Grade K Category
Spring SAVY 2020: Day 3 – Environmental Explorations: Dig It! (K)
Feb. 25, 2020—As our day began, we thought a lot about the needs of Queen Anne’s Island to help us generate more effective ideas for them. We reviewed the problems such as air and water pollution, soil erosion, and lack of community awareness regarding the need to conserve and preserve our natural resources. Our understanding of natural...
Spring SAVY 2020: Day 2 – Environmental Explorations: Dig It! (K)
Feb. 18, 2020—After getting our lab shirts and personalizing them to represent us as scientists, we were ready to spin our learning using the Wheel of Scientific Investigating and Reasoning! Last week, we observed that change happened with our wind experiment, but how could we apply these observations we made with other situations where there is change?...
Spring SAVY 2020: Day 1 – Environmental Explorations: Dig It! (K)
Feb. 10, 2020—What is a scientist? What do scientists do? What are some jobs that scientists have? How can scientists solve problems in the real world? The only way to find the answers to these questions was to dig in and become scientists ourselves. Making observations using our senses, such as noticing changes in liquids with mixtures...
Spring SAVY 2019, Day 6 – Discovering the Third Dimension (Kindergarten)
Mar. 4, 2019—Thank you for sharing in our fun and learning throughout the course and most especially during today’s Shape Museum. Before our museum opened, We used our geometers’ eyes to look closely at the spider views from the bedroom ceilings of two of our students. What furnishings and objects did the shapes represent? What objects were...
Spring SAVY 2019, Day 5 – Discovering the Third Dimension (Kindergarten)
Feb. 25, 2019—Morning meeting was enriched by several geometry shares from home: – What is one student’s homemade ball made of? What interesting material forms its core? – How is another student’s spherical puzzle similar to Rubik’s Cube? How is it different? – What shapes would spiders see when looking down from the ceilings of the bedrooms of our classmates?...
Spring SAVY 2019, Day 4 – Discovering the Third Dimension (Kindergarten)
Feb. 18, 2019—We started our morning kicking a student’s homemade soccer ball around the lawn and comparing its performance to that of a manufactured soccer ball, then took our fun indoors for a morning meeting activity that challenged us to analyze a composite shape. Ask your expert: What three-dimensional shapes were combined to create the wooden toy truck?...
Spring SAVY 2019, Day 3 – Discovering the Third Dimension (Kindergarten)
Feb. 11, 2019—Week Three: Composing and Decomposing Three-Dimensional Shapes National Geographic had it right: joy is round. You could see it on our faces as we began our morning with an exploration of three homemade soccer balls. We rolled them, tossed them, and used them for an exciting round of Hot Potato. Ask your resident expert: What was similar, what...
Spring SAVY 2019, Day 2 – Discovering the Third Dimension (Kindergarten)
Feb. 4, 2019—This week, we investigated the link between form and function. Our geometers first explored a collection of toys with forms that are – or are similar to – four geometric solids: six-sided dice (cubes), spinning tops (cones), hockey pucks (cylinders), and marbles (spheres). During the exploration, students were charged with thinking about the attributes of a given...
Spring SAVY 2019, Day 1 – Discovering the Third Dimension (Kindergarten)
Jan. 28, 2019—What a terrific launch to our spring session! The first part of our morning was dedicated to getting know one other. We focused on learning names of our new friends, explored our similarities and differences by playing a few rounds of the game “A Warm Wind Blows,” and shared why we decided to study geometry....
Spring SAVY 2018, Day 5- What’s the Matter (Kindergarten)
Feb. 26, 2018—During our fifth week of SAVY, we learned more about a few physical properties of matter: mass and volume. We learned that mass is the amount of matter in something. It’s closely related to weight, but weight is gravities effect on a matter’s mass. So on the earth and the moon a person would have...