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iSTEAM

iSTEAM Fair

AcadeCap is excited to announce that the iSTEAM Fair will be held on Thursday, March 4th, 2021. This year, the iSTEAM fair will be held virtually. Students will share their projects with judges and parents via Google Meet. In the next few days, an information package will be sent home

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iSTEAM

Fibonacci Sequence

November at AcadeCap is innovation month. For this month’s iSTEAM challenge, students learned about the Fibonacci sequence. Students read a biography about Leonardo of Pisa, also known as Fibonacci. They explored the reproduction of bees, which follows the Fibonacci sequence through generations. Finally, they created Fibonacci sequence-inspired artwork.

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Collaborative Quilting

For our return to school in September and October, students participated in a collaborative quilting activity. Each classroom was given a specific set of colours to create a quilt square per child. Students had to include one square, one triangle and two small squares into their quilt squares. This art

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News and Events

ANNUAL PSSP/OSSD CURRICULUM NIGHT NOV. 12, 2020.

On Thursday, November 12, 2020, from 6:30 to 8:00 pm, Académie de la Capitale is hosting the annual PSSP/OSSD Curriculum night.  This is an opportunity for parents with children in grades 7-12, as well as interested parents, with children about to enter the PreSecondary School Programme (grade 7) in the

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Terry Fox Fundraising on September 30, 2020

Acadecap is proud to be participating in this year’s Terry Fox event. We aim to raise $1,000 in support of the Terry Fox Foundation. The fundraising event will take place on Wednesday, September 30, 2020, at Morrison Park (near the school). Instead of running, students will alternate dancing, for a

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Teachers' Blogs

What is a Comic?

Preparing for our next writing unit, today students organized books into 3 different categories; picture books, comic books, and novels. Students then described what features make each books fit into the specific category. Students brainstormed what they know about comic books in preparation for creating their own comics. Source:: Mme

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Teachers' Blogs

Creating a final copy

Students are working hard on creating their final copy of their procedural writing, and working on their presentation style. Some students are planning on creating a video ( visual learning), others are creating an audio file, and some students will be using kinaesthetic learning to teach their peers how to

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Teachers' Blogs

Symmetry

We have been learning all about symmetry today in our Kindergarten classroom. We discovered what a line of symmetry is and about the varying characteristics that make items symmetrical. We talked about items in our class that were symmetrical and why. We used our pattern blocks to further our learning

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Géographie prospective « mon quartier de demain »

Engager les apprenants dans un travail de géographie prospective permet une autre approche dans notre unité pour lire et observer un territoire urbain. Pour ce faire, nous avons fait une sortie sur les lieux de vie de notre école, c’est-à-dire le quartier Qaulicum-Redwood Park .La séquence a débuté avec le

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Avec mes YEUX, je VOIS

Mme Amelie has been providing an array of new and exciting activities in our Kindergarten class. This morning, children were tasked at finding objects both inside and outside of our classroom and drawing what they see. Sight is the first of the five senses that we are learning about for

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Spelling in French

In the new unit, our Kindergarten class will be discovering the 5 senses. This week, we will focus our learning on SIGHT. Today, they used their literacy skills to spell new words “LA VUE”.They also learned new vocabulary in French to express what they see “Avec mes yeux, je vois

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