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Terry Fox Fundraising on September 28 2021
AcadeCap is proud to be participating in this year’s Terry Fox event. We aim to raise $1,000 in support of the Terry Fox Foundation. The fundraising event will take place on Tuesday, September 28, 2021, at Morrison Park (near the school). Students will be running with their cohort, following COVID-19
The Student Vote
Acadecap has registered the school to The Student Vote program. This project provides our students with an opportunity to experience the democratic process firsthand, and practice the habits of informed and engaged citizenship. The Student Vote program applies the concept of the ‘teachable moment’ using the official election as a
Indigenous Culture: Orange Shirt Day
Orange shirt day is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation for Indigenous peoples. We at AcadeCap take part by wearing orange shirts to support the first peoples’ rights. We also take Indigenous studies at our school seriously with curriculum based on indigenous mythology and world view, residential schools, and
Dial-a-Chef Lunch Programme
At AcadeCap we pride ourselves in excellence in education across the world including unique cultural experiences through cuisine by Chef Erick of Dial-a-Chef. Dial-a-Chef has been in the Ottawa community since 1992. Chef Erick provides unique cuisine from France, Canada and around the world in our catered lunch programme at
AcadeCap Safe Return in September 2021
Once again due to the on-going pandemic, the AcadeCap Summer Team prepared for a safe return September, 2021. We continue to put in place numerous procedures and practices to ensure that students and team members are safe during their learning at school. Consequently, what can students and parents expect? Each
Virtual AcadeCamp: Summer at the Art Gallery
This week, students at AcadeCamp have been busy learning about Pat Lipsky. Inspired by her paintings, campers learned about arrays and multiplication, along with number patterns and sequences. Below is a picture of an “Array City.” Each building has windows using different arrays to express a multiplication number sentence. Using
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Environmental Sustainability
We started our new unit in the past couple of weeks: environmental sustainability. Last week we started learning about natural resources -renewable and non-renewable. After discussing all of the different natural resources, the students sculpted their interpretation of various different natural resources, including: air, wildlife, water, the earth, and plants.
Halloween 2020
Cette année, la fête d’Halloween a une saveur particulière.A l’Académie de la Capitale, nous avons fêté comme il se doit en revêtant nos plus beaux costumes ! Source:: PSSP & OSSD
Unité # 2 Inventions and inventors
Students making research and working in collaboration to present a poster and google slide abut an inventions in different countries. Communication skills and collaboration Looking for a specific invention in a country on the world map . Source:: GRADE 3 & 4 Blog
Papier Mâché
We have been working really hard making paper mâché suns, earths and moons. We are now at the painting stage of our project and will soon get to use our models of the earth, sun and moon to demonstrate how we have day and night and seasons! We can’t wait
Cooperative Skill Building
Grade 2/3 has started working on their new unit focusing on the Workplace. We’ve been focusing on the idea of having a common goal within a team. To work on collaboration, students have been playing different cooperative games. We’ve been practicing our listening skills, compromising, and working together to accomplish
Questions in Nature
This week during our weekly Outdoor Education class, we went for a walk outside. I asked the students to bring their notebooks and a pencil on our walk, and to write down every question they had about nature. When we came back inside, the students wrote their questions on the