Courses
These are the Core Subjects and include Math, Science, Language Arts, and Foreign Languages.
This is the description for the Art Subject
Music classes include Band, Chorus, and Strings
The Health and Rec subjects include Health and Rec/PhysEd.
There are many different Seminars offered each term.
| Grade | Subject | Teacher | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Social Studies | Ms. Kast | Throughout the year, sixth graders will be spending their time in Social Studies looking at World Geography. Before diving into our...read more |
| 6 | Science | Mr. Bates | During this term of sixth grade science, we have focused on Biology. The beginning of the term was dedicated to the Hierarchy of Matter,...read more |
| 6 | Rec/PhysEd | Ms. Graham | We spent the term going to the field where we played soccer, medic, in & out, kickball and most recently Nauset ball. Our rainy day...read more |
| 6 | Music | Mrs. Bossi | The sixth grade has music as an exploratory subject once a week. We follow a program of listening, singing, trying several musical...read more |
| 6 | Math | Mrs. Scichilone | This term we concentrated on the review of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. We will continue this review throughout all...read more |
| 6 | Math | Mr. Stewart | The first term of math has flown by faster than a recess bound sixth grader. Between field trips, Sea Camps, site visits, and a week in...read more |
| 6 | Language Exploration | Ms. Harden |
This term in World Language we explored the Mayan World, got a taste of Latin and started French. Students got to hear K'iche and Mam...read more |
| 6 | Language Arts | Ms. O'Leary | It has been a wonderful first term in L.A. As the first project of the year, students composed "I AM" poems, which served as an...read more |
| 6 | Social Studies | Ms. Wilkinson | |
| 6 | Exploration | Mr. Novak | |
| 6 | Art | Ms. Greenwood | Sixth grade students completed several projects during Term 1. They created a "Tibetan Welcome Banner" using symbols to represent wishes...read more |
| 6 | Health | Ms. Graham | We began the term with an introductory lesson that asked the students to reflect on the differences between their inner and outer selves....read more |
| 7 | Spanish | Mrs. Hemeon-McMahon | Term 1 focused on introducing the students to the Spanish language by studying English-Spanish cognates, words that are the same or very...read more |
| 7 | Social Studies | Ms. Garran | Seventh graders began the year by exploring the elements necessary for a civilization to survive and thrive, as well as what leads to the...read more |
| 7 | Science | Mr. Trull | Students began the year studying Classification and Taxonomy. We studies the 5 kingdoms, culminating with the modern grouping of 5...read more |
| 7 | Rec/PhysEd | Ms. Graham | We spent the term going to the field where we played soccer, medic, in & out, kickball and, most recently, Nauset ball. Our rainy day...read more |
| 7 | Language Arts | Mr. Williams | This term has flown by like no other in the history of seventh grade Language Arts. We have examined where utopian societies in literature...read more |
| 7 | French | Ms. MacKenzie | The first term of French has been challenging. Our curriculum is based on objectives of proficiency, as well as understanding syntax,...read more |
| 7 | Art | Ms. Quenneville | During the first term of Art students were introduced to the following: 1) Cape Cod Museum of Art: students spent a morning participating...read more |
| 7 | Academic Tutorial | Ms. LedDuke | Academic Tutorial is a course utilized and designed for Special Needs students in the 7th and 8th grades. The course allows students an...read more |
| 7 | Math | Mr. Martin | |
| 7 | Math | Mr. Martin | |
| 7 | Health | Ms. Graham | This year we started with a review of the three types of health we will be studying: physical health, mental health and social well-being....read more |
| 8 | Spanish | Mrs. Hemeon-McMahon | 8th graders began this year before classes even met by reading a book of their choice in English that had something to do with Hispanic...read more |
| 8 | Science | Mr. Niles | The main focus in eighth grade science this term has been on understanding the fundamental properties used to describe matter. Through...read more |
| 8 | Math | Ms. Novak | We had two main points of focus this term: algebra concepts and skills and number sense concepts and skills. We started the term working...read more |
| 8 | Math | Ms. Novak | Topics covered this term included manipulating and simplifying algebraic expressions, solving equations in one unknown (including fairly...read more |
| 8 | Language Arts | Ms. Woods | We started the year with a burst of personal writing. Students wrote a response to their summer reading assignment and a "Mind Map" essay,...read more |
| 8 | Health | Ms. Graham | Students reviewed concepts from 6th and 7th grade, focusing on the importance of empathy in maintaining a safe environment at CCLCS. This...read more |
| 8 | French | Ms. MacKenzie | The objectives for this first term included reviewing what students learned last year while moving forward with new proficiencies and...read more |
| 8 | Art | Ms. Greenwood | Eighth grade students completed a number of projects during Term 1. Their initial encounter with visual expression began with the class...read more |
| 8 | Academic Tutorial | Mrs. Donnan | Academic Tutorial is a course designed for those students in the 7th and 8th grades who do not participate in a world language class. The...read more |
| 8 | Rec/PhysEd | Ms. Graham | We spent the term going to the field where we played soccer, kickball and most recently Nauset ball. We took several long hikes in...read more |
| 6, 7, 8 | Seminar | Ms. Graham | Do you remember the song your mother sang to you when you were a baby or the first song you learned in school, or the song that you and...read more |
| 6, 7, 8 | Seminar | Mrs. Hemeon-McMahon | Do you like to listen to rock music? How about hip-hop? Do you ever wonder where it came from, and how it has evolved throughout the...read more |
| 6, 7, 8 | Seminar | Ms. Garran | Aspiring writers and archaeologists, this seminar is for you. We will work with staff from the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History to...read more |
| 6, 7, 8 | Seminar | Ms. Graham-Pye | Hey! Why are monsters always the bad guys? Some of us love monsters. Some of us appreciate a monster's unique point of view. Some of us...read more |
| 6, 7, 8 | Seminar | Ms. Toner-Patterson | Do you ever feel off balance, literally or figuratively? Would you like to become more self-aware and confident? By practicing traditional...read more |
| 6, 7, 8 | Seminar | Ms. Greenwood | Inspired by Faith Ringgold's story quilts and the quilters of Gees Bend, this seminar is all about art and sewing that combines painting,...read more |
| 6, 7, 8 | Seminar | Ms. Woods | Do you love working with younger children? Perhaps you have thought of becoming a teacher. If so, this seminar is for you. We will be...read more |
| 6, 7, 8 | Seminar | Mrs. Graham | Students love taking pictures with their cell phone or digital camera, but do they know much about how photography works? Although it is...read more |
| 6, 7, 8 | Seminar | Mr. Williams | Monster House will combine art and construction to create the behind-the-scenes stuff that every haunt needs to be great. We will focus on...read more |
| 6, 7, 8 | Seminar | Mr. Trull | Students will visit various wetlands on the outer cape to. learn about and observe reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates found in the...read more |
| 6, 7, 8 | Seminar | Mr. Martin |
INTERIOR: a classroom at Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter. CLOSE UP on a STUDENT who stares intently at a computer screen and types rapidly. A...read more |
| 6, 7, 8 | Seminar | Ms. MacKenzie | Students who like to discuss Life, Death, Time, What's Real or Not Real, Myths and Mysteries while sounding very smart and dropping names...read more |
| 6, 7, 8 | Seminar | Ms. Quenneville | We will be drawing with scissors, pencils, crayons, markers and whatever else we can get our hands on. We will draw from observation, our...read more |
| 6, 7, 8 | Seminar | Ms. Kast | I believe in pink, I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong....read more |
| 6, 7, 8 | Seminar | Mr. Scichilone | Strat-O-Matic Baseball is a statistics-based game played with dice and a separate playing card for each player in the major leagues....read more |
| 6, 7, 8 | Seminar | Mrs. Bossi | |
| 6, 7, 8 | Chorus | Mrs. Bossi | In the first term of chorus, we explore the principles of good tone production, good vowel placement, and we get immediately into the...read more |
| 6, 7, 8 | Strings | Mrs. Schultze |