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Career Connections at SAVY 2019: Session 1, Day 4 – Aerospace Engineering (Rising 7th)
Jul. 11, 2019—After the crash course of engineering, design and simulation, and fabrication, launch day had arrived. Students spent the morning verifying their newly painted rockets, comparing the actual weights to their predictions, and creating test requests. Once complete, we loaded onto the bus and traveled to the launch site. Teams split into four groups – three...
SAVY 2019: Session 4, Day 4 – Unpacking the Magic of Harry Potter (Holland W.) (Rising 5th/6th)
Jul. 11, 2019—Good afternoon magics and muggles! Wow! I cannot believe it is already Thursday. Our time together in the Potter-verse is coming to an end. We had another amazing day! For our warm up, the students tried their hand at potions. They designed their own potions with names and ingredients. Ask your child what kind of potion they...
SAVY 2019: Session 4, Day 4 – Unpacking the Magic of Harry Potter (Sarah B.) (Rising 5th/6th)
Jul. 11, 2019—Hello, SAVY parents! We began our day with potion making! Students worked in pairs or threes to invent a potion and shared them with the class. The groups presented what their potion would do, what ingredients were needed to make it, and illustrations. After that, we had a discussion on libraries and censorship. We learned...
SAVY 2019: Session 4, Day 4 – Puzzles and Problem Solving (Rising 5th/6th)
Jul. 11, 2019—Students worked very well on the Pirate Problem this morning! This is a problem that my (much!) older students often struggle with, and this class just tackled the issues head on and found a solution. As I have said many times, the answer to the original problem often just raises more questions. The original problem...
SAVY 2019: Session 4, Day 4 – Journey Through Time (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 11, 2019—We started Day Four in Journey through Time by returning to the Virginia colony with a focus on political freedom. We came up with a working definition of freedom and then tracked its presence, or lack thereof, in most of the world during the seventeenth century. We examined the claim, frequently made by the English...
SAVY 2019: Session 4, Day 4 – Fractions at Work (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 11, 2019—It’s hard to believe that the week is almost over! This morning we used our number skills to work on some fraction problems and number puzzles. We worked on puzzles that were similar to magic squares where numbers had to be placed in a grid with sides equal to the same sum. The students shared...
SAVY 2019: Session 4, Day 4 – Circuitry, Systems, and Design (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 11, 2019—Dear SAVY Parents, Is anyone wondering about the implications of a possible tropical storm coming to our area and how it might affect the local power grid? We did today! We are thankful for those that keep us powered up with great design planning and reliable responses to emergencies. In regard to being thankful –...
SAVY 2019: Session 4, Day 4 – Intro to Coding and Robotics (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jul. 11, 2019—What a day of programming! We have filled our brains with new vocabulary this week and it is imperative to use it while we code, so we started the day with a vocabulary review game. Developing multiple events within the same program was the skill we added to our coding knowledge today. This was an...
SAVY 2019: Session 4, Day 4 – Creative Contraptions (The Wesbys) (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jul. 11, 2019—Wow, we’ve had four fantastic days of learning! Our day started with the game, ”Guess What’s In My Box.” An object was placed inside a box and taped so the students could not open it. The students had to make observations about what they thought was inside the box. Once they had a few seconds to observe,...
SAVY 2019: Session 4, Day 4 – Creative Contraptions (Ms. Tyson) (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jul. 11, 2019—To continue to practicing the inventor’s technique of flexible thinking to deepen the ability to brainstorm solutions to solve problems, we read the book: Addy-Matic, and then we did a flexible thinking activity called: Be the Thing. Students were told to imagine that they were a box. Then they answered three questions and shared them...