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Spring SAVY 2023: Neuroscience Navigators (Stuckelman) for Grades 3 & 4
Feb. 6, 2023—Day 3: Saturday, February 11 Hi parents and friends of the Neuroscience Navigators! This week we finished the class strong. It was so great to have everyone back in class, and the students were incredibly excited to be back. We started the day by splitting up the two sections of the course so that some...
Spring SAVY 2023: Neuroscience Navigators (Feller) for Grades 3 & 4
Feb. 6, 2023—Day 3: Saturday, February 11 Hi parents! Today was a bittersweet ending to the Spring SAVY session. I am genuinely grateful for having such an outstanding group of students and will miss having them in my class. Each of your kids demonstrated impressive curiosity, determination, and generosity toward their instructors and fellow students. You and...
Spring SAVY 2023: Spatial Smarts for Grades 1 & 2
Jan. 30, 2023—Day 3: Saturday, February 11 Dear SAVY Parents, Thank you for the opportunity to work with your child at SAVY in the Spatial Smarts course. What an action-packed day we had on Saturday as we concluded our spatial reasoning studies! On this day, your child was challenged to visualize models and two-dimensional representations of 3D...
Spring SAVY 2023: Becoming a Botanist for Kindergarten
Jan. 30, 2023—Day 3: Saturday, February 11 Today students applied their knowledge of plants to discussions about trees. The book Be a Tree by Maria Gianferrari contains many facts about trees that we used to determine how a tree is a system. The book also draws comparisons between trees and people. Students thought abstractly and made connections...
Spring SAVY 2023: Cracking the Case (Mall) for Grades 1 & 2
Jan. 30, 2023—Day 3: Saturday, February 11 Greetings! Well, it is official–the kids cracked the case! After days of learning how to collect evidence and examine crime scenes and different types of evidence collection, they discovered that the theft was actually a case of a misunderstanding. They cracked the case after some fingerprint analysis, handwriting analysis, and...
Spring SAVY 2023: Cracking the Case (Tyson) for Grades 1 & 2
Jan. 30, 2023—Day 3: Saturday, February 11 Dear Parents, It was a pleasure to see all of you on Saturday! On our last day, we learned about DNA and how amazing it is–the students had many great questions! Then we decided to see if we could find our own DNA using our saliva. It worked and we...
Spring SAVY 2023: Secrets of the MoLi Stone for Grades 3 & 4
Jan. 30, 2023—Day 3: Saturday, February 11 It was wonderful to meet everyone’s families on Saturday! Thank you for taking time to stop by and recognize all the hard work your child accomplished during SAVY! In the morning we traveled back to China to learn about our final number system! As a class, we concluded that the...
Spring SAVY 2023: World Beyond the Page–Unpacking the Magic of Harry Potter for Grades 5 & 6
Jan. 30, 2023—Day 3: Saturday, February 11 Hello again to all my Potterheads! We had such a great last day of diving into all the Harry Potter realms. We began with creating our own potions (good luck obtaining all those wild ingredients) and then had a Socratic seminar on whether the HP series should be considered classics....
Spring SAVY 2023: Oh Deer! Wildlife Ecology for Grades 5 & 6
Jan. 30, 2023—Day 3: Saturday, February 11 Greetings! What an amazing final session! Continuing our wildlife ecology studies, students showcased their white-tailed deer expertise with our Oh Deer trivia game! Students worked in teams to answer questions related to white-tailed deer anatomy and fun facts. After the game, students learned about homeostasis, carrying capacity, and limited factors....
Fall SAVY 2022–The Great Debate for Grades 5 & 6
Oct. 24, 2022—Day 3: Saturday, November 5 Hello families and great debaters! Today we started out our day by preparing our arguments for our final mace/presentation debate. This style debate more closely resembles a persuasive appeal to the audience and the moderators and allows the students a chance to practice their individual skills in persuasive writing and...