The Sacajawea Carnival is Coming!

Friday, April 24th

5:00 - 7:30

Games

Food

Raffle

Fun

Community Fair

Can't wait to see you there!

3rd Quarter Awards

 

Friday, April 3 the 3rd Quarter Awards Assembly was held. Awards were given out for citizenship and academics. Each grade level had a special word cloud created by Mr. Webster that highlighted what the teachers said about the award recipients and their achievements.

Kindergarten

1st Grade

2nd Grade

3rd Grade

4th Grade

5th Grade

Show What You Know! Ready for ISAT 2.0

On Friday, April 10 the 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students and their teachers got together to hold a pep rally for the upcoming ISAT 2.0 test.  The purpose of the pep rally was to build momentum for the testing and set goals for the students to try their hardest. Each grade level shared a skit, chant, or cheer to show their excitement.

• 3rd grade did a Perseverance Chant while holding signs reminding students to keep trying and always do their best.
• 4th and 5th grade teachers put on a skit teaching students the proper way to prepare for the test: get a good nights sleep,  have a positive attitude, eat a healthy breakfast, and come to school on time.
• 4th grade ended the rally with an ISAT cheer sang to the tune of YMCA.

Please help keep the excitement for testing going at home.  Remind your child to do their best, ask them how the test went, and praise them when they show you the perseverance awards they are earning during testing. 

Effort-O-Meter - Are We Doing Our Very Best?

Effort-O-Meter
Our Goal is better than 80% of our students giving full effort on our ISAT 2.0 Tests, which begin today for our 3rd through 5th grades. See the actual LIVE Effort-O-Meter Below.

Supervisors will use a rubric to report on the number of students in each session that appear to be putting forth full effort.  This includes the fantastic characteristics of effort that we expect every day in class.

• Showing Perseverance
• Being Thorough
• Showing Our work
• Taking Notes
• Taking Our Time
• Planning Our Writing
• Reading Thoroughly and Checking for Details

Please come to school rested and with an attitude that makes you ready to do your very best.

• Will it be easy? -  NO
• Can we do it? -  YES!

3rd Grade-Fun With Fractions

Third graders have been busy learning about equivalent fractions, comparing fractions, and where fractions go on a number line. It is been a long math unit with some difficult concepts but the students have shown great perseverance in their learning. To make the learning process a little more fun and understandable the teachers have had to get pretty creative. Students have created their own paper fractions strips, played fraction golf, built equivalent fraction towers, and even created a "human" fractions number line.

2nd Grade is Getting "Buggy"

Second graders are studying the life cycles of insects. They are learning to make observations and study the insects like real scientists. Some of the insects they have studied are Milkweed Bugs, Beetles, and Butterflies. They even had caterpillars transform into butterflies right in their classrooms!

Volunteers Helped Our School During Spring Break

During vacation, Sacajawea received the gift of service from a group of 29 youth and parents from the Deer Flat youth group.  These middle and high schoolers spent Wednesday afternoon doing tasks to make Sacajawea a better place for kids. Here are some of the things they did for us.

• Scrubbed hallway and bathroom walls to remove hand prints and marks.
• Repositioned bark on the playgrounds to make  it a little deeper where kids tend to fall most.
• Repainted soccer and football lines and added a football and soccer field to the primary field.
• Tightened rock wall footholds out on the playground.
• Dusted around rooms.
• Disinfected desks, counters, cubbies and washed classroom sinks.
• Wrote and hung merit award stars.
• Assembled risers in the music room.

Thanks to the team of fantastic teens from the Deer Flat youth group.

St. Patrick's Day Fun in Kindergarten

Kindergartners in Ms. Carhart's class have had some crazy tricks played on them by Patches the Leprechaun. In return they wrote him letters and left him gold. The best trick of all was when Patches sent them on a scavenger hunt to find his hidden treasures.

First Graders Rocking Their Reading

First grade is stepping it up for their spring reading. The students are working hard to read every night and meet their goals on the "Read-O-Meter". The "Read-O-Meter" measures the average words per minute (WPM) read in 1st grade. Here are some of the incentives they will receive for reaching their goal:

•  Throwing a pie in their teachers face
•  A banana split party 
•  Possibly going to Luby Park for an end of year celebration. 

The kids are well on their way to reaching their goals. They have already increased from 40 to 51 WPM! This is directly related to their hard work ethic.

*So when you see a first grader remind them to keep "rocking" their reading.*

Spring Break - Be active

Spring Break is next week, beginning this Friday. We will return to school on Monday, March 30th. Do something great during your spring break that still supports learning:

• Watch the NCAA men’s or women’s basketball tournament. Investigate one or more of the universities playing in the tournament. Give Mr. Webster one fact about one of the colleges and he’ll trade you for a merit award. Here is Mr. Webster's bracket.  See if you can guess better than him. Go here to create a bracket of your own.
• Build something with Legos or anything else you find.
• Take something apart. It’s fun to take toys or machines apart to find out how they work. Make sure you have permission first. My kids took an old coffee maker apart once.
• Go to the Caldwell Public Library - Hours HERE
• CODE - Go to….code.org - Use your class and go here to Join Mr Webster's class.  If you complete a whole level and tell me after break, I've got a few Code stickers for you like the one on my Chromebook. You can use your school google account to login, just like you would to login to the Chromebooks.

Do something active:

• Play soccer
• Go to the Y and play, climb, or swim
• Have a picnic in your backyard or at a park.
• Garden
• Go for a bike ride
• Clean your house, yard, bedroom, garage.  :)