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Open House on April 13, 2019 & Summer Camps
Acadecap International School’s next open house is on April 13, 2019. Learn more about our academic programmes and summer camps.
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
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
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
Fluor Engineering Challenge 2019 – Volleyball
Here is an overview video of this year’s Fluor Engineering Challenge: Volleyball Challenge Overview – videoThe specific instructions can be found here:Detailed instructions Source:: Mme Sarah’s Blog
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
AcadeCap Teacher and Staff Blogs
STEM
During our STEM period yesterday, we put on our engineering hats and listened to a story about the Brooklyn Bridge. It was the story of a little girl who was so excited to walk on the bridge after it was built. She watched as it was being built and finally,
Curiosity leads to…
This mini lesson about fractions is not part of the usual term 1 JK math curriculum. A few other steps come before we begin learning about fractions. However…one of these little guys was quite interested in the fraction circles and wanted to learn about them, so why not. Fractions can
Art Exhibition 2016
Our art teacher, Mme Hajar, and her students have worked really hard this year creating fabulous pieces of art. What better way to celebrate their accomplishments than by displaying their masterpieces for everyone to see! Our art exhibition will take place on June 8th, 9th, and 10th. Parents and friends
Life Cycles
Students are learning about Life Cycles in this unit. We are building our understanding of life cycles, and as we do this we add to the board. We are doing this in both English and French! So far we have looked at the life cycles of the bee, butterfly and
Inquiry and Action on Reusing!
We have been reading, discussing, singing, and creating actions for the story “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” by Roxanne Lanczak Williams. Today we made a web about things that we can reuse based on the book. The students talked about making crafts out of unwanted items such as boxes, egg cartons old
Exploring through drama
Our unit is about exploring through the arts. As a class we read the story of “Little Red Riding Hood” and then students enjoyed acting out the story in the drama centre. Source:: Mme Andrea’s Blog