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Shared Reading
Our shared reading book in 4E this week was R.L. Stine's Camp Red Moon. What a thriller! We explored the key concepts of change and perspective as a shapeshifter caused lots of trouble for a camper named Richard...
Grade 12 feeling the pressure
It was an intense week with some major deadlines for our grade 12 students. Students worked hard to meet their EE deadline (4000 word essay) and their English essay deadline. Additionally, we also reviewed the requirements of paper 1 from last year and learned some...
“We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience.” ― John Dewey
This week everyone has been reflecting on their performance over the last 5 weeks. Being reflective is one of the IB Learner Profiles: "We thoughtfully consider the world and our own ideas and experience. We work to understand our strengths and weaknesses in order to...
Grade 2 has its First Online assembly!
Today we celebrated another group we belong to: our house group! The children wore their color shirts to school today and we did many activities to show our house spirit! We started by introducing the different houses and the children and teachers who belong to them....
Art: 3D shapes
We continue to explore how to give drawings the illusion of being 3D. The students applied their knowledge of value, light, and shading to make these amazing drawings. Have a look at some excellent examples of 3D art.
Art: creating landscapes
Grade 4 students have been exploring how lines can create art. A great example of their application of line is the amazing landscapes that they designed. Take a virtual walk through our art gallery.
Art: creating Masks
The grade 3 students had a great idea. They wanted to turn their class mascots into Masks. Together we drew our masks and measured distance for our eyes. Students then created their own unique interpretations.
Art: exploring lines
Our grade 2 artists have been exploring how to make art using 8 kinds of lines. Every week we have made new drawings using our favourite lines.
Paper 2 Topic in FP History
Grade 11 students have started looking at WWI as part of the paper 2 topic exploring causes and effects of 20th century wars. We have looked at short term and long term causes so far as well as some initial strengths and weaknesses of Allied and Central Powers. Our...
Elmer is not an ordinary elephant. . .
Grade 1 is not ordinary either! We are all different - that makes us special. We are happy we are not all the same! Just like a puzzle, we need all of our differences to fit together and make our class special. when we don’t have all the different parts somehow,...
What is Art?
Can a picture of a chair be considered art? What if that picture is taken from a furniture catalogue? Can a prank be considered as an example of performance art? And what about graffiti? Does that have artistic value? If a famous graffiti artist such as Banksy...
Dice Game!
Who says learning grammar isn't fun? Grade 8 French students played the "dice game" to review the different forms of the verb être (to be) and francophone countries. In their current unit of study, students are learning more about the French-speaking world and how to...
Biographies, Inquiries, Subtractions and Surveys!
Hello everyone, Well it's been a busy week this week in Grade 5. We have been completing our drafts of biographies of famous rights activists, inquiring into a right we are passionate about, exploring our mathematical thinking about subtraction and completing a survey...
Exhibition is full steam ahead!
All of Grade 6 came together for the first 2 weeks of PYP Exhibition planning. Areas of inquiry have been chosen and groups have been formed and conceptual questions written to form the lines of inquiry It was exciting to be together as a whole Grade level! Enjoy the...
Design MYP
A busy week after the impromptu long weekend. All grades are coming to the end of the criteria A. In between completing tasks in their process journals, students have been playing Kahoot games focused on Sustainability Goals, COVID 19 and Quizlet featuring the MYP...
ABIS’s MYP Authorization has been completed
With last week's unexpected interruption We did not get to report out about the MYP authorization event. Here is a short report out of an event that was months in the planning and that involved just about everyone in the upper school as well as support staff at...
Where are we in Grade 2? Anyone got a map?
This week we have journeyed into our new unit of inquiry on Mapping (Maps are Created to Represent and Understand our World). We've started by find out what we know and want to know about mapping and also created a map of what matters to us in our hearts. We have also...
An inspiring week in Grade 3
Dear parents, I would like to start by sharing a poem we have written as a class inspired by Sultan Qaboos. The poem was written in connection with our work on autobiographies and biographies. It is important for you to see the thought process behind writing the poem....
Printmaking in G11 DP art.
DP visual art students in Grade 11 have begun a two-year process of curating their own exhibition, documenting their development over time, and completing a deep analysis of several historical artworks. All of the work done in the MYP—researching, studying the...
Explaining Vertical Addition
This week the students worked hard on conceptually understanding vertical (column) addition and orally explaining their thought process. On to subtraction next week!
Just Pieces of Paper
What can you so with paper. JUST paper, nothing else.... The answer for Grade 4 is loads and loads. Our STEAM this week set the following challenge: Build something using ONLY paper and tell us about it. Use the Learner Profile to describe your actions in the design...
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