Grade K Category
Summer SAVY 2016 (Session 5, Day 4) – Agricultural Engineering
Jul. 28, 2016—Happy Fourth Day! Today the students spent the majority of their time working diligently with their partners evaluating various materials and their properties. They used this information to brainstorm ideas for their hand pollinators. They began implementing the steps of the Engineering Design Process (Ask, Imagine, Plan, Create, and Improve) to help with the creation...
Summer SAVY 2016 (Session 5, Day 3) – Beyond the Pyramids: Egyptian Explorations
Jul. 27, 2016—Dear Parents, Today we were able to talk more about languages, specifically we reasoned about the issues of different languages facing extinction today. We discussed a story by observing the evidence of the problem in the story, considering the different points of view of stakeholders, and then concluding the implications/consequences of this problem. The students...
Summer SAVY 2016 (Session 5, Day 3) – Agricultural Engineering
Jul. 27, 2016—Happy Third Day! Today the students read and acted out a play about Integrated Pest Management: an approach to pest control that moderates damage caused by pests while simultaneously protecting the environment and human health by eliminating the use of pesticides. They identified ways that insects can be problems and ways that they can be...
Summer SAVY 2016 (Session 5, Day 2) – Beyond the Pyramids: Egyptian Explorations
Jul. 26, 2016—Dear Parents, What a great day of learning and excitement in ancient Egypt. We went more deeply into history by adding important dates to our timeline and discussing the implications of major events all the way back to 3100 BC! We experienced the powerful ideas of a primary source document by reading aloud together an...
Summer SAVY 2016 (Session 5, Day 2) – Agricultural Engineering
Jul. 26, 2016—Happy Second Day! Today the students took a post-assessment on the concept of “technology” by taking a nature walk and identifying man-made vs. natural objects. They also took a pre-assessment on the major parts of a plant and the pollination system. They were introduced to Mariana, a little girl from the Dominican Republic, who is...
Summer SAVY 2016 (Session 5, Day 1) – Beyond the Pyramids: Egyptian Exploration
Jul. 25, 2016—Dear Parents, We had a great beginning session today! We dove right into the Egyptian culture and read aloud a wonderful text, The Egyptian Cinderella by Shirley Climo, and compared and contrasted elements of this vivid story with the more familiar version of the story we all know. In doing so, we were introduced the...
Summer SAVY 2016 (Session 5, Day 1) – Agricultural Engineering
Jul. 25, 2016—The Best of Bugs: Designing Hand Pollinators July 25, 2016 Happy First Day! My rising first graders are digging deep into an Agricultural Engineering unit on natural and artificial pollinators. They took a preassessment by completing a concept map on their prior knowledge of what it is technology. Initially, many of them defined technology as...
Summer SAVY 2016 (Session 4PM, Day 9) – Story Creations
Jul. 21, 2016—Dear Parents: We began our day today with students working on finishing any piece of writing they have been working on this week. Those who were finished got to write more story creations on their own, of their own choosing. Next, we read a book from the African culture called “Anansi the Spider”, Gerald McDermott....
Summer SAVY 2016 (Session 4AM, Day 9) – Budding Botanist
Jul. 21, 2016—Dear parents: As you know, Dr. Mall is on a business trip. I was happy to accept the position as her sub for two days because I get to spend even more time with your fantastic children. We began our morning with a book called, “and then it’s spring”, by Julie Fogliano. We talked about...
Summer SAVY 2016 (Session 4PM, Day 8) – Story Creations
Jul. 20, 2016—Dear Parents: IMPORTANT REVISION ON OPEN HOUSE PLEASE READ. I am so sorry that I told you our open house is in the morning!!! Please forgive me! I have been teaching morning sessions all summer until this session, so I had a brain slip. Friday is our Open House, but it is in the afternoon...