An interesting confluence of activities this week: the anti-bullying program and basketball game with the Montreal Alouettes, and the advent of Purim that begins Wednesday night. They seem like very disparate events – one very secular, very “Montreal”, the other,… Read More
“Who are those people?” asked more than one student this week, as we hosted a team of 9 outstanding educators from across Canada. They were here as part of the Canadian Accredited Independent Schools (CAIS) review and evaluation process, and… Read More
Our teachers are always thinking of new innovative ways to teach. Check out what’s going on lately in our classrooms: Twister and phonics? Hats off to grade one teachers who are incorporating many diverse ways to teach their students phonics… Read More
Research shows that by supplying a more authentic context for learning, you will increase the chance that a lesson will be remembered and can be used in other similar situations. Last week, Grade 2 classes did a fun exercise to… Read More
Radio Akiva is a French weekly podcast created by a few grade 5 students in a lunchtime club led by Josée Gendron, Directrice de la section française. Chaque semaine quelques élèves préparent une courte émission sur des actualités, des nouvelles… Read More
Our Grade 1A class reached out across the seas and made some new friends with Grade 1 students in an elementary school in Castelnaudary, France via a Skype video call over the Internet. Skype technology and the Internet provide a great way for… Read More
This has been a special week at Akiva, a week of new learning and new opportunities for the children, the parents and the staff, because this was the week of Parents’ Day and the staff retreat. Despite the apparent differences… Read More
Just a quick summary of some of the great things going on in Akiva classrooms: In Grade 5: In English class, the children were listening to a podcast written by an author in order to picture what the author was… Read More
At Akiva School, our technology program is integrated throughout the curriculum. The student and teacher computers number sixty, including laptops. There are thirty computers just in the library/multimedia room area alone. A new Smartboard was installed for Section Française which is… Read More
