Summer Enrichment Programs for Gifted Youth
As I get information about summer programs, I will post it here. You can explore them and see if any would work for your schedule and finances. :-)
Math Camp
Location: Colorado College
We would like to make the gifted education community aware of Epsilon, a new summer camp for the exceptionally (EG) and profoundly (PG) gifted, ages 8 to 10 years old (students must be under the age of 11 during camp), who love math. This new camp, directed by Dr. George Thomas, founder of Mathpath and Canada/USA Mathcamp, will be held at Colorado College from July 24 through August 14, 2011. Epsilon Camp combines an intellectually rigorous student camp running in parallel with a parent workshop addressing the concerns and challenges of raising EG/PG children. Epsilon students will be exposed to mathematics enrichment not available anywhere else at this time for their age group.
For more information, including eligibility requirements and how to apply, please visit http://epsiloncamp.org/index.
College of William and Mary
Location: Virginia
This is a link to a PDF flyer of the offerings through W&M. Page 7 of the PDF is where the grade levels pertaining your children begin. There is some information on the previous pages about scholarship opportunities.
http://cfge.wm.edu/forms/SEP%
There are no conferences for 4th-6th grade next week. They are only for primary grades. If you would like a conference (after report cards), let me know. I would be more than happy to meet with you at a time that works for all of us. Grades are good!
As I get information about summer programs, I will post it here. You can explore them and see if any would work for your schedule and finances. :-)
Math Camp
Location: Colorado College
We would like to make the gifted education community aware of Epsilon, a new summer camp for the exceptionally (EG) and profoundly (PG) gifted, ages 8 to 10 years old (students must be under the age of 11 during camp), who love math. This new camp, directed by Dr. George Thomas, founder of Mathpath and Canada/USA Mathcamp, will be held at Colorado College from July 24 through August 14, 2011. Epsilon Camp combines an intellectually rigorous student camp running in parallel with a parent workshop addressing the concerns and challenges of raising EG/PG children. Epsilon students will be exposed to mathematics enrichment not available anywhere else at this time for their age group.
For more information, including eligibility requirements and how to apply, please visit http://epsiloncamp.org/index.
College of William and Mary
Location: Virginia
This is a link to a PDF flyer of the offerings through W&M. Page 7 of the PDF is where the grade levels pertaining your children begin. There is some information on the previous pages about scholarship opportunities.
http://cfge.wm.edu/forms/SEP%
There are no conferences for 4th-6th grade next week. They are only for primary grades. If you would like a conference (after report cards), let me know. I would be more than happy to meet with you at a time that works for all of us. Grades are good!
Upcoming Dates
Picture Day is Monday, April 11th . Information is coming home today, Wednesday, March 16th. You must prepay for these pictures. If you do not prepay, your child's picture will not be taken. Class picture order forms were handed out on Thursday. They will be taken on the same day. You must prepay for these as well.
NWEA tests
Our class is scheduled to test on the following days:
Tuesday, April 5th in the AM
Friday, April 8th in the AM
Monday, April 11 in the AM
I'm sure the students will ask about snacks on these testing days. If you would like to provide a snack for the whole class, please let me know.
Our class is scheduled to test on the following days:
Tuesday, April 5th in the AM
Friday, April 8th in the AM
Monday, April 11 in the AM
I'm sure the students will ask about snacks on these testing days. If you would like to provide a snack for the whole class, please let me know.
Thursday, May 26th: Field trip to the Audubon Center 9:00-2:00. Permission slip will come home in May.
Missing/Late work
I forgot the missing or late work today. I will send it home Thursday.
Language
Writing: Finishing the poetry unit
Latin Word Root----Quiz on Thursday
tempor time
ver/veri truth
ver/veri truth
ex- out, away, from
con- with, together
-acity having the quality of
-aneous having the quality of
- ary of, related to
-fy to do, to make
Math
All: Geometry
4th: Multiplication of larger #s
5th: Fractions
Science
Geologic time and fossils
*index fossils
* layered sections
Social Studies
5th grade: Explorer investigations. In pairs, they are researching an explorer and choosing 2 out of 4 options for sharing their understandings of the explorer. Some of students choosing maps may have some “aging” of the map to do at home. J Most other work is being done in class.
4th grade: Regions of the US: NE, SE, Midwest, and SW. Students have been divided into groups and make presentations to the rest of the class about their region
4th grade spelling words Unit 29 March 28th VV pattern
BASIC: lion, liar, poem, quiet, fuel, science, idea, usual, radio, India, piano, diary, violin, perido, cereal, video, meteor, rodeo, January, February
CHALLENGE: variety, gradual, geography, diagram, punctuate
REAL WORLD VOCABULARY: Outer Space
astronomy, solar system, gravity, crescent, satellite, lunar, comets, meteorite
CHALLENGE: variety, gradual, geography, diagram, punctuate
REAL WORLD VOCABULARY: Outer Space
astronomy, solar system, gravity, crescent, satellite, lunar, comets, meteorite
5th grade spelling words Unit 29 March 28th Suffix -ion
BASIC: elect, election, react, reaction, confess, confession, express, expression, connect, connection, tense, tension, decorate, decoration, pollute, pollution, imitate, imitation, educate, education
CHALLENGE: fascinate, fascination, construct, construction
REAL WORD VOCABULARY: Learning Algebra
equation, variable, solution, operations, intersect, axis, ordered pair, coordinate
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