My main goal for this blog is to inform parents of what we're doing in class each week. It's too hard, (and a waste of paper), to send a newsletter home with every student in every grade that I teach, but I know parents still want to know what's going on. So my goal is to give you a little rundown every couple weeks of what we're doing in GT.
5th grade - Our GI, Leadership, and Creativity classes started this week. In GI, we started a massive logic grid about Summer Vacation. This one's going to take us a couple weeks to finish. :) In Creativity, students filled out a paper telling about themselves filling in the blanks of the first thing that comes to their mind. Boy, are they creative! :) In Leadership, we discussed a few things we're going to do this year and we discussed 3 committees we're going to have for 5th grade Leadership this week. The kids wrote down which committee they'd like to be on and I divided them into the groups based on that and their personalities.
4th grade will start next Tuesday
Right now I'm doing whole-class lessons for grades 1-3. Pull-out groups for Primary Talent Pool will start after Christmas. I use a curriculum called "PETS," which stands for Primary Education Thinking Skills. These are really neat lessons that allow students to learn how to think in different ways from the "normal" thinking that goes on in the classroom. Even though it's hectic to go to all of the 1st-3rd classes in 2 days, I really enjoy these lessons and getting to be with all of the kids!
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