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Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 2, “Engineering Design: Full STEAM Ahead!” (1st-2nd)
Jul. 22, 2025—What a terrific Tuesday we had today! Our day started out with our morning meeting, where we shared our favorite colors and what we were excited to learn today. “Building bridges” was the common excitement shared by all! Then, we reviewed the three bridges we learned about yesterday, along with drawing and labeling each one...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 2, “Earth Science Rocks!” (1st-2nd)
Jul. 22, 2025—Hello all! Today was ROCK DAY! Igneous, Sedimentary, Metamorphic (with some Minerals thrown in!). We started the day by revisiting the “rock piles” from yesterday and reviewing the observations the kids had made about them. I also added my rocks from my own collection to the piles BEFORE giving the students the names of the...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 2, “Dive Into Design” (1st-2nd)
Jul. 22, 2025—Happy Tuesday! Our morning began with a quick review of models discovered at home. From Hot Wheels cars to scaled miniature boba teas, students were able to identify the presence and importance of models in their everyday world. Then, we explored an overview of the Engineering Design Process to guide our learning and activities for...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 1, “The Great Debate” (5th-6th)
Jul. 21, 2025—Good afternoon, families and great debaters! Today was our introduction to the ancient philosophical tradition that brings us the art of debate! In the morning session, we learned a bit about each other and discussed what we already know and want to learn about how to debate well. We also brainstormed together about what successful...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 1, “Greek Mythology 2.0” (5th-6th)
Jul. 21, 2025—Hello! My name is Meara Waxman, and I am thrilled that your children have joined us for Greek Mythology 2.0 this week! We had a wonderful first day. After introducing ourselves and doing some goal setting for the week, we dove into the course material by learning about some of the forgotten Titans (the oldest...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 1, “Astronomy Tricks of the Trade” (5th-6th)
Jul. 21, 2025—The Astronomy Tricks of the Trade group had a fun first day. To help break the ice, our first project revolved around one of the favorite group activities held at Dyer Observatory’s camps – the creation of a lander to protect an egg astronaut (the “egg-noaut”) on its way back to Earth. We began with...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 1, “The Story of You! An Invitation to Write and Explore Autobiography” (3rd-4th)
Jul. 21, 2025—Welcome to day 1 of The Story of You! This week, we will be focusing on writing and specifically writing about ourselves. After sharing some not fun facts about ourselves (I have brown hair, my shirt is green), we started our day by playing a “This or That” activity that asked questions such as do you...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 1, “Numbers Big and Small” (3rd-4th)
Jul. 21, 2025—Dear Parents, Welcome to Numbers Big & Small! We really enjoyed the enthusiasm of your children today. Their contributions to our math discussions were impressive. We briefly discussed how we know students are coming to math class from different schools, grades, and background knowledge. We are having fun and playing with math. This morning, we...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 1, “Forces of Nature: Wind, Energy, and Engineering” (3rd-4th)
Jul. 21, 2025—Day 1 – July 21, 2025 | 🌍 What Is Technology? and Catching the Wind! We had an exciting first day diving into the world of engineering! We started with an activity called “Technology in a Bag,” where students explored everyday items and discovered that technology is much more than computers and smartphones – it...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 1, “Engineering Design: Full STEAM Ahead!” (1st-2nd)
Jul. 21, 2025—What a wonderful day we had in our Engineering Design class! We started the day with a fun get-to-know-you Bingo game and learned all kinds of exciting things about our classmates. Then we dove right into the world of engineering and bridges! This is a marvelously curious class, and we made of list of all...