Gifted and Talented 5th Grade into Middle School Parent Information Night

Tuesday, December 6th

6:00-7:00pm

Professional Development and Education Center (PDEC)

Panther Den

5800 Colleyville Blvd., Colleyville, TX 76034

This meeting is for parents who are interested in Middle School GT program for:

• Current 5th Grader(non-GT Identified) testing for the gifted and talented program (GT LEAD) & future Middle School options

• Current 5th Grader (Identified GT) testing for the ASPIRE Academy

• Current 5th Grader(Identified GT) looking for his/her placement options for middle school (no additional testing needed for middle school non-ASPIRE GT placement)

• The referral window is December 1-12.

• Testing window is January 4-13.

Your First Graders completed their Doceri's and have uploaded them to Google Drive. Their topic was a family member or family pet and writing similes about that person's or animal's traits.

Second Grade scholars recorded/created Doceris on their extinct creature. These are uploaded into their GT LEAD Google folders.

Third Graders have started their presentations of Think Like a Disciplinarian. They have researched colleges, wages of career choice, work environment, and why the job/career is important. The also created scripts and brought or borrowed props to use while presenting. Some of the third graders appear in this S'More and the rest appear in the early November S'More.

Fourth Graders have finished up their EXPLORE research and are now getting ready to work on their products and presentations. We were fortunate to have Mr. Smith as our WatchDog, as he served as our Emcee for "Did you know..."! In the other fourth grade group students "explored" the RECAP APP, and they were able to share their "Did you knows..." that way.

There's an APP for That... Awesome Presentations! Students participated in a Shark Tank environment while presenting. Some of them really took it a step further by making business cards, using props, and creating jingles.