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A cabbage patch baby!
Our newest shared reading is The Cabbage Patch Fibs by Paul Jennings. So far, a father has told his son, Chris, that babies grow out of cabbages. Unfortunately, Chris has actually found a baby in a cabbage patch... It's going to be a fun read that many students are...
Earth Day 2021 in Grade 4
In Celebration of Earth Day, the Grade 4 students found things in their kitchen which they could grow. They planted chickpeas and black eyed beans and suspended onions and garlic in water. Over the next few weeks we will watch what happens and measure the roots and...
Arabic :G5//G6 Formative Assessment
G5 / G6 students completed formative assessments for the Arabic language and Islamic education subjects. Each student presented two topics, one of which was a presentation that measures the skill of oral expression, and the second in writing demonstrating the...
G7 :MYP Arabic
During the students' study of the unit (Human Values), G7 students chose one of the human values and expressed them creatively by employing the text production standard, and by applying the clockwise strategy, each student chose a colleague whose work he would share...
Ramadan Kareem from Grade 6!
This week we continued split into Maths groups as we tackled an assortment of multiplication strategies and focussed on time. We also continued our online reading rotations groups and literature circle and comprehension tasks too! Students have been practicing their...
Grade 2 Online
Student Led Conferences Brain Gym Maths - Fractions UOI - Classifying Animals - our class list
A week online
Dear parents, Ramadan Mubarak! We have completed our first full week online. The technology has worked much better this week and the shortened timetable is also proving to be successful. The student led conferences this week were the highlight for students and...
Arabic G5/G6 :
During this week, students completed a formative assessment that includes an oral presentation of topics from the student’s research, where they excelled in the choices of different topics, and supported them with evidence from Qur’anic verses, or poetic verses,
Leading our Conferences Confidently
This week students in Grade 3 put a great deal of thought, effort and time into preparing a slideshow of their learning to present to their parents for their conference on Tuesday or Wednesday. Making the slideshow was a new experience and presenting it in the...
Wowee! What a Great Job You Did At Your Conferences!
Congratulations boys and girls. I am sure your mums and dads were very impressed by your hard work and presenting your learning. You have worked hard this week, especially to get organized for online learning and to get your resources ready. Well done! It was lovely...
Student Led Conferences – A celebration of success
It was wonderful to see and hear about how the students have reflected on their learning and how they can use those elections to plan for their futures. This is especially true for the Grade 12's as they will soon embark on the next phase of their lives as they leave...
Third week of online learning and student led conferences…completed successfully!!
Working online in grade 2. Telling our moms about grade2 in our student led conferences. We shared our habitat research.
Shark Tank – Industrial Revolution Edition
Grade 9 students have started a unit looking at the Industrial Revolution and how this event created social, political, and environmental change. Students are currently researching an invention from the era and preparing a pitch to potential investors. They are to...
Pinwheels in STEAM
Grade 4 students made pinwheels in STEAM as a lead-in for our next unit of inquiry on energy. If our pinwheels were wind turbines, we could turn wind energy into electrical energy!
Student Led Conferences
This week families were invited to come online so their learners could share their work with them. While it was very different this year, the students still enjoyed explaining their work to parents and relatives. The students talked about why they did the work, what...
Learner led – and ‘nailed’!
Grade 1 faced a big challenge this week . . . leading their own conferences, and doing this online! The learners were amazing! I sat back and relaxed as the children managed their own materials and confidently talked about their learning. Great job to all the children...
Bananas, Boxes and Student Led Conferences
Hi everyone, Ramadan Kareem to all the families in G5 who are celebrating. May this be a special time for you and your families. Our first full week online has been a busy one - we have been finishing up our work on 3D Shape and Volume, photographing a scavenger hunt...
In these turbulent times
It is important to note that back-to-online learning has again brought about disruptive change. However, we have been through this before and hopefully have learnt how to work through this. This is about being resilient. We have a short time left to finish the school...
Inquiry and Analysis
The art of scientific communication
A Desperate Plight!
It’s an unusual situation: you marry someone behind your parents’ back, because you love him and you hope it will unite the two families. The next thing that happens is that your new husband kills your cousin in a fight and your dad tells you you’re going to be...
The cardboard box challenge!
Grade 8’s last activity before going online was to work in small groups to creatively photograph a cardboard box in as many ways as possible. There were no rules—the boxes could be held, moved around, suspended, painted, or even cut up and destroyed. At the end of...
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