11-3-15: Books, Camels, and Badges

Today was another great adventure!  We took a taxi halfway to the Qatar National Library.  From there, we walked through Souq Waqif and various other parts of Doha to get to the library.  When we arrived at the library, we spent about an hour exploring the various section of the library, reading, and cooling off.

Our professor, Dr. Moehle, investigating the Reference Section of the library.

There were no computers to search for books.  We could only use the Dewey Decimal system!

From there, we went back to Souq Waqif for lunch and some shopping.  At lunch, we had the chance to eat camel kabobs with rice!  It did NOT taste like chicken.

Our Camel & Rice lunch platter

One of the shops in Souq Waqif

We ended the night by picking up our official Delegate badges for tomorrow's conference!  We are excited and ready to go!

Our official badges!

DCF Book Talks & Challenge

We are excited to announce the start of our Dorothy Canfield Fisher (DCF) book talks and "The DCF Challenge".  Once a month, Ms. Dulac from the Milton Public Library will be joining us to share and introduce us to five books on the 2015-2016 DCF Book List.  As a team, we've set up the DCF Challenge and are seeing if students can read all 30 books by the end of the school year!  If a student reads any five books from the list, they earn a ticket to the voting/pizza party!  Copies of the books can be found at the MEMS Library, Milton Public Library, and local bookstores.

Here are some photographs from our first book talk!