Welcome to Grade 2!
Football
This year's football tournament will get underway next Thursday starting at 3:30pm. ABIS will feature in the first two games with the 13&U team playing SIS or ABQ as they are now known and the 10&U team playing Future Science. Future Science will play ABQ in...
MEUC
The MEUC swim meet will take place at the Hamdan Swim Complex in Dubai on the 6th and 7th of March. It is open to all competent ABIS swimmers in the 8&U, 9-10/, 11-12/, 13-14/ and 15+ age groups. The cost for each swimmer is Dhs 1,640(OMR 172). Swimmers stay for...
A week of hard work
This week we got stuck into our new unit of inquiry. We chose our area we are going to become experts in and started our research. In maths we started learning about time.
A very short but productive week
This week we introduced our new unit of inquiry which is weather. Fortunately, we had a wide variety of weather to experience. The kids adjusted quickly to school routines and we had a great two days.
A very short but productive week
This week we introduced our new unit of inquiry on weather. We revised some basic skills in maths and enjoyed reading information texts about weather.
Athletics Day
Well done to all those students who participated and put in fantastic efforts at our athletics track. It was great to see so many students go in so many races and jumping and throwing events and put in their best efforts. Congratulations to the Desert Foxes who won...
Spirit Week and More
What a fun week of dressing up, sharing maps and scavenger hunting around the school.
2019 Winter Concert: photos & videos
Wow! What a fantastic evening the 2019 Winter Concert was! A massive congratulations to all the students who performed in this concert. And a massive thank you to everyone involved behind the scenes to make it all possible. Here are a couple of highlights from the...
Wow what a week
The children have had a great week and have all earned valuable house points for their teams. Thank you all for supporting our spirit week the children looked fantastic. Have a lovely winter break.
Sharpening athletic day skills
Children have been practicing for their athletic day events. Today we focused on high jump. 😃
A Week of Maps and Stories
The children shared their tiny non-fiction books with a partner before adding them to our tiny book library. Also, they finalized their map projects by sharing their findings with each other. Finally, they created treasure maps for each other and then went searching...
Poetry in motion
The rain inspired us on Sunday to write our own rain poems. We followed this by writing map poems and then went to the farm to write farm poems. I think we have some budding poets in Grade 2. On Wednesday we visited the science fair it was inspirational.
Snowflakes
Well done to our beautiful dancing snowflakes. You were amazing. The students have been busy this week publishing their own stories and solving maths word problems. They have also been reflecting on the their mapping knowledge.
3 Way Conferences!
Thank you for your participation in the 3 Way Conferences (and thank you in advance for those of you coming on the 2nd). The children were very excited to share their perspective on 2nd Grade. Here are some highlights. Enjoy your long weekend and see you on December...
Nutcracker Performance December 4th
DECEMBER 4TH AT 6:00PM THE ABIS PRIMARY DANCE STUDENTS WILL BE PERFORMING THE CLASSIC WINTER STORY OF THE NUTCRACKER. PARENTS ARE INVITED TO A WONDERFUL EVENING OF MUSIC AND DANCING. MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT BEGINS OUTSIDE OF THE MAZOON AT 6:00PM WITH SNACKS AND WARM...
National Day Celebrations
This week the students shared their Omani culture with us and had fun celebrating in school. In UOI we were working on following cardinal directions. If you can download a compass onto your phone for your children they can practice their skills. They have been...
A wonderful assembly
Well done Grade 2, with only 3 days to prepare and practice you all showed great commitment and courage to ensure that you gave your best performance. I am very proud of you. So sorry the photos will not post I hope you all have some good ones.
Another great week in grade 2
The children really showed their commitment to learning this week by writing Essential Agreements in 2nd grade. They even had the idea to share these with others and next week they will post them around the school. Also, everyone made their own map by first building a...
Picnic Time
It was lots of fun this week with Mother tongue Monday and the house picnic. Thank you to all those who sent food in to share. We even had a visiting theatre company who came to entertain us this week. Aysha, Rayan and Alice were lucky enough to be asked to be their...
A Fun Four Days
We had a great week of learning. The children shared maps from home, maps they made, strengthened reading strategies and studied length and distance.