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'Tis The season
'Tis The season
'Tis the Season!!! I love this time of year. Each year I ask my students to make or bring me an ornament to add to the classroom tree. Each year they get to put up all the ornaments they make or bring me throughout their experience in GT. Please be sure the students name in on the ornament.
I hope you all enjoy seeing the wonderful things your student is doing in GT LEAD!
First Grade
First Grade
First grade has been conducting Authentic Research. Students learned new vocabulary including hypothesis, descriptive research, sample, data, and impact. They learned about systematic sampling and its importance. As a class brainstormed questions and evaluated ideas using a rubric. As they learned about research and the impact it can have on a school or community we decided to contribute to Coach B and her gym. Student's counted the amount of ripped tape and created a plan to replace it and communicate to students not to pick it!
Second Grade
Second Grade
Second grade is rocking the Simple Machines unit. Students are researching types of simple machines. They will analyze cause and effect relationships. Students will finally design a system of simple machines.
Third Grade
Third Grade
Third grade is off to a wonderful start with 3D Discoveries! In this unit students will got to demonstrate their strengths in building. Students are now creating an alliteration piece about their creation.
. Lastly, students will use presentation skills to share their thoughts.
Fourth Grade
Fourth Grade
Detective school was AMAZING! Having real Grapevine detectives present to the students was an unforgettable experience for them. Students are now exploring oxymoron's and their meaning. They will reflect on a past mistake and what lesson it taught them.Students will write a detailed paragraph about a meaningful mistake they have made, create an acrostic poem to reflect their mistake and create a frame to hold their poem. Lastly, they will present their final product to their peers.
Fifth Grade
Fifth Grade
Geometric Wonders is WONDERful! Students have identified that tessellations show the arrangement of shapes that fit together in a repeated pattern, without gaps or overlapping. They will created 3 different types of tessellations, transitional, reflection and rotation. They learned that finding the sum of two preceding numbers in a series creates the Fibonacci Sequence and that this ratio is evident in nature and mathematics. They created their own masterpiece using the Fibonacci Sequence. Students will observe that fractals are never ending patterns that exist in nature, mathematics, science and art.
GT Challenge
GT Challenge
The GT Challenge will continue! I will continue to send home weekly math puzzles! If students complete the puzzles correctly they can get something out of my prize box! With that being said, I teach 6 grade levels and will need to replenish my prize box often! If you would like to donate anything to my prize box, my students and I would greatly appreciate it! I have added some ideas to my wishlist, however you can also choose items your student(s) would work towards!
GT and ASPIRE Testing
GT and ASPIRE Testing
Your student is already in the GT program and they DO NOT to be reassessed, they will continue the GT program throughout their schooling in GCISD. However, if you are interested in your student testing for the ASPIRE Academy the referral window will be Nov. 27-Dec. 15. We will not accept referrals after December 15. You can find more information about the ASPIRE Academy here. You will complete the Parent Permission to Test in Skyward (English and Spanish Directions).
Silver Lake GT Parent Referral Night
Silver Lake GT Parent Referral Night
If you are interested in information about the GT LEAD program or referring your student(s) to the GT LEAD or ASPIRE Program please:
Visit the Advanced Academics website for basic information
Attend the meeting, Dec. 5, 6:00-7:00 at the Silver Lake Library.
Bring your student’s ID number(s)
Schedule
Schedule
1st Grade Monday/ Tuesday 8:00-8:50
2nd Grade Tuesday/Thursday 11:55-12:45
3rd Grade Tuesday/Thursday 9:10-10:05
4th Grade Mon./ Tues./Thurs. 1:10-2:20
5th Grade Mon./ Wed./ Fri.. 9:45-10:45
Contact Me
Contact Me
Silver Lake Elementary: Danielle Waldo, GT Specialist
Email: danielle.waldo@gcisd.net
Twitter: velez_SLE_GT
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