Primary

Did you know that there are over 30 different home languages amongst our Elementary School students? Each day we are privileged enough to experience everything our multilingual students bring to our learning community, from prior…

Earlier this month, I attended the reading workshop for the Early Years and Elementary School parents at the FIS. The approach and overall teaching style for encouraging the kids with their reading efforts was thoroughly…

This year, our Elementary School students have enjoyed all of our monthly home language storytelling sessions so far. We have had or will shortly be having sessions in French, German, Italian and Urdu! At a…

Did you know that Tuesday, February 4, 2020, was the 100th day of this school year?

The Grade 3 classes went to the Botanical Garden in Erlangen, at the end of January. It was fun and exciting!

The Early Years and Elementary School celebrated the Global School Play Day on February 5, 2020. An online platform with several participating schools around the world, the Global School Play Day gives students the opportunity…

In math, we learned about graphs, continuous data and discrete data this week. We selected a sample for the study. First, we collected people’s favorite colors and periods. Then we started collecting people’s shoe sizes…

For our “Let’s Pretend” IPC unit, we pretended to be “builders” in Outdoor Learning. We wanted to create a construction site with rocks, stones and sticks. We had the materials and the tools; we just…

The Magic Toymaker employed the Grade 1 students while he was on holiday and we want to tell you what he has taught us about design and construction. First of all, he reminded us of…

As a part of their IPC unit “Young Entrepreneurs”, Grade 3 students have initiated various business projects to offer a product/service.