1. Curriculum Night

2. Gifted kids like puns A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion. No matter how much you push the envelope it will still be stationary. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. The short fortune teller who escaped from prison was a small medium, at large. The butcher backed into the meat grinder and got a little behind in his work.

3. Mrs. Goodson Professional Personal

4. Mrs. Kelleher Professional Personal

5. Gifted Testing Testing for grades 3-5 will be at the district office in September and January. The testing will be on a Saturday and is from 9:00-12:00. Testing for K-2 will be in the fall and spring

6. Gifted and High Achieving Students The placement for high achieving students is fluid and not permanent. The best place- ment is a classroom that a student can succeed in and be happy. The best place- ment is not always the gifted classroom.

7. Language Arts Novels- Reading must be done for Tuesdays and Fridays for group discussions Writing- Vocabulary –Wordsmith –Novels –Wordly Wise Jr. Great Books Homework is listed on my website: www.kyrene.org/mgoods www.kyrene.org/mgoods

8. Math Curriculum/Adopted Resources/Homework Curriculum –Common core math standards for 4 th, 5 th and some 6th Adopted Resources –Investigations (4 th /5 th grade) –Connected Math (6 th grade) Homework (listed on my website www.kyrene.org/ESP-skelleher www.kyrene.org/ESP-skelleher –My philosophy 30 minutes Skip ones you don’t know practice Weekly pre-post assessments

9. Nonverbal Auditory SequentialVisual Spatial Thinks primarily in wordsThinks primarily in pictures Has auditory strengthsHas visual strengths Usually good organizationCreative organization Can show steps of work easilyArrives at correct solutions intuitively Processes from easy to difficultGets difficult concepts often but struggles with easy concepts Relates well to timeRelates well to space Learns by trial and errorLearns concepts all at once.

10. Does this look familiar?

11. Nonverbal NV reasoning @ school Creating using graphs, tables, charts Activities involving mapping, measuring, scale drawings Statistics and data analysis Science experiments Number patterns and sequencing Designing inventions, simple machines NV reasoning @ home Sudoku or Ken-Ken puzzles Legos, k-nex, checkers, chess Origami Brain teasers Art projects Activities that involve drawing conclusions based on a set of givens Cooking, woodworking

12. K-3 Cluster classes There is ongoing professional development for the cluster teacher. Besides myself there will be an additional gifted teacher who will be in contact with your child’s classroom teacher to provide additional support. This model has been shown to improve student achievement across all academic levels. Differentiated Learning Plans provide a framework for instruction for your child.

13. DLP Consultative with classroom teacher Student Differentiated Learning Plans Testing for K-2 will be in December.

15. Additional Resources Kyrene Gifted Webpage http://sw.kyrene.org/Page/1021 http://sw.kyrene.org/Page/1021 Nonverbal Resource Page http://sw.kyrene.org//site/Default.aspx?Pa geID=1051 http://sw.kyrene.org//site/Default.aspx?Pa geID=1051

16. Contact Information Phone contact is 480-541-3534 Email is your best bet to contact us. mgoods@kyrene.org Michele Goodsonmgoods@kyrene.org skelleher@kyrene.org Stephanie Kelleherskelleher@kyrene.org Website for homework www.kyrene.org/mgoodsESP and/or www.kyrene.org/ESP-skelleher www.kyrene.org/mgoodsESP www.kyrene.org/ESP-skelleher

17. Thank You Questions?