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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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Getting deeper into our unit of inquiry
Another busy week here in grades 3 and 4. Some of the activities we did were:-Games outside with the grade 1 and 2 class where grade 3 and 4 students got to demonstrate the traits exemplified by a hero by leading the games and helping the younger kids; -Students practiced
On s’organise…un peu
This week, we’ve been looking at how organization facilitates getting things done. We got to see what we were able to accomplish when tasks are not prioritize well for us. We all accomplished different tasks and a few people choose to do the fun tasks rather than finishing what was
Unit of inquiry #1 – nos héros.
This week, we began our first unit of inquiry – how choices of heroes reflect the characteristics that societies and individuals value (see “units of inquiry” tab). As you can see from our photos, we got off to a busy start. Students were not told what the unit of inquiry
Pareil, pas pareil
Grade 6s developping their logical thinking skills….and learning the names of the cards in French Jack = Le valet; Queen = La dame; King = Le Roi Diamond = Carreau; Heart = Coeur; Spade = Pique; Club = Trèfle In this challenge, cards in the same row must share a
Je me présente
This week, we have completed some community building activities and getting organized. We started Tuesday with an ESCAPE ROOM. We worked very hard to solve a series of puzzles that would direct us to the batteries to make our electric sharpener work. We also started a mini-project called “Je me
First week back!
We did so many things this week–students created and presented skits that included useful classroom expressions in French, did a show-and-tell paper bag activity, a scavenger hunt to learn about Mme Sarah, reviewed the IB learner profile attributes, came up with a list of classroom essential agreements to stick to