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Summer SAVY 2022/Session 2 – Autobiographies and the Story of You for Rising 3rd/4th Grade
Jun. 20, 2022—Thursday: We are greatly anticipating our final day of class tomorrow and the opportunity to share our autobiographical essays, writings, and life stories. Today we did a great deal of writing, as we did yesterday, while carefully incorporating the elements we learn about that will strategically improve our writing drafts. Today in a separate task, we harnessed a...
Summer SAVY 2022/Session 2 – Dynamic Coasts for Rising 3rd/4th Grade
Jun. 20, 2022—Friday: Today was a blast! We started out the day by learning about some of the animals that live in coastal environments like corals, oysters, and sharks. If you’d like, you can see if your student can tell you anything about why oysters are important for our coasts or if they can explain what happens with...
Summer SAVY 2022/Session 2 – Fractions at Work for Rising 3rd/4th Grade
Jun. 20, 2022—Friday: Good evening SAVY students and parents! What a wonderful week of deepening our understanding of fractions and operations with fractions. In the final lesson, students expanded upon their work with addition and subtraction to develop concepts of multiplication and division of fractions. We further developed algorithms and compared them to the student’s own algorithms as...
Summer SAVY 2022/Session 2 – Intro to Chemical Engineering for Rising 1st/2nd Grade
Jun. 20, 2022—Friday: Wow! Today was my last day working with your fantastic SAVY scholar! I have enjoyed working with your child and could not have asked for a better group of students. We wrapped up our unit following a process to create high-quality play dough. During our lab time, students understood and communicated (using the Engineering Desing...