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Looking Ahead and Tuning In
The grade 10 have been looking forward to what the next 2 years will look like for their University entrance exams: the Diploma Programme or another 2-year program. They have been reviewing the practical skills that will be required in science and grading real student...
Grumpy the Goblin
Grumpy the Goblin has turned into a giant and the Grade 4 students are using their math skills to find a "shrinkinator" to turn him back to normal. They have had to solve puzzles about area, the names of shapes and perimeter. Who stole the "shrinkinator"? Ask a Grade...
Final exams : الاختبارات النهائية
During this week, all the students took their final exams for Islamic and Social Studies, which they passed smoothly and easily. They overcame all the challenges they faced throughout the year and did their best in studying. We wish them all the best ٠
Exhibition hits Radio Oman, Grade 6 Graduation and Exams!
The penultimate week has been packed full of exciting activities for Grade 6! Zainab from The Media Dilemma group was interviewed by Adam Cole of Oman FM and it will be on air very soon! Great example of action from Zainab as she spreads awareness of cyberbullying...
The Reading Never Stops in Grade 4
This week the students took a break from their Guided Reading sessions, but that doesn't mean reading took a back seat! Instead, the students performed a play called the Gingerbread Girl. In this story, the town is fearful because it seems the baker is, again, going...
The Second to the Last Week of Second Grade!
We learned about symmetry. We learned that we see symmetry all around us...like in our house! We also saw symmetry in butterfly wings and then made our own! We also looked for rainbows in our house and made our own. Can you see the rainbows?
Grade 6 exhibition and parent survey
Dear parents, We are now only two weeks away from the end of the school year and teachers and students are wrapping up for the year. With the final day of school on Thursday June 17, teachers will ensure that students are engaged and working up until then. The ABIS...
Grade 2…Showbiz, Footlights and All That Jazz
UOI - Drama - Script Writing Our puppets, stages, sets and scripts are ready. Now to put it all together to make our final productions! Science - Light Refraction Exploring how light changes when it travels through water and air.
Design
It’s been a week of exploration for all students now that their summative assessments have been completed. Sketching is an important part of developing ideas. Students watched a YouTube video demonstrating effective product sketching techniques and then evaluated the...
Summer Time and Teen Well-Being
I read this article this week and am sharing it with you now because it was so helpful to me as I thought about the upcoming summer. The article as well as other useful information can be found here. Summer is here! For many teens, the unstructured days of summer...
Using Visual Art as a form of Expression
Part of our learning this week has been inquiring into how visual art can be used as a form of expression. We looked at Rodin’s famous sculpture ‘The Thinker’ and then used aluminum foil to sculpt our own sculpture of a person. Then we looked at our sculpture and...
Grade 3 Online Learning Review
The students in grade 3G have been creative and inventive this week. We have learnt lots of new things in UOI, English and Maths. We would like to share our success stories with you. As part of our unit of inquiry on inventors and inventions the students accepted the...
Blackout Poetry
Contrary to what it sounds like, blackout poetry is not about blacking out from reading poetry. Rather, it is an interesting form of 'found poetry' developed by Austin Kleon in 2005. In this method, poets take a printed document such as a newspaper or a magazine...
TOK Exhibition
This week, grade 11 students handed in their TOK Exhibition files. Students explored a variety of prompts through the themes of knowledge and religion, knowledge and politics, and knowledge and technology. The entries were interesting, thoughtful, and challenged...
Arabic MYP:advertising and media الدعايا والأعلام
During the last unit for G8 students about advertising and media and their study of how communication is a means of self-expression and its impact among people through scientific and technical means, the students did several formative assessments, and began a...
G9’s photo scavenger hunt.
Students in Grade 9 have finished their graphic novels and are now working on a mini-unit about photography. We started with two scavenger hunt activities, looking in and around our homes for examples of texture, pattern, color contrast, and value contrast. Students...
Significant Individuals of the Ancient Greek Civilization in I&S
Grade 7 I&S students recently finished researching and creating presentations on significant individuals of the Ancient Greek Civilization. They choose a person and included in their presentations background information, work and achievements, and their lasting...
Being balanced in Grade 1
We use our brain breaks to be balanced learners. We look after our brains by looking after our bodies. Welcome to a wellness weekend !
Reviewing Metric Units of Length
This week we reviewed converting between meters and other metric units of length like millimeters, centimeters and kilometers. Did you know that the metric system was developed in France and first introduced there in 1795? Ask your children what century that is!
G7 wraps up the year with printmaking!
Now that self-portraits are finished and all assessed tasks have been graded, students in Grade 7 are enjoying some more flexible, asynchronous art activities at home. We are exploring plastic bag monoprinting, fruit printing, and other techniques that make use of...
Yoga
The 7th, 8th, and 9th grades have been working on the Aesthetics Unit using yoga as the activate. One of the assessments was to perform and video themselves performing a short yoga routine. Here are some photos of their work.
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