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AcadeCoders 2019

Planning your summer? Check out our weekly camp calendar for June, July and August 2019! Registration forms can be downloaded in PDF or Word formats. Multiple Streams for young coders and game developers ages 8 and up! Coding with Python Acadecoders campers will learn a broad variety of concepts in

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AcadeCamp 2019

Planning your summer? Check out our weekly camp calendar for June, July and August 2019! Registration forms can be downloaded in PDF and Word formats. Scroll down to see all weekly topic descriptions. Week # Week of Theme Short Description 1 Jun 24-28 Ladybugs For campers fascinated with ladybugs and ecology! 2

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Pi Day 2019

Pi Day is coming up on March 14 (3/14)! Here are some fun videos about Pi: Raytheon Pi Day Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TPjRoWm8Ck&app=desktopCalculating Pi Using Pies (3 min)https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=ZNiRzZ66YN0Mile of Pi (6 min)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r3cEKZiLmg&index=1&list=PL4870492ACBDC2E7CHow Pi was Nearly Changed to 3.2 (5 min)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFNjA9LOPsg&list=PL4870492ACBDC2E7C&index=3Pi and Buffon’s Matches (6 min)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJVivjuMfWA&list=PL4870492ACBDC2E7C&index=6 Source:: Mme Sarah’s Blog

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iSTEAM

Scratch Chaser Game

Choose a new sprite, here it is a balloon. Add these blocks to that new sprite. The other sprite in this program is Cat 2.Add these blocks to the sprite that can move with arrow keys.Add a background to the game.Use this button: Source:: Mme Sarah’s Blog

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AcadeCap Teacher and Staff Blogs

​M. V, grade 12, review on the PYP Expo.

On May 18th, we witnessed the annual PYP Expo put on by the grade 6 class at Academie de la Capitale. Each student chose a variety of different topics discussing the subject of social media and technological advancement. The presentations were informative and very well executed. Ranging from the highly

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​T.V grade 10, review of the Expo.

‘This Wednesday, May 19th, at Academie de la Capitale, I witnessed the annual PYP expo. Students from the grade 6 class each presented very informative topics about social media. I could tell that each student put hard work and effort into his or her presentation and I learned many new

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Teachers' Blogs

Term 3 SMILE 2021

The SMILE (systematic multisensory literacy education) program provides an opportunity for primary students to work explicitly on foundational skills in reading such as building knowledge of letter-sound correspondences, decoding multisyllabic words, and identifying irregular words. Students develop their writing skills, including cursive writing, punctuation, grammar, and spelling. The curriculum is

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Teachers' Blogs

PYP EXPO

This week the grade 6 students had their EXPO! They have been working diligently for the past 2 months, and they finally presented to their classmates, teachers and parents. The EXPO was held online, and rather fitting considering the topic was about the media. The students created a news broadcast

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Teachers' Blogs

Preparing for EXPO

The grade 6s have been working hard on their big end of year project, the EXPO. The EXPO this year is focused on the media, and the students have created their own website about a topic surrounding the central idea: The media can alter and manipulate images, perceptions, needs and

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Teachers' Blogs

Cinco de Mayo by a grade 12 student reporter, M.V.:

Even with the dull and gloomy atmosphere that the COVID clouds have cast upon this school year, Acadecap’s Grade 7/8 Spanish Class has still been able to celebrate “Cinco de Mayo”. The Grade 7/8s hosted a virtual meeting with the whole school in attendance. In the meeting, one of the

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