Grade 1 Category
Summer SAVY 2016 (Session 1, Day 3) – Ecological Explorers
Jun. 15, 2016—Today we wrapped up our investigation of terrestrial ecosystems. We began by matching animals and their adaptations to appropriate biomes and by synthesizing everything students had learned about how plants function in different ecosystems. Because of the rain we couldn’t visit our normal terrestrial study site. However, we did explore a new section of the...
Summer SAVY 2016 (Session 1, Day 2) – The Power of Poetry
Jun. 14, 2016—Today we continued too talk about poetic forms and how they are a lot like patterns. One such pattern is the pantoum, where the second and fourth line of the first stanza become the first and third line of the next stanza and so forth. We also worked on generating arresting images to use in...
Summer SAVY 2016 (Session 1, Day 2) – Ecological Explorers
Jun. 14, 2016—Today in Ecological Explorers we investigated the question “Why are different plants in different places?” We began by learning about biomes and worked in groups to match feature cards to one of six biomes: the tropical rainforest, grassland, desert, temperate deciduous forest, taiga, and tundra. Next, we headed out to our study site behind the...
Summer SAVY 2016 (Session 1, Day 1) – The Power of Poetry
Jun. 13, 2016—Poetic forms can be especially challenging, but they can also result in great creative writing. Poetry is all about expressing feelings and emotions and poetic forms can serve as a mold to help structure these ideas. The Oulipian writers from France recognize the value of pushing one’s writing and recognize how Writing against constraints (even...
Summer SAVY 2016 (Session 1, Day 1) – Ecological Explorers
Jun. 13, 2016—What a great kick-off to our Ecological Explorers class! Today we investigated the question “What’s in an ecosystem?” We began by brainstorming what an ecologist studies and how they investigate the natural world. We then took an ecosystem walk around our building and recorded our observations in our investigation notebooks. Next we headed out to...