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Expressing Ourselves through Art
This week Grade 3 have created some fabulous artworks to express themselves. The prompt for this Artwork was a special place to escape to. Students started with the sentence beginning, “I might be stuck at home, but in my mind I am...” and then they created an artwork...
Grade 9 Mathematics
Shortly the grade 9 class will be entering a review period. The focus for this will be to develop skills that they will need in MYP5 and at Diploma level. This will also have an ATL focus of Create plans to prepare for summative assessments & Plan strategies and...
Making Omelettes in Grade 5KL
This week the Grade 5KL students were given the task of writing a recipe for an interesting omelette. Once they had written the recipe I asked them to film themselves making it, as if they were a real TV chef, and then make an advertisement for the omelette. As we are...
Exploring Biodiversity
Students completed an introductory activity on biodiversity in Seesaw on Tuesday and shared pictures of a diverse range of organisms. One of the strangest was a tardigrade, which you can see in the picture.
A Sorry End
This week we finally reached the conclusion of our literary text for DP Language Acquisition: 'Things Fall Apart' by China Achebe. The novel's protagonist, Okonkwo, exemplifies the struggle of native cultures to persist in their traditions in the face of European...
Collaborating Online
This week grades 9 and 10 collaborated in online sessions to reinforce material that was covered through video lessons. In grade 9, we analyzed sources pertaining to the Berlin Wall crisis in 1961. In grade 11 TOK, students looked at the Areas of Knowledge (AOKs) to...
Grade 2 Meet Up
This week we hung out with each other online. Students were overly excited to see their friends.
Caring Together: Earth Day
This week students shared their thoughts, ideas and commitment to our planet.
We’re caring for our class community.
This is our special place. We have a special place on SeeSaw, it is like a big, red letter box and it is helping us to take care of each other in our class community. Just because we don’t see each other everyday, it doesn’t mean we don’t think about our class and...
Grade 11 DP Physics
This week we built on our previous discussion about the principal of superposition to explain how standing waves are produced on strings and pipes. In relation to waves on string (transverse waves) and vibration of air molecules to produce sound (longitudinal waves),...
Work Hard Play Hard
The second graders have been finding balance to their days by doing school work and choosing their own activities to strengthen their creativity, minds and bodies.
Great Thinkers and Communicators
I am seeing so many fantastic examples of wise thinking and great communicating. It makes it quite difficult to select which pieces to share. Students in Grade 3 have been doing some superb thinking this week about the impact of the choices consumers make. When...
Design Innovators
Students have submitted their analysis and research for their chosen “design challenge”. Thank you to the parents and staff that are the students “client”. They have now moved onto the next design cycle, which is to developing their ideas.
Ski Trip
Once upon a time a group of skiers and one snowboarder from ABIS went on a ski trip to Artesina in Italy. Well who could have thought that so much could happen in one week. Despite the virus threatening our return and a serious injury to Reed we managed 5 days of...
Skip, Skip, Skipping
Over the last few weeks grades 1, 5 and 6 have been undertaking a skipping challenge. Their efforts have seen some of them improve their skills to an unbelievable level. Special mention to Renée, Emma, Rawan and JJ in grade 6. Mohammed Q, Christopher and Zainab in G5...
Food Systems – Final Projects in Seesaw
Students have been busy submitting their final projects for our unit on the industrialization of the food system. One student wrote, "Industrialized food saves time and effort for making it from scratch." What does your child see as positives and negatives?
Prague Spring with Grade 9
Grade 9s learned about the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia this week. Interdependence between governments has been the focus of our inquiry with the Soviet Union and their control of Eastern European countries serving as our entry point. Below are some screenshots of...
Desert Dwellers
This week we zoomed through the Desert on a magic carpet. We explored the Desert through research reading, writing and fact finding.
The Grade 5KL Hat Challenge has changed
When we started distance education 5 weeks ago Grade 5KL started a hat challenge. Every day the students researched the country my hat was from. Not surprisingly, I have now run out of hats! Our challenge has now changed to a T-shirt challenge. It has been lovely to...
Rainbows of hope in Grade 1.
This week we would like to spread some hope in this time of uncertainty. In Grade 1, we found out from Miss Simone’s Grade 3s that children all over the world were working to spread some positive thoughts by making and displaying beautiful rainbows in their windows....
Google Jamboard and Distance Learning
This week, a couple of classes tried out Google Jamboard to try to enhance our collaboration during this period of distance learning. Jamboard allows us to collaborate on a virtual whiteboard where we can draw, add stickers and post-it notes, and annotate maps and...
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