Welcome to Grade 2!
Summer Break, Finally!
This year has been amazing. We have done awesome activities, learnt many new things and became leaders of our learning. We thank our dear parents for all their support and encouragement throughout the year. We are looking forward to our summer vacation. From myself,...
Farewell to Grade 2
After a wonderful year together, we tried to make the most of our last week at school. Zhayne's Mum kindly came to help us make our own tie dyed t-shirts and after washing them overnight we brought them to school for a last class photo. We also enjoyed making fairy...
We Love Games
The Grade 2 students have looked at the skills people need and use in workplaces and worked out which ones they would need to use to run a Games Fair for our friends in Grade 1. Students brought along games and evaluated how suitable they were for the Grade 1...
Game On!
Our final unit of inquiry was all about "Working Together" to reach a common goal. Our goal? Working with our partners to teach our games to each other and to our grade one buddies. We designed a poster with rules for our "customers" so that they were able to play as...
Lights, Camera, Action!
Grade 2 were excited this morning to be able to perform the plays they created and rehearsed with Ms Markin as part of our Drama Unit of Inquiry. One group performed 'The Lion King' and the other performed ''Snow White'. Performing for an audience on the stage in...
Dramatic Performances!
We worked hard at creating our plays "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves; The Lion King". With the help of Ms. Markin we chose our characters and wrote our own lines too! We enjoyed the plays and thank all our parents for all their support helping us with our costumes....
Creative Minds
Mona, Zhayne and Omar read a book this week about the sense of smell which described how to conduct a food smell test. They followed the instructions and brought along a variety of different foods to see if a few students could identify the foods using only their...
Drama, drama, drama…
The last few weeks we worked hard at out performances for our summative assessment. We wrote our own parts for our plays, made character masks and practiced with Ms. Markin our performances. We worked hard on our time management skills to complete our tasks. We had...
Inspired by Roald Dahl
We are enjoying reading 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' so much that many of us have brought along our own copies to read along with. We have noticed that Roald Dahl uses similes now and then to enhance descriptions. We discovered what fun it is to create similes....
ABIS Community Iftaar Next Week: May 22nd
Although we are coming to the end of this school year, the Student Council has organized one last event: The ABIS Community Iftar. Since Ramadan is a chance for families to gather together, it only seems fitting that our ABIS family take the opportunity...
Lots of Learning
We have been interested in seeing a variety of different masks that can be used for drama. Sam gave a neat presentation about the mask his family brought from Thailand. Zhayne made a cool mask at home. We took turns communicating with the class by wearing the mask and...
Learning from the Grade 6 Exhibition
Viewing the Grade 6 exhibition and participating in some of their fun activities has been a highlight for our class this week. We enjoyed watching their performance which was a brilliant introduction to the themes of their presentations. We were excited about...
Exhibition 2019!
This week we were able to view, experience and participate with the grade sixes' exhibition. After 8 weeks of hard work, dedication and commitment the grade 6 students were able to breath again. We enjoyed participating and helping out with their action plans and...
Assembly for Ramadan
Students participated Omanis from different educational levels in the Assembly for Ramadan where students gave a lot of information and the various paragraphs of poetry and the Koran and Puppet Theater presents new ideas about Ramadan and competitions
Coming Next Week! ABIS CHARITY BAZAAR!
The Community Council have organized a new event. A Charity Bazaar! An event where you can sell items that you may not need or use anymore. Keep in mind that the items MUST be in good condition, and small enough to transport. The event will take in place in the Gym on...
The greatest show!
Last week we worked hard to prepare for the show this week. It was amazing and we all had a wonderful time doing our performances. Thank you to all parents who were able to watch us perform.
All Go in Grade 2
This week we have been developing our fraction knowledge in Maths, learning to order fractions and find a fraction of a set or number. We have discovered that knowing our halves and doubles facts can help to solve some fraction problems. We were very excited about...
International Day dress up & The greatest show…
This week we worked hard during our dance lessons to prepare for our upcoming performances on April, the 9th. Although it was fun, it's hard work. Our instruments are made from scratch for the marching band. We hope to see you all at our show! We also had a parade...
Classifying Animals
In Grade 2 we have found many ways to classify animals. We worked in small groups to classify a group of animals in different ways. To be able to classify them accurately we needed to research some of the animals on our iPads. We have also classified animals using...
Thanking our Mums
This week Grade 2 enjoyed making a special card to give our Mums on Mother's Day. Students put a great deal of care and effort into making these as lovely as could be. When it came to writing the message many students chose to write in their mother tongue. To help...