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Omani National Day, Movement Art, Word Wizards and Multiplication
Hello everyone, Happy 51st Omani National Day! What a busy week of learning in Grade 5. In Art we have been using 3 workshops to explore the concept of movement to connect with our Unit of Inquiry on Forces. Group 1 used paint pendulums to create abstract pattern art,...
G6 Week 13 in Review
Dear Parents and Students, Happy 51st National day of Oman and Welcome to our week in review for week 13. This week has been another busy week. Please see below for an overview of what we have been up to in Grade 6 🙂 It was great to see so many of our students in...
Personal History Project
The DP higher level students are just finishing up reading the Graphic Novel Maus by Art Spiegelman. This text is a memoir of the artist trying to come to terms with and understand his father and what he suffered in Nazi occupied Poland during the second world war....
So Much Going On!
Happy 51st National Oman Day! It was great fun celebrating National Day today. Being able to gather and raise the flag was a hint of normalcy and movement towards progress. While today we celebrated Oman and all its beauty and growth, this week we continued...
Learning and celebrating
This week we wondered if a picture could tell a story and explored using watercolors and coloring pencils to share an idea. We also finished the week with a beautiful National Day celebration!
Grade 8; English and Individuals and Societies
In English we have reading ‘ The Outsiders’ by S.E. Hinton. Students have completed analyses of the major characters in the novel in order to complete the first summative assessment. They have also inquired into literary devices, particularly the way in which the...
Knowledge is Power!
This week's focus has been on research and changing data into information and into knowledge and in some cases taking those seemingly unrelated facts and making some insights. The old adage that states “Knowledge is power”; not data, or information, but knowledge. We...
Nonfiction Form and Function in Information Literacy Classes!
Grades 3-6 have been investigating the form and function of nonfiction texts over the past two weeks. Students have been identifying nonfiction text features as well as deciding how each of those can help us to become better readers of nonfiction. I have seen students...
New Titles in the ABIS Library!!
A big thank you to all families that participated in our first Scholastic Book Club Order! We were able to add 12 new titles to our library and the students are thrilled! The books have already all been checked out! We have also added some exciting new books in Arabic...
Hard Work in the MYP
In Grade 8, the students have been learning about the musical forms of Blues and Jazz, and how they connect culturally to the Civil Rights Movement in the US. The students have been looking at the structural differences between the two styles, and diving into the...
G9 practices for next year’s ePortfolio.
Visual art students in Grade 9 are completing a mock ePortfolio unit, taken from an actual MYP Arts partially completed unit planner (PCUP) from a previous year. While the specific contents of an ePortfolio unit are always kept secret until November, the general...
Another fun week in grade 2
We learned more about weather by flying kites. We saw how the air holds up clouds. Look for many more pictures coming next week. Have a nice weekend.
Being present
Being present in your children's life is crucial now - more than ever. With the impact that Covid has had, we are yet to truly understand the effects on children. They need all our love and support and guidance. Firm and loving but not harsh and critical. Point out...
Music performance
Dear parents and students, Thank you for a fantastic week in music and PE. My week is always very varied as I teach kindergarten to grade 6. Kindergarten students are developing their fitness by taking part in fun activities. We always warm up by playing games and...
Great achievement with Arabic numbers in fifth grade
Proudly, two students in the fifth grade managed to write numbers and count them up to 300 and 400, and this brings us clear happiness in the fifth grade from achieving this achievement with the two students. Noriz, who managed to reach the count of 400, and the...
Grades 11 and 12 Chemistry
Both grade levels are studying the role that elections play in the behavior of atoms in the world. The 11th graders are studying how and why they are able to move, giving off energy in the process. We are using our observations to develop an understanding of the weird...
الدراسات الاجتماعية/الصف السابع/G7
قدم الطالبان المتميزين محمد قاسم المعمري ومحمد خالد المعمري عرض بعنوان النمو السكاني وكان بحضور مشرف الدراسات الاجتماعية الأستاذ أحمد الزعابي
G6 Week 12 in Revie
Dear Parents and Students, Another busy week. Three Way Conferences It was great to meet so many parents as part of our three way conferences this week. Students were excited and proud to share their learning portfolios and their goals with you. It was nice to...
Healthy Me!
Dear Parents, We have started the human body unit with some fun and interesting activities. All students are eager to learn ways in which to keep themselves healthy and safe. We will be exploring four systems; skeletal, digestive, respiratory and the circulatory...
National Day next week and more
Dear parents, It has been wonderful to see the children play across the school at break times, and I have included some photographs below. I am very pleased to announce that the parent committee members have been finalised. Next week the members will be announced...
Would you like to order a pizza from Grade 4KL’s Pizzeria?
Grade 4 students have been investigating factions this week and Grade 4KL designed new pizza topping combinations to look at a pizza divided into 16 equal pieces. We learnt that one of these pieces was one sixteenth and that a whole pizza would have sixteen...
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