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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
Getting deeper into our unit of inquiry
Another busy week here in grades 3 and 4. Some of the activities we did were:-Games outside with the grade 1 and 2 class where grade 3 and 4 students got to demonstrate the traits exemplified by a hero by leading the games and helping the younger kids; -Students practiced
On s’organise…un peu
This week, we’ve been looking at how organization facilitates getting things done. We got to see what we were able to accomplish when tasks are not prioritize well for us. We all accomplished different tasks and a few people choose to do the fun tasks rather than finishing what was
Unit of inquiry #1 – nos héros.
This week, we began our first unit of inquiry – how choices of heroes reflect the characteristics that societies and individuals value (see “units of inquiry” tab). As you can see from our photos, we got off to a busy start. Students were not told what the unit of inquiry
Pareil, pas pareil
Grade 6s developping their logical thinking skills….and learning the names of the cards in French Jack = Le valet; Queen = La dame; King = Le Roi Diamond = Carreau; Heart = Coeur; Spade = Pique; Club = Trèfle In this challenge, cards in the same row must share a
Je me présente
This week, we have completed some community building activities and getting organized. We started Tuesday with an ESCAPE ROOM. We worked very hard to solve a series of puzzles that would direct us to the batteries to make our electric sharpener work. We also started a mini-project called “Je me
First week back!
We did so many things this week–students created and presented skits that included useful classroom expressions in French, did a show-and-tell paper bag activity, a scavenger hunt to learn about Mme Sarah, reviewed the IB learner profile attributes, came up with a list of classroom essential agreements to stick to