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Summer SAVY 2019: Session 1, Day 5 – Forensic Science (Rising 1st/2nd)

Jun. 14, 2019—Dear Parents: Our case took a very surprising turn this morning! Before stepping foot into our own crime scene, we brainstormed advice in how to solve a crime, for a woman who baked homemade chocolate cookies, left them on the warming tray, and came back to find six cookies missing. She said she has three...

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Summer SAVY 2019: Session 1, Day 5 – Playing with Words (Rising 1st/2nd)

Jun. 14, 2019—Families, thank you so much for joining us at the showcase this afternoon, and for sending your kids to Playing with Words! Miss Sarah and I had a fantastic week with this clever, enthusiastic, and punny class. This morning, we started off with my favorite four-part riddle: How do you get a giraffe into a...

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Summer SAVY 2019: Session 1, Day 4 – Puzzles and Problem Solving (Rising 5th/6th)

Jun. 13, 2019—I was so pleased with the students’ work on the Pirate Problem this morning! This is a problem that my (much!) older students often struggle with, and this class just tackled the issues head on and found a solution, even as they hit a stumbling block right before the finish line. It was amazing to...

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Summer SAVY 2019: Session 1, Day 4 – Nuclear Science and Energy (Rising 5th/6th)

Jun. 13, 2019—Today we opened class with a quick review game.  One student would share a vital piece of information about nuclear energy learned during the class.  Then, the student would tag two more students.  Those two students would state their facts (no repeats allowed!), and each would tag two more people, and so on from there. ...

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Summer SAVY 2019: Session 1, Day 4 – Theory, Criticism, and The Force (Rising 5th/6th)

Jun. 13, 2019—Rising moons, Padawans! Can you believe that tomorrow will be our final session of Theory, Criticism, and The Force? We’re about to Break Into 3, headed for the Ending and Return, ready to create Synthesis. Those are a bunch of heady terms, I know, so here’s a more personable response to the approaching close of...

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Summer SAVY 2019: Session 1, Day 4 – Archaeology 101 (Rising 3rd/4th)

Jun. 13, 2019—Today was a busy day for Anthropology 101! We began the morning with a quick recap of what we learned in the bone lab yesterday. Again, I was impressed with how much they remember and understand! We wrapped up our lab portion of the class by refitting the broken pottery they uncovered in their survey...

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Summer SAVY 2019: Session 1, Day 4 – Tremendous Transformations in Writing (Rising 3rd/4th)

Jun. 13, 2019—Wow!! Today was surely our best day yet! Knowing today was our big day for serious revision, we started the day by thinking about what we had each accomplished with our stories so far and what we hoped to achieve. Each student set a personal writing goal, and we basically wrote ALL morning long, with...

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Summer SAVY 2019: Session 1, Day 4 – Chemical Spill (Rising 3rd/4th)

Jun. 13, 2019—Hello Parents! Today was quite an eventful day.  In the morning lab session we continued monitoring the health of our flowering plants that we had watered with an acidic and basic solutions the day before.  Preliminary results show that plants receiving higher concentrations of acid are less healthy than the plants that received a more...

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Summer SAVY 2019: Session 1, Day 4 – Forensic Science (Rising 1st/2nd)

Jun. 13, 2019—Dear Parents: We can’t believe that the case has not been cracked yet, but we are getting closer! Our first order of seeking new evidence was to try to identify the person who wrote the note yesterday. We pulled out our chromatography tools and got to work. After testing the four pens that were found...

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Summer SAVY 2019: Session 1, Day 4 – Playing with Words (Rising 1st/2nd)

Jun. 13, 2019—Dear Families, First thing this morning, we continued with our study of wordless picture books. Each student chose a single illustration from a collection of books and wrote their own story based on what they saw. We had stories about frogs and grandmas, hermit crabs and flying pigs, and a surprising number of stories featuring...

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