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Summer SAVY, Session 4 Day 3, Coding and Robotics (5th – 6th)
Jul. 10, 2024—Engaging Creativity and Collaboration: Day 3 of SAVY-Robotic Engineering Welcome to Day 3 of our exciting journey into the world of robotics. Throughout this week, we’ve witnessed an impressive display of creativity, problem-solving, and teamwork from our enthusiastic rising 5th and 6th graders. Today, the students explored movement and sensor programming. As we progress, students...
Summer SAVY, Session 4 Day 3, Space Academy (Whiting) (3rd – 4th)
Jul. 10, 2024—Today we launched toward new learning in the solar system, journeying all the way to Jupiter! We began our day, as we always do, in Morning Meeting. Each morning, we answer a would you rather question and play a game or do a fun space-related, team-building activity. Today was cosmic! Students wrote their names on...
Summer SAVY, Session 4 Day 3, Space Academy (Jahn) (3rd – 4th)
Jul. 10, 2024—Today, we launched toward new learning in the solar system, journeying all the way to Jupiter! We began our day, as we always do, in Morning Meeting. Each morning, we answer a would you rather question and play a game or do a fun space-related, team-building activity. Today was cosmic! Students wrote their names on...
Summer SAVY, Session 4 Day 3, Mathematicians in History (3rd – 4th)
Jul. 10, 2024—Hello SAVY Families, Wednesday brought more deep mathematical thinking, connections, and perseverance to the SAVY mathematician in your family. Each day, the mathematicians continue to raise the standard, and I could not be prouder of their hard work today. We started the day by reviewing the concepts we have learned this week and reminding ourselves...
Summer SAVY, Session 4 Day 3, Water and Weather (1st – 2nd)
Jul. 10, 2024—Greetings! Wow! The group has done such a wonderful job working and collaborating together! As a result, we have been able to do some great experiments and cover a lot of material! Today’s focus combined the study of water with the introduction to the water cycle and weather. One of the things we worked on...
Summer SAVY, Session 4 Day 3, Beyond the Pyramids (1st – 2nd)
Jul. 10, 2024—Today was a great day as we continued diving into pyramids and hieroglyphics! Read Aloud: Today I read excerpts from Senefer: A Young Genius in Old Egypt by Betrice Lumpkin and illustrated by Linda Nickens. This fictional tale about a boy in ancient Egypt is based on a real mathematician who worked for Pharaoh Hatshepsut....
Summer SAVY, Session 4 Day 2, Neurobiology of Learning (7th – 8th)
Jul. 9, 2024—Hello SAVY Families! Happy Tuesday! Today, we had another fun-filled day in the world of neuroscience. We started off the day with a “would you rather” game to get everyone moving around the room. Then, we dove straight into talking about neurons. Everyone should be bringing home their model neuron from today, so I hope...
Summer SAVY, Session 4 Day 2, Page to the Stage (7th – 8th)
Jul. 9, 2024—Oh, Playwrights, how I enjoyed today! Today’s session was dense. We covered some heady concepts, and we were able to dig deeply into the nuances and the contradictions. I always enjoy days like these. It’s fun when you can cruise through a survey of a dozen or so ideas, sure, but when you’re able to...
Summer SAVY, Session 4 Day 2, Engineering 101 (7th – 8th)
Jul. 9, 2024—Another great day in Engineering 101! After a brief overview of what we talked about yesterday, students dove straight into Civil Engineering. In the morning, we learned how supertall skyscrapers like the Burj Khalifa in Dubai and the Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia are designed and built. Students became Structural and Construction Engineers by building towers...
Summer SAVY, Session 4 Day 2, Greek Mythology (Waxman) (5th – 6th)
Jul. 9, 2024—We had another great day in Greek Mythology: Myth to Modern Legend! This morning, we wrapped up our discussion of the Greek gods/goddesses and learned about some minor figures. We even had the opportunity to simulate our own Olympian council vote, and then, we created our own new gods/goddesses! From there, we dove into...