Open House!

Open House is this week! Please join us Thursday, October 1st at 6:30pm so that your children can show you what they do in gifted.

Mad Science!

All grade levels love "Mad Science!" My goal this year is to do a lot more science labs because the kids love it so much and it sparks their interest to learn new things. While I don't mind supplying materials for our labs it usually involves me raiding my pantry and too much of that leaves my cupboards pretty bare! I am going to list everyday things that we will be using in future science labs and if you can send ONE of them in I would greatly appreciate it! To avoid me having 10 containers of salt and 0 food coloring would you please put what you are sending under "comments?" That way everone can see what has been sent. THANKS A MILLION!!!!
salt
craft sticks
plastic spoons
epsom salt
food coloring
string
cotton balls
straws
colored chalk
coffee filters
cornstarch
toothpicks

1st Graders Are Rockin!

We had a fabulous day in gifted today! Our 15 first graders spent the day learning the routines and expectations for our class. We also spent some time getting to know all of our unique classmates when we completed and shared our "All About Me" page. We read a book called "If I Were a Noun" and played a noun guessing game. Ask your child to play it with you! "Line Designs" were made after discussing the art element of line and reviewing vertical, horizontal, and parallel lines. After asking the class what a scientist looked like I received answers like: "they have a white coat", "they have black shoes", "they have brown hair." The students were then told if they wanted to know what a scientist looked like they needed to look around them. We are all scientists! We are curious about the world around us, we have questions and we make guesses and we experiment all the time to find out how things work. The students took part in a little science lab discovering colors. Overall it was a great first day of gifted for the year! Thank you for sending your child to gifted prepared and for all of the generous donations of supplies I we recieved! Don't forget to send in your child's digital release form so that I can begin posting pictures next week!

2nd Grade Had a Musical Monday!

Our 2nd grade class is rockin and rollin! We welcomed a new student, Sameh, to our class and we had a great day being back in class with all of our friends. We started the day with a "Waker Upper" to stretch our minds and get us thinking. "Our Symphony" was next and we spent some time going over expectations for the class and also ways to earn points and agreed on things we would work towards. We also spent some time getting to know our fellow musicians as we completed our picture page for our gifted folder filled with all of our favorite things. Using our flexible thinking and creativity we also wrote acrostic poems using only adjectives to describe ourselves. "Mad Science" time was spent talking about the scientific method and putting the steps in order. We used our keen observation skills to describe sharks teeth and had to remember which one we observed when they were all mixed up. I know we are going to have an amazing year in gifted! Thank you for all of the generous donations of supplies! Don't forget to send your child's digital release form back to me so I can start posting pictures next week.