Doodle 4 Google is a national competition for students K-12 (divided into 5 different age brackets) where students design a creative logo for Google. THIS IS AN OPTIONAL ACTIVITY FOR STUDENTS THAT IS DONE OUTSIDE OF SAGE, AND IT REQUIRES PARENT PERMISSION. There are 50 winners in each state, with the overall national winner receiving a $30,000 scholarship. Let your creative and artistic juices flow!
Here are links to the pages related to the contest.
- D4G: Meet Matte Lopez (2011 National Winner)
Once again, the Pacific Science Center is hosting a special Camp-In for Issaquah School District's SAGE and MERLIN students. Your children should be bringing home a flyer with the details. Since this is not a district sponsored event, any questions you may have about the event need to be addressed to the PSC.
3rd Grade
The 3rd grade classes are wrapping up their Mr. Bear unit by sharing their memos. In their memos, they are telling Chief Investigator Ciraulo their theories for who borrowed the bear. As they share their work, their classmates will be using the rubric we created to assess one another's work.
Our Polyhedraville crews have been working hard to learn about city planners and city planning, in anticipation of our need to design the city of Polyhedraville. Below are photos of the "30 minute projects" teams completed to help the rest of their classes understand their section of the City of Sammamish's Comprehensive Plan. In addition, you see pictures of Senior Planner for the City of Sammamish, Emily Arteche, as she talks about her responsibilities as a planner and shares with the students how the Comprehensive Plan is carried out in the city.
5th Grade
Ruth Roy Scholarship - for the last several years, Issaquah students in the 5th-7th gifted programs have had an amazing opportunity to stretch themselves during the summer by receiving the Ruth Roy Scholarship. Your children received a flyer about the scholarship, and more information can be found on the Issaquah Schools Foundation website. Ruth taught MERLIN at Apollo for several years, and found out she had ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) toward the end of her career. It was her inspiration to see students challenged and given opportunities to excel both in and out of the classroom that sparked her family and friends to offer the scholarship in her name.
Dry Ice Investigations - We're nearing the final phase of our investigations into the value of our various paper towel brands. Last week, we did "dry run-throughs" of our small team wet strength testing to show each other the various experiments teams did to test wet strength. From there, we decided on the best experiment to conduct as an entire class to get the definitive results as to the ranking of each towel according to its wet strength.
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| Here, a team describes the process they went through to test each towel for wet strength. |
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| Here are the procedures developed by the Friday class at Grand Ridge to do the final testing for wet strength |
