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Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 5, “The Great Debate” (5th-6th)
Jul. 25, 2025—Good afternoon, families and great debaters! I can’t believe that this week has flown by so fast! I am so sad to see y’all go, but so proud of everyone and what you all have accomplished. I know we couldn’t get through everything we wanted to this week, but I hope y’all had a great...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 5, “Greek Mythology 2.0” (5th-6th)
Jul. 25, 2025—Happy Friday, everyone! I had such a fun week with the students, and I hope they enjoyed diving deeper into the mythology canon this week, as well! Our Trojan War competition ended in a tie yesterday, so we began this morning with a tie-breaking competition game of Taboo: Trojan War Edition! It was a tight...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 5, “Astronomy Tricks of the Trade” (5th-6th)
Jul. 25, 2025—It is hard to believe the week is already over, but we tackled a couple of fun projects today that I hope left the kids wanting to learn more! As we have done the past few days, we began our morning with an observation of the Sun using a current image from the orbiting Solar...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 5, “The Story of You! An Invitation to Write and Explore Autobiography” (3rd-4th)
Jul. 25, 2025—Happy Friday and last day of SAVY for this summer! I am so sad to see this week come to an end, but I am so very proud of every one of these students and the work they produced this week. They really dove deep into their memories and worked together to create some amazing...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 5, “Numbers Big and Small” (3rd-4th)
Jul. 25, 2025—We are sorry that Numbers Big & Small has come to an end. We have enjoyed exploring numbers with your children. This morning, we learned more about decimals. The class discussed that it’s easy to think of decimals when we think of money. We watched a quick Maths Mansion video (a silly British educational video) with...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 5, “Forces of Nature: Wind, Energy, and Engineering” (3rd-4th)
Jul. 25, 2025—Day 5 – July 25, 2025 | 
Engineering Windmills: Create and Improve! – Young Engineers in Action Windmill testing day was a hit! We used fans to generate wind and observed how well each design performed. Some windmills lifted weights immediately, while others took a few tries – and a few redesigns. Students showed...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 5, “Engineering Design: Full STEAM Ahead!” (1st-2nd)
Jul. 25, 2025—What a fantastically fun Friday we had today! Our morning meeting gave us an opportunity to discuss problems we had with our bridges at the end of yesterday and ways to use materials in new ways in order to solve those problems. Many great suggestions such as tieing craft sticks together with string to make...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 5, “Earth Science Rocks!” (1st-2nd)
Jul. 25, 2025—Hello, families! Well, it’s always a little bittersweet to see the course end, but I’m always happy when I think to myself, “I wish I could teach these students all year!” Your children have been a joy to teach. Today, we emphasized creativity and making creative products. This is done intentionally for them...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 5, “Dive Into Design” (1st-2nd)
Jul. 25, 2025—Happy Friday! Pool-a-palooza went off with a bang today! We dove deep into learning about how accurate measurements require identical units, precise starting and ending points, no gaps, or overlaps in coverage, and partitioning of left-over (non-whole) units (measurement accuracy), and using what you know about an object may help make an educated guess about...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 4, “The Great Debate” (5th-6th)
Jul. 24, 2025—Good afternoon, families and great debaters! Today, we put into practice all the skills we have been learning and building throughout the week in anticipation of our first formal, full-class debate tomorrow! We started our day by practicing our reasoning and logic skills through humorous “if” statements, where students had to fill in the logical...