This past Wednesday, we had the pleasure of learning about how police officers play a role in our community from our assigned school officer , Constable Genevieve Hupe. She talked about how she also plays a role in our school community. Students had the opportunity to ask questions, and naturally, many of the questions had to do with her equipment! The students had a great time listening and learning from Constable Genevieve!
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A few snaps from the dance workshop that happened earlier this week. Students from Junior Kindergarten to Grade 7 participated in a workshop by one of the choreographers from the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School. Thank you, Philippe, for taking the time to teach and share with our students some of your beautiful dance skills! They had tons of fun, as you can see from the photos ;)
Today was Pi day at AcadeCap as part of our spirit week. Now this day may have been a source of some confusion for the kindergarten students however they did enjoy and did understand to some degree that Pi meant a number, had something to do with circles and was represented by a table like symbol (or that it was all about pies). The very best part of today is what I would like to share with you and it all started from a kindergarten student's shirt that was specially made for Pi day. On her shirt was the title Buffon's Needle and a depiction of what that was. Since we (myself included!) were so curious as to what this meant, we decided to ask one of AcadeCap's resident math experts, Mme Neena. Mme Neena told us she would come to our class and explain! Just 10 minutes later, Mme Neena arrived with a special paper marked with a few lines across the page, evenly separated, and a sewing needle. She went on to explain about Pi and about Buffon's Needle and then demonstrated. We took turns dropping the needle on the paper and seeing if it would land on or between the lines. It was a really fantastic learning opportunity and was so very interesting, all inspired by our kindergarten friend's shirt! Mme Neena was also inspired, her grade 8 math lesson went from whatever had been planned to a lesson about Buffon's Needle. Mme Neena loved sharing her knowledge with us so much that she said she'd like to come back and share more! Thank you to our kindergarten friend for coming to school in the mathiest shirt ever and inspiring this series of events!
A HUGE thank you to A and his family for organizing the Mad Science workshop! We experienced some pretty neat experiments and had loads of much fun! We learned about light and energy and made bouncy balls. We also found out that we had an alien in our class and found out who it was by using a UV light. Thanks again to A and family!
Yesterday, we had the pleasure of watching the Kids on the Block puppet show all about inclusion and understanding of children with disabilities. It was a very engaging and informative show! Everyone had lots of questions and the presenters did a great job of answering them. Ask your child what they learned from the show!
Once again, the Maker Mobile joined us at school for some great workshops. Justine, our instructor for the robot programming workshop, did a great job explaining how we have to be incredibly specific when we give a computer commands, there were some good laughs!
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