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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 storyline (3)

Thursday
22Oct2009

National Park Rangers Receive 1st Aid Training From Bend Physicians and Firefighters

DateThursday, October 22, 2009 at 07:33PM


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The National Park Rangers participated in a fun and informative 1st aid training session, led by Dr. Jill Wimberly and Dr. Gary Gallagher. The Rangers learned how to assemble a 1st aid kit, how to surgically remove splinters (ok, how to remove toothpick pieces from a grape), and how to treat a cut. They recently received additional training from Dr. Kathryn Kocurek and from firefighters Bill Boos and Rob Cravens. They are now prepared to treat those wayward hikers that they may come across in their National Park.

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Monday
28Sep2009

Lower School Storyline Announced

DateMonday, September 28, 2009 at 02:01PM

The Cascades Academy Lower School faculty formally announced the Fall. 2009 Storyline - and what impeccable timing they have. The National Parks theme launched, quite appropriately, with screening of Ken Burn's series on the National Parks hosted by PBS. Today students formally applied for their desired job in their desired park (close to 400 parks and monuments to choose from) and placements will be announced soon. If you didn't tune in to part one of the Burn's documentary last night, check PBS for the rest of the schedule.  This is T.V. at its best for sure. 

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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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