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Elementary Extra: Art

Our elementary Art classes are designed to support the development of the IB learner profile and the attitudes of the PYP. The students are learning how to coordinate their hands and minds by exploring various tools, processes, and the techniques necessary to improving their artistic …
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Administration Alley: Special Projects

One of the fun parts of my job over the past couple of years is working with the board and staff to put together special projects for SIS. Our campus is 25 years old and there is much to do to maintain it. Some of …
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Secondary Scoop: HS Science

AP Biology Students designed an experiment to measure the effect of different concentrations of coffee on onion root tip growth.  The goal of this lab was to learn how to apply statistical analysis (A Chi square) to help with validating our conclusion that the coffee …
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Secondary Scoop: MS IT, ELL

MS IT Grade 6 Students in grade 6 are working on a “creative computing’ unit where we use Scratch, which is a free computer programming language available at http://scratch.mit.edu. With Scratch, students can create a wide variety of interactive media projects – animations, stories, games, and …
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Elementary Extra: ELL & Bahasa Indonesia

Bahasa Indonesia The Grade Five Bahasa Indonesia class is learning how to build a sentence using the sentence formula; SPOK (Subject, Predicate, Object and Adverb). Students practice to make a sentence by describing a situation they view in a photograph. Then they are given a …
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Secondary Scoop: MS French & HS Social Studies

MS French The MS French program is divided into three different levels:  Basic for students in  Grade 6; Beginner for students in Grade 7; and Advanced Beginner Level for students in Grade 8. At the Basic Level, students start learning about how to pronounce French …
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Elementary Extra: Learning Support and EC 1

EC 1 Our new unit allows our little ones to explore different food textures and tastes.  Our “I Like to Eat, Eat, Eat” unit is an inquiry into the food we eat as we learn more about How We Organize Ourselves.  Our central idea for this unit …
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Secondary Scoop: MS Mandarin and HS English

MS Mandarin “文wén房fáng四sì宝bǎo”–‘Four Treasures of the Study’ The “four treasures of the study”–(笔bǐ 墨mò 纸zhǐ 砚yàn)writing brush, ink stick, paper and ink slab —are writing tools with a long cultural tradition and unique artistic style created by the ancestors of the Chinese nation. They have …
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Elementary Extra: Library and EC 2

Library We’ve worked over the years to develop Library programs that have proven to be popular with our Elementary School students.  Ring & Read is a beloved tradition at SIS with the goal of sharing our reading lives and habits with the rest of the …
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Counselor’s Corner

UNIVERSITY PARENT MEETING WITH GUIDANCE COUNSELOR—OCTOBER 16, 2018 @ 8:15 AM-9:30 AM On October 16, 2018 @ 8:15 AM-9:30 AM in the SIS library, the Guidance Counselor will hold a global university informational meeting for parents.  We will discuss application timelines and processes, university rankings vs …
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