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Student-Led Conferences/Jiu Jitsu Demo

On Monday, April 27th, AcadeCap parents had the pleasure to come to the AcadeCap student-led conferences and Jiu Jitsu demonstration. Congratulations to our knowledgeable learners and ninjas! A huge thank you to @K2 Martial Arts team who trained our students well!  

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PYP Exhibition 2015 / Exposition PP 2015

Dear Parents and Friends, In the IB Programme, Grade Six marks the end of the PYP, or Primary Years Programme. To celebrate our graduation, we have prepared the PYP Exhibition. Our class has chosen a topic of global concern. Our central idea is: “ Individuals must adopt practices to preserve

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Earth Day 2015 @AcadeCap

As part of their action for the PYP Exhibition, the students of the 5/6 classroom invited l’Académie de la Capitale to participate in Earth Day this last Wednesday, April 22, 2015. Specifically, the grades 5 and 6 have organized various activities throughout the day  to create awareness towards specific environmental

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The Royal Disease

​Biology 11 students are learning about the x-linkage type of genetic inheritance pattern. They are exploring a case study focused on the pedigree of Queen Victoria. Hemophilia was the result of a trait from one gene located on the X chromosome. The students use a problem based learning approach to

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PYP Debate Club

​PYP students are honing their debating skills in an engaging lunch time club. Each session starts with a skill building activity to warm up our brains and then moves into a more formal debating activity. Students learn the art of argumentation and reasoning while having fun! Source:: Mme Christine’s SLT

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Advanced SMILE

​​In the advanced SMILE class, students are working on paragraph writing and elements of writing style. Here is an example of a recent paragraph by one of our students. How the Mighty Empire of Rome Began Rome’s beginnings can be traced to small settlements of shepherds near the banks of

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100th Day Collections

Today is our 100th day of school! We celebrated by bringing in a collection of 100 objects, making groups of 10, skip counting to 100, and playing a game! We brought in 100 stickers, 100 noodles, 100 Legos (x2), a list of 100 words, and 100 counters! Take a look

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Tens and Ones

​We were learning about 10s and 1s in our Kindergarten math class.When students are able to compose and decompose numbers into tens, they can better manipulate numbers mentally. Source:: Kinder Blog

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Do you wanna build a snowman?

Students in Grade 1/2 have been working on procedural writing leading up to the iSTEAM Fair later this March. To practice writing procedures, we studied how to build a snowman. To begin, students first identified the important steps and vocabulary. Once we had a list, we then looked at transition

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