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Fall SAVY 2018, Day 1 – Games Galore! (1st/2nd)
Oct. 1, 2018—What is fair in game playing? What is not fair in game playing? What criteria might we use to determine if a game is fair or if, we want to play a certain game that seems unfair? What are some likely purposes for wanting to play a game? How can we modify games to make...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 5 – Playing With Words (Rising 1st)
Jul. 27, 2018—The Open House was a lot of fun watching students doing word ladders with their parents, and showcasing their learning from our week of word play! It was a pleasure to meet parents of our new students, and to talk to parents of returning students. The students and I finished our last ant words (N-Z),...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 4 – Playing With Words (Rising 1st)
Jul. 26, 2018—Our word ladder this morning started with the word, present, which bumped us up to a 7-letter word for the start of our ladder. In addition, (yes, it was intentional), we got to discuss how some words may be spelled the same way, but have different meanings (homonyms), and that context is the key on...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 3 – Playing With Words (Rising 1st)
Jul. 25, 2018—We had such great fun with the next Antics words! Some students actually came in with some predictions of what some of the next words might be! Who would have thought that we could learn so many words from ants! Our next set of words were: immigrants, jubilant, Kant, lantern (from a student), lieutenant, and...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 2 – Playing With Words (Rising 1st)
Jul. 24, 2018—How many words can you make with ant in them? How about 26? We began reading a book called Antics, and as you can guess, each word with ant in it had an illustration featuring an ant or a group of ants. First I asked students if they could think of any new words to...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 1 – Playing With Words (Rising 1st)
Jul. 23, 2018—Climbing ladders can be a lot of fun, but climbing ladders with words is even better! We got to know each other well this morning by playing a word ladder. A word ladder is packed full of word play as we start with a word at the bottom of the ladder (ours was few), and...
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 SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 4 – Becoming a Botanist (Rising 1st)
Jul. 19, 2018—We had a nice morning warm up discussion about the input and output in the plant system after reading an entertaining and informative book called, Tops and Bottoms, and another engaging book called “Next Time a See a Maple Seed”. We discussed how plants use photosynthesis to make nutrients for plants and that they use...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 3 – Becoming a Botanist (Rising 1st)
Jul. 18, 2018—While reading The Magic School Bus Plants book , we began wondering how the stem delivers the water and nutrients to the all the parts of the plant. We decided that if we could somehow see evidence of this function, we could better understand how this element of the plant system supports the plant. So...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 2 – Becoming a Botanist (Rising 1st)
Jul. 17, 2018—Another fabulous day of investigating and asking questions about plants transpired (pun intended: transpiration) in the classroom today! There is nothing quite like watching a time-lapse bean life cycle video with classical music playing in the background to start the day! Our young botanists checked the progress of their greenhouse lima beans and recorded any...