by Ann Gaillard | Dec 13, 2018 | Front Page, Secondary Team Leader
At ABIS we believe that parents play a very important role at all stages of a child’s education. We appreciate how our parents take time off from their busy schedules to support and advocate for their children. One good example was the three-way conferences held...
by Liezel BOSHOFF | Dec 11, 2018 | ECC, Front Page, The Grades
This week we looked at illustrations in books from Eric Carl and used that as our motivation to create our own prints. It was clear that the students didn’t really understand exactly what a pattern is, so we did some research. We walked around the school and...
by Nisreen KHALIL | Dec 6, 2018 | Front Page, Kindergarten 3 (GS), Kindergarten 3 (ICS)
After K-3 students learned the DAL letter and related short and long sounds and new vocabulary around the DAL they did an activity about it. Each of them designed a worm cut and paste and wrote the name of a worm. Students enjoyed this work.
by Ann Gaillard | Dec 6, 2018 | Front Page, Primary Team Leader, Secondary Team Leader
Last Thursday, the ABIS staff had two great in-house professional development sessions. After attending an Orton Gillingham workshop in Dubai, Ms. Sarah shared ways to better understand the complexities of the English language. She provided some strategies on teachers...
by Ann Gaillard | Dec 6, 2018 | Front Page, The Head's Blog
Dear ABIS Parents & Students, On Saturday, December 8th, 8:30 – 11 am, there will be the 5th Annual ABIS Community Beach Clean-up at Umq Beach near the Sanqar Park (Pirate Ship Park) in Sohar. We will meet at the parking lot at Umq Beach, not far from Dawood...
by Liezel BOSHOFF | Dec 4, 2018 | ECC, Front Page, The Grades
We had a wonderful time in swimming this week. We were swimming through hoops under the water and kicked with the frog boards. They just played and had fun.