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Summer SAVY 2018: Session 4, Day 3 – Traveling Through Time (Rising 2nd)
Jul. 11, 2018—How can it be the end of Day 3 already?? I could not be happier with our work so far. We had another challenging day today, but our team charged ahead without fear! This morning, our awesome TA, Miss Emily, set up Maya Math stations at every table so our students could practice using the...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 4, Day 3 – Adventures in Algebra (Rising 2nd)
Jul. 11, 2018—Happy Third Day! Today our young mathematicians worked with variables in equations and solved variable puzzles. They were actually solving one- and two-step equations in order to figure out the puzzles. Next class session, they will create their own puzzles for their peers to solve. They will make sure their puzzles are in equation form...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 4, Day 3 – Intro to Coding and Robotics (Rising 1st)
Jul. 11, 2018—Students began the day with their reflection journals; they were asked to write their own algorithms (similar to the Angry Birds puzzles they have been working on so far) based on a picture they drew. Where is the object in the picture? Is it turning left or right? How far does it move forward? 100...
Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 4, Day 2 – Engineering Design (Rising 7th)
Jul. 10, 2018—Today we focused on the “Design” step of the engineering design cycle. This morning we went over some basic fluid dynamics. We started with learning Bernoulli’s Principle (and the incompressible flow equation), and saw how lots of people incorrectly apply it to explain how planes fly. After we debunked the equal transit theory, we learned...
Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 4, Day 2 – Think Like a Lawyer (Rising 7th)
Jul. 10, 2018—Day two of Think Like a Lawyer is a wrap. We began today by wrapping up with Article III of the Constitution and the discretionary doctrines of standing, mootness and ripeness. This was also a great opportunity to discuss President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh. After this review, our class got its first taste...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 4, Day 2 – Mysterious World in Writing (Rising 5th/6th)
Jul. 10, 2018—Dear Parents: We had another wondrously suspenseful day in Mysterious World of Writing today! In the morning, students started off the day with a quick round of Storycubes and Plot Diagramming. We reviewed all the elements of a literary story structure: exposition, rising action, climax, and resolution. At their tables, students were given two Storycubes die and asked...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 4, Day 2 – Intro to Business (Rising 5th/6th)
Jul. 10, 2018—Simulation time! Today we tested our skill at picking out investments which were perfectly modeled by a single die. This helped us learn about the trade off between risk and return. Students came up with the idea that being riskier in the early rounds of the simulation was better than taking risks later…they could already...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 4, Day 2 – Fractions at Work (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 10, 2018—It was another wonderful day stretching our brains around mathematical ideas. Our foundation of equivalent fractions led to much comparing and ordering using dominoes and complicated non-benchmark fractions [i.e. ordering 8/7, 5/6, 5/9, 6/7 and approximating 13/20, 11/16, 13/12, and 1 1/8 on our number line]. “Start with what you know” was a helpful strategy,...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 4, Day 2 – The Great Debate, Mrs. Kraft (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 10, 2018—What an amazing second day! We covered more logical fallacies, Plato and his Cave, had two excellent debates and formally challenged the other class to Friday’s BIG DEBATE. We even sang an anthem. See you all Friday at 3:15 so we can show off our logic, arguments, and superior public speaking and etiquette skills. -Ms.Kraft...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 4, Day 2 – The Great Debate, Mr. Lee (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 10, 2018—Parents, Our second day of SAVY was delightful! It was a pleasure to welcome back familiar faces after getting to know your children yesterday. We began our morning by reviewing the most important topics we learned yesterday, including the structure of a debate and the 5 steps to creating an argument. We hit things...