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Spirit Week & The 2018 Festive Season Extravaganza
This week is Spirit Week at AcadeCap! Monday: Silent Night (pajama day) Tuesday: Holiday Family Photo (plaid clothing) Wednesday: Island of Misfit toys (dress as a toy) Thursday: Deck the Halls (holiday themed clothing, or dress clothing) Friday: Formal uniform (concert day, full formal uniform) In order to participate, students
Hour of Code Activities
Here are some great activities from code.org especially for the Hour of Code:Minecraft (new in 2018!)Dance Party (new in 2018!)Make a Basketball Game (new in 2018!)Artist (draw geometric designs with code)Frozen (if you liked Artist and want something similar) Make a Flappy Bird Game (make the bird avoid the obstacles)Classic

Nov. 21, 2018: Open House / Portes Ouvertes
Académie de la Capitale (Acadecap International School) is an independent school in Ottawa West with students from preschool to Grade 12. We will be hosting an Open House on November 21, 2018 from 6 pm to 8 pm. At the Open House, you will meet various members of the Acadecap
Acadecamp: Science and Matter
This week at AcadeCamp was amazing. On Monday, campers made a ‘’paper mache volcano erupt’’ using baking soda and vinegar. They used a cardboard box to make the base. As well, in a bowl, they created a mixture of white glue and water. Firstly, campers scrunched up sheets of newspaper, submerged
Sifting Through Science
This week was immersed in the theme of ‘’SIFTING THROUGH SCIENCE’’ . Ilyes and I introduced campers to physical properties. Campers learned how to characterize substance by their shape, color, size, and texture. They investigate other physical properties such as solubility and insolubility, opacity and transparency. Campers poured ¼ cup
BRAIN + EYES + LIGHT = COLOUR :
Today is a new day at AcadeCamp and we are celebrating colour in all its beauty. We started the day with a brief explanation of what cones and rods are in terms of eyes. At noon, we went outside, and our girls had fun at the play area with Street
AcadeCap Teacher and Staff Blogs
Géographie – habiletés cartographiques, direction et distance.
Et oui, la géographie c’est aussi des maths et surtout de la géométrie! Au PSSP, en classe de géographie, nous abordons de manière très concrète les problématiques de la géométrie spatiale : distance, points cardinaux, projection, … dans le cadre de notre unité sur les habiletés cartographiques, direction et distance,
Fall Celebrations
This year, the Grade 1/2 students have a year-long unit that focuses on “Societies celebrate significant events.” Each season, students will explore what celebrations and significant events their families, and our school community celebrate. To start off this unit of inquiry, students explored a sensory bin filled with a variety
Volunteer Opportunities for OSSD Students
As part of the requirement to graduate with an Ontario Secondary School Diploma, all high school students must participate in COVID safe volunteering to collect 40 hours of volunteer experience prior to their graduation. AcadeCap has made volunteering easy this year with some volunteer roles that can be done by
Extra! Extra! Read all About it!
The AcadeCap Chronicles is the AcadeCap school newspaper, published monthly. Our News Team researches and documents activities and events at AcadeCap. Our issues consist of feature articles, club news, comics and jokes, cartoons, photos and art, an advice column, trend watch, the game of the month, interviews, and editorials that
Discovering Procedural Writing
Students were given the challenge of organizing a series of sentences into the proper order. After much discussion, the groups managed to complete the instructions on how to make pancakes. The groups were then tasked with making it easier for another person to complete the puzzle in a more efficient
JK/SK PSPE
Hop, skip, jump, and roll! Hula hoops have a way of putting fun in motion. Young students interact in a variety of games involving large hula hoops. During these activities students are developing their motor skills and eye-hand coordination while playing variations of red light/green light, Simon says, and relay