by Amy CAMP | Mar 17, 2016 | Front Page, Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Music, Secondary Music
Last weekend, the G7 and 8 choir students gathered for a retreat: a time to be together and have fun! We made pizzas, watched a musical, played fun music games and even learned a new card game or two. Thanks to those who were able to come, and thanks especially...
by Amy CAMP | Mar 17, 2016 | Front Page, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Grade 9, Music, Secondary Music
Each year, TAISM hosts a Festival of Choirs, bringing in a guest conductor and inviting students from the region to a two-day intensive music making experience. Four of our G10 students will participate in this year’s Festival, along with 200 other...
by Eric GRIEBENOW | Mar 3, 2016 | ECC, Music, The Grades
Our youngest students have been experimenting with moving around the classroom, learning how to bear walk, crab walk, hop, jump, march, even run! All while being bathed in music with different meters and tonalities. ...
by Amy CAMP | Feb 25, 2016 | ECC, Kindergarten 3 (ICS), Music
The information below was sent out to the K3 and ECC students last week. There are still a few openings for each class. Music Together® is an internationally known early childhood music program. One of its core beliefs is that all children are musical, and the...
by Amy CAMP | Feb 4, 2016 | ECC, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Music
This month, our Primary music students are learning an Arabic folk song, “Ah Ya Zane”. In doing some research, the song is claimed in Egypt, Syria and Lebanon. No matter where it is from, we are happy to be singing it here at ABIS! So far, the...
by Eric GRIEBENOW | Jan 14, 2016 | Grade 9, Music, Secondary Music, The Grades
In G9 IGCSE music, we are studying the beginning of Western music, mainly Greek influence on music as we know it today (in Western culture). We get to look at photographs of pots, papyrus, and clay tablets and (with the help of expert music historians)...
