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Summer SAVY, Session 1 Day 4, Harry Potter: The Science Behind the Magic (Richards, Sect. 2) (5th-6th)
Jun. 12, 2025—Dear SAVY Wizarding Families, Today at Hogwarts (or rather, our science classroom!), students explored the wonders of flight, feathers, and free fall! To begin class, we participated in the House Cup Competition, reviewing the material we learned the day prior. This is a very competitive magical competition that the students are so passionate about! We began...
Summer SAVY, Session 1 Day 4, Harry Potter: The Science Behind the Magic (Owens, Sect. 1) (5th-6th)
Jun. 12, 2025—Today in Harry Potter: The Science Behind the Magic, students began the day in Care of Magical Creatures class, where we focused on one of the most iconic animals in the wizarding world: owls! We learned about owl behavior, unique adaptations, and their role in the Harry Potter universe. Then we compared owls to homing pigeons,...
Summer SAVY, Session 1 Day 4, Molecular Genetics (5th-6th)
Jun. 12, 2025—This morning, we started with transcription and translation, the so-called “central dogma” of biology. The information in the DNA sequence is transcribed into a sequence of nucleotides in RNA, which is translated into a sequence of amino acids in a protein. This is where the information in DNA is put into action. They practiced transcribing...
Summer SAVY, Session 1 Day 4, Ancient Legacy: Exploring the Impact and Influence of the Roman Empire (5th-6th)
Jun. 12, 2025—Happy Thursday! This morning, we began by finishing up some information from our action-packed gladiator day yesterday! From there, we transitioned to learning about daily life during the Roman Empire, especially focusing on the laws that governed daily life and the architecture of the central Roman baths and villas. As we learned about each component,...
Summer SAVY, Session 1 Day 4, Math & Music (3rd-4th)
Jun. 12, 2025—Hello SAVY Families, It’s hard to believe that tomorrow marks the final day of our incredible journey together! This week has been a whirlwind of creativity, discovery, and rhythm as we explored the fascinating connections between music and math. Today was no exception—we kicked things off with a burst of energy by accompanying the lively “Flight”...
Summer SAVY, Session 1 Day 4, Cryptology (3rd-4th)
Jun. 12, 2025—The Eleventh Hour Mystery is heating up, with lots of new reflections and evidence to consider. Today we did some live debate, using the four corners method and accountable talk to listen to other people’s ideas about who stole the feast and reflect orally about those new ideas. Following that, we found a series of...
Summer SAVY, Session 1 Day 4, Crime Lab Chemistry (3rd-4th)
Jun. 12, 2025—Final Revelations: Day 4 of “Felix: The Case of the Missing Millionaire” With sharpened investigative skills from solving Who Borrowed Mr. Bear?, our young detectives stepped into Day 4, determined to piece together the final clues in Felix’s disappearance. Tensions ran high as evidence was reviewed, theories challenged, and new twists unfolded. Students revisited...
Summer SAVY, Session 1 Day 4, Witty Word Play (1st-2nd)
Jun. 12, 2025—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,...
Summer SAVY, Session 1 Day 4, Intro to Chemical Engineering: Engineering With Play Dough (1st-2nd)
Jun. 12, 2025—It was a messy and terrific Thursday in Play-Doh Engineering! This morning, we examined the properties of high-quality and low-quality play-dough. Through several tests, we determined that high-quality play-dough is smooth, flexible, and soft. We also determined that high-quality play-dough should be able to take and maintain the shape of spaghetti and meatballs, as...
Summer SAVY, Session 1 Day 3, Harry Potter: The Science Behind the Magic (Richards, Sect. 2) (5th-6th)
Jun. 11, 2025—Dear SAVY Wizarding Families, Today was a spectacularly scientific day in our Hogwarts-inspired classroom as we explored some explosive (and educational!) experiments during Bubbling Brews Class and soared into the physics of flight with a hands-on Golden Snitch Catapult Challenge! In Bubbling Brews, students became chemists as they learned how acids and bases react to form gases...