Grade 4 Category
SAVY 2019: Session 6, Day 5 – The Great Debate (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 26, 2019—This week flew by! I was so lucky to have these 15 amazing children to work with this week! Today we some dub all we had learned yesterday about whether or not the government is responsible for the welfare of the individuals. Students worked in groups to create a concept map. Then, with their same group,...
SAVY 2019: Session 6, Day 5 – Biology of the Brain (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 26, 2019—Coming soon!
SAVY 2019: Session 6, Day 5 – Artistic Programming (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 26, 2019—Our last day was bittersweet. We’ve had a great week and it’s amazing how quickly it passed. This morning we used our coding skills to make a digital version of a perler bead design. Then we made more art out of our designs by coding the image to move. We spent the remainder of the...
SAVY 2019: Session 6, Day 4 – The Great Debate (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 25, 2019—We are so excited to showcase our persuasive speeches tomorrow!! This morning we were busy writing and revising exactly what we want to share about our topics. The students are attempting to use rhetoric, emulating the writings of those we have studied throughout the week. This is a challenge!! I was thrilled to see the...
SAVY 2019: Session 6, Day 4 – Biology of the Brain (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 25, 2019—Today was another great day in our Biology of the Brain classroom! After walking all over campus on a field trip to the Social Emotional Expertise Lab yesterday, we decided to give our legs a rest and spend the day learning in our classroom. After our daily group share, we moved into the general theme...
SAVY 2019: Session 6, Day 4 – Artistic Programming (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 25, 2019—We had a blast today! We began the day with a coordinate plane activity where we learned about inequalities and how to use them to code environments for our organisms. Then we had a lot of work time to prepare for tomorrow’s open house. We’re really proud of what we’ve accomplished and excited to show...
SAVY 2019: Session 6, Day 3 – The Great Debate (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 24, 2019—What an amazing third day! We spent the morning analyzing primary source writing from multiple perspectives about “Is Civil Disobedience Ever Justified as a Method of Political Change?”. The analysis included a scavenger hunt where her students were to find as much evidence as they could where the author used the rhetorical devices of ethos,...
SAVY 2019: Session 6, Day 3 – Biology of the Brain (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 24, 2019—Today may have been the busiest day yet in our Biology of the Brain classroom! We are now at the midway point of our week and today was all about synthesizing the information we’ve learned so far, while giving students the opportunity to further build on that foundational knowledge. We started class in the usual...
SAVY 2019: Session 6, Day 3 – Artistic Programming (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 24, 2019—Today was another fun-filled day of learning. We enjoyed a mini-lesson about the coordinate plane that gave us the knowledge we needed to start creating a digital environment for our organisms. This afternoon, we visited a medical imaging lab where we got to see computer programming in action and learn about the importance of teamwork...
SAVY 2019: Session 6, Day 2 – The Great Debate (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 23, 2019—What a fantastic second day! We spent the morning analyzing primary source writing from multiple perspectives about “How Americans Should Treat the Land?”. The analysis included a scavenger hunt where her students were to find as much evidence as they could where the author used the rhetorical devices of ethos, pathos, and logos. Because the students...