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E.K. left yesterday to Tanzania
The best of luck to our student E.K. who left yesterday to join the Ukerewe Medical Mission in Tanzania with the @CACHA_ASCCA .Glad to see you are making a difference in the world!

Ecology Ottawa hopes one-million-tree campaign takes root
A journey of a million trees begins with a single planting. And so, on Tuesday, Ecology Ottawa began its campaign to green-up this city ahead of Canada’s 150th birthday. The environmental group held a public event at Champlain Park near Tunney’s Pasture and discussed its goal of having one million

Académie de la Capitale Featured in IB World Magazine
More students learn about life cycles by studying charts and diagrams. But, says Nora Ibrahim, a PYP teacher at Académie de la Capitale in Ottawa, Canada, “I wanted to do something different, so my class adopted hens’ eggs and given the responsibility of incubating, hatching and caring for the chicks.

The importance of learning how to learn!
Learning to learn is not a catch phrase! Educators with great pedagogical insight, an understanding of brain-based learning and solid teaching practices hold fast to the old adage: Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for

Learning without limits
Charles Khazzam didn’t like private schools, but he and spouse Marie Carmen Berlie were quite happy to have their three children enrolled in this one. Read the full article.
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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,