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Famous Art and Math Connections

Last week Ilyes and I introduced campers to famous and inspirational artists of abstract art such as Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian and the one and only Pablo Picasso. Campers started the week by learning Kandinsky’s style, they made multiple squares on a sheet of paper and drew concentrics circles in

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APRIL 21: OPEN HOUSE / PORTES OUVERTES

Académie de la Capitale (AcadeCap) is hosting an Open House on Saturday, April 21st, from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm.  Learn more about all of AcadeCap’s programs: the bilingual IB PYP and IB MYP, and the OSSD, as well as our extra-curriculars: OSSD Credit Courses, Tutoring, Multi-Sensory Teaching for reading

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Acadecamp 2017 educational summer camp program poster
AcadeCamp

AcadeCamp 2018

Planning your summer? Check out our weekly camp calendar for June, July and August 2018! 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 25-29 Design and Build For campers fascinated with the beauty

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AcadeCap Ski Days

With spring right around the corner, AcadeCap had its last ski day this week. To view the album on Facebook, please click on the image/link below. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10155351441037688.1073741925.175529857687&type=1&l=fa219a1c15

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Photos from AcadeQUIZ 2018

Thank you to everyone who participated in this year’s AcadeQuiz! Please click on the link below to view the event album. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10155327102042688.1073741924.175529857687&type=1&l=c99f965483

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Students participating in Acadecap educational summer camps
AcadeCoders

AcadeCoders & AcadeMakers 2018

Planning your summer? Check out our weekly camp calendar for June, July and August 2018! We will be offering 4 weeks  of AcadeCoders (Game Development) and of 4 weeks AcadeMakers (Maker Movement). Registration forms can be downloaded in PDF or Word formats. Scroll down to see all weekly topic descriptions.

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Teachers' Blogs

What is a Comic?

Preparing for our next writing unit, today students organized books into 3 different categories; picture books, comic books, and novels. Students then described what features make each books fit into the specific category. Students brainstormed what they know about comic books in preparation for creating their own comics. Source:: Mme

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Creating a final copy

Students are working hard on creating their final copy of their procedural writing, and working on their presentation style. Some students are planning on creating a video ( visual learning), others are creating an audio file, and some students will be using kinaesthetic learning to teach their peers how to

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Teachers' Blogs

Symmetry

We have been learning all about symmetry today in our Kindergarten classroom. We discovered what a line of symmetry is and about the varying characteristics that make items symmetrical. We talked about items in our class that were symmetrical and why. We used our pattern blocks to further our learning

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Teachers' Blogs

Géographie prospective « mon quartier de demain »

Engager les apprenants dans un travail de géographie prospective permet une autre approche dans notre unité pour lire et observer un territoire urbain. Pour ce faire, nous avons fait une sortie sur les lieux de vie de notre école, c’est-à-dire le quartier Qaulicum-Redwood Park .La séquence a débuté avec le

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Teachers' Blogs

Avec mes YEUX, je VOIS

Mme Amelie has been providing an array of new and exciting activities in our Kindergarten class. This morning, children were tasked at finding objects both inside and outside of our classroom and drawing what they see. Sight is the first of the five senses that we are learning about for

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Spelling in French

In the new unit, our Kindergarten class will be discovering the 5 senses. This week, we will focus our learning on SIGHT. Today, they used their literacy skills to spell new words “LA VUE”.They also learned new vocabulary in French to express what they see “Avec mes yeux, je vois

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