Category: Specialists

The Saklan Suns rise again! Last night, the Suns played The Berkeley School in basketball.  Two games were played; varsity and junior varsity. The Berkeley School won the first game 48 to 34, and the Suns turned it around the second game with a 22 to 12 victory. Overall, the experience was positive and fun.

The basketball season has consisted of eight games against three schools and will conclude next Thursday, March 9 after school with two games against the East Bay Waldorf School here at Saklan.

So show up and help the Suns finish strong.

Let’s go Saklan!

The sixth graders use rulers to create the gridded polka dot pattern for their self-portrait inspired by the work of Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein.

Basketball players wanted! Fifth through eighth grades! Starting in January, The Saklan School has scheduled seven games against four other schools. We have to start preparing to host some of these games and travel a short distance for others. All interested players start playing as much as possible during recess and learning periods.

2017 Basketball Season

Saklan Suns Basketball Team Fifth Grade thru Eighth Grade

*Tuesday, Jan. 17^th German International School vs. Saklan 4PM

*Tuesday, Feb. 7^th Contra Costa Jewish Day School vs. Saklan 4PM

Thursday, Feb. 9^th Saklan vs. CCJD 4PM.

Tuesday, Feb. 14^th Saklan vs. East Bay Waldorf 4:15PM

Thursday, March 2^nd Saklan vs. The Berkeley School 4:15PM

*Thursday, March 9^th EBW vs. Saklan  4:15PM

*Tuesday, March 21^st GIS vs. Saklan 4PM

*Four home games, three away

Let’s go Saklan!

This fall, Ms. O and a group of 10 curious students embarked on a mission to build, program, and battle Sumo Robots. The students learned about motherboards, their components, and soldered needed parts such as: motors, battery packs, and sensors.  After the building process, students learned how to program lights, sensors, motors, and then we battled our robots! Their task was to move around the ring and once they sensed another robot, they were to attack and push that robot out of the ring. Or if they came too close to the edge of the ring, they were to abort and move away from the edge to start searching again.

This was as much of a learning process for the kids as it was for myself. The students have an intro to building, soldering and coding, which can help them continue trying to program their robots. It was a fun enrichment class which we hope to do again next fall!

The Intramural Soccer Tournament has concluded! The champions are the “Da Pop! N Popcorn” (LS) and the “Earthquakes” (MS)! Good job to all competitors. This was a round robin tournament which involved a total of nine teams, five lower school teams, and four middle school teams.

Basketball players wanted!

Starting in January, The Saklan School has scheduled seven games against four other schools. We have to start preparing to host some of these games and travel a short distance for others. All interested players start playing as much as possible during recess and learning periods.

2017 Basketball Season

Saklan Suns Basketball Team Fifth through Eighth Grade

• Jan. 17 at 4PM –  German International School vs. Saklan
• Feb. 7 at 4PM – Contra Costa Jewish Day School vs. Saklan
• Feb. 9 at 4PM – Saklan vs. CCJD
• Feb. 14 at 4:15PM – Saklan vs. East Bay Waldorf
• March 2 at 4:15PM – Saklan vs. The Berkeley School
• March 9 at 4:15PM – EBW vs. Saklan
• March 21 at 4PM – GIS vs. Saklan

Let’s go Saklan!

 

Students in 6th grade are ending their volcano unit. They learned about different types of volcanoes due to lava flow, where volcanoes occur on our planet, and the different types of rock that can form.

Students also made their own volcano, which they experimented with thin and thick “lava” to see how fast it can move and what type of rock might occur from that type of eruption.

All Saklan families and friends are welcome!