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The teachers here at Cascades Academy understand quite clearly the idea of "blogging", which really leads one to images of late night key-tapping, coffee-drinking, and hair-on-fire muckraking. Therefore as a public service, to those oft-stereotyped blog-addicts out there, we will claim only "to spawn" - a more mild-mannered conjugation of the formal "to blog" - on this portion of our site. We can condone the late night key-tapping and the coffee-drinking, however, the hair-on-fire muck-racking is really just out of the question. The preferred method of communicating all that we do here at Cascades Academy would be for your children to race home after-school with tales of carnivorous lab-turtles, firemen in the parking lot, at-large guinea pigs, red-coated strangers rifling their lunches for sugar, classroom knitting obsessions, or the occasional enlightening lecture. However knowing kids as well as we do, we also understand that it is a rare day when children even make it home with all of the same clothes they went to school wearing (have you seen the lost and found lately?). It is with this level of awareness to childhood development that we give you The Spawn - a grown-up attempt to let you know some of what we do here everyday. 

 

Entries in Cascades Academy (2)

Thursday
22Oct2009

600 Willows in the Ground at Camp Polk Meadow Preserve

DateThursday, October 22, 2009 at 02:54PM


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The Cascades Academy middle school made short work of the "600 Willow Challenge" put forth by the Upper Deschutes Watershed Council. Even though we were nine students down due to the recent flu outbreak the 20 students and two teachers that did partake were able to get 600 willows planted in the banks adjacent to the new river channel under construction on Wychus Creek northeast of Sisters. These willows will stablize the banks of the new meandering channel and keep the soil in place and out of the spawning habitat downstream. With winter rains on the way timing was of the essence so to speak. Thanks to Dr. Eklund for organizing these efforts and congratulations to our students who put in five hours of hard work!

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Thursday
24Sep2009

Mt. Mazama Missing in Southern Oregon!

DateThursday, September 24, 2009 at 10:12AM


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Cascades Academy lower school students found that Mt. Mazama was missing from the Southern Cascades and found in it's place Crater Lake. Though this mountain apparently went missing 7700 years ago our students made this amazing discovery just this week, as part of their fall storyline on National Parks.

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