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We are looking forward to seeing all parents who are attending Kindergarten-8th Grade in 2013-2014.  Please "Save the Date" and join us for this important event....

SPRING INTO SOMETHING

Kadima Day School is in full bloom ...... We invite you invite friends or other prospective students to join us for a Very Important Prospective Parent Breakfast on Thursday, May 9, 2013 at 8:30am. This is an opportunity to learn about Kadima's elementary and middle school; curriculum and philosophy and so much more. For more information click here.

MAZAL TOV

To Randi Riddle, our ECEC Director, on the occasion of her daughter Stephanie's wedding over the weekend. 

CONDOLENCES

The funeral will take place today (Monday, May 6) at 1:00pm at Eden Memorial Park 11500 Sepulveda Blvd, Mission Hills, CA 91345. 

Following the funeral, the family will proceed to the Barocas family home:

12055 Falcon Crest Way

Northridge CA 91326

If you would like to pay your respects, the Barocas family will be having Shiva every evening until next Monday night at the Barocas house. 

Judith Cohen (Vickie's sister) will be sitting shiva at her home from Tuesday - Friday at:

12642 Collns Street

Valley Village CA 91607 

May Vickie's memory be a blessing, and may the Barocas family be comforted with the Mourners of Zion.

Zichronah livracha.

SUMMER READING

This year the PTO is proud  to offer parents the ability to pre-order required summer reading books to be delivered to students at school prior to the end of the school year. Please turn in this order form to the front office on or before May 17th. Books will be delivered to students the week of June 7. Additional information regarding summer reading will be sent directly from the school administration. click here for the summer reading form. 

EREV SHAVUOT MINIMUM DAY 

On May 14th it is Erev Shavuot. We will have a minimum day.

ECEC and Kindergarten 11:45am

Grade 1 - Grades 8 - 12:00pm

School will be closed on May 15th and May 16th.  

KADIMA TRAVELS

Please enjoy the following pictures of our 4th and 5th grade trip to Sacramento.  

JEWISH WORLD WATCH WALK

Thank you to Kadima teachers and students who did a wonderful mitzvah by participating in the Jewish World Watch Walk to End Genocide.
 

CAMP JCA SHALOM OPEN HOUSE

Delicious & Nutritious Hot Lunch is available from the Kadima kosher kitchen.  We will be accepting lunch pre-orders for two months. All orders and payments for May and June "Delicious and Nutritious Hot Lunch" are due in the main office.  

PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT

Kadima is full of wonderful learning experiences for all of the students from ECEC through Middle School.  Over the next few weeks, Kol Echad will include articles from different teachers, from different divisions sharing some of the wonderful things we are doing.  You will hear everything from technology to science to math and much more.  This will give you a glimpse of what happens inside the classrooms at Kadima, a glimpse that parents often don't see.    

This is our third article by Elementary Science Teacher, Jessica Rosner 

Science Comes Alive at Kadima Day School

The Kadima Day School Elementary School Science Lab has been transformed in recent years.  In the past, science was taught exclusively in the classrooms.  A few years ago, a laboratory space was designated on the elementary school floor, but was a share classroom. In 2012, a full laboratory classroom space was designated on the Studio level of the main building. The science curriculum utilized is FOSS, which is a research based science program, initially developed at the Lawrence Hall of Science at the University of California, Berkeley. FOSS is a hands-on, experiential based program.  Walking through the science lab, visitors will see all supplies on hand and experiments on display and in progress from all elementary grades. Content charts are hung on the wall where students can read and learn from what others have done. 

As you enter the elementary school science lab, there are a variety of creatures there to greet you:

•  The crayfish are there to snap at you and then curl up in the corner of their habitat.  They come back out again when they feel that someone might be moving them to their feeding bin where they will eat a few cat food pieces.
• The silkworms have not hatched from their eggs yet, but the students come to check daily on them.  The mealworms have almost all transformed into adult beetles with a few still in the larvae stage. The students come to make sure that once they have entered the pupae stage they are moved to a different container where they will transform yet again. Students come to cut up apples every other day to feed the mealworms and the adults.
• The caterpillars are still eating their sugar food, but soon will start to build their chrysalis where they will stay for around 10 days and transform into a butterfly.  Hopefully, they will mate and eggs will appear in the habitat the students have created.
• The milkweed bugs are hatching from their orange eggs and quickly finding the sunflower seeds to eat and the water bottles the students created for them.   They too will lay eggs eventually.
• The twenty snails are crawling in the three different habitats created by students. The students come by to hold the snails, help feed them lettuce for food and chalk to keep their shells strong, to have snail races, and the students enjoy comparing the snails to other animals in the room.

Besides the animals, there are many plants in the science room. 

• As you enter the brassica plants are in the back corner under strong lights.  They are in a special tray that holds water for them to drink. The students are constantly offering to add more water so the plants have enough food.  The students also offer to help cross pollinate the flowers by hitting the flowers into one another.  In the science lab there are no bees to do this job, so the students must do it. 
• There are straws sitting in a bucket in the back of the classroom with a single wheat stalk growing out of them.  No dirt is necessary for the wheat. 
• There are cups along the side that have grass and alfalfa plants growing.
• Small parts of potatoes with eyes were planted in dirt and now many tall green plants are taking over their area.  In a few weeks, carrots and garlic will also be planted to see if plants can grow from no seed at all. 

In addition to both the plants and the animals, the room is decorated with amazing science projects that each grade did as part of the Science Fair.  Each grade came up with their own question and developed their own course of action.  The experiments were done in the lab and in the classroom where both the science specialist and the General Studies teachers worked together hand in hand. The boards bring color and creativity to the science lab.  As part of Science Fair, student made rollercoasters, students made solar systems and volcanoes and so much more. The elementary science lab is really alive and full of amazing opportunities for students to learn. Each day, students thrive in this hands on learning environment. Science comes alive! 

VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION BREAKFAST

PTO would like to thank our volunteers for all their help this year! On Wednesday, May 29 we will have a Volunteer Appreciation Breakfast  at 8:10am in the Auditorium.

If you chaired an event, volunteered for snack shack, Spent time in the classrooms, drove to games, prepared food for Rosh Chodesh, or lent a helping hand in any way to better our community...

PLEASE JOIN the PTO in Honoring and Celebrating YOU! 

RSVP to Kate Grayson at

ROSH CHODESH 

If you would like to sponsor a Rosh Chodesh for a special birthday or simcha, please e-mail Lina Soifer at linasoifer@yahoo.com. The PTO asks for a minimum donation of $36.  

• Please avoid making a LEFT TURN into the Kadima parking lot from Shoup between 7:40am and 8:00am. Please remember to make a right into our lot. Safety is always our number one concern. 
• Please do not park in any of our reserved spots.  Thank you!