School Year 2023 - 2024

To give the new parents and students some background information about the gifted program;

The Gifted Pull-Out program is 225 minutes a week in the Gifted Resource Room. This year the Gifted Resource Room will be in a pod (P60) with all of the fifth grade. (Fox Den). Each grade level focuses on different themes. Third grade gifted students will focus on Creative Critical Thinking, and Inventions - Dayton Inventors especially the Wright Brothers. Fourth grade  gifted students focus on CSI and mysteries. They learn about crime scene investigation (CSI) and solving many different kinds of mystery cases.  Fifth grade gifted students on travel / space. They do a vacation travel unit and read novels about road trips.

Parent Teacher Conferences

Thank you so much for taking the time to come out and talk to me about your children. I enjoy meeting each of you and getting a different perspective of your child. If you ever want to meet again feel free to email me and we can set up a day and time. 

Second Nine Weeks

Third Grade:

• We finished the book "Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days". Ask your child about wearing broccoli for the day.:}  We are starting the book Toothpaste Millionaire. This a wonderful book about a young man who invents a special toothpaste and tries to sell it. He encounters a lot of obstacles along the way. We have begun designing our Toy Factory.  The students are very excited about this project and I enjoy seeing them having so much fun and learning at the same time.  We will be starting Hands on Equations and they have begun Math Quest. Math Quest is a program that goes through each of the different types of problem solving strategies and the students earn points and fate card after they solve problems. 

Fourth Grade

• We have finished our intro into mysteries and will start reading "Sammy Keys and the Hotel Thief". Sammy is a middle school girl who can't stop trying to find the person who stole the $3000 dollars.  We have almost solved the "Chocolate Caper". We should know who stole the recipe by winter break.  Fourth grade has also begun Math Quest. Math Quest is a program that goes through each of the different types of problem solving strategies and the students earn points and fate card after they solve problems. 

Fifth Grade

• We are almost done reading the novel " Road Trip" the students are really enjoying the story and excited we will be reading the second book that follows it called  "Field Trip".  Our Road Trip project is progressing. the students are working on their travel game and their RV.  They will start planning their trip in a week or two. They will have a $1000 dollars to spend to go on a 7 day trip somewhere in the continental U.S.. I have had parents actually go on the trip during the summer.  Fifth grade has also enjoyed starting Math Quest. Math Quest is a program that goes through each of the different types of problem solving strategies and the students earn points and fate card after they solve problems. 

I plan to update this site every nine weeks with updates on what we are doing, pictures and any information you may need to know. 

All About Me!!

Hello everyone!!! I'm Ms. Frasse (Rhymes with  Sassy). I am one of the five Gifted Intervention Specialists for Beavercreek City Schools. I will be teaching at Fairbrook Elementary and Valley  Elementary this year. I have been teaching 35 years, 19 of them in Beavercreek.  I am a resident of Beavercreek and went through the Beavercreek school system, graduating in 1979 from BHS (Go Beavers!). I have two amazing boys, one lives and works in Tampa, Florida and one lives and works in Denver, CO.  My oldest son is married, working in finance, owns his own business and he and his wife have two beautiful little girls.  My youngest son is also in finance and enjoying all that Colorado offers.!   I am very proud of both of them and excited to be a grandma to the two cutest little peanuts. 

If you ever need to reach me, you may email me at cynthia.frasse@beavercreek.k12.oh.us , or phone me at  937-429-7616. I will post a monthly newsletter to my page so that you know what we are doing in class and any important events coming up.

Gifted Information

Curriculum

In the Beavercreek elementary schools, gifted pull - out services are provided to cognitively gifted 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students. A licensed gifted intervention specialist delivers these services in a resource room setting for approximately 225 minutes a week. 

The primary goal of the gifted curriculum is to address the gifted standards for creative/critical thinking and social/emotional needs as well as the power standards for Math and English Language Arts. This goal will be accomplished through a variety of extension and enrichment activities. These higher-level activities are intended to stretch the students' thinking skills and abilities. 

Policies

Following are the policies for gifted services:

Students will not miss their scheduled GRR time for classroom projects, tests/quizzes, or discipline issues unless prior arrangements (preferably 24 hours notice) have been made with the GIS.

Students are responsible for making up tests/quizzes and understanding content missed while attending GRR; however, they are not required to do any missed classwork. (Please speak with your child's teacher about how missed tests/quizzes will be made up and how missed content will be communicated.) Students will not miss recess to do make-up work.

No grades for gifted services are reported to the classroom teacher, and no gifted grades go on the student's report card.

Students in GRR must maintain at least a "C" average in their regular classrooms.

For more details about the gifted program, click here.

Testing

School wide testing for "superior cognitive" gifted identification occurs once a year in grades 2 and 4. Dr. Beth Sizemore is responsible for individual and small group testing beyond school wide testing. She can be reached at beth.sizemore@beavercreek.k12.oh.us. 

Click here to access forms for gifted testing and acceleration referrals.

Contact information: cynthia.frasse@beavercreek.k12.oh.us