April 5th

Summer Camp information is at the end of the blog

Upcoming Dates

Picture Day is Monday, April 11th . Information is coming home today, Wednesday, March 16^th.

NWEA tests

Tuesday, April 5^th  READING

Friday, April 8^th  LANGUAGE

Monday, April 11^th  MATH

Thursday, May 26^th: Field trip to the Audubon Center  9:00-2:00. Permission slip will come home in May.

Language

Writing: Finishing the poetry unit--Creating a cover; binding books

Latin Word Root----None this week due to NWEA testing

Math

All: Geometry

4^th: Comparing fractions, adding & subtracting w/ like denominators

5^th: Dividing fractions; estimating answers when using fractions
NO TEST THIS WEEK due to NWEA TESTING

Science

Geologic time and fossils

Stratigraphy: Fossil Fill

Dichotomous keys and taxonomy

Social Studies

5th grade: Colonization

4th grade: Beginning presentations for regions

Spelling: None the week of April 5^th due to NWEA TESTING & short week

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.php

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.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%20Summer_2011_revised%203_22[1].pdf