by Oscar DASS | Mar 3, 2022 | Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Secondary Maths, Secondary Science, The Grades
“Knowledge is not intelligence” [Heraclitus] “knowledge needs to be a verb” [Edwards Deming] These two quotes provide us with the basis of what can be achieved. Knowledge can be learnt. And we can use that knowledge to bring about change...
by Margot SIMONDS | Mar 3, 2022 | ECC, Grade 1, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 12, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Grade 9, Library
Exciting News!! Ms. Maryam traveled to the Muscat International Book Fair last weekend and was able to purchase many new titles for all ages for our Arabic book section. When students read in their mother tongue, this often helps them to perform better when learning...
by Kirsten LLOYD | Feb 24, 2022 | Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Music, The Grades
So often, students are handed written music and asked to learn to play it. But what do you do when there isn’t any written music? The 6th, 7th, and 8th graders have been experimenting with this very question. In Music class, we have been listening to the...
by Margot SIMONDS | Feb 24, 2022 | Grade 4, Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Library
A love of reading has lead to an amazing new Service as Action project by Tharaa, a 7th grade student here at ABIS. Grade 4 students have the opportunity to participate in a month long book study of the book “The Mockingbird” by Katherine Erskine. The book...
by Andrew JOHNSON | Feb 16, 2022 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP)
In English students are working in their poetry anthologies. They are applying their knowledge of poetic form and devices, such as rhyme, rhythm, personification, onomatopoeia and metaphor, to their own poems. They also investigated nonsense poems, haiku and...
by Oscar DASS | Feb 9, 2022 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8
Grade 7 have been working on this unit for a few weeks now. They were challenged to design a safety limit (to prevent crashing into walls or barriers while playing sports indoors. Using their knowledge of motion, they designed experiments to study reaction times of...
