 Cascade Canyon has offered an outstanding, developmentally-oriented Kindergarten program for the past twenty-five years, taught as both a stand-alone class and as a multli-age class in keeping with the philosophy of our school. Though we are not offering Kindergarten for the 2007-2008 school year, we are currently working with our staff and community to determine the configuration of our Kindergarten program for 2008-2009. Peggy Tunder, our outstanding early primary teacher, is lending her vision and expertise through our design process. For more information about our upcoming Kindergarten program and to arrange a school  tour, please call our school office.
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This year’s school theme is “Cultivating Sustainability (a harmony of cycles)”. In the 1st - 2nd grade class, the theme will be integrated throughout the curriculum, from working towards a cohesive, supportive class culture, to planning, researching, planting and maintaining a garden of medicinal and culinary herbs, to interviewing local merchants prior to making our own Fairfax community model, to working in our Creation Station, where recycled items become treasures, to investigating connections between math and the natural world. We will also continuously explore and celebrate other cultures to encourage the students to remain open to all that is beautiful and instructive and inspiring about people who are different from us. The year will culminate with long-term group projects about the Ocean, the source of all life on the planet, and the transformation of our classroom into an Underwater Coral Reef (made out of recycled materials, of course!).
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In third and fourth grades, students stretch their skills immensely in reading, writing, listening, speaking, math and social studies. In our class, we work together to develop the necessary organizational and interpersonal skills to work successfully in groups, to complete short and long term assignments in a range of subjects, and to manage daily homework. Over these two years, students develop personal and academic confidence.
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Together, our fifth and sixth grade class will explore the subject areas of Reading, Writing, Word Study, Mathematics, and Social Studies. As a community of learners, our goal is to work cooperatively in order to deepen our understanding of the many concepts presented.
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In alignment with Cascade Canyon's multi-age classroom structure, the science curriculum at Cascade Canyon is based on a two-year alternating curriculum, with year one focusing mainly on earth and physical science and year two focusing mainly on life sciences. In this way, students have the benefit of going deep into focused units of study and of moving through a logically-scaffolded, thematic curriculum. Our science program includes standards-based curriculum as well as an emerging eco-literacy and gardening curriculum.
 This year, 2007-2008, we are in the life sciences cycle and we are excited to begin work in our new courtyard garden. Pictured on the left are our first and second graders from 2006-2007 working our native plant garden.
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