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Welcome to the Blog!
Welcome to the new STEM’s Blog. Next exciting posts from the STEM Team will follow soon. Stay tuned!
Défi Mathématique Day
Défi Mathématique Day: On February 25, 2015, Michel Lyons, developer and author of the Défi Mathématique series, will be working alongside students and teachers.
Festive Season Extravaganza
Académie de la Capitale offered a photoshoot to parents during the end-of-the-year 2014 presentation. What a great way to end a great year!
Jiu-Jitsu Demonstration in April
Mark your calendars for Monday, April 27th, for AcadeCap Portfolio student-led conferences and Jiu-jitsu demonstrations. On that day, our balanced learners will present you their eportfolio and their amazing Jiu Jitsu skills.
Swimming the 10k against Pancreatic Cancer
François Jacques, Chairman of the Board of Acadecap Intl School and Carleton Masters teammates swim 10 K for Pancreatic Cancer! By swimming the 10 K, François Jacques also took up the Jack Matthews Challenge, put forth by David Hawley, Headmaster Lester B. Pearson United World College. What a feat! Félicitations!
Paddling For Biodiversity with the UN
World School senior students (grades 9-11)in June 2013. It will consist of a 3 1/2 day Fraser River voyageur canoe trip, as well as a stay at Lester B. Pearson United World College in a marine environment on the southern coast of Vancouver Island. Read the full article here.
AcadeCap Teacher and Staff Blogs
The hunt for 100
On February 6th, we celebrated 100 days of being at school this year. In our class, we each brought in a collection of 100 things, and shared them with the class. We also hunted for the numbers 1-100 around our school, and recorded them to reveal a secret picture! Source::
Happy Friday!
Every Friday afternoon, we’ve been going skating at the park. We will be continuing to go until March Break (hopefully!). Source:: Mme Shannon’s Blog
Math building
We really love our math building games in grade 1/2! Source:: Mme Shannon’s Blog
We started our new unit!
Hello Grade 1/2 families! School has just been so busy that I haven’t updated our blog in quite some time. We’ve finished our unit on Machines, and wrapped it up with a project to design our own machine to help us solve a problem relevant to us. Now, we’ve moved
Catapult building, our Special Guest, and Types of Energy
In the last few weeks, we’ve have the opportunity to do lots of hands on learning. We built Rube Goldberg Machines as a school activity, and more recently, we learned how to build a catapult! First, we designed our own, and tried to see which designs worked the best. Then,