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Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 4, Day 1 – Think Like a Lawyer (Rising 7th)
Jul. 9, 2018—We learned a lot on our first day in Think Like a Lawyer, and we set strong Constitutional foundations for the rest of this week at SAVY. We began with the beginning—Article I of the Constitution—which details the role of the legislature. A lot of our early reading was review. We reminded ourselves that we...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 4, Day 1 – Mysterious World in Writing (Rising 5th/6th)
Jul. 9, 2018—Welcome to Mysterious World In Writing, parents! So happy and honored to be trusted with your students for the week, and I look forward to our mysterious literary adventures ahead. This morning, we opened the class with a discussion of our initial assumptions about mysteries and mystery-writing. The students were incredibly enthusiastic about mysteries they’ve...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 4, Day 1 – Intro to Business (Rising 5th/6th)
Jul. 9, 2018—Today we embarked on our journey into the world of Wall Street. Most students began the day having never heard the phrase “strategic investing” so we started by answering the following questions by first using the words “investment” and “market” as they are typically used to hearing them. What is an investment? Students came up...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 4, Day 1 – Fractions at Work (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 9, 2018—Welcome to Fractions at Work! Your mathematicians arrived ready to learn and explore all the applied math in our world. It was delightful getting to know your students! Collaboration, taking academic risks and practicing communicating ideas are vital features of a SAVY session. As partners, we used various models [pool noodle segments, fraction strips, pizza...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 4, Day 1 – The Great Debate, Mrs. Kraft (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 9, 2018—The first day is usually the hardest, since we have so many huge topics to touch on before we move into practice, but these kids made it easy. Wow. We got to know each other with a concentration game, and then moved right into Socrates, Plato, philosophy, and even a couple of logical fallacies. Then...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 4, Day 1 – The Great Debate, Mr. Lee (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 9, 2018—Parents, We had a fantastic first day at SAVY! We began our class by introducing our names and our favorite desserts, which subsequently led to a debate about which desserts are the best! We also established a few ground rules that will be essential to the success of a class that is all about cooperation...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 4, Day 1 – Traveling Through Time (Rising 2nd)
Jul. 9, 2018—Dear SAVY parents, Our budding archaeologists had a wonderful first day in Mesoamerica! We had so much fun, we almost ran out of time! We began this morning talking about what it is we think archaeologists do versus what archaeologists actually do! Like most adults, many of the students were surprised to learn that archaeologists...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 4, Day 1 – Adventures in Algebra (Rising 2nd)
Jul. 9, 2018—Happy First Day! Our Algebra class is digging deep into a unit on algebraic expressions, equations, and variables. The mathematicians created concept maps to assess their prior knowledge of the skills/concepts being taught in this particular unit. They also created concept maps about themselves to become familiar with each other. They were introduced to a...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 4, Day 1 – Intro to Coding and Robotics (Rising 1st)
Jul. 9, 2018—Dear SAVY Parents, What an exciting start on our first day of Coding and Robotics. The students were fearless, persistent, and undaunted in rising to the many challenges of the morning, and we are just getting start on a tremendous week! Today we introduced some basic skills in computer programming. What is an algorithm?...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 3, Day 5 – Digital Storytelling (Rising 5th/6th)
Jun. 29, 2018—This morning we watched a short clip of author Neil Gaiman telling a story from his childhood as our story bit. We discussed how Gaiman uses the storytelling elements we have been talking about throughout the week. He is an author, so his delivery was different of those that we have seen, but we discussed how...