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A Visit from Grade 7
We had some special visitors from Grade 7 just before guided reading on Sunday! As part of their Services Action (SA) commitment, several students helped the Grade 4's make an origami frog. The fourth graders were great listeners and the seventh graders communicated...
Team Spirit
Grade 12 advisory organised an inter-house competition today. The popular American game show, Family Feud, was brought to ABIS. Students competed in their house colours but within their classes. There was tension. There was drama. There was some spirited yelling. And...
Check Out Our Designer Shoes!
Following on from the Shoemaker and the Elves fairy tale, we designed and made our own shoes during STEAM time. At the start it was really tricky. We weren't quite sure how to make them 3D. Once we figured this out, it was all go! We used scrap paper to make our...
Lots of Measurement in Grade 2
Maths - Measurement - Area Designing and then working out the area of our robots. Maths - Measurement - Volume Investigating that objects can have different shapes but the same volume (10 cubes). Maths - Measurement - Length Using a trundle wheel to measure...
Student Librarians are the Best!
Our 7th-grade student librarians have been putting some hours in at the library! This week they started to tally up their hours and some of them have clocked over 26 hours volunteering for their service-as-action project since January! That is impressive, and it is...
Lots of New Words
Part of our literacy this week has been reading and analyzing poems. We are becoming good at recognizing the language features that are used by poets. Learning to reading certain poems in rhythm can take some practice. We have been surprised that although some poems...
Focussing on a social ATL Skill
This week we have been focussing on our collaboration skills, namely delegating and sharing responsibility for decision-making and helping others to succeed. This has been seen in Science with the grades 10 helping each other whilst tuning in to the chemistry unit and...
Fun learning in Grade 5
In math we continued to use our knowledge of length, area and perimeter to help us in our maths problem solving by designing another ABIS food farm, which included rectangles, triangle and a circle. We have begun learning how to use Pi to calculate the area and...
Collecting and packing in Grade 1 . . .
Check out our Packets of Ten! We had so much fun, and quite a bit of challenge collecting 50 pebbles . . . That’s 5 lots of 10. We have sealed each group of 10 into its own little packet, so know they will be really useful tools for making big numbers . . . And they...
Vernal Equinox
Did you know that this Sunday, March 21st was the Vernal (Spring) Equinox? The Grade 4’s do! There are 2 equinoxes a year and it is when night and day are the same length. Grade 4 graphed the time of sunrise and sunset for the 21st of each month all year to see when...
G5 Arabic
All G5 students shared together new learning skills aimed at various values of communication, cooperation and exchange of ideas. All Arabic speaking and non-Arabic speaking students participated in many competitions from which they learn a different value.
Arabic G7 MYP :
G7 students analyzed a poem from Arabic poetry related to the content of the unit, which is the human values. The students employed the main concept and the related concept within the content of the poem. It included many of the values contained in the unit. Each...
Working on self-portrait collages.
Grade 7 students have done a lot of hard work to prepare for these artworks. We have gotten to the point where everyone comes in knowing exactly what they are going to work on that day, and can simply sit down and dig in. The atmosphere in the art space is fast-paced...
Such Creative Kids!
The kids were so inspired by storytelling that some of them started making their own puppets, puppet stages and performing for others! They also started learning about habitats and researching a habitat with their learning group. It was another busy week in grade 2!...
Songwriters, performers, artists…
We have had a busy week in Grade 6 continuing to prepare for Exhibition. This week we recorded our parody of the Beatles song: 'Let it be' which we rewrote to fit in with the issues we have been exploring in our groups. We have also been preparing final group logos...
Chop chop….
Most of the students (Grade 7 to 9) have been working in the design kitchen. Students have spent several periods discussing safety and best practice while in the teaching space. Students practiced their knife skills using carrots. They have been shown how to practice...
Items to note
Dear parents, The weather is warming up and so we ask that your child brings a hat and a water bottle to school every day. We will remind our students that when they go outside they must wear a hat and bring their water bottle to stay hydrated. Since we started back...
Grade 2 Update
Science - Unit of Inquiry Group work to decide if things are non-living or living. Maths - Measurement - Length Practising using our rulers to measure different objects in the classroom.
Trading Thursday
As Grade 3 learn about how goods and services are traded, we had a Trading Thursday today. During the week we practised bartering to negotiate on an agreed price through role play. Mr Isles joined in our role play but wasn’t happy with the deal so wasn’t successful in...
Grade 3 Swap Shop – a lesson in trade
Today was a very exciting day for the students. Each child brought in an item they no longer needed hoping they could swap for something they wanted. We started the 'Swap Shop' by walking round the tables to see what was available. If they saw something they were...
Experiments in Science
Students in grades 7-8 are beginning to do inquiry formally through lab experiments. By observation and asking the right questions, an understanding of underlying phenomena can be found. Documenting and writing complete reports is an important skill to communicate...
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