Grade 3 Category
Spring SAVY 2020: Day 1 – Creative Contraptions w/Ms. Polk (3rd/4th)
Feb. 10, 2020—Hello SAVY parents! Saturday’s session was one full of engagement and lots of learning! We used the Frayer model of learning to understand the definition of the term “scientists.” We learned how there are many scientists in the world, and we identified the specific areas that some scientists study. The Wheel of Scientific Investigation and...
Spring SAVY 2020: Day 1 – Circuitry, Systems, & Design (3rd/4th)
Feb. 10, 2020—Dear SAVY Parents, Thank you so much for making this opportunity available for your child! The level of engagement and enthusiasm was ELECTRIC! Mr. Knight, your student’s teaching assistant, and I truly look forward to our next meeting on Saturday, February 15th. Today the young engineers and designers experienced what a natural disaster can do...
Fall SAVY 2019: Day 3 – Psychology in Action (Grades 3/4)
Oct. 8, 2019—Hello parents, While I was very sad that this was our last week together, I was also very proud to see our researchers present their work during the poster session! As you already know, our researchers created and presented individual posters during our open-house poster session. Our class spent hours working to gather the content...
Fall SAVY 2019: Day 2 – Spatial Smarts (Grades 3/4)
Sep. 30, 2019—Dear SAVY Parents, I was so thankful for cartographers and the fine work they do with spatial reasoning today! Our class met in a different building, but thanks to my online map and some spatial reasoning skills I have acquired, I made it to class in plenty of time! Phew! How do cartographers deconstruct and reconstruct visual...
Fall SAVY 2019: Day 2 – Psychology in Action (Grades 3/4)
Sep. 30, 2019—Dear parents, Day two showcased some great ideas! It was full of insightful and intriguing questions that really pushed the students and I to think hard about symbols. We riled up our researchers with a spirited debate about what qualifies as a symbol. We split up into two teams (led by Mr. Israel and Ms....
Fall SAVY 2019: Day 2 – Programming and Robotics (Grades 3/4)
Sep. 30, 2019—Today these programmers learned that their job isn’t always creating new technology. They became aware that a big part of their job description is fixing or “debugging” programming problems. We started the day reading more of Peter Brown’s, The Wild Robot Escapes, to put our brains in the futuristic mindset of the world of robots....
Fall SAVY 2019: Day 1 – Spatial Smarts (Grades 3/4)
Sep. 24, 2019—Dear SAVY Parents, What a great day of fun and learning! The children jumped right in to the activities and discussions despite the idea of spatial reasoning as a mathematical task being a relatively new topic of study for them. Math is the study of quantity, structure, space, and change. The concepts are fascinating, challenging,...
Fall SAVY 2019: Day 1 – Psychology in Action (Grades 3/4)
Sep. 24, 2019—Dear parents, We had a wonderful first day exploring symbols as a class; I was very excited to have the opportunity to work with a new generation of researchers! It is clear to me that each member of our new research team is coming in with a lot of experience and great ideas about how...
Fall SAVY 2019: Day 1 – Programming and Robotics (Grades 3/4)
Sep. 24, 2019—These programmers had a great first day conceptualizing the world of robotics! We started by reading the first page of Peter Brown’s best seller, The Wild Robot Escapes. This gave us a foundation to discuss how robots know what tasks to perform. Then we dipped our toes into writing algorithms for our classmates to carry...