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G6 Week 3 In Review
Dear Parents and Students, Another successful week of learning has come and gone. Students are beginning to really settle into routines and we are finding out more and more about each other as we work through our first unit of Inquiry around Who We Are. A busy week,...
Items of interest
Dear parents, We have had a good week and students are doing well in their learning. Every day I like to drop into classes and see the students, it is always of great interest to me to see the variety of activities taking place in their classes. The students appear to...
Why?
Inquiry forms the basis of Maths and Science. By questioning and inquiry, knowledge and understanding is acquired, and general concepts and contextual applications gain meaning. I always tell my students " Welcome to the class of WHY! If we question our...
What’s happening in Grade 1
For our Unit of Inquire we have been looking at our relationships with family and friends and our Identity. We looked at the meaning of their name and made some creative Graffiti name plates. We are learning what it means to be a Caring friend, through stories and...
Advertising in the Diploma
Over the past three weeks in diploma English, we have been examining advertisements and the techniques that are used to persuade an audience to buy a product. We examined 20 common techniques and how they are used. We, also, looked at the role of context and target...
Searching for Bigfoot in Gr. 11 TOK
This week, the Grade 11 TOK class is on the search for Bigfoot! Students are taking part in a mock trial experience that allows them to construct, or consider, evidence-based arguments over the existence of this elusive creature. This task offers a valuable, and...
More lab work in DP Chemistry
We are working to get caught up with our chemistry course content so students have been focusing on the chemistry of acids and bases. They are also exploring possible IA (their independent experiments) questions. Here are some pictures of students discovering how...
Where are we? Mapping, coordinates, reading and some line work.
Another fun week of being explorers and learning about maps. We are so impressed by the pace of learning and how quickly the routines have been established. We have done A LOT of reading this week and the students' reading levels have now been worked out. I thank them...
Gymnastics in Grades 3, 4 and 5
We have started this year working on the gymnastics unit. Gymnastics is a sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and endurance. It is a great way for our students to express themselves through movement....
Movers and Shakers
What a busy week! We are cruising along, learning about place value, parts of speech, and our key concepts. Our inquiry skills are developing and we are learning how to get information from examining our work. The kids are doing great. Please continue to ask your...
Learning technics in grade 8
Bonjour, In the French class this week, we asked ourselves what are our best learning technics, especially when learning a new language. The students brainstormed their ideas individually, then found some space on the walls where they could write their ideas in...
Health Related Fitness
Students in PHE are engaged in a unit about all aspects of Health Related Fitness. They have been taking a variety of different fitness tests in order to analyse their strengths and areas that they want to develop. Now they are learning how to train and make...
Grade 7 English and Individuals and Societies
It has been a pleasure to meet Grade 7 and to begin to get to know them. In both English and Individuals and Societies we have studied important aspects of the subjects, including the key and related concepts and assessment criteria. In English we have started an unit...
Persevering inquirers
Hello everyone, We are all now in the groove for face to face learning in the school - hooray! We are still having some technical issues but we are all in this together and it was wonderful to see the Grade 9 students helping each other out to be successful. They...
Information Literacy and Britannica
This week secondary students had a quick tutorial during advisory time on how to access our online subscription to Britannica through the library homepage. This a great resource and starting point for research for all of our MYP and DP students. If they need help...
Grade 3 in Gear!
Dear Parents, It has been a busy week, we are exploring inventors and inventions. Students have been totally engaged, asking many questions. They are also being risk takers in all other subject areas. It is obvious that they are eager to learn and stay connected with...
Arabic G6 : مشاركات صفية
The students participated during this week by studying some topics that include their ministerial curriculum of grammar, and reading topics, where they participated in preparing some lessons and presenting them to their colleagues in a wonderful way.
Information Literacy and the Library
This week in Information Literacy classes grade 3-6 students learned how to access the library home page , bookmark it, log in using their ABIS email and password, and request books. We have been working on library routines and following directions. Here in the...
2 Excellent Weeks in School!
After giving ideas and voting, we have our class name, class colors, class mascot and class motto! Here it is: We also have a class cheer! We love our school! This week we learned how to find coordinates! And when someone asked, “How do we know exactly where we are on...
Our shared book in Grade 4
Grade 4 has been thoroughly enjoying our shared book. We started by reading "The Paw Thing" by Paul Jennings and we are now reading the sequel "Singenpoo Strikes Again". It's the story of a young boy and his amazing cat Singenpoo, who can read. Not only do the...
Busy busy in Grade 3!
We have had a busy week in Grade 3. The students have been interviewing each other in order to write a short biography about their classmates. They had to take simple questions and expand on them to find out interesting and detailed information. For our STEAM session...
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