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Virtual Open House- Saturday April 24, 2021
On Saturday, April 24, 2021, AcadeCap will host a virtual Open House. We look forward to showcasing our school and our programmes. Our virtual school tour will take you through our bright and spacious open concept learning spaces. We have 2 presentations for you, Welcome to the Primary Years
iSTEAM Fair – Grade 6
The Grade 6 students have been working hard on their science fair projects over the past few months. One group conducted an experiment looking at the effect of the melting ice caps. Another group looked at the effects of pollution on plant health!
iSTEAM Fair Update
Grade 2/3 students are working hard to build and design their iSTEAM fair experiments this week! All our experiments are about forces and structures, and we are excited to start testing them!
iSTEAM Fair – Our Experiment
“What happens to my plant in the terrarium? Will my plant’s habitat let it survive and be a good growing plant? I think that flowers need light to survive and I will see water slide down the jar like it is rain.” A.F. As explained by one of our Senior
VIRTUAL OPEN HOUSE FEBRUARY 10, 2021
Acadecap International School invites you to join our virtual open house on Wednesday, February 10, 2021 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. This event will include a virtual tour of our space, which will give insight into the COVID- 19 protocols implemented for this school year. Following the virtual tour,
2021 Summer Camps
Summer just doesn’t feel like summer at AcadeCap without our campers and coders bringing their laughter and eagerness to learn and have fun doing so. Last summer’s camps were set up differently due to COVID-19, but the laughter and learning continued remotely with our online AcadeCamp and AcadeCoders. Thank you
AcadeCap Teacher and Staff Blogs
Getting deeper into our unit of inquiry
Another busy week here in grades 3 and 4. Some of the activities we did were:-Games outside with the grade 1 and 2 class where grade 3 and 4 students got to demonstrate the traits exemplified by a hero by leading the games and helping the younger kids; -Students practiced
On s’organise…un peu
This week, we’ve been looking at how organization facilitates getting things done. We got to see what we were able to accomplish when tasks are not prioritize well for us. We all accomplished different tasks and a few people choose to do the fun tasks rather than finishing what was
Unit of inquiry #1 – nos héros.
This week, we began our first unit of inquiry – how choices of heroes reflect the characteristics that societies and individuals value (see “units of inquiry” tab). As you can see from our photos, we got off to a busy start. Students were not told what the unit of inquiry
Pareil, pas pareil
Grade 6s developping their logical thinking skills….and learning the names of the cards in French Jack = Le valet; Queen = La dame; King = Le Roi Diamond = Carreau; Heart = Coeur; Spade = Pique; Club = Trèfle In this challenge, cards in the same row must share a
Je me présente
This week, we have completed some community building activities and getting organized. We started Tuesday with an ESCAPE ROOM. We worked very hard to solve a series of puzzles that would direct us to the batteries to make our electric sharpener work. We also started a mini-project called “Je me
First week back!
We did so many things this week–students created and presented skits that included useful classroom expressions in French, did a show-and-tell paper bag activity, a scavenger hunt to learn about Mme Sarah, reviewed the IB learner profile attributes, came up with a list of classroom essential agreements to stick to