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Spring SAVY 2023: Cracking the Case (Tyson) for Grades 1 & 2
Jan. 30, 2023—Day 3: Saturday, February 11 Dear Parents, It was a pleasure to see all of you on Saturday! On our last day, we learned about DNA and how amazing it is–the students had many great questions! Then we decided to see if we could find our own DNA using our saliva. It worked and we...
Spring SAVY 2023: Secrets of the MoLi Stone for Grades 3 & 4
Jan. 30, 2023—Day 3: Saturday, February 11 It was wonderful to meet everyone’s families on Saturday! Thank you for taking time to stop by and recognize all the hard work your child accomplished during SAVY! In the morning we traveled back to China to learn about our final number system! As a class, we concluded that the...
Spring SAVY 2023: World Beyond the Page–Unpacking the Magic of Harry Potter for Grades 5 & 6
Jan. 30, 2023—Day 3: Saturday, February 11 Hello again to all my Potterheads! We had such a great last day of diving into all the Harry Potter realms. We began with creating our own potions (good luck obtaining all those wild ingredients) and then had a Socratic seminar on whether the HP series should be considered classics....
Spring SAVY 2023: Oh Deer! Wildlife Ecology for Grades 5 & 6
Jan. 30, 2023—Day 3: Saturday, February 11 Greetings! What an amazing final session! Continuing our wildlife ecology studies, students showcased their white-tailed deer expertise with our Oh Deer trivia game! Students worked in teams to answer questions related to white-tailed deer anatomy and fun facts. After the game, students learned about homeostasis, carrying capacity, and limited factors....
Fall SAVY 2019: Day 3 – Spatial Smarts (Grades 3/4)
Oct. 8, 2019—Dear SAVY Parents, Thank you for the opportunity to work with your child at SAVY! What an action packed day we had this past Saturday as we concluded our spatial reasoning studies with 3D stacks and maps as well as solid projections and slices. There are so many ways these skills are used in high...
SAVY 2019: Session 5, Day 4 – Witty Wordplay (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jul. 18, 2019—We were on fire for writing today! First we did a Word Ladder to warm up our word play mindset. Then we continued our evaluation of systems by looking for inputs and outputs as well as boundaries found in cafeterias. From our cafeteria system model, we began thinking about where we would be able to...
Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 5 – Kinematics for Mechanical Design (Rising 7th)
Jul. 27, 2018—This was the last day of Kinematics for Mechanical Design! We moved from analyzing four bar mechanisms to designing them. We learned two position rocker synthesis and two position coupler synthesis. These are two techniques to take desired limit positions of one link in a four bar, and come up with the positions of the...
Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 5 – Science of Emotion (Rising 7th)
Jul. 27, 2018—Dear SAVY Parents, Thank you to everyone who came to our Open House this afternoon! These SAVY scholars have put in a lot of hard work this week, and we hope that they are as proud of their accomplishments as we are! Students spent the morning preparing for and presenting their elevator talks (some of...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 5 – Playing With Words (Rising 1st)
Jul. 27, 2018—The Open House was a lot of fun watching students doing word ladders with their parents, and showcasing their learning from our week of word play! It was a pleasure to meet parents of our new students, and to talk to parents of returning students. The students and I finished our last ant words (N-Z),...
Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 4 – Kinematics for Mechanical Design (Rising 7th)
Jul. 26, 2018—We started today with a brief introduction to linkages and used poster board and brads to experiment with four bar linkages. Then we continued to hone our drafting skills, this time with kinematic diagrams of various mechanisms. A kinematic diagram captures the motion of a linkage by representing pins as dots and links as straight...