Our language program at Cascade Canyon arises out of our mission to help our students develop the foundational skills and awareness to assume active roles in our global community, and to appreciate diversity. We offer both French and Sign Language studies within our curriculum. Zoe Ghazi, our third and fourth grade teacher is our French Specialist, and Peggy Tunder, our K-1-2 teacher, is our Sign Specialist. Both teachers are fluent in their language, and engage students through highly interactive, thoughtfully designed lessons.
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Sign Language is a formal gesture language. It began as a manual
alphabet in the Italian monasteries of the fifteenth century as an
acceptable means of communication between monks who were under vows of
silence. Since that time, sign language has been used to teach the
deaf. Our own sign language is a mixture of French, English, and
Native American signs. In this year’s sign language class, I am
teaching “Signing Exact English” which is the current language used in
the education of the deaf and follows our spoken English syntax.
However, I also expose the students to American Sign Language, which is
a natural language of the deaf community in America and has its own
sentence structure, grammatical rules and semantics.
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 As our guiding principles for this art class, we borrow from An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth by Bruce Mau. Written in 1998, the Incomplete Manifesto is an articulation of statements that exemplify Bruce Mau's beliefs, motivations and strategies. It also articulates how the BMD studio works:
1. Process is more important than outcome. When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go to where we've already been. If process drives outcome we may not know where we're going, but we will know we want to be there.
2. Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child). Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day.
3. Capture accidents. The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different question. Collect wrong answers as part of the process. Ask different questions.
4. Drift. Allow yourself to wander aimlessly. Explore adjacencies. Lack judgment. Postpone criticism.
5. Don't be cool. Free yourself from limits of this sort.
6. Ask questions. Growth is fueled by desire and innocence. Assess the answer, not the question. Imagine learning throughout your life at the rate of an infant.
7. _______. Intentionally left blank. Allow space for the ideas you haven't had yet, and for the ideas of others.
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 Music is a gift that allows us to experience the beauty and joy present in the world around us. Music is healing, enlivening and enriching, it helps us to learn to communicate and build community. Music teaches us harmony. The music program at Cascade Canyon School is based on the philosophy that we are all musical and that every child loves to sing, dance and play.
It is the goal of the music program at Cascade Canyon School to provide a holistic approach to learning and appreciating music. Every class starts in a circle where we gather first as a community to share songs, express ourselves and dance. From there we move into a number of musical activities that may include singing songs, movement, body percussion, ensemble work, vocal jams, songwriting, notation, call and response, listening and learning about various music styles.
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 The first goal of the theater program is to help the students explore who they are and to feel comfortable sharing that with others. The second goal is to help them find their voice and communicate that with joy and confidence to the world outside of their own experience. The third goal is to understand the ‘give and take’ of creating together; learning to share the stage with grace.
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The PE program at Cascade Canyon balances instruction in teamwork, coordination and body awareness, and overall fitness. As students progress through PE, K-8, they develop the essential skill of good sportsmanship, the techniques and strategies used to play a range of sports, and the ability to set and achieve personal fitness goals. Cascade Canyon students meet twice a week for PE. Classes are fifty-five minutes each.
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