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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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AcadeCap Teacher and Staff Blogs

Students participating in educational group activities at Acadecap
Teachers' Blogs

Back at school!

​Coming back to school in person has been really exciting for the students. Being able to play with one another and being able to go outside for recess and Outdoor Education has been enjoyable for everyone. During Outdoor Education, the students explored, and went to new places. Another exciting thing

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Students involved in creative and academic learning projects
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MS Readathon 2021

AcadeCap students love to read and are participating in the annual MS Readathon. They are reading as many books as they can before February 28th to raise funds for people living with MS. If you would like to support their cause you can use this link to make a donation,

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Acadecap student learning and educational success graphic
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Structures in Nature

As the Grade 2/3 continue to work on their unit about structures and forces, we started to think about structures that are not man-made. We thought about what structures we could find in nature, that either occur naturally, or are made by animals. We also thought about the form and

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Acadecap educational graphic promoting student learning
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Perspective

In January, we started our new unit on beliefs. We have starting talking about religion, values, and morals. This week we spoke of perspective and viewed images as a group. These images were shown to the students, in which different animals, people or objects were shown. Depending on your perspective,

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Use the force!

As students in Grade 2/3 settle into tele-learning in the new year, they began learning about their new unit which focuses on forces and structures. At home, students were challenged to create a toy that moves using a force. Students had to create a plan for their toy, identify materials

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Acadecap students participating in classroom learning sessions
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Sorting animals into habitats

After discussing different habitats, the students thought of animals and categorized them according to the habitat they live in. Source:: Kinder & Grade 1 Blog

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