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Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 4, Day 2 – Think Like a Lawyer (Rising 7th)
Jul. 10, 2018—Day two of Think Like a Lawyer is a wrap. We began today by wrapping up with Article III of the Constitution and the discretionary doctrines of standing, mootness and ripeness. This was also a great opportunity to discuss President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh. After this review, our class got its first taste...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 4, Day 2 – Mysterious World in Writing (Rising 5th/6th)
Jul. 10, 2018—Dear Parents: We had another wondrously suspenseful day in Mysterious World of Writing today! In the morning, students started off the day with a quick round of Storycubes and Plot Diagramming. We reviewed all the elements of a literary story structure: exposition, rising action, climax, and resolution. At their tables, students were given two Storycubes die and asked...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 4, Day 2 – Intro to Business (Rising 5th/6th)
Jul. 10, 2018—Simulation time! Today we tested our skill at picking out investments which were perfectly modeled by a single die. This helped us learn about the trade off between risk and return. Students came up with the idea that being riskier in the early rounds of the simulation was better than taking risks later…they could already...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 4, Day 2 – Fractions at Work (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 10, 2018—It was another wonderful day stretching our brains around mathematical ideas. Our foundation of equivalent fractions led to much comparing and ordering using dominoes and complicated non-benchmark fractions [i.e. ordering 8/7, 5/6, 5/9, 6/7 and approximating 13/20, 11/16, 13/12, and 1 1/8 on our number line]. “Start with what you know” was a helpful strategy,...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 4, Day 2 – The Great Debate, Mrs. Kraft (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 10, 2018—What an amazing second day! We covered more logical fallacies, Plato and his Cave, had two excellent debates and formally challenged the other class to Friday’s BIG DEBATE. We even sang an anthem. See you all Friday at 3:15 so we can show off our logic, arguments, and superior public speaking and etiquette skills. -Ms.Kraft...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 4, Day 2 – The Great Debate, Mr. Lee (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 10, 2018—Parents, Our second day of SAVY was delightful! It was a pleasure to welcome back familiar faces after getting to know your children yesterday. We began our morning by reviewing the most important topics we learned yesterday, including the structure of a debate and the 5 steps to creating an argument. We hit things...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 4, Day 2 – Traveling Through Time (Rising 2nd)
Jul. 10, 2018—Our archaeologists had a very successful but challenging day today! First, we reviewed everything we learned yesterday about the kind of work that archaeologists do. We had a lot of fun practicing using the scientific method by hypothesizing what mysterious materials were placed inside plastic eggs. Students had to observe, make hypotheses, and compare notes...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 4, Day 2 – Adventures in Algebra (Rising 2nd)
Jul. 10, 2018—Happy Second Day! Today the mathematicians differentiated between expressions and equations by explaining their similarities and differences. They are beginning to understand that expressions involve numbers, operations, and/or variables. However, equations show how two expressions are equal to one another. They were introduced to hands-on equation which is a fun and easy way for our...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 4, Day 2 – Intro to Coding and Robotics (Rising 1st)
Jul. 10, 2018—Hello SAVY Parents! We had a very insightful second day of our Coding and Robotics class! We started the day by reviewing yesterday’s vocabulary words (“algorithm” and “persistence”) and introducing three new vocabulary words to our class discussion. What is sequencing? What does it mean if my code has a bug? How can I efficiently debug my code?...
Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 4, Day 1 – Engineering Design (Rising 7th)
Jul. 9, 2018—Hello SAVY Parents! Today we learned about the engineering design cycle! This morning we created marshmallow towers out of dried spaghetti (the tallest being 28.25 inches) to learn the importance of testing. This is a common design challenge posed to lots of groups, including students, entrepreneurs, and engineers. Ask your student which group tends to...