Summer SAVY, Session 1 Day 4, Witty Word Play (1st-2nd)
On day four, students started the day by reviewing the generalizations about systems, including analyzing the elements, boundaries, inputs, outputs, and interactions, and they developed generalization statements. We reviewed systems through the application of the water cycle. They did a great job identifying the components of the water cycle as a working system.
Yesterday, students ended the day by listening to the story, Scranimals, by Jack Prelutsky. So today, they started to develop their creative, new animal species. Creativity is important because it fuels innovation, enhances problem-solving, promotes cognitive development, and boosts overall well-being. After students drew out their new “Scranimal”, they wrote about it by sharing what was combined to create their new species, where it lives, what it eats, and what makes it so special, like what it’s able to do.
To continue our exploration of language, we learned about the Rosetta Stone and the importance of its discovery and use for deciphering. The Rosetta Stone features the same text inscribed in three languages: hieroglyphics, Demotic script, and ancient Greek. While often referred to as three languages, technically, it’s two languages (Egyptian and Greek) with different scripts. This led us to the discussion of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. We learned about hieroglyphs and how the development of papyrus made communication easier for the Egyptians. We even used hieroglyphs to write our names and other words.
Ahem! Ahem! May I have your attention? The next part of our day included reviewing interjections, and they were fantastic! Conjunctions were next, and we looked at both coordinating and subordinating examples. To continue our practice using a Literature Web, we read a story called One Tiny Turtle to help us look for key words, feelings, ideas, and images/symbols that we created in our minds.
The next ancient language that we learned about was ancient Greek. Students were fascinated to learn about the different ways the Greeks have impacted our culture and language. The last activity we completed was having fun with tongue twisters using alliteration. Do you have a favorite tongue twister? Peter Piper told me you do, and that he is still waiting on his peck!