Grade 4 Category
Spring SAVY 2019, Day 2 – Autobiographies and the Story of You (3rd/4th)
Feb. 4, 2019—Day 2 was just as amazing as last week! After Jumping into the Day and reviewing our norms, we discussed three generalizations about change. Ms. Adrienne and I then divided the class and took turns reading Malala’s Magic Pencil by Malala Yousafzai and Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson. After reading these powerful picture books, students...
Spring SAVY 2019, Day 1 – Circuitry, Systems, and Design (3rd/4th)
Jan. 28, 2019—Dear SAVY Parents, Thank you so much for making this opportunity available for your child! The level of engagement and enthusiasm was ELECTRIC this past Saturday. I truly look forward to our next meeting. Today the young engineers and designers experienced what a natural disaster can do to your planning. We started the day by...
Spring SAVY 2019, Day 1 – Using Algebra to Make and Break Records (3rd/4th)
Jan. 28, 2019—It is with great enthusiasm that I tell you how excited I am to talk about our first Saturday together! In this class, we are using world records to learn about Algebra with an emphasis on relationships. We are focusing on analyzing change by using graphs, tables, and verbal situations. We will continue to learn...
Spring SAVY 2019, Day 1 – Autobiographies and the Story of You (3rd/4th)
Jan. 28, 2019—Ms. Adrienne and I had a blast on Day 1 of Spring SAVY 2019! In addition to learning (and even remembering a few) new names, we established our classroom norms. Please review these norms with your kiddos so that they’re ready to engage in collegial discussions on Saturday. From a person’s life cycle, buying a...
Fall SAVY 2018, Day 2 – Media Mania (3rd/4th)
Oct. 8, 2018—Dear Media Mania parents, Last week, your students explored media and developed a better understanding of how some products can influence our thoughts and behaviors. This week, we took our first steps toward learning how to evaluate consequences associated with media use. To prepare your students to design their very own experiments, we learned how...
Fall SAVY 2018, Day 2 – Intro to Coding and Robotics (3rd/4th)
Oct. 8, 2018—Dear SAVY Parents, It was another great day with many learning adventures! What do we do when our programs don’t work? What if our robots don’t do what we tell them to do? We learned about Grace Hopper and the story about how she first popularized the term “computer bug”. She helped make the UNIVAC...
Fall SAVY 2018, Day 1 – Media Mania! (3rd/4th)
Oct. 1, 2018—Dear Media Mania parents, We had a wonderful first day exploring media as a class! It is clear that each student is coming in with a lot of media experience and great ideas about how some media work and can affect us in our everyday lives. To get everyone in the researcher mindset, we discussed...
Fall SAVY 2018, Day 1 – Intro to Coding and Robotics (3rd/4th)
Oct. 1, 2018—Dear SAVY Parents and students, Thank you for making this first Saturday of learning opportunities a great success! I think the all-day experience worked well, especially for our course. We were able to have concentrated amounts of time to go deeply into numerous topics and activities, and it yet the day seemed to fly by!...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 5 – Theory, Criticism, and The Force (Rising 5th/6th)
Jul. 27, 2018—We began our session today with a fun review of topics and content. To contextualize the work with which we had ended our Thursday session – Edward Said’s theories of “Orientalism” – we watched a short video about cultural appropriation. The video, a selection from the MTV web series Decoded, led organically to a very...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 5 – Archaeology and Ancient Culture (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 27, 2018—What an awesome week we have had with our budding archaeologists! Today was all about excavation and artifact analysis! After we finished working on our brochures from yesterday, we started working on excavating the archaeological sites we created yesterday. Just like real archaeologists, students had to excavate layer by layer. This was a challenge because...