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February 15: Open House / Portes ouvertes
Académie de la Capitale (AcadeCap) is hosting an Open House on Thursday, February 15th, from 4:30 pm to 8:00 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

ICYMI: Festive Season Extravaganza 2017
Photos from our annual Festive Season Extravaganza are available on our Facebook page. Please click on the Facebook button to access the album. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10155169829747688.1073741921.175529857687&type=1&l=9ff8117fb4

AcadeQuiz: Académie de la Capitale’s Annual School Fundraiser
Académie de la Capitale’s annual school fundraiser, AcadeQuiz, is coming up! It will be held on February 24, in AcadeCap’s newly renovated space. Learn about how you can support AcadeQuiz!

Beaver Computing Contest
The students of Académie de la Capitale recently competed in the annual Beaver Computing Contest developed by the Center for Education in Mathematics and Computing (CEMC) of the University of Waterloo. The contest is intended to get students excited about computer science and focuses on computation and logic. Over 15,000 students wrote the Beaver Computing

Information Sessions: Dec. 13 & 14, 2017
Information sessions for 2017-2018 mid-year admission: (Wednesday) December 13 at 10 am and (Thursday) December 14 at 7 pm.

Hour of Code 2017: Free sessions December 4 & 7
The Hour of Code is back at Académie de la Capitale. Join us on December 4 and December 7 from 4:15 to 5:45 pm for free coding sessions.
AcadeCap Teacher and Staff Blogs

Tell me what you love about your friend…
All the little statements written around each student are some of the reasons their friends said they love them. We’ll do this once again, at the end of our unit, to see if we could add more. I am certain there are more reasons, and during the unit, we will

Robert Munsch wrote back!
We are very excited to announce that Robert Munsch wrote back to Ruben! “Hi Ruben: Thanks for writing and for reading my books. You asked if I like to do other things besides writing. I used to love to go hiking and cycling but now my health does not allow

Conflict Resolution
Last week, in English class, the students talked about conflict among friends. They thought about the types of problems that could come up and possible solutions to the problems. Thanks, Mme Katie! Often times, students will repeat some of this in French with me. Having talked about it in English

Science Fair
Really proud of my students and the wonderful job they did for their science fair project. When Lucie, the judge, visited their project, they were able to answer all her questions and share what they had done and what they had learned. I’m very impressed with their ability to recall

Reflections in our Journal
We are just about to wrap up our unit about living things and at the end of each unit (as well as throughout), we reflect on our learning. Today, we used our journals to document our reflections. The students were asked to take a few moments to think about what

What Do I See? (and hear, and feel!)
I am always telling the students to “show me” their stories when they write not “tell me.” This was put to the test today when students had to use their senses to write down what they observed around the school. They used their jot note skills to record all the