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Upcoming Caribou Math Competition
The upcoming Caribou Math Competition will be held from November 13-14, 2019. Students in grades 1 through 12 will be competing in the following: For grades 1, 2, 3 and 4 – Tangram https://cariboutests.com/games/tangram.php For grades 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 – Chomp https://cariboutests.com/games/chomp.php For grades 11 & 12 – GeomeTree
Acadecap Updates: October & November 2019
October, so far: October 16 was the Student Vote. Grades 1-11 participated in the mock election. The Acadecap election leader’s debate took place a week before (and was much more entertaining than the televised one). October 16 was also our curriculum night. Parents were introduced to Michel Lyon, author of
Upcoming open house: November 20, 2019 from 6-8 pm
Open House: November 20, 2019 Académie de la Capitale (Acadecap International School) will be hosting its next Open House on November 20, 2019, Wednesday, from 6 to 8 pm. At the Open House, you will meet various members of the Acadecap Community, all interested in sharing their experience with you.
Acadecap Updates: Back-to-school 2019-2020
The 2019-2020 School Year Calendar has just been released, and you may have noticed many new additions. To better plan the scheduling of activities, each month will feature a different theme (focus): September: House Building October: Literature Month November: Innovation Month December: Month of Celebrations January: Creative Expression Month February:
Lovely Ladybugs
This week, AcadeCampers explored the exciting and beautiful lady bug! We started our week off by asking questions and thinking about what we already know. Then, we went searching for ladybugs to observe throughout the week – it was like a scavenger hunt because they were so tough to find! Then,
Simple Machines
Simple Machines Lesson from TeachEngineering.orgThe advantage of the incline plan from TeachEngineering.orgRube-Goldberg Activity from TeachEngineering.orgPowerful Pulleys lesson from TeachEngineering.org Collection of activities and lessons about simple machines from TeachEngineering.org Pulley-ing Your Own Weight Source:: Mme Sarah’s Blog
AcadeCap Teacher and Staff Blogs
Festive iSTEAM activities
Leading up to the holidays, the students participated in fun, festive iSTEAM activities. The students were tasked with building a structure out of a variety of different shapes of cookies, and made some pretty interesting houses and buildings. They used their problem solving skills and creativity. The students also used
The Virtual Debates Continue…
The HIVE debating continued this week with a rousing game of “Take a Stand.” Students were presented with a topic statement and had to think about whether they strongly agreed or disagreed or somewhat agreed or disagreed and why. They then had to move their sticky note to the correct
Think about it! Question it! Debate it!
Debating is our AcadeCap monthly focus for January. The online tele-learning format did not stop the HIVE students from participating in an engaging first debate. Everyone had some great persuasive arguments and rebuttals. Students are looking forward to the second debate. The high school students did a wonderful job of
Give the Gift of Words
During the SMILE holiday party, students participated in reading games, wrote word and sentence ‘gifts’ to give to each other and decorated the windows with holiday messages. Happy Holidays Everyone! Source:: Mme Christine’s SLT Blog
Mitosis and Meiosis
Biology 10 and 11 students learn about mitosis and meiosis with hands-on microscope work and a virtual lab assignment. Source:: PSSP & OSSD
Making Groups
Early numeration skills, such as spontaneously grouping objects to simplify the count, are part of the Defi-Maths curriculum in Grade 1 and 2. In this activity, students were given a random large amount of manipulatives, and were tasked with organizing them to be easily count and identify how many each