Grade 1 Category
Fall SAVY 2019: Day 2 – Measurement Matters (Grades 1/2)
Sep. 30, 2019—It was another fun day of learning this past Saturday in Measurement Matters! Students were able to make connections with measuring and the decisions necessary to obtain meaningful results. The students were presented with multiple tools that could be used to measure objects. We compared centimeters to inches and identified how these units of measure...
Fall SAVY 2019: Day 2 – Archaeology 101 (Grades 1/2)
Sep. 30, 2019—Wow, what an exciting day in Archaeology 101! We started our day by reviewing key concepts from the week before such as “social network” and “artifact”. I was pleased by how much the students remembered! Today’s big concept was “stratigraphy”–a geological term related to the layering of the earth’s strata. Students learned that archaeologists excavate...
Fall SAVY 2019: Day 1 – Measurement Matters (Grades 1/2)
Sep. 24, 2019—Hello SAVY parents! Our first session of Measuring Matters was a lot of fun. Our first investigation focused on learning standard units of measure. We learned about the two systems of measurement (customary and metric) and discussed the differences between the two. We learned that while in the United States we use the customary system...
Fall SAVY 2019: Day 1 – Archaeology 101 (Grades 1/2)
Sep. 24, 2019—Hello Parents! We were so excited to begin Archaeology 101 and loved meeting all of our students! Our day began by setting class rules and assessing students’ knowledge of the class topic. I was impressed with how much they already know about archaeology. During our morning session, we discussed what archaeology means, what archaeologists do,...
SAVY 2019: Session 6, Day 5 – Matter Mysteries (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jul. 26, 2019—Hello SAVY parents! I’m so sad to see this session end. We have had an awesome time learning all about matter while conducting experiments. Our last experiment consisted of the students making ice cream. It was much more than just putting together milk, vanilla, and sugar. Students learned about the reaction that takes place when...
SAVY 2019: Session 6, Day 5 – Games Galore (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jul. 26, 2019—We were all excited to know that families were coming to visit us to see inside our Games Galore, Math Behind the Games course and play games! Our morning began with our final Guess Again game. This one was the toughest challenge with 10 items and lots of predicting to do. We had two guessers...
SAVY 2019: Session 6, Day 4 – Matter Mysteries (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jul. 25, 2019—Hello SAVY parents! Another great day here at summer SAVY is in the books! We began today’s session with a review of previous learning. Students were able to complete a concept map about matter that connected all of the vocabulary terms we have been using all week. In the first experiment, students were able to...
SAVY 2019: Session 6, Day 4 – Games Galore (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jul. 25, 2019—We began our day with another Guess Again and boy are we getting super skilled at figuring probability! This time we had unifix cubes, and our guesser was familiar with the colors they can come in because they are used in the classroom. So we found that having background knowledge is an advantage to figuring...
SAVY 2019: Session 6, Day 3 – Matter Mysteries (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jul. 24, 2019—Hello SAVY parents! Day 3 of our wonderful summer SAVY session Matter Mysteries was a blast. I can hardly believe that the week is almost over. Time flies when you’re having fun! We put on our lab coats and began the morning by reviewing information from the previous lessons. Students were able explain the states...