Grade 2 Category
SAVY 2019: Session 5, Day 2 – Witty Wordplay (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jul. 16, 2019—Our day began with a discussion about systems. We learned that all systems have parts/elements, inputs, outputs, boundaries and interactions. As a group, we used a familiar topic, the school cafeteria, to identify parts and elements found in a cafeteria. We were able to create a big list including tables, chairs, utensils, food, trays, workers,...
SAVY 2019: Session 5, Day 2 – Wind and Wings (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jul. 16, 2019—It was another great day at SAVY! We started by listing some of the things we knew about birds and some of our questions. Some of our questions included: How do birds take off? Why do they have a point at the end of their wings? When they glide, how do they stay up? What...
SAVY 2019: Session 5, Day 1 – Witty Wordplay (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jul. 15, 2019—What is a word? How did people communicate before words, letters or symbols were created? We began our day pondering these questions. We decided that a word is something that is made up of letters that form words and are organized to make sense that can also be from different countries. We also thought that...
SAVY 2019: Session 5, Day 1 – Wind and Wings (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jul. 15, 2019—What a great first day! I can already tell that this is going to be a great week because this class has so many interesting ideas to share. We spent the morning experimenting with Newton’s Laws of Motion using bouncy balls. The students experimented with bouncing and rolling balls. Some of their observations included: Balls...
SAVY 2019: Session 4, Day 5 – Intro to Coding and Robotics (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jul. 12, 2019—Coming soon!
SAVY 2019: Session 4, Day 5 – Creative Contraptions (The Wesbys) (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jul. 12, 2019—This was a fantastic week of learning, inventing, collaborating, communicating, creating, and problem-solving. Our students were awesome. They were challenged to develop deeper connections between the concept of “System” and “Simple Machines.” Students were encouraged to answer the following questions this week: Do we need simple machines? What simple machines are not made yet? What...
SAVY 2019: Session 4, Day 5 – Creative Contraptions (Ms. Tyson) (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jul. 12, 2019—One of our favorite things to explore this week as been Rube Goldberg’s way of taking a simple task and turning it into a mind-boggling complexity of turns, drops, spins, pulls and more. How does he do it??? Today we read from the book, Rube Goldberg’s Simple Normal Humdrum School Day, to get us ready...
SAVY 2019: Session 4, Day 4 – Intro to Coding and Robotics (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jul. 11, 2019—What a day of programming! We have filled our brains with new vocabulary this week and it is imperative to use it while we code, so we started the day with a vocabulary review game. Developing multiple events within the same program was the skill we added to our coding knowledge today. This was an...
SAVY 2019: Session 4, Day 4 – Creative Contraptions (The Wesbys) (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jul. 11, 2019—Wow, we’ve had four fantastic days of learning! Our day started with the game, ”Guess What’s In My Box.” An object was placed inside a box and taped so the students could not open it. The students had to make observations about what they thought was inside the box. Once they had a few seconds to observe,...
SAVY 2019: Session 4, Day 4 – Creative Contraptions (Ms. Tyson) (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jul. 11, 2019—To continue to practicing the inventor’s technique of flexible thinking to deepen the ability to brainstorm solutions to solve problems, we read the book: Addy-Matic, and then we did a flexible thinking activity called: Be the Thing. Students were told to imagine that they were a box. Then they answered three questions and shared them...