FOCUS/Thinking Skills:  Gifted identified students go to FOCUS daily, during their Intervention block. Students will receive instruction that extends the core content areas and provides opportunities to use higher-level thinking skills to problem solve and use critical thinking skills.  

Gifted Cohort:  Students are placed in a class with a gifted certified teacher and other classmates that have been identified as gifted learners, as well as other high ability students. Students learn their grade level AKS and the teacher will implement learning standards to meet the needs of high ability learners.

Talent Development: This class serves to support creativity and talent development for Kindergarten students. During the daily Intervention block, students will develop a deeper conceptual understanding of the content, divergent and convergent learning opportunities, and strategies to increase metacognitive learning so that students better understand their own thinking and creative abilities.

Kindergarten Thinkers Toolbox

Math: Addition, Subtraction, Number Formation

Language Arts: Beginning and Ending Sounds, 10 Dot Book

Critical Thinking: Sequencing, Patterns, Logic Puzzles, Lab Mice, Blokus, Shut the Box, Tangrams

First Grade  

Science:  Research project comparing and contrasting the needs of plants and animals and discovering how specific plants and animals have made a positive impact over time. 

Math:  Using deductive reasoning to solve math logic puzzles and problem solving tasks. 

Language Arts: Conventions, Vocabulary, Grammar, as well as research notetaking in a Google Document and creating a slide presentation using Google Slides.

Critical Thinking: SET Game, Lab Mice, Balance Benders, Mind Benders, Noodler Puzzles, TOPS, Math Analogies, Breakout EDU

Second Grade

Social Studies: Research project identifying the problems living organisms are having in the Chattahoochee and Savannah Rivers and comparing/contrasting the problems these living organisms are having in both rivers. Lastly, students will decide which living organisms have the most significant problems. 

Math: Using deductive reasoning to solve math logic puzzles, Continental Math League Problem Solving practice.

Language Arts:  Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics, as well as research notetaking in a Google Document and creating a slide presentation using Google Slides.

Critical Thinking:  SET Game, TOPS, Visual Thinking, Math Analogies, Balance Benders, Mind Benders, Link Winks, Noodler Puzzle, Breakout EDU

Third Grade

Science:  Research project on Plant and Animal Habitats in the Georgia Atlantic Ocean and Brazil Atlantic Ocean. Students are discovering what problems plant and animal habitats have had over time in each region and comparing/contrasting these problems. Lastly, students will decide which problems have had the most significant impact on the regions.

Math: Using deductive reasoning to solve math logic puzzles, Continental Math League Problem Solving practice.

Language Arts:  Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics, as well as research notetaking in a Google Document and creating a slide presentation using Google Slides..

Critical Thinking:  SET Game, TOPS, Visual Thinking, Math Analogies, Balance Benders, Mind Benders, Link Winks, Noodler Puzzle, Breakout EDU

Fourth Grade

Science:  Research project on the Solar System. Students are discovering how the composition of planets and galaxies have changed over time as well as comparing/contrasting their similarities and differences. Lastly, students will decide whether plantets or galaxies have had the most significant changes over time.

Math:  Using deductive reasoning to solve math logic puzzles, Continental Math League Problem Solving practice.

Language Arts:  Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics, as well as research notetaking in a Google Document and creating a slide presentation using Google Slides.

Critical Thinking:  SET Game, TOPS, Visual Thinking, Math Analogies, Balance Benders, Mind Benders, Link Winks, Noodler Puzzle, Breakout EDU

Fifth Grade

Science:  Research project on the changes over time in Earth and Mars surface.  Students are discovering how Mars and Earth's surface changes are similar and different. Lastly, students will decide which planet surface has experienced the most unexpected changes and what problems they have caused.

Math:  Using deductive reasoning to solve math logic puzzles, Continental Math League Problem Solving practice.

Language Arts:  Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics, as well as research notetaking in a Google Document and creating a slide presentation using Google Slides.

Critical Thinking:  SET Game, TOPS, Visual Thinking, Math Analogies, Balance Benders, Mind Benders, Link Winks, Noodler Puzzle, Breakout EDU