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After school clubs for Fall 2016

The list of after school clubs for the 2016 fall term are now available in the After School Clubs  section (under Camps/Clubs). We will be offering the following: Mondays: AC Flipped Math Enrichment Tuesdays: Junior Maker Inventor Workshop Wednesdays: AcadeCoders Web Design alternating with Minecraft EDU Thursdays: Ottawa Robotics Academy

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2016: OPEN HOUSE / PORTES OUVERTES

Looking for a one-stop-education in the West of Ottawa? Académie de la Capitale IB World School is hosting its next Open House on Thursday, September 1st, 2016 from 4:30 – 8:00 pm. Come and discover more about our programmes: PYP,  MYP, and OSSD. Learn about our extra-curriculars: Crédits à la Carte, Tutoring, Coding

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AcadeCoders Blog 2016: Ruby

Ruby Welcome to the eighth week of the AcadeCoders session: Ruby. This blog post will cover each daily activity of each camp day with various pictures and descriptions. Ruby is a prominent back-end object-oriented coding language used for web applications and scaling. Companies such as Shopify, Airbnb, and Twitter. Day 1:

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AcadeCoders Blog 2016: Robotics and AI

Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Welcome to the seventh week of the AcadeCoders session: Robotics and AI. This blog post will cover each daily activity of each camp day with various pictures and descriptions. Robotics and AI are an integral part in the field of technology and this significance will be taught through concepts

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AcadeCoders Blog 2016: Building Applications with JavaScript

Building Applications with JavaScript Welcome to the sixth week of the AcadeCoders session: Building Applications with JavaScript. This blog post will cover each daily activity of each camp day with various pictures and descriptions. JavaScript is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers.

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AcadeCap Teacher and Staff Blogs

Students engaged in academic and creative learning at Acadecap
Teachers' Blogs

Unifix cube patterns

This student is working very hard to recreate his pattern on the grid! Source:: Kinder & Grade 1 Blog

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Acadecap students participating in collaborative classroom learning activities
Teachers' Blogs

Un peu d’histoire

​L’histoire est la science qui étudie le passé et qui tente de le reconstituer. Puisque les sociétés actuelles sont influencées par les sociétés du passé, il est important de bien connaître cette matière. Celle-ci aide à mieux comprendre qui nous sommes collectivement.Les élèves de 7/8 ème nous présentent l’histoire du

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Students involved in academic and extracurricular learning programs
Teachers' Blogs

Research, Note-taking, and Organization

Students were given a book to read about a famous video game designer. They challenged themselves to take meaningful notes about important facts from his life. They then used the post-it notes to organize the facts. ​ Looking at the notes we had taken in the previous class, we were

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Acadecap student success and innovative learning environment
Teachers' Blogs

Career Day!

During our unit on the workplace, students in Grade 2/3 spent time researching their future career of interest. After researching, writing a rough draft, typing their good copy in Google Docs, and practicing presenting, students were prepared to present their projects. On Career Day, students came to school dressed for

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Acadecap students engaged in hands-on classroom learning
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Outdoor Excursion

​This week, we went on an adventure and walked to a creek close to the school! The students explored and found many different things, including what the students thought was either a beaver or an otter, which turned out to be a muskrat! After exploring, the students sat by the

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Acadecap classroom activities promoting student development and learning
Teachers' Blogs

Biographies, Autobiographies and Memoirs

Students “tuned in” to the new unit by sorting through a table filled with books. They were tasked with sorting the books into 3 categories. After a few attempts, and much discussion, the students organized the books by biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. What will our new unit be? Source:: Mme

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