First Graders' Experiment!

The first-grade classes did a science experiment to see what would happen if they put some chemicals on charcoal. Prior to the experiment, they had to predict what they thought would happen. They made the following predictions:

-The charcoal would turn gray.

-It would catch on fire.

-It would explode.

-The charcoal would turn into water.

-The charcoal would turn into oil.

-The charcoal would turn into a tornado.

Come to our Science Night on Thursday from 6:00-7:30 to see what happened to with their science experiments!

Science Night is Thursday

Science Night is This Thursday!

 6:00-7:30

Fun science activities, classroom science projects on display, and a hot dog dinner.

Kindergarten Orientation - 5/4 at 3:45 or 5:30

Dear New Kindergarten Families -

Tomorrow we will host parents (and kids if you like) for a kindergarten orientation for this fall.

• Come get your most important questions answered:
• What does reading look like in kindergarten?
• What does math look like in kindergarten?
• What does writing look like in kindergarten?
• How will my kids get to and from school on the buses?
• What should we do to get ready for school to start in August?
• Who can answer our questions?

Location: Sacajawea - Rm 9

Times: 3:45 or 5:30

Thanks

Mr. Webster and the Kindergarten Team

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Queridos Familias Nuevas de Kinder -

Mañana vamos a tener una programa de orientación para los padres nuevos de kinder.  Pueden llevar sus niños si desean.

Las preguntas más importantes van a estar contestadas:

• ¿Cómo es la lectura en el kinder?
• ¿Cómo es el matemáticas en el kinder?
• ¿Cómo es la escritura en el kinder?
• ¿Cómo van a llegar a mis hijos a la escuela en los autobuses?
• ¿Qué debemos hacer para estar listo para la escuela a comenzar en agosto?
• ¿Quién puede responder a nuestras preguntas?

Lugar: Sacajawea - Salon 9

Los Tiempos: 3:45 o 5:30

Gracias

El Sr. Webster y el Equipo de Kinder

Grants for Science

Congratulations to Sacajawea Elementary for receiving two grants. Each grant will fund science experiments for all students and an interactive family event. The Family Science Night, sponsored by Micron, will be held at the school from 6:00 to 7:30 on May 12th. The Family STEM Night, sponsored by the Idaho STEM Action Center, will be held next fall. Thank you to Mary Friddle and Kathy Braun for writing these grants.

Sacajawea's Olympic Trials

To celebrate Healthy Kids Day the YMCA and Mr. Thomas joined forces to give Sacajawea students an action-packed day of fun and exercise. In honor of the upcoming summer Olympics, the event began with the staff and students singing the national anthem, led by Miss Chavarria, before they headed off to the different events to compete in.
Thank you Mr. Thomas and the YMCA volunteers for organizing such a wonderful event for the Sacajawea students!

Science Night is Coming!

Save the Date!

Thursday, May 12

6:00-7:30

Science, Fun, and Food

 *Come and see the amazing and crazy science experiments happening in the classrooms.*

Science Night is sponsored by Micron.

Spring Carnival

Thanks for coming out for our Spring Carnival. What a fun time we had with you and your families. We loved watching them dance to The Falcons + Ms. Chavarria. We enjoyed watching them giggle, play, build towers, eat, celebrate, and get kissed by a camel. What a great night. We flexed with a seriously rainy evening. 

The Sacajawea PTO raised more than $2000 to contribute to activities, field trips, extra equipment, and enrichment for our students.

Thanks to the following people who worked over the last couple months to coordinate this activity. There are numerous others. Many worked all day long yesterday getting things ready. Teachers put in extra hours to spend time with our kids and families and to run fun activities.

Coordinators:

Carnival Games and Booths - Melissa Hughes and Debbie Penor

Food Service - Val Blackburn

Raffle - Esmeralda Fine

Bake Sale - Mary Korn

Sherman and Sabrina Warner - PTO Presidents

PR and Advertising - 21st Century - Tami Burton and Debbie Penor

Finances - Pam Hoilien, Esmeralda Fine, and Aimee Stocks

SAC Carnival Tonight 5:00 - 7:30

Don't forget the Sacajawea PTO Carnival Tonight
Time: 5:00 to 7:30
at Sacajawea

Highlights:

• Fun games
• Food (Hot Dogs, chips, etc)
• Bake sale
• Raffle (An amazing selection of baskets)
• Live Music (The Falcons)
• Popcorn
• Fun, Fun, Fun.

The carnival will be held rain or shine.  We will bring it inside if it is raining.

Thanks for coming out to support extra events and activities for the students at Sacajawea.

Thanks to the PTO and Sacajawea staff for organizing this event.

Thanks to the many generous donors in our community.

Grit

We know that certain character traits lead to success in school and in life.  Our new character focus this week and next is Grit. Grit is a little word that has a big meaning.  It makes a huge difference in our lives.

• The Definition of Grit: Unyielding courage in the face of hardship or danger.  
• Other words that are similar to grit are Toughness, Guts, Determination, 

Some examples of Grit:

• The American pioneers had grit when they chose to cross mountains, rivers, plains and all kinds of weather to get where they wanted to go.
• Sacajawea must have had grit when she led Lewis and Clark on their brutal adventure through the mountains, and all of that with a baby on her back.
• An athlete has grit when they dive to catch a loose ball or when they slide into home plate.
• A student has grit when they work their very hardest at something, even when it is not easy for them.  You can almost see the brain sweat when they are determined to figure something out.  
• I can see grit in our students when they work out hard math problems on scratch paper, making it visual and then breaking it down into an equation or math sentence.
• I can see grit in our students when they plan out their writing to make it great, even though it would be easier just to throw together a short response.

For both adults and kids, we are guaranteed to have some hard times on our way to success.  Grit mean we stubbornly refuse to quit and we keep pushing towards success. Grit means we do our very best, even though that may mean we risk some scrapes and bruises along the way. It makes me so proud of our students when they show grit.

4th Grade Scientists Dig in to Squid

At Sacajawea, 4th graders dove into their Animal Defense Mechanisms Unit through a hands-on dissection lab this week. Students were trained on appropriate lab safety and learned about animal organ structures and functions. Using squid, they were able to identify each structure and function, as well as have some extra time to use scientific inquiry to explore their species!

Thank you to Syringa Middle School for loaning us the dissection equipment and tools!