SAVY Category
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 5, “The Story of You! An Invitation to Write and Explore Autobiography” (3rd-4th)
Jul. 25, 2025—Happy Friday and last day of SAVY for this summer! I am so sad to see this week come to an end, but I am so very proud of every one of these students and the work they produced this week. They really dove deep into their memories and worked together to create some amazing...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 5, “Numbers Big and Small” (3rd-4th)
Jul. 25, 2025—We are sorry that Numbers Big & Small has come to an end. We have enjoyed exploring numbers with your children. This morning, we learned more about decimals. The class discussed that it’s easy to think of decimals when we think of money. We watched a quick Maths Mansion video (a silly British educational video) with...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 5, “Forces of Nature: Wind, Energy, and Engineering” (3rd-4th)
Jul. 25, 2025—Day 5 – July 25, 2025 | 🧪 Engineering Windmills: Create and Improve! – Young Engineers in Action Windmill testing day was a hit! We used fans to generate wind and observed how well each design performed. Some windmills lifted weights immediately, while others took a few tries – and a few redesigns. Students showed...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 5, “Engineering Design: Full STEAM Ahead!” (1st-2nd)
Jul. 25, 2025—What a fantastically fun Friday we had today! Our morning meeting gave us an opportunity to discuss problems we had with our bridges at the end of yesterday and ways to use materials in new ways in order to solve those problems. Many great suggestions such as tieing craft sticks together with string to make...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 5, “Earth Science Rocks!” (1st-2nd)
Jul. 25, 2025—Hello, families! Well, it’s always a little bittersweet to see the course end, but I’m always happy when I think to myself, “I wish I could teach these students all year!” Your children have been a joy to teach. Today, we emphasized creativity and making creative products. This is done intentionally for them...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 5, “Dive Into Design” (1st-2nd)
Jul. 25, 2025—Happy Friday! Pool-a-palooza went off with a bang today! We dove deep into learning about how accurate measurements require identical units, precise starting and ending points, no gaps, or overlaps in coverage, and partitioning of left-over (non-whole) units (measurement accuracy), and using what you know about an object may help make an educated guess about...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 4, “The Great Debate” (5th-6th)
Jul. 24, 2025—Good afternoon, families and great debaters! Today, we put into practice all the skills we have been learning and building throughout the week in anticipation of our first formal, full-class debate tomorrow! We started our day by practicing our reasoning and logic skills through humorous “if” statements, where students had to fill in the logical...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 4, “Greek Mythology 2.0” (5th-6th)
Jul. 24, 2025—Happy Thursday! What a wonderful Trojan War day in Greek Mythology 2.0! When students came into class, they discovered the character that they were assigned to play for the day. Half of the students were Trojans and the other half were Greeks, and we encountered several competitions throughout the day as we learned the full...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 4, “Astronomy Tricks of the Trade” (5th-6th)
Jul. 24, 2025—Our students began the day at Dyer Observatory’s Seyfert Telescope. Clear skies allowed us some very clear, broad-daylight views of two prominent stars (Sirius and Betelgeuse), which are normally only visible at night. Our last view was that of our sister planet, Venus, which currently exhibits a gibbous phase. We discussed with the students how...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 4, “The Story of You! An Invitation to Write and Explore Autobiography” (3rd-4th)
Jul. 24, 2025—Welcome to day 4 of the Story of You! Our day started with a great discussion of what our favorite books are. This came from our daily question book, but allowed us to hear from each other about books and reading, and why the book we chose is our favorite. No one had the same...