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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

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

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

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

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

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.
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