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Summer SAVY 2017, Session 4/Day 3- Dive into Design (Rising 1st)
Jul. 12, 2017—Dear Parents, Today was a fabulous third day for our Dive into Design class! We began our day comparing and ordering our traced feet. The students did well deciding how to order and compare their feet. I was very impressed that when I asked them how to position the feet in order to make the...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 4/Day 3- Beyond the Pyramids (Rising 1st)
Jul. 12, 2017—Dear SAVY Parents, Another fantastic day in ancient Egypt with your child and their friends! Today we read the story “Senefer: A Young Genius in Old Egypt”. We learned many things about their economic bartering system, as well as their unique number system. We took some time to practice our Egyptian mathematics in case we...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 4/Day 2- Theory, Criticism, and The Force (Rising 6th/7th)
Jul. 11, 2017—Students of Theory, Criticism, and The Force: We covered a lot today, friends! After reviewing the two story telling forms we covered on Monday(three-part Aristotelian structure and Joseph Campbell’s Monomyth by way of Blake Snyder), we dove into an exploration of two additional lenses of critical analysis: Formalism and Semiotics. These two disciplines go hand-in-hand,...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 4/Day 2- Intro to Programming (Rising 6th/7th)
Jul. 11, 2017—Today we started working on iteration with While Loops. We learned that While Loops need three parts: 1. A loop control variable that is initialized before the loop, 2. The loop statement (while ____:) that continues the loop until the condition after “while” is False, and 3. A way to update the loop control variable...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 4/Day 2- Business Basics (Rising 4th/5th)
Jul. 11, 2017—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 2017, Session 4/Day 2- Looking into Language (Rising 4th/5th)
Jul. 11, 2017—Today we asked, “what are the limitations of using the standard English alphabet to represent the way that people actually pronounce things?” Our linguists learned about the history of writing, beginning with cuneiform and hieroglyphs before learning the Greek alphabet and learning about the transition into what we recognize today as our ABCs. We learned...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 4/Day 2- Measuring Matters (Rising 2nd/3rd)
Jul. 11, 2017—Today, the kids got the opportunity to take their measuring to another level. With the theme of the week being the Yeti, we started making our Yetis today. We reviewed the myth of the Yeti and talked about how he could possibly survive at an altitude with little oxygen, no food, and very cold temperatures....
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 4/Day 2- Telling Tales (Rising 2nd/3rd)
Jul. 11, 2017—We had a terrific Tuesday in Telling Tales at SAVY. This morning, we reviewed some of what we learned yesterday about Geoffrey Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales as well as our classroom norms and procedures. Next, students developed Two-Minute Tales based on one person in this class photo. Ask your student which person their tale...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 4/Day 2- Dive into Design (Rising 1st)
Jul. 11, 2017—Dear Parents, Today was a fabulous second day for our Dive into Design class! We began our morning with two critical thinking problem/solution challenges. The first was a mind bender where students had to look at a grid with three objects across the top and three people across the side. They had to listen to...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 4/Day 2- Beyond the Pyramids (Rising 1st)
Jul. 11, 2017—Dear SAVY Parents, Hail to you, O Nile… You have come to feed Egypt… When you flood the land rejoices… Another great day in ancient Egypt. The above is an excerpt of a beautiful ancient poem, which set the stage for our morning. Wow, your child may sleep as sound as a mummy after all...