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...
by Andrew COOPER | Feb 9, 2022 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Grade 9, Primary P.E., Secondary P.E
Students in MYP are learning how to reflect on their performance and highlight areas that they want to develop. They are then setting goals and planning activities to achieve their goals. In small groups, they will now teach their plans to each other and reflect on...
by Oscar DASS | Feb 3, 2022 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Secondary Maths, Secondary Science
Graphs are a picture to understanding something based on evidence and measurements. They illustrate the relationships between things. Being able to take data and transform it into pictures (graphs) and then use that to make predictions is a skill that is used in all...
by Margot SIMONDS | Feb 3, 2022 | Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 12, Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Grade 9, Library
This week Mr. Bradshaw and his grade 9 students came to the library for a refresher workshop on using Noodletools for their research projects. Noodletools is a research management platform that ABIS has a subscription to. It is a flexible system that students...
