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Art Mascot drawing
Grade 3 started the year by selecting an animal that best represented their group. Grade 3 group A selected a Panda and group B selected a Cheetah. Ms. Markin then taught each group to draw their mascot. Our grade 3 featured artists this week are Pratiksha, Alice,...
Grade 2 Visual Art Making Mascots
To start our school year each group of grade 2 students voted on an animal that best represented their class. Grade 2 group A chose a wold and group B chose a lion. Ms. Markin then taught each group how to draw their mascot. Here are a few of the class drawings. Our...
Week 3 – math
Hello everyone! I hope you had a great week 3! My DP students are digging in and learning how to work together to move forward with their education. My MYP students are doing well also. We are learning how to balance online distance learning with physical work on...
Persevering inquirers
Hello everyone, We are at the end of week 3 of virtual learning and everyone is now in the groove for this way of learning. We are still having some lesson technical issues but as demonstrated by the Grade 10’s we are all in this together and it was wonderful to see...
What a Team!
We have had a great week but one of the most fun activities was collaborating to make a class movie to celebrate International Dot Day! It's not finished yet, but here's a sneak peak:
Music in the Movies
Why did John Williams, the composer of the music for the first few Harry Potter movies, choose the flute for this scene in The Prisoner of Azkaban? Questions like this - and many more like it! - are being carefully thought through by the Grade 10 music students. All...
INTERNATIONAL DOT DAY 2020
Once again the students of ABIS celebrated International Dot Day. It’s a day when we celebrate all the possibilities of life. We talk about the difference being encouraging can make to someone’s life and think about creativity. Mr Eriks and I read the book “The Dot”...
“Planting Stories” in Primary
In 4th and 5th grade this week we read "Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller, Pura Belpré" by Anika Aldamuy Denise, a book about one of my heros. Students thought about and shared what traits they thought that heros had, and a bit about their own...
Fitness Plans
What a good week. We are getting the online learning down but still have to work on students keeping the camera on during the lesson. We have been working on their Personal Fitness Plan. They have started to work on their warm-ups routines. Next week they...
Grade 7 Movie Making
Grade 7 have been introduced to the magical world of film making over the last couple of weeks. We have been looking at a range of techniques, such as different types of camera shots, lighting and visual effects. (The accompanying picture is an example of an extreme...
Game Day in Grade 7 French!
Grade 7 French students had fun playing Quizlet Live in teams to review vocabulary in class. Quizlet is a study app that allows students to learn and to review useful information. The app and online version make learning fun with flashcards and games. Students can...
Dot Day problem solving
This year for Dot Day, the Grade 6 students looked at the deeper meaning of the story and discussed it in relation to the Learner Profile and Approaches to Learning. They made connections to their own lives and highlighted the need for perseverance and resilience....
Grade 1 is going dotty!
We had so much fun with dots this week! We found out that there are always things we can’t do . . . Yet! Dot Day is the best way to celebrate all the amazing things we can do - if we just try. We read and listened to dot stories - and then we used our curious minds to...
Grade 3 Online Learning Success!
It has been an exciting week in Grade 3 with my class. We are starting to get to know each other and establish a consistent routine. The students have been quick to adapt to online learning and now know how to respect each other online by turning their microphone off...
The Self-Strengthening Movement in China
This week, grade 11 students took on the role of advisors to the Chinese Emperor. Their task was to devise a plan to strengthen China after its defeats in the Opium Wars and weakening as a result of the Taiping Rebellion. The students chose to focus on improvements to...
A good week of learning
Dear parents, As we end our second week at school, I have met with the senior leadership team to discuss how well the students have settled into their Distance Learning. The reports coming back are positive; the students are becoming used to their learning activities...
Sprucing up those presentation skills
Prior to starting our drama, "All My Sons" by Arthur Miller, grade 9 students spent the week researching some contextual information. For this, we focused on sprucing up our ATL skill of research and presentation. We reviewed how to choose appropriate websites, how to...
First unit in Arabic
During the first week of distance learning, students showed interest and a sense of responsibility towards what they study, and enthusiastically participated in the educational process, especially when teaching the first unit that talks about health and the environment,
Getting good at online learning
We have spent a lot of time working together to get good at the many small details needed to effectively manage ourselves and our work online. "Cameras on" "Microphones on" We appreciate students efforts to allow us to see you working, and to hear your interactions...
G7 Arabic
G7 students interacted greatly during their study of the MYP curriculum in the Arabic language, where the students made great contributions, ideas, and useful discussions, indicating an open mindset that has the ability to understand and understand all the different...
Our First Full Week
The first week “jitters” are beyond us, and we are slowly easing into a routine. For example, on Tuesdays and Thursdays we will complete “Number of the Day” questions in our math notebooks. We have some great thinkers in Grade 4!
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