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Student in international dictation competition
David Khazzam, 10, will be taking part in an international dictation competition next month in Montreal where more than 1,000 students will be vying for top spots in two divisions: French as a second language and French schools. The Grade 6 student attends Académie de la Capitale, International Baccalaureate, in
AcadeQuiz Annual Fundraiser 2015
What is AcadeQuiz? The main attraction is a clever and often humorous trivia game consisting of 8 categories. Enthusiastic participants are placed on teams for some healthy competition From Pop Culture to All About Canada, there is something for all to enjoy! After each trivia category, participants have the opportunity
Minecraft SuperSats 2015
The first Saturday of each Month, Académie de la Capitale will be offering Minecraft as part of its “SuperSats”. Here are the dates for Minecraft Saturdays 2015: Saturday Feb. 7th, 2015 Saturday March 7th, 2015 Saturday April 11th, 2015 (First Saturday is Easter weekend) Saturday May 2nd, 2015 Saturday June
Javascript SuperSats 2015
On the third Saturday of each month, Académie de la Capitale will be offering JavaScript as part of its “SuperSats” Here are the dates for JavaScript Saturdays 2015: Saturday Jan. 24th, 2015 (First Saturday is holiday break) Saturday Feb. 21st, 2015 Saturday March 21st, 2015 Saturday April 25th, 2015 (First
Hour Of Code 2014 at l’Académie
During the week of December 8th to December 14th, the students from Kindergarten to Grade 12, at Académie de la Capitale IB World School, took part in the Hour of code organised by Khan Academy. This year, Khan Academy was expecting over 100 million participants. The coding event was also endorsed internationally by @President
Waterpolo P.E Waterfun
We’ve teamed up with the titans for some waterpolo action. Our students are learning to play together, and more importantly, stay afloat!
AcadeCap Teacher and Staff Blogs
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
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
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
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
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
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