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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
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J’ai trouvé une carte!
Students in Grade 1/2 have started their new unit on maps. Lately, we’ve been learning about how to read and use a map. Last week, students were tasked with writing a creative journal entry in French. Students were to imagine they found any kind of map, and think about where
Le Rainbow Project – un message d’espoir et de solidarité.
La classe de 5ème année de Mme Aïcha a initié un projet solidaire et créatif en s’inspirant du mouvement mondial des arc-en-ciel qui avait commencé en Italie quand la pandémie de coronavirus a fortement frappé le pays. En signe de solidarité et d’espoir, les élèves de l’Académie de la Capitale
TeleLearning
We are now on week 5 of telelearning, a month has gone by so quickly. The Kindergarten students are fully engaged in a program specially designed for working from home. I have to say that I am so proud of my students and their capacity to be flexible and adapt
Who is in the community?
As part of our summative assessment, I had students fill in a mind map of the members that make up their community. Source:: Mme Nora’s Blog
Bingo
A fun and exciting way to reinforce number recognition, and this in French! Everyone loves a good game of bingo! Source:: Mme Nora’s Blog
Mystery, mystery
Students really love the challenge of this game, they are using their logical thinking skills and problem solving skills as well as number sense to math the numbers to the picture. When they match all the pictures, the last number is the mystery number, also very exciting. It’s the small