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Caribou Math Contest Results
The Caribou Math Contest is an a world wide online math competition held six times throughout the school year, with different competitions for different grade groups. This year, internationally there were more than 6000 students participating in grades 3-4, more than 8000 students participating in grades 5-6, and more than
Raspberry Pi
New for AcadeCoders 2016 is Raspberry Pi, which will be part of the programming for the Robotics and Artificial Intelligence week (August 8 – 12). Raspberry Pi is a series of single-board computers that students get to manipulate through hardware and software configuration. Students will be introduced to the basics of Raspberry Pi from its
Summer camps start on June 20
Summer is coming! Our first day of AcadeCamp is on June 20, while AcadeCoders is on June 27. Have you signed up yet? If not, now is the time! If you are curious as to what goes on during a camp week, please visit our camp blog for an entertaining and informative look
AcadeCoders ADVANCED!
Are you ready for a new challenge? The AcadeCoders 2016 summer camp program is offering an Advanced HTML/CSS course to students who have taken the HTML/Course during the AcadeCoders 2015 summer camp program. Students will be creating beautiful and responsive websites with Bootstrap, a front-end library for creating high-end websites
AcadeCamp 2017
AcadeCamp is an innovative summer programme allowing campers from ages 5-9 to experiment, ask questions, and get messy, tout en français. Science, Technology, Engineering, Architecture and Math (STEAM) demand inquiry, connection, experimentation and exploration, and with these processes at play, there is an unpredictable product until the very end. The weekly bilingual
AcadeCoders 2016
AcadeCoders – Coding Adventures is a seven week software coding and design camp being offered during the summer at Académie de la Capitale for ages 6-14. Each week will see participants progress through more complex coding adventures. Our curriculum is developed by the AcadeCap STEM team and will be delivered
AcadeCap Teacher and Staff Blogs
Earth Day Calendar
Students joined a special club in late March and early April to prepare for Earth Day 2022. The group worked collaboratively to design a calendar to give to others to celebrate Earth Day and take action to help Mother Earth every month of the year. Students engaged in creating a
Qui est Louis Braille?
Students in Grade 1/2 are currently working on a unit of inquiry that focuses on non-verbal communication. Last week, we learned about the creation of Braille, started by Louis Braille in 1894. Based on the French alphabet, Braille created a writing system as an improvement to night writing. Once we
Science Fair Awards Presentation!
We had our Science Fair awards presentation at Acadecap today! Our Kindergarten class was so excited to receive their individual certificates for their work on our “How to grow green beans” science fair project!Congratulations to all of the students on their individual accomplishments! Source:: Kinder Blog
March 28th, 2022
Students continue to learn about ancient civilizations by participating in a variety of Reader’s Theater performances. Students are focusing on the main ides and supporting details when sorting and summarizing the information read. Source:: Mme Melissa’s English 4-5 Blog
Ancient Civilizations and Language Development
Students are super excited to explore the world of ancient civilizations! Students were introduced to the emergence of written language and had fun decoding riddles written in hieroglyphics. Source:: Mme Melissa’s English 4-5 Blog
Exploring the world of POETRY
We are starting off our unit on poetry by exploring how poetry can elicit emotions and leads the audience to visualize different scenes. The first poem we looked at was “Colors” by Shel Silvertein. Source:: Mme Melissa’s English 2-3 Blog