Monster Squeeze to 100

Students played Monster Squeeze on a number line to 100. They practiced choosing a range of numbers, making guesses between ranges and identifying whether each others' guesses were greater or less than the mystery number. Students will be taking turns bringing this game and another math game, Roll to 50, home to play with you. Directions are included. Enjoy, and please help your child remember to bring the game back the next school day so it can continue on its rotation through our class list!

Omani Day at TAISM

Students looked amazing in their Omani clothes today. When they visited the tents set up for them, students enjoyed Omani "coffee" and sweets, henna and face painting, homemade bread, live music, dancing and even some Omani games. See our students enjoying celebrating some highlights of Omani culture.

Bausher Fort Exploration

We visited Bausher Fort. Here are some observations from students... "It smelled like dust." "We discovered a well when we were wandering around." "We crawled through a secret passageway." "We saw little tadpoles and fish swimming in the falaj." "We saw spider eggs on a hard wall."

How Many Hundreds?

Today we each had a hundred dots in our hands. There were 18 sheets of 100 dots each. How many dots is that?...Ask your child!

Natural History Museum

Students gathered fun facts about mammals, insects, reptiles, sea creatures and birds at the museum today. Ask your child about his/her favorite sighting.

100 Days of School!

Ways to make 100...

Low Tide at Shatti Beach

What a fantastic trip we had to the beach! Students splashed, dug, collected, played, snacked and splashed some more. Some worked together to dig a network of rivers, others buried each other in the sand and still others spent most of the day enjoying the shallow sea water. You will certainly have some tired children at home tonight. Enjoy the photos from our great day.

Ghala Village Hike

Our first trip of Discover Oman was a success. Students observed a falaj, felt a hot spring, and experienced climbing a bumpy, winding path up a mountain. You might have even heard about our encounter with a loud, territorial goat! When we got back to school students painted images from their hike and they are working on rhythmic poems about the experience. Some snippets so far are..."Burning hot spring, dark hot spring, in a cave hot spring," "White bones, small bones, hard old animal bones," and "Hard mountains, sunny mountains, diagonal and straight mountains."

Poets Using Senses

First graders have been discovering the many ways they can think, observe and write like poets. One of these access points we have learned about has been using our senses. Our writers recently used careful observation skills to describe seashells. They are using these descriptions to draft original poetry. See these poets in the process of gathering ideas.

Mapping Our Classroom

Students have learned many important factors in creating maps recently. They know to use a compass rose and they know to use a birds-eye view. Recently we used pattern blocks in preparation for making maps of our classroom. The students positioned and repositioned blocks to help them visualize and recreate the layout of furniture in our classroom. Finally, they drew maps of the classroom, indicating the shape, position (and sometimes relative size!) of the key items in our class.