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Cuban History in Grade 11
This week, grade 11 students began exploring Cuban history in preparation for the case study on Fidel Castro for the paper 2 topic of Authoritarian States. We started by looking at Cuba in the 19the century and US involvement in aiding Cuba achieve independence from...
G7 Design Cooking
Students have had a choice of whether they want to create another family favorite or try cooking a recipe from a fellow student. They then uploaded videos into Seesaw. Cooking is an amazing life skill for students and is lots of fun. It’s a great way to express...
Home Movie Challenge
The home movie challenge is going well and we have received some entries already. A few have been in the drama category as well as one very creative Sports Movie. Remember you can earn House Points with your movie. The more people ( students ) you have in your movie...
Voice, Choice, and Ownership
Grade 1 did a fantastic job sharing valuable reflections that will help us guide the path to more learning. At ABIS, we value student agency and hearing what children have to say because we know that this is the foundation of becoming resilient and responsible...
ABIS students as resourceful as ever!
Whilst we cannot get out and about as we would like, students are connecting with the world and each other online. In French, many students have been investigating what’s happening in France at the moment and responding with their own blogs and vlogs. What’s been...
Time Traveling Travails
As we come to the end of our Victorian adventures, Grade 7&8 are now creating a protagonist of their own: a Victorian lady who time travels into the future. When we begin to create her story, I am sure that we'll have some great adventures! What will they make of...
Preparing for Eid
Despite fasting and the excitement of preparing for Eid, some students in Grade 3 have continued earnestly with their learning. AbdulMuhsen, Al Moataz and Ahmed would like to share these slides with you about how they celebrate Ramadan and Eid. ✨ After learning about...
What does a final MYP grade mean?
At ABIS we use the IB Middle Years Programme 1-8 grading system to grade all the summative work students do in their classes. I like to think of the grades received as being in one of four bands with 7-8 being great work, 5-6 being good work, 3-4 being minimally...
Poems by Grade 2
My Day @ Home
Students eagerly shared their daily schedules as we inquired into roles and responsibilities at home.
G9 Prototyping
It has been pleasing to see some students continue with their prototypes, here we have an example of an egg box to sell the school farm eggs recycled from a pizza box. It is great that the students are engaging in design. As one student emailed “I am still doing it...
Noggle in Grade 5
This week we tried a new number activity called "Noggle". Students had to use their knowledge of the order of operations to reach a target number. The possibilities were many!
Op Art in Grade 5KL
Grade 5 was introduced to optical illusion art during our circle times this week and then an activity was set on Seesaw for those who wanted to have a try. What artistic souls we have. Really interesting work, Tharaa I hope I don’t fall down that hole, Lamar Lamar...
Memories are made of this . . .
This week was all about our memories as we were reflective about our year in Grade 1. Distance Learning will make memories none of us expected to have! As many of our families prepare for an Eid that will not bring familiar festivities, Grade 1 wants to remind us of...
Crazy hair week
Google meets had some crazy hair!
Week 10. Grade 2. Still Home.
It was a week of crazy hair, poems and airplane design.
House points are still adding up!
Teachers continue to award points to students showing good attributes of the IB Learner Profile and also for demonstrating Approach to Learning skills. Many students have shown their teachers their best efforts and have been earning points for the house for our annual...
Grade 9 Science
Balloon powered cars! This week Grade 9 have been putting their creativity skills into developing balloon powered cars using simple materials such as balloons, paper cups, plastic straws and rubber bands. By using Newton's third law of motion which states that for...
Grade 11 Physics
Grade 11 started a new topic on Circular motion and Gravitation. This past week our focus was on circular motion including centripetal force and centripetal acceleration. We talked about how a change in velocity results in an object's acceleration while in circular...
Inspiring Inventors
As Grade 3 inquire into inventions and innovation, some of us really enjoyed learning about Leonardo Da Vinci this week. Three of our girls felt inspired to build a flying machine. Ahmed and Fatma extended themselves by undertaking research to find out who invented...
A chance to learn what technology can do for you
This week the Grade 5KL students spent some time learning the finer points of some of the technology they use every day. We used Google Sheets to make bar graphs and pie graphs and compare the two. We also learnt how to hyperlink pages using Keynote and made maths...
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