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Summer SAVY 2019: Session 1, Day 5 – Playing with Words (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jun. 14, 2019—Families, thank you so much for joining us at the showcase this afternoon, and for sending your kids to Playing with Words! Miss Sarah and I had a fantastic week with this clever, enthusiastic, and punny class. This morning, we started off with my favorite four-part riddle: How do you get a giraffe into a...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 1, Day 4 – Forensic Science (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jun. 13, 2019—Dear Parents: We can’t believe that the case has not been cracked yet, but we are getting closer! Our first order of seeking new evidence was to try to identify the person who wrote the note yesterday. We pulled out our chromatography tools and got to work. After testing the four pens that were found...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 1, Day 4 – Playing with Words (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jun. 13, 2019—Dear Families, First thing this morning, we continued with our study of wordless picture books. Each student chose a single illustration from a collection of books and wrote their own story based on what they saw. We had stories about frogs and grandmas, hermit crabs and flying pigs, and a surprising number of stories featuring...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 1, Day 3 – Forensic Science (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jun. 12, 2019—Dear parents: As you might have guessed, we had another visitor in the crime scene room last night! This time, the person who was there left a note, in cursive, saying that they heard that my computer was missing and hoped I get it back. It was signed, “Me”. The crime scene team thought the...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 1, Day 3 – Playing with Words (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jun. 12, 2019—Dear Families, We did so much today in Playing with Words! We began the morning with an introduction to similes and metaphors, using some of the comparisons we discovered in yesterday’s poems. We found similes in Robert Louis Stevenson (“The moon has a face like the clock in the hall,”) and metaphors in Jane Yolen...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 1, Day 2 – Forensic Science (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jun. 11, 2019—Dear parents: Day two turned out to be even better than day one! Listen in on some comments from our crime scene detective team after viewing our crime scene this morning. “Oh look, there are two more spilled cups with liquid in them!” “The liquid looks like oil in one and soda in another.” “The...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 1, Day 2 – Playing with Words (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jun. 11, 2019—Dear Families, On our second day of Playing with Words, we spent a whole bunch of time with nouns and adjectives. In the morning, we took another walk outside, to gather inspiration and make noun lists in our notebooks. Later, with a reading of Ruth Heller’s Many Luscious Lollipops, we learned about all the different...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 1, Day 1 – Forensic Science (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jun. 10, 2019—“Did you see that?” “Look at the details we have noticed.” “I wonder if that calculator on the desk was used by the person who committed the crime to see how much time they had to take the computer and not get caught.” “I see an open part of the ceiling with latches on it....
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 1, Day 1 – Playing with Words (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jun. 10, 2019—Dear Families, Today in Playing with Words, we began to explore the relationship between language and change. After reading Charles Shaw’s It Looked Like Spilt Milk, we took a walk outside to observe, draw, and discuss the shapes we saw in the clouds. We discovered how these shapes changed over time (from Thor’s Hammer to...
Spring SAVY 2019, Day 6 – Witty Wordplay (1st/2nd)
Mar. 4, 2019—Since the system of language letter and number codes produce messages that communicate meaning to the reader, we explored a new secret code that involved numbers and letters that could be decoded and read like a multiplication chart. After students figured out the code, they wrote their names and messages in code and we deciphered...