We are really looking forward to seeing you all at tonight’s event, the ABIS International Food Festival. It looks like it is going to be a great night for the ABIS community featuring foods from all around the world, as well as a wide range of activities and performances! We appreciate your participation and look forward to a wonderful evening celebrating our diverse cultures! 🎉🌏
Upcoming Dates
- Thursday 20th February – ABIS International Food Festival 4:30pm – 8:00pm
- Friday 21st February – Nautilus Swim Meet 8am-3pm (Please come and support our team)
- Sunday 23rd February – SCHOOL CLOSED – Oman National Teacher Day
- Thursday 27th February – Primary Swimming Gala – Participation is compulsory for all students.
- Sunday 2nd – Thursday 6th March – SCHOOL CLOSED – Term Break
- Sunday 9th March – Return to school – Ramadan timetable (Details to follow)
This week in UOI students inquired into the vocabulary around some of the concepts they will be learning about such as: Sustainable, Biodiversity, Biome, Ecosystem, Interdependent & Responsibility. They worked together to ensure they had a good understanding of the concepts and created Frayer Models for the vocabulary wall. In a UOI/Literacy session, students read in partners about food chains and the components that make up food chains; producers, consumers and decomposers. Then, students’ explored a story called Beastly Biomes by Carly Fletcher to explore what biomes are out there and the diversity within that biome. Students then focused on one biome and created a food chain using the pictures identifying and labeling producers, consumers and decomposers. In literacy before studying about poetry, we looked at how poetry is meant to be spoken literature. Using different poems about sustainability and nature, students partnered and worked on performing the poems. They first had to analyse the poem to understand it and the animal in their poem, and then recorded themselves performing the poem.
In maths students learnt all about polygons, starting with breaking about the word poly= many, and gon=sides. Students have shown that they understand what a polygon is and then we went on to identifying and naming regular and irregular polygons. We ended maths practising our problem solving skills and remembering GEMS (grouping, exponents, multiplication & division, subtraction & addition), when playing ‘Bowl-a-Fact’. Students had 10 pins, numbers 1-10, that they had to try and ‘knock down’ by rolling a die 3 times and using those numbers in as many different expressions that they could think of. It was an engaging activity for them to come up with different ways as possible to get all the numbers. Students enjoyed going to the KG1-Grade 2 assembly Friday morning as a nice way to end our week.
Please find the link to all of the photos from this week HERE.
Looking Forward:
In UOI we will continue to look into biomes and food chains. In Maths we will be exploring the properties of triangles and learning to plot shapes on coordinate planes. In Literacy, we will continue to look at different types of poems and learn about using figurative language as a visual technique within poems.
Best wishes, Grade 5 Team! 
