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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
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J’ai trouvé une carte!
Students in Grade 1/2 have started their new unit on maps. Lately, we’ve been learning about how to read and use a map. Last week, students were tasked with writing a creative journal entry in French. Students were to imagine they found any kind of map, and think about where
Le Rainbow Project – un message d’espoir et de solidarité.
La classe de 5ème année de Mme Aïcha a initié un projet solidaire et créatif en s’inspirant du mouvement mondial des arc-en-ciel qui avait commencé en Italie quand la pandémie de coronavirus a fortement frappé le pays. En signe de solidarité et d’espoir, les élèves de l’Académie de la Capitale
TeleLearning
We are now on week 5 of telelearning, a month has gone by so quickly. The Kindergarten students are fully engaged in a program specially designed for working from home. I have to say that I am so proud of my students and their capacity to be flexible and adapt
Who is in the community?
As part of our summative assessment, I had students fill in a mind map of the members that make up their community. Source:: Mme Nora’s Blog
Bingo
A fun and exciting way to reinforce number recognition, and this in French! Everyone loves a good game of bingo! Source:: Mme Nora’s Blog
Mystery, mystery
Students really love the challenge of this game, they are using their logical thinking skills and problem solving skills as well as number sense to math the numbers to the picture. When they match all the pictures, the last number is the mystery number, also very exciting. It’s the small