Toy Shop and Help Cascadia

Snapdoodle Toys & Games (formerly Top Ten Toys) has generously offered to donate 10% of their gross sales from Monday, December 9th to Cascadia PTA.  Shop for the holidays or upcoming birthdays and help Cascadia at the same time.

 

Snapdoodle is located at 120 N 80th in Greenwood.  They are open from …

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Weekend Food Program Coming to Cascadia

Cascadia Elementary, Cascadia Head Start, and the Cascadia PTA are proud to partner with the Ballard Food Bank to offer a Weekend Food for Kids program. The nutrition provided by this confidential weekend backpack program helps children from families who need assistance with food, and has no income eligibility requirements to participate. Dietary restrictions …

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Bookfair Open During Conferences

Book Fair Open in the Library During Conferences

Once again, the Scholastic Book Fair will be held in the library during conferences. All sales will benefit the school library. Cascadia earns 20% of all profits so we can buy more books!! Feel free to drop off your kids here in the library while you …

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Lost and Found Updates

The Lost and Found is bursting with coats, shirts, lunch containers, books, and miscellaneous other belongings. A generous volunteer regularly sorts, returns, and itemizes all lost items, posting photos in the Parent Facebook group to help families to reunite with their lost items. Currently so many things are collecting that a request for …

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Student Led Food Drive

Cascadia Students are running a Food Drive during November leading up to Thanksgiving. The donations will go to the Ballard Food Bank. The Ballard Food Bank services many neighborhoods including Queen Anne, Magnolia, and Ballard. In addition to being a Food Bank that patrons come to shop for food at …

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Donations of Socks and Other New Warm Items

One of our 5th graders is organizing a SOCK DRIVE (also accepting mittens, hats and scarves) this month to benefit Family Works in Wallingford. Any contributions of new items of any size will be greatly appreciated. The bin is by the front office through Dec. 2.

Friday Movie Nov 15: The Lion King

Cascadia Friday night movies returns with “The Lion King.” This visually stunning, extremely realistic computer-animated remake of Disney’s beloved 1994 original immerses the audience in the world of Pride Rock. This will be a good one for the big screen!

With a star-studded cast, sweeping storytelling, and obvious nods to “Hamlet” in plot and themes, …

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Global Reading Challenge

Calling all 4th and 5th graders! The Seattle Public Library Global Reading Challenge is once again under way.

This is the annual “battle of the books” challenge where teams of seven students—both 4th and 5th graders—will read 10 books representing a wide variety of reading levels and genres.

Working with their team, students …

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Photo Retakes November 8

If you received a photo package and would like to do retakes, please return your photo package on Retake Day and Yuen Lui will print a new package free of charge with your retake photo. If you did not receive your package but still would like to do retakes please have your picture taken anyway …

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Supporting Community Equity: Feedback

This academic year the Racial Equity Team is leading staff in learning more about and supporting the community and cultural backgrounds of all its students. We recognize that many families celebrate holidays or participate in cultural celebrations that may not have been acknowledged or known about by staff or other students in previous years.

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