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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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STEM
During our STEM period yesterday, we put on our engineering hats and listened to a story about the Brooklyn Bridge. It was the story of a little girl who was so excited to walk on the bridge after it was built. She watched as it was being built and finally,
Curiosity leads to…
This mini lesson about fractions is not part of the usual term 1 JK math curriculum. A few other steps come before we begin learning about fractions. However…one of these little guys was quite interested in the fraction circles and wanted to learn about them, so why not. Fractions can
Art Exhibition 2016
Our art teacher, Mme Hajar, and her students have worked really hard this year creating fabulous pieces of art. What better way to celebrate their accomplishments than by displaying their masterpieces for everyone to see! Our art exhibition will take place on June 8th, 9th, and 10th. Parents and friends
Life Cycles
Students are learning about Life Cycles in this unit. We are building our understanding of life cycles, and as we do this we add to the board. We are doing this in both English and French! So far we have looked at the life cycles of the bee, butterfly and
Inquiry and Action on Reusing!
We have been reading, discussing, singing, and creating actions for the story “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” by Roxanne Lanczak Williams. Today we made a web about things that we can reuse based on the book. The students talked about making crafts out of unwanted items such as boxes, egg cartons old
Exploring through drama
Our unit is about exploring through the arts. As a class we read the story of “Little Red Riding Hood” and then students enjoyed acting out the story in the drama centre. Source:: Mme Andrea’s Blog