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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...
Grade Ones Shine Bright!
Sharing their unique star qualities, kind words and helping hearts, look at the Grade Ones who are making their community and world a good place to be! They have also been making inquiries and collecting data. In Reading and writing, we have been thinking about...
Inquirers and Researchers
Inspired by the biographies we have read recently, Grade 3 have interviewed a person we admire to gather information to write a biography about this person. Some of us interviewed a parent, others a cousin and others chose a special friend. As we interviewed them we...
G6 Arabic :
The Arabic language students, while studying the Who We Are? Unit, gave a presentation about what they had studied in terms of introducing the biography and identity, and displaying the aspects of celebration and Omani culture, and at the end of their presentation...
Exhibition Planning has started!
A busy week, self assessment for the Who We Are presentations, creating Maths slideshows using fraction and decimal addition and subtraction and working as a whole grade to start the planning for our PYP Exhibition be exploring world news and identifying issues for...
Week 6 of IPAD school!
We had a busy week in grade 2. Time is going so fast! Ms Fatma and I are so happy to see the children everyday. They are becoming very independent getting to and from classes! We finished our Working Together unit of inquiry for now with the Family Fun Night and we...
Testing for truth.
Grade 11 students took part this week in a discussion about truth and how we determine if something is true and why we value truth. We then looked at 4 truth tests: correspondence test, coherence test, pragmatic test, and the consensus test. In looking at these we...
Visual Definitions in Grade 8 I&S
Grade eight students have been working on visual definitions for terms associated with monarchies to demonstrate their understanding. Many students enjoyed using a new program called Storyboard That to create visuals for their definitions.
Yoga
In 5th and 6th grade we are working on the Health-Related Components of fitness. Here they are working on flexibility through Yoga.
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