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Summer SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 5 – Intro to Programming (Rising 2nd)
Jul. 20, 2018—Dear SAVY Parents, Thank you so much for coming to this morning’s Open House! It was a joy to see parents and children enjoying collaborations with coding! We strongly encourage you to continue asking your child the tough questions. The questions that have no immediate or obvious answers. The questions that require external research and...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 5 – Character Creations (Rising 2nd)
Jul. 20, 2018—Dear Parents, Happy Friday! We have had an amazing week with your children, creating and writing and storytelling. They have been rockstars and great teammates. We hope that you were able to see all of the student’s hard work during Open House. They created life-sized puppets and then wrote several chapters of a story for...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 5 – Becoming a Botanist (Rising 1st)
Jul. 20, 2018—It was a pleasure seeing all of our wonderful parents and other family members at the Open House today! The looks of excitement as your students’ faces as they told you about their week, was priceless. I will miss the students who will not be returning for our last session (hope to see you again...
Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 4 – The Power of Persuasion (Rising 7th)
Jul. 19, 2018—Our morning began with a brisk round of “Bop” to encourage us to remember to attempt to fully see and hear one another. After revisiting yesterday’s content and further exploration of the Monroe’s Motivated Sequence, one student shared a persuasive speech written in response to yesterday’s prompt; though we are still not going to watch...
Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 4 – Behavioral Economics and Game Theory (Rising 7th)
Jul. 19, 2018—I can’t believe we are nearing the end of the week. Today was an excellent adventure for our students as they were able to fully act as behavioral economists. This morning they designed their own studies aimed at observing some of the phenomena of human behavior. Groups conducted classroom studies with their peers as participants....
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 4 – Marvelous Mechanisms (Rising 5th/6th)
Jul. 19, 2018—We continued to hone our drafting skills today, this time with kinematic diagrams of various mechanisms. A kinematic diagram captures the motion of a linkage by representing pins as dots and links as straight lines. We drew a french fry cutter, a letterpress printing press, and a window hinge. Then, just for fun, we drew...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 4 – Stellar Astronomy (Rising 5th/6th)
Jul. 19, 2018—Let’s talk about light! Light is pretty much the only information we get from the Universe so we have to know how it works. At the start of our day, we discussed the different kinds of light (the electromagnetic spectrum) and what sorts of astronomical objects you can see with the different kinds of light. ...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 4 – Poetic Play (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 19, 2018—Happy Thursday in Poetic Play! This morning, we discussed Found Poems: poems that take existing texts and refashion them, reorder them, and present them as poems. We talked about how Found Poems are the literary equivalent of visual collages, and where we might take text as inspiration in the world: newspaper articles, street signs, grafitti,...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 4 – Chemical Spill, Mr. Knorr (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 19, 2018—Hello Parents! Today was quite an eventful day. In the morning lab session we continued monitoring the health of our flowering plants that we had watered with an acidic solution the day before. Preliminary results show that plants receiving higher concentrations of acid are less healthy than the plants that received a more diluted solution....
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 4 – Chemical Spill, Miss Raff (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 19, 2018—Today, your scientists tackled another part of the scientific method: communicating results. We read a kid-friendly version of an article investigating the effect of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on fiddler crabs. Your bright students were able to identify the question, hypothesis, independent and dependent variables, controls, and constants in the experiment. They synthesized information...