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Excited about swimming!!
This week, we started swimming again!! Yay!!! The students were very excited and ready to dive in! We have also completed our inventor portraits. The students worked hard and persevered with a difficult activity. See if you can match the photo to the portrait.
After a strange week…Throwback Thursday!
poem analysis in Arabic تحليل قصيدة شعرية
During this week, G6 students analyzed a poetic poem, in terms of vocabulary, explanation of verses, extraction of beauty areas, understanding of the general idea and sub-ideas included in the poem, and their expression.
Looking at Art and History in TOK
This week has been a transition week in Theory of Knowledge as we shift from looking at History as an area of knowledge into looking at the Arts. This transition provides valuable comparisons, though. We started by looking at the similarities between cubist art and...
Creative experimentation in G9.
After researching the history and methods of 20th century abstract art, students in Grade 9 are now busy planning and executing their own works of abstraction. How can we take a real-life object and break it down into something less recognizable? Here are some methods...
What has Grade 1 been up to?
We explored painting last week, getting familiar with water paint. We focused on how to use a paintbrush - applying paint in even strokes to create a water colour wash and how to clean your paintbrush before using a new colour. In math we have been looking at grouping...
We are bucket fillers!
Grade 1 enjoyed sharing a kind message with a friend this week. We described how it felt to receive and give a special message to someone and reach out to new friends. The children also identified and used straight, curved, thin, and thick lines as they explored...
Glazing clay tiles for service!
When we set up the ABIS ceramics room, we decided to create tile swatches for each of our purchased glaze colors so that students in art classes would be able to see a preview of what each color looks like after firing. A number of students were interested in helping...
We were risk takers and communicators this week
We shared about things that are special to us. Farah Sara Mohammed B Mohammed J We were risk takers and communicators during our season/weather fashion show. Communicating what we know about weather! We observed the weather using our senses. We wrote about we saw,...
Grade 9 Language and Literature
During the last three weeks we have continued our investigation into travel writing. Students looked at examples of travel writing from books, for newspapers and blogs. Then they identified common techniques and differences between the text types. In addition they...
poem analysis in Arabic تحليل قصيدة شعرية
During this week, G6 students analyzed a poetic poem, in terms of vocabulary, explanation of verses, extraction of beauty areas, understanding of the general idea and sub-ideas included in the poem, and their expression.
Looking at Art and History in TOK
This week has been a transition week in Theory of Knowledge as we shift from looking at History as an area of knowledge into looking at the Arts. This transition provides valuable comparisons, though. We started by looking at the similarities between cubist art and...
Creative experimentation in G9.
After researching the history and methods of 20th century abstract art, students in Grade 9 are now busy planning and executing their own works of abstraction. How can we take a real-life object and break it down into something less recognizable? Here are some methods...
After a strange week…Throwback Thursday!
Grade 7 Math
Mental maths is a powerful foundation to understand more complex issues. Memorization of basic calculations enable students to focus on learning beyond the basic operations. To assist learners improve their basic math skills, we are using an amazing online resource...
Maths Applications and Interpretations
The DP phase is a high stakes game. Results are crucial for University or College applications. To reduce stress, it is important to keep a steady pace and not fall behind. It is therefore vital that students do regular individual work at home to practice the sections...
Grade 6, Week 6 in review…
Dear Parents and Students, A short week but a busy one. As you enjoy some family time today (Thursday), we are hard at work collaborating to design and create professional Learning communities and looking forward to next week. Homework Because this week was a short...
Portraits!
This week the students have been practising their pencil drawings, following online instruction to produce a self portrait. They will be connecting this to their work on inventions to draw a portrait of their chosen inventor. We also talked about different ways to...
Grade 4’s are master engineers!
Could YOU take a plain piece of A4 paper and make it strong enough to be a bridge? The Grade 4 students can! They worked in pairs to discuss, plan and design a paper bridge using just that, one piece of paper. We had decided that a glue stick was a useful...
Once Again….
I hope all ya'll are taking advantage of the long weekend. The kids are working hard and constructing knowledge. We made a timeline, prefix/suffix poster, and are adding to our hexagonal math wall. Our visual wall of learning is filling up and would love for you to...
Grade 2 – Week in Review
Maths - Building on Our Number Knowledge Manuela as the Reader of the Week Rand's Show and Tell Applying our Mapping Skills
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