别太难过，你们仍有三周时间阅读已借书籍。董老师很乐意协助大家在线查找或购买任何心仪读物。
What are your librarians reading?
图书管理员在读什么书？
To honor Arab-American heritage month, Ms. Claire recently finished reading We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal. In this ancient-Arabia-inspired fantasy we meet two “flames”: Zafira, the revered Hunter whose mysterious identity scares the king but protects her people, and Nasir, the son of the tyrannical king and trained assassin. On the brink of war, the two of them work together to restore the magic that has disappeared from their land.
为庆祝阿拉伯裔美国人传统月，董老师近日读完了哈芙莎·法伊扎尔的《猎焰者》。这部以古阿拉伯为灵感的奇幻小说塑造了两位”火焰”般的主角：受人尊敬的”猎人”扎菲拉——她神秘的身份令国王恐惧却守护着子民；以及暴君之子、职业刺客纳西尔。在战争边缘，两人联手寻找这片土地上消失的魔法。
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