1st Quarter Awards Assembly

    On Thursday, October 24th, students of all grades received academic and citizenship awards for the first quarter of school.  These chosen students were selected for their hard work, dedication, and achievements in school, as well as, their abilities to be successful community members here at Sacajawea.

 3rd-5th singing "This Land is Your Land"

 Students showing off their dancing skills. 

Jesus P. and Israel R. received scholarships to sing in the District III 2013 Honor Choir 

3rd Grade Citizenship Award Winners

4th Grade Citizenship Award Winners

  

5th Grade Citizenship Award Winners

  

3rd Grade Academic Award Winners

4th Grade Academic Award Winners

  

 5th Grade Academic Award Winners

 K-3 Singing "This Land is Our Land"

 Kindergarten Citizenship Award Winners

 1st Grade Citizenship Award Winners

 2nd Grade Citizenship Award Winners

Kindergarten Academic Award Winners

  

1st Grade Academic Award Winners

  

2nd Grade Academic Award Winners

Family Reading Night - November 12th - 6 PM - at Sacajawea

Fun with Reading Harvest Festival

Diversion con el Festival de Lectura

Sacajawea Elementary School

Tuesday, November 12 ~ martes, 12 de noviembre

Be there at 6:00 p.m.! ~ Esten aqui a las 6:00 en punto

Highlights:

• Stories read aloud and free book for students! ~ Libro gratis para estudiante!
• Free meals for our families ~ Cena gratis para nuestras familias.
• Literacy strategies to help our students ~ Estrategias en literature para padres con ninos lectores.

 Fun with Reading Harvest Festival

      Diversion con el Festival de Lectura

     Sacajawea Elementary School

              Tuesday, November 12

Martes, 12 de Noviembre

        

Be there at 6:00 p.m.!                         

*Stories read aloud and free book for students!                       

*Free meals for our families!               

*Literacy strategies to help our students!

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Esten aqui a las 6:00 en punto

* Libro gratis para estudiante!

*Cena gratis para nuestras familias!

* Estrategias en literature para padres

con ninos lectores!

Sacajawea Receives $10,000 Science Grant

During our awards assembly on October 24th, Sacajawea Elementary was presented with a $10,000 check from the Monsanto Fund. This will fund a project we call "Scientific Inquiry as a Gateway to Reading, Writing, and Math."

Elissa W, Yasmine V, Callie Mae W, and Juliana H (Left to right above) were selected to receive the check on behalf of the school. They have already demonstrated excellent online writing skills through their classroom blogging project in 3rd grade and through their online writing projects in 5th grade. Brett Lolley, Project Manager at Monsanto Seeds in Nampa, presented the check during our school awards ceremony.

Mr. Miller and Mr. Webster worked together to write the grant application this spring, before we left for summer vacation. We will implement hands-on scientific inquiry units at each grade level. The most important aspects of each unit will be building student inquiry skills and the knowledge and curiosity on which to build future scientific investigations. In addition, we will use these units to provide leverage for increasing student reading, writing, and math achievement. A special emphasis will be placed on internet-based nonfiction reading and high quality writing, supporting the Common Core State Standards. We will purchase another small mobile computer lab that can be moved from class to class to engage our students in authentic online written communication through blogging and other formats.

Why do we want to do this science and technology project?

• Because students need to have a strong understanding of science to be successful in the next generation. 
• Because science is naturally engaging to students. Inquiry skills need to be developed beginning early in our school careers (as early as preschool and kindergarten). 
• Because one of the most important skills for success in the next generation will be clear written communication.

See a news article about this at The Press Tribune.

How To Eat Fried Worms - 4th Grade

The fourth grade team at Sacajawea recently finished reading How To Eat Fried Worms, a well-known novel by Thomas Rockwell. As a culmination, they analyzed the similarities and different editorial choices in the more recent movie by the same name.  Some of their teachers also put on a little show with a eating exhibition with "gross" foods.

You can see we sometimes had a hard time holding it together.  Some of us did a nice job adding a little extra drama of our own.

Edible "delights" included dog food (really), kale smoothies, Snickers candy served from a baby diaper, a protein mix that looked a lot like muddy water, and pickled pigs feet.  It was unanimous, that the pickled pigs feet was the worst of the bunch.  

All of us finished up with "dirt" and "worms."  This dessert was a nice treat.

Down goes the dogfood

Really pretty bad

"Muddy Water" anyone?

A little drama

Watching the students was well worth a queezy stomach

A green smoothy

A "Value Pack" of Pigs Feet - We didn't find that much value.

"Dirt" and "Worms"

Slirpping up the last worm.  Maybe our next unit will be on etiquette.

Sacajawea Picture Retakes - Tomorrow - October 16th

Reminder: Sacajawea Picture Retakes are Oct. 16th.

Anyone who purchased a package on original picture day and would like to have a retake needs to return the old picture package to the photographer on this day.

Thank you!

Family Math Night at Sacajawea - Proud of our Mathematicians

We are so proud to be Skyhawk mathematicians. We had a blast playing with math. More than 440 people attended.

We..

• Stacked
• Made patterns
• Found new ways to solve problems
• Estimated
• Played "Speed"
• Laughed
• Solved Puzzles
• Rolled dice
• Played online games
• Competed
• Ate pizza
• Learned

Thanks to such a great Sacajawea community who is so committed to "Academic Excellence For Everyone." Thanks to Mr. Miller, our lead organizer, and to all of the teachers who stayed to play after a long day.  Thanks to our many volunteers from the community and from Caldwell High School who helped interact with families, making this a fun night.