Welcome to Kindergarten 3
Fun Farewell to grade 5 Buddies
Thank you Grade 5, we have had so much fun together. Thank you for making picture story books to read to us. We really liked making crafts together.
How Our Choices In Our Community Effects Our Environment
We had lots of discussions about the choices we make in our community and how this affects our environment. We were also examining mass: heavy and light and measuring lengths. Some of us used a dictionary to finish our name puzzle. we built numbers and words.
Being Communicators
Some students have acted out their reading group plays and all of us have dramatized our Unit of Inquiry story- It Takes A Village. We have also had fun building the teen numbers and being teachers for each other. We also counted the bags for Karan Kashor to make sure...
Giving learning a context and purpose
We have been practising to skip count in 2's. We had fun answering questions and making up stories with groups of 2. We have written stories with a friend, and we continue to work with the Precious Stones to create our story about Precious Stones and Shining Stars. We...
Putting Our Learning Into Practice
Some of our friends read a play to us and Miss Simone's class. We also played Maths number and calendar games with them. We used our Ten in The Bed boxes to double numbers, make 10, subtraction and addition problems. We added quantities on playing cards.
Open Ended Teaching creates Thinkers, Innovators and Problem Solvers!
This has been a very exciting week- doing a maths and literacy workshop with the PYP expert, Jo Farhey. The lesson was linked to our UoI about materials and we used matchsticks and blue tack, popsicle sticks and tape, clay and paper. We read the story, Ten In The Bed...
Consolidating!
We painted our salt dough ornaments that we made for Procedural writing. We finished learning about all the vowels and wrote some word families. We also drew our reflections for the year book: Surprise! And we started working on recording the instructions for the...
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...
Our Materials UoI in Action
The children were thoroughly involved in their different projects and worked cooperatively to help each other and problem solve. Well done using a variety of materials and using your imagination.
Measuring. Making & Materials
We started measuring lengths in the classroom using non-standard measuring tools (ruler, feet and highlighter pen). Several students made a rabbit independently after it was their reading book. We discussed the properties and characteristics of materials while...
The Process of Pancaking Making
Please enjoy the photos of the boys making pancakes for procedural writing. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B_gmmJTbRvb7LUxSZjlnbGlsNXc More girls photos to follow next week.
When Procedural Writing is Fun & Delicious!?
We had so much fun on Tuesday, before the long weekend. We made fragrant cinnamon salt dough and ornaments. We also made pancakes. (Disclaimer- most of these photos were taken by students! And apologies as Miss Ancilla was unable to upload the girls, but will post...
International Day
We are proud to be Arabs: Omani and a Jordanian. Wow the costumes and colours were glorious to see at the parade. We also took a big photo together.
Fun Swim Event
We all had a good time doing our best and swimming different strokes and different distances.
Assembly Rehearsal Photos & Learning This Week
Last week involved a different kind of learning. We learnt about being brave and presenting on stage for our assembly. We had to dance, read, learn and remember our words. Everyone was super excited and did very well. This week it was full steam ahead with our regular...
The magical process of compost!
K3 students are becoming experts at composting organic waste. We have been learning why it matters to compost and how to do it during STEAM, as well as writing about it in a How-To Book to launch our procedural writing unit. To help our K3 writers think about all of...
Colours, Numbers Reading And Writing
This week we have been busy consolidating lots of our knowledge. We built "teen" numbers and problem solved subtraction story sums. We also practised counting backwards. We practised writing words. Mohammed Omar showed us how to make a bird that he learnt from his...
Oman Week
K3 is enjoying a week full of exploration, learning, and fun!
Tuesday’s Excursion To The Mangrove Swamps
We had learnt that this is a very important part of the ecosystem. It was interesting to look at the different plants and fun to play in the mud. We also found crabs and lots of different shells. We had a yummy lunch and want to say a big thank you to the mother's who...
Oman Week Sunday & Monday
We had the special Oman Week Launch and we dressed up in local dress or the Omani flag colours. We learnt about Omani culture: making baskets with palm leaves, making Omani bread, making Laban, rocking a baby to sleep, looking at wooden boat models, looking at items...