In June, our school was invited to enter the “Bienale Cairo Egypt art competition”. Out of the 19 countries whom participated, Romania won the top 3 awards! Two of our students won awards and all others were awarded certificates for participation. We here at Maria International School of Bucharest are immensely proud. On February 18th, 2020, our students were invited to the Egyptian Embassy to receive their awards and certificates, meet the Egyptian Ambassador, His…

During 'At the Farm' week, we learnt all about the pigs. What they look like, what they like to eat, even what sound they make. After our conversation, we decided to make a pig out of paper plates. The children really enjoyed painting the plates and in the end decorating their piggies, adding googly eyes and a snout! 

Should we build our houses with jelly? Should we have a teapot made of chocolate?Can we sleep in a bed made of glass? "ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!" Exclaims Year 1 and 2. These are just some of the fun questions that they have been asking and answering in Science. Year 1 and 2 have been learning about materials and their properties. This week they discussed and made predictions about the story of 'The Three Little Pigs'. Then came the fun…

Year 3 has been exploring how to draw bodies using different art styles. They started by studying the outlines of bodies and how different artists represented the body.The  children then moved onto creating art using charcoal and colouring pencils to creatre more realistic images of bodies. The children were able to explore the effects of using more and less detail, and the influence of light on the the works. We then took the work to the…

During Math activity preschoolers had to practice some important skills: -counting;-recognising the shape;-recognising the colors;-say the vegetable.The activity requested the children to identify the vegetable that they were going to make and name the shape of the vegetable. All the preschoolers were able to recognise the 'carrot' and it's triangle shape. They've also had to say what number has each  carrot written on it and the next step was to put the correct number of leaves…

This week students learnt the story of St Valentine. We talked about different ways to show our love and appreciation. All children came up with wonderful ideas and then they made heart shaped cards to give them as presents.