WINTER WEATHER ALERT FOR GOOGLE MEETS:

Students will have a Challenge Google Meet for one hour on their normal Challenge Day.
On each of my Google Classrooms, there is a meet link on the stream. Students "join" via the link provided. If, for whatever reason, I am not in the meet after 10 minutes, the students are excused from that meet and I will send directions as soon as possible.
Homeroom teachers are aware of the times for Challenge meetings.
Fourth graders' Google Meet is from 8 am - 9 am: Carter and Rhodes on Mondays; Boyd, Danko and Vile on Wednesdays.
Fifth graders' Google Meet is from 9:10-10:10 am: Fallis and Gioia on Tuesdays; Kozmic and Waddell on Thursdays; and Arvidson and Erro on Fridays.
Third graders' Google Meet is from 12-1 pm with Batson's and Ramsey's students on Wednesdays.

Welcome or welcome back to Challenge at Bell's Crossing Elementary! We welcome Mr. Cvammen. (pronounced: Kwoman) He will work with two of our third grade groups on Fridays as well as going into some second grade classrooms! I will teach a third grade group and all of the fourth and fifth grade groups. I will work in some second grade classrooms, too!

In Challenge we try. If that doesn't work, we try something new.

Feel free to peruse my website!

Elementary GT RESOURCES:

GCS Advanced Academic Programs Overview of GT Criteria, Identification Timeline, and Programming

Qualification Criteria

Elementary Challenge Program

Look below for the monthly news:

Challenge Syllabus.pdf

Please enjoy our fourth grade bridges from last year!

Bridges of 2025 Leonard’s Challenge Classes

Please access the folder below for updated information for parents throughout the school year:

2025-26Qualifying for Challenge

BCES_VirtualMeetTheTeacher_KBrownChallenge

Please have your student access Challenge information via Google Classroom. All Challenge work will be available in that space. I will also try and post some "extras" to keep those gifted minds engaged!

The Art of Learning to use a Chromebook for eLearning

NEW to Challenge? Check out these DIRECTIONS for preparing for class!

Midsummer Night’s Dream.MOV

Third grade Challenge students created mini puppet shows from scenes of A Midsummer Night's Dream Read Aloud. We used a green screen app.