Although this is the last week of school for our seniors, we will always keep them in our hearts! We hope that wherever their journey takes them, they will still find wonderful stories and adventures in the pages of a book.
虽然这是毕业班学生在校的最后一周，但他们将永远留在我们心中！无论未来旅程将他们带往何方，愿他们始终能在书页间邂逅精彩的故事与奇遇。
Younger Primary G1-2 年级小学生
Many of our first grade students understand the frustration of being in a new school and not understanding the language–which is the exact experience of Dat in the book Gibberish by Young Vo. Dat explains that since he doesn’t understand the language, everything sounds like gibberish to him! But with the help of a kind new friend, things slowly begin to make sense. Students also took note of the symbolism in the book: the first pages of the book are black and white, and the pictures get more colorful as Dat learns the language and starts making friends!
我们一年级许多学生都深刻体会过初入新学校却语言不通的挫败感——这正是《胡言乱语》（Young Vo著）中小达的经历。小达解释说，因为听不懂这门语言，所有对话对他来说都像胡言乱语！但在一位友善新朋友的帮助下，一切逐渐变得清晰起来。孩子们还敏锐捕捉到书中的象征手法：当小达开始掌握语言并结交朋友时，原本黑白的前几页插图逐渐变得绚丽多彩！
After a brief introduction to the fantasy genre, our second grade readers dove into a fun fantasy book from the Billy and the Mini Monsters series called Monsters Move House. Billy is moving to a new home—but the Mini Monsters get lost along the way! How will Billy ever find them again? And just when things couldn’t get more confusing, a brand-new monster shows up on the scene…
在简单了解奇幻文学体裁后，我们二年级的小读者们兴致勃勃地走进了《比利和小怪兽》系列的奇幻世界，共读了其中一本妙趣横生的《小怪兽搬家记》。故事中，比利正要搬往新家，可他的迷你怪兽们却在半路走丢了！比利要如何找回这些调皮的小伙伴？就在情节越发扑朔迷离之际，一个全新怪兽突然登场…
Older Primary G3-5 年级小学生
This week, we read the first part of the African fable How the Leopard Got His Claws by Chinua Achebe. The animals in the forest worked together to build a shelter for the rainy season, but the dog and the duck refused to help. When a flood destroyed the dog’s cave, he had nowhere to go and rushed to the common shelter. The dog was the only animal in the forest with sharp teeth and claws, so he easily bit everyone and threw them out—including the kind Leopard. When Leopard asked the others to help him stand up to the dog, they all turned their backs on him. Even though the students begged to hear the rest of the story, we’ll have to keep that secret until next week. How will it end??
本周我们阅读了钦努阿·阿契贝的非洲寓言《豹子如何获得利爪》的前半部分。森林动物们原本齐心协力为雨季搭建避难所，唯独狗和鸭子拒绝帮忙。当洪水冲毁狗洞后，无家可归的狗强行闯入公共避难所——作为森林里唯一拥有尖牙利爪的动物，它轻易咬伤所有伙伴并将它们驱逐，连善良的豹子也未能幸免。而当豹子请求其他动物共同反抗时，却遭遇集体背弃。尽管孩子们迫切想听结局，这个秘密还得留到下周揭晓。豹子将如何逆袭呢？
Library A 图书馆 A
We had a special guest in Library A this week–a drone! The library will be part of the school’s new drone-filmed campus tour. Thank you to everyone who participated in the filming and made the video possible! We can’t wait to see the result!
本周A图书馆迎来了一位特殊访客——无人机！图书馆将被纳入学校全新的无人机航拍校园导览。感谢所有参与拍摄的师生，正是你们的配合让这段视频得以完成！我们已经迫不及待想看到成片啦！
We are one week closer to the library book due date! Your librarians have been busy getting the library ready for summer holiday, which unfortunately means putting away our usual book displays until August. For now we’ve replaced the displays with colorful reminders to return your library books. If you have any questions about returning your library books, please ask Ms. Claire!
距离图书馆还书截止日期又近了一周！图书馆老师们正忙着为暑假做准备，这意味着我们不得不暂时收起常规的书展陈列（直到八月才能再见啦）。现在，取而代之的是色彩缤纷的还书提醒标识。若有任何还书疑问，随时咨询董老师哦！
What are your librarians reading?
图书管理员在读什么书？
Over the past year, Ms. Claire has realized that our students love scary books! One of her goals this summer is to read more horror, mystery, and supernatural so that by August she is ready with more book recommendations! This week she’s reading Sisters of the Lost Marsh by Lucy Strange–a historical story about six sisters whose superstitious (and possibly cursed!) family suffer the lost of their eldest sister. But is she truly gone?
过去一年间，董老师发现学生们对恐怖题材书籍的热爱超乎想象！今年夏天的目标之一就是多读恐怖、悬疑和超自然题材书籍，以便在八月开学时为大家带来全新书单推荐！本周她正在阅读露西·斯特兰奇的《迷失沼泽六姐妹》——这部历史小说讲述六个姐妹的迷信（或许还被诅咒！）家族痛失长姐的故事。但这位长姐真的离世了吗？
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