Grade 1 Category
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 3, Day 5 – Beyond the Pyramids (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jun. 28, 2019—Dear SAVY Parents! What a great final ending to an amazing week! We continued to add to our timeline (which wrapped all around the room) by investigating the formation of the earliest civilizations. People groups live and work together and organize governmental systems as organizations for education, advanced arts, and sciences. Who was the first...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 3, Day 4 – Data Discoverers (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jun. 27, 2019—Today we worked on designing our very own research project. The students had to come up with a question that would allow them to collect data from 2 different student groups. We designed surveys to collect the information. We talked about whether the surveys should be open-ended or give choices. The students did a great...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 3, Day 4 – Beyond the Pyramids (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jun. 27, 2019—Hello SAVY Parents! It’s hard to believe tomorrow is our final day together in ancient Egypt. Just like any good trip, we don’t want to leave this destination, but we’re leaving plenty of learning undiscovered for other adventures. Students increased their understanding of systems by observing the boundaries, elements, inputs, outputs, and interactions of the...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 3, Day 3 – Data Discoverers (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jun. 26, 2019—One of our goals for the day was to learn about and use different kinds of graphs. We used a line plot to help us look at some data about how many jumping jacks we could do in a minute. We did the jumping jack challenge 3 times. We talked about how researchers might repeat...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 3, Day 3 – Beyond the Pyramids (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jun. 26, 2019—Dear SAVY Parents, Today was quite the whirlwind of learning and activity! The students engaged in an amazing text, Senefer, A Young Genius in Egypt. Through this text, each student developed an even greater understanding of ancient Egypt. Students used Mrs. Byrd as a scribe and dictated their thinking about the Egyptian agricultural system! They learned...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 3, Day 2 – Data Discoverers (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jun. 25, 2019—Today was another busy day! We spent much of the day collecting and analyzing data. In the morning, we started by surveying each other about various favorites like fruits, pets, colors, etc. We had some really interesting discussions about what might influence people’s opinions as they answer these types of questions. I did a sample...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 3, Day 2 – Beyond the Pyramids (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jun. 25, 2019—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...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 3, Day 1 – Data Discoverers (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jun. 24, 2019—It was a great first day! To help us learn more about our content, we read 2 books: Tally O’Malley by Stuart J. Murphy and The Great Graph Contest by Loreen Leedy. We did several projects throughout the day that had us gathering, analyzing, and presenting data. One of the big ideas of the class...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 3, Day 1 – Beyond the Pyramids (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jun. 24, 2019—Dear SAVY Parents, Wow – what a great day we had in Ancient Egypt today! I am so grateful for the opportunity to work with your child this week, and I think they are pretty excited as well! Right off the bat, we explored the culture of ancient Egypt by hearing the story of Rhodopis...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 2, Day 5 – Environmental Explorations (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jun. 21, 2019—What an absolutely tremendous week! Your students have walked through some pretty challenging material this week, addressing broad concepts like change- understanding it’s everywhere, it’s either natural or man-made, it’s related to time, and is either random or predictable… AND they know what those words mean, as well! This week, we also tackled problems like...