Welcome to Grade 8
Service as Action – School supplies donation
Thank you to all who have already given! . We need more, a lot more! Here is a reminder about the purpose of the Grade 9 Service as Action activity. Thank you to donate unused school supplies. They don't have to be new but they should not have been used...
MYP Design
The Grade 8 MYP Design students have created some highly imaginative design ideas for their Cultural Clocks project. It will be great to see some of these clocks made when they create their final products.
Grade 9 SCIENCE-Our journey so far has been intriguing!
For 6 weeks now, Grade 9 science students have been exploring the unit on acids and bases around us and the impacts on our environment. At the onset, we assessed some misconceptions surrounding acids and bases, some of which included the notion that acids...
Sold out!
The Secondary Student Council's first bake sale of the school year was a HUGE success! We sold everything, to the last crumb! Thank you to the students (and families) who baked and thank you to all who bought the yummy treats. The money, kept in the school safe, will...
Service as Action – Grade 9 advisory class.
In support of Takaful Charity located in Sohar. Up until October break, Grade 9 will be collecting school supplies. (glue sticks, pairs of scissors, pens and pencils, colours, pencil cases, highlighters, sharpeners, erasers) There will be boxes in the 3 atriums in...
grade 8 arabic
this week students has learned arabic grammar to use the possessive adjective in a new sentences.
Bake sale – Wednesday 4th Octobre
The Secondary Student Council is organising a bake sale on Wednesday 4th Octobre at break and lunch time. Primary students will be able to buy goods at the Oasis and Secondary students will be able to buy goods in the LC2 atrium. Remember to bring small cash,...
Grade 8 Drawings
This week Grade 8 have created some lovely Picasso appreciation drawings. They have looked in detail at his use of shape, pattern and intense colour - later in the unit they will make their own 3D artworks inspired by Picasso's style.
GRADE 8 SCIENCE: Kahoot it!
My goal as an educator is to nurture a profound and lasting love of learning within each child, one that transcends the boundaries of the classroom and enriches each child’s life far beyond the school walls. At ABIS, we recognize that fostering a...
Analysis of poems تحليل القصائد الشعرية
G9 students participated in analyzing some poetic poems related to the unit’s title (Rhetoric among the Arabs). The poem included an art of praise. The students analyzed the verses by analyzing the vocabulary, meanings, beauty, and ideas.
Developing mathematical mindset
Flexibility and Conceptual Thinking Are Required When Working with Numbers We seek to discern patterns in the cosmos and comprehend its rhythms. But when children enter school and are exposed to a dry set of procedures they believe they just have to accept and...
Grade 8 English/ Individuals and Societies
https://abisoman.com/broadcaster/2023/09/20/grade-8-english-individuals-and-societies-5/In English we have continued our inquiry into advertising techniques. Students have just completed an essay analysing video advertisements. We are now looking at humorous advertisements and will conclude by investigating public service ads. For the final assessed...
What’s in a word?
Language Acquisition Grade 7 English Language Acquisition students are becoming more and more familiar with using a variety of note-taking and visual thinking techniques. We use them to build background, develop vocabulary and deconstruct ideas. We use them at the...
Questions anyone?
The Grade 8 French students are currently looking at questions, how to ask them and how to answer them. We are focusing our understanding and use of questions about our identity, our school life and the people around us. It is all about asking the right question at...
Scholastic Book Club
Dear ABIS Families, We are pleased to announce the first Scholastic Book Club order for this school year. This is an online book club from which students can order books to be delivered to the school and distributed through the library via Me. The orders are in US...
The intertwined relationship between maths and art
It’s easy to view art and math as completely separate subjects. Right brain vs. left brain. Creative vs. analytical. Imaginative vs. practical. Right? In fact, many of the core skills in art and math are closely related. Both disciplines require spatial reasoning...
Oliver Twist. أوليفر تويست
G9 students analyzed a novel from world literature entitled (Oliver Twist), linking its events to a global issue, which is poverty and ill-treatment of shelter children. Each student began after sharing the reading, identifying the most important points, and forming...
What is MYP Support?
This year, the grade 8s, 9s, and 10s have MYP support on their schedule. The purpose of this course is to help student develop study skills and self-learning tools, all centered around the ATLs. As their academic careers become more rigorous and challenging,...
How do you define yourself?
In Grade 8, the students are beginning to learn about how different styles of Music have connections to a culture's identity. But who do we define, "Identity?" The students have set out to define their own, first as individuals and then as parts of varying groups. ...
Science -Criterion D assessment
In line with the ABIS Mission which is to ‘challenge and inspire all students to reach their full potential by providing an innovative and inquiry based education that supports well being and lifelong learning’, the grade 9 scientists have benefited a lot from...