Grade K Category
Spring SAVY 2017, Day 2- Environmental Explorations: Dig It!
Feb. 6, 2017—Dear Parents: We had a great day learning about natural resources, conservation, preservation, continued understanding of change as a universal concept, what a geologist does, how natural resources are interconnected in the environment, and environmental implications of pollution and over use of natural resources (wasting and depleting natural resources). These topics are difficult to master...
Spring SAVY 2017, Day 2- Discovering the Third Dimension
Feb. 6, 2017—Analyze, build, draw, construct, connect – SAVY math is so much fun. This week your mathematicians reviewed 2-D shapes and began exploring the world of 3D solid figures. We began our morning together with a number talk activity, helping these young scholars develop their mental math abilities – plus, geometric subitizing is just fun! We...
Spring SAVY 2017, Day 1- Environmental Explorations: Dig It!
Jan. 31, 2017—Dear Parents: It was so nice meeting your children and getting to know them on our first Spring SAVY day together. We began our morning talking about what our young scientists already knew about what scientists are, and what they do. We recorded our prior knowledge on a chart. Then, I read a book called...
Spring SAVY 2017, Day 1- Discovering the Third Dimension
Jan. 31, 2017—Welcome to Discovering the Third Dimension! Your kindergarten mathematicians arrived ready to learn and explore all the geometry in our world. We described geometry as the study of shapes and their relationships. We began our SAVY session looking at 2-D plane figures. Next week, we will add symmetry, congruence, and transformations to our 2-D knowledge...
Fall SAVY 2016 (Day 5) – What’s the Matter?
Oct. 24, 2016—Hi parents: Today, we began our morning reading from a book called, “Mistakes that Worked”. Students enjoyed hearing how things such as the potato chip, sticky notes, chocolate chip cookies and donut holes were invented through simple mistakes. We also read a book called “What do you do With an Idea?” This author encourages students...
Fall SAVY 2016 (Day 4) – What’s the Matter?
Oct. 17, 2016—Hi parents: Today, we began our morning with a discussion of our Goop lab last Saturday, and how students enriched their learning at home. Students shared their home experiments and their results. It was priceless! We then reviewed states of matter and what we have learned that we could add to our matter concept map....
Fall SAVY 2016 (Day 3) – What’s the Matter?
Oct. 10, 2016—Hi parents. We had an experiment and lab-packed morning of learning about matter and change this week! Our morning started with another entertaining reading from our book, 11 Experiments That Failed. From there, we reviewed what we have learned thus far about matter, states of matter, and properties of solids, liquids and gases. I used...
Fall SAVY 2016 (Day 2) – What’s the Matter?
Oct. 3, 2016—Hi parents. We began our morning reading one of my favorite books, which quickly became a favorite of the students too, called 11 Experiments That Failed. The students howled with laughter as we read the first scenario, and then they cried out for more, so I read the next one too. This book reinforces the...
Fall SAVY 2016 (Day 1) – What’s the Matter?
Sep. 26, 2016—Hi parents. Our first day of SAVY, What’s the Matter? was packed with wondering, curiosity, questioning, pondering, hypothesizing, experimenting, observation, inferencing, and analyzing as we donned our lab coats and took on the persona of being scientists! We began our day with time spent getting to know each other’s interests and passions by sharing a...
Summer SAVY 2016 (Session 5, Day 4) – Beyond the Pyramids: Egyptian Explorations
Jul. 28, 2016—Dear Parents, Today we began our time together by telling persuasive stories that included an introduction, 2-3 reasons, and a conclusion while utilizing manipulative/visual supports. We reviewed all that we had learned about life in ancient Egypt and embarked on a “trip to the market place” where we observed and discussed materials, grains, and produce. ...