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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!
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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