Rock Stories and Skip Counting

We started Sunday amazed at the salt crystals that grew over the weekend! Our week continued with story-building about the rock cycle, making towers to practice skip counting, and of course reading and writing to improve our English literacy.

Transdisciplinary learning

We made a sediment jar to understand sedimentary rocks and a mineral experiment to observe how minerals form. The children have written their observations in their journals and were challenged to use their creative thinking skills and explore making a mixed media art...

Music Review

During Ramadan students have been learning about music elements. Grade 3 to grade 5 have reinforced their understanding of note values by using Lego bricks to represent quarter, half and eighth notes. The Lego bricks show quarter, half and eighth notes. The challenge...

Sediments and salt crystals, oh my!

One of my favorite parts of each day is when our class sings the National Anthem of Oman in the morning. The students sing boldly, and it is a lovely sight to see some with their hands up in a salute as they sing. We’ve been talking this week about respect – and...