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Speechifying!
This week Grade 9 have been studying the art of oratory and rhetoric. We analyzed speeches from a President, a civil rights leader and an English Queen! We capped these off with a close study of the wonderful Malala at her Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. Next...
Secondary students join the primary family
It was a joy to see secondary students join forces with our students, teachers and parents from primary in our Mother Tongue activities this week. Thank you to all involved! Here’s a taster but more is to follow in coming weeks!
Ready for Camp
Putting up some of the tents today was lots of fun. It required plenty of communication and cooperation. Children with experience shared their knowledge and it was a great problem solving activity for us all. We worked together to figure out how to put up each tent....
G4 in Arabic
Fourth-grade students finished studying the curriculum they decided upon for the first semester, so students presented quizzes and questions for research and thinking for the rest of their colleagues in a fun and entertaining way
G5 in Arabic
G5 students presented presentations and information on the types of dinosaurs and their lives and how they are extinct and another team presented different sets of questions
G7 in Arabic Through studying students about family bonding and how it affects family relationships, students have written a statement of inquiry about the impact of empathy among family members at all times and places on building the right psychological and social...
ASA Farmers seeds sprouting ?
Our farmers were excited to see their hard work paid off last week with their seeds sprouting. We also transplanted some basil seedling that they found in the herb garden. Lastly we finished by checking the chicken coop and each took some fresh eggs, washed the eggs...
Grade 10 Science
Grade 10 started their science MOCK exam this week where they sat for Paper 2 exam. Students have also been doing practice papers in preparation for MOCK exams scheduled for next week.
Grade 9 Science
Grade 9 started a new unit this week, MOVEMENT. Guided by our statement of inquiry - movement enables humans and animals to change their surrounding for the better, we looked at how change in time and space over many years has impacted on our livelihood . Students...
Grade 7 Science
Students continued working on their summative tasks on the atmosphere unit. This week they finished building their weather stations and models of the weather instruments. Using the assessment rubric for criterion B, students were able to refine their models, come up...
Planets and the Sun
Grade 5 students went to the Mazoon and worked together in groups to lay down sheets of toilet paper to represent distance from the Sun. Neptune used up lots of sheets!
Oman Week Here We Come
Today the grade 5 students practised putting up their tents so they would be ready for Oman Week. What fun they had. Tomorrow they are going to prepare hamburger patties for us to freeze and take away with us. Oman Week preparation is in full swing! It’s just like...
Communicating and Thinking Critically about the Climate
Grade 7s are combining their ability to analyze data in Math with their learning about climate in Individuals and Societies. In their full sentence answers students will think critically by inferring and making connections to their prior knowledge of biomes and...
Animal Physiology – Heart Dissection
As we continue to learn about certain parts of mammalian anatomy, we turned our focus to the heart today. I brought in a couple hearts form the butcher so that grade 11 biology students could see the way the heart functions. Students reported being to varying degrees...
Sharing Responsibility in Grade 1
We are all librarians on Thursday. It is our responsibility to make sure the library is ready for new learning on Sunday. Deena took some great photos to show what a terrific job we do. When we all share a little bit it doesn’t take long - and lots of us find...
Je suis comme je suis!
Jacques Prévert (et un chat noir!) Grade 7 have started a new inquiry unit in which we will explore identity and relationships in our local and global contexts. We played with verses from a poem which speaks about identity by Jacques Prévert, to discover that the...
Grade 3 Striking and Catching Unit
Students are progressing in their skills with striking and catching. Currently we are playing a blended game of softball during class time to learn the basics?.
Teamwork on the Football Field
Many of the boys in our class have been excitedly preparing for playing football against teams from other local schools. Today was the first match against ABQ. Our team arrived early and seemed to enjoy every moment of the game. There were some great attempts at goal,...
The beauty of inquiry!
As Grade 1 investigates life cycles in nature, they noticed that seeds come in different colors, shapes and sizes. They made predictions and observed what happened to beans that were placed on moist cotton and in water. The children noticed how the beans changed as...
G7 presentations.
Students in Grade 7 took on the roles of anthropologists from the future. They "dug up" various objects from the 21st century and imagined the types of rituals for which they might have been used. There were social bonding rituals, coming of age rituals, special...
MEUC
If you are planning to join us in Dubai for MEUC on the 6th and 7th of March please send in your entries and times to Mr Carberry.
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