Grade 2 Category
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 – Neuroscience Navigators (Rising 2nd)
Jul. 27, 2018—Well, we made it! What an awesome week we had in Neuroscience Navigators! It was great to meet you all at open house. I hope you enjoyed getting to see and experience some of things we’ve been working so hard on this week. Once we wound down from early morning activities, we completed our final...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 4 – Neuroscience Navigators (Rising 2nd)
Jul. 26, 2018—Our fourth day in Neuroscience Navigators was another great one! Like the previous days, we started with a class concept map. This time, we spanned nearly the whole white-board, putting all of the new pieces of information we’ve been learning together. We also reviewed our results from the ruler-drop experiment, and found that while our...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 3 – Neuroscience Navigators (Rising 2nd)
Jul. 25, 2018—We had another fun-filled day in Neuroscience Navigators, and now are over half way through our journey! We again started with a concept map and it was great to see everyone contribute what they knew. Our “web” of concepts around neuroscience is becoming more and more complex! We then talked about the fact that neuroscience...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 2 – Neuroscience Navigators (Rising 2nd)
Jul. 24, 2018—In our second day at Neuroscience Navigators we really put our new knowledge into action! To start, we reviewed some material from the previous day. We built an impressive concept map as a class of all the new words we’ve been learning, and importantly, how they connect conceptually. Next, we got back to our build-a-brain...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 1 – Neuroscience Navigators (Rising 2nd)
Jul. 23, 2018—Our first day in Neuroscience Navigators was awesome! We started the day with an ice breaker to learn each other names and what we already knew about neuroscience. It turns out we knew a little bit, but not much, so we are super excited to learn a lot this week! We broke the word neuroscience...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 5 – Intro to Programming (Rising 2nd)
Jul. 20, 2018—Dear SAVY Parents, Thank you so much for coming to this morning’s Open House! It was a joy to see parents and children enjoying collaborations with coding! We strongly encourage you to continue asking your child the tough questions. The questions that have no immediate or obvious answers. The questions that require external research and...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 5 – Character Creations (Rising 2nd)
Jul. 20, 2018—Dear Parents, Happy Friday! We have had an amazing week with your children, creating and writing and storytelling. They have been rockstars and great teammates. We hope that you were able to see all of the student’s hard work during Open House. They created life-sized puppets and then wrote several chapters of a story for...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 4 – Intro to Programming (Rising 2nd)
Jul. 19, 2018—Hi SAVY Parents! The week has flown by; we can’t believe that tomorrow is our last day! Today, we consulted a historical text (Julian May’s Robots and Thinking Machines, way back from 1961) to learn about the definitions of machines and robots. What is the difference between a machine and a robot? Are all robots...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 4 – Character Creations (Rising 2nd)
Jul. 19, 2018—Happy Thursday! This week is flying by and we are eager to see the parents tomorrow morning to show off our awesome puppets. We started off the morning by finishing our puppets. The students stayed on task the entire time so we were able to complete the puppets within the allotted time. The groups worked...