SEMINAR OPEN HOUSE

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Pennell Penguins Go Back to the Future!

Welcome Thank you for coming! Thank you for all the supplies that were sent in. Stop me if you have any questions. Feel free to help yourself to refreshments. Restrooms are across the hall and to the right. I have a draft copy of the Seminar Directory for you to

review. Take a minute to check that your information is correct. There are still a few blanks. Please sign or initial on the last column.

I am currently backed up with GIEP paperwork. Thank you for your patience.

Seminar Target Zones: Thinking Skills, Creativity Skills, Research Skills, Presentation Skills, Team Building & Communication Skills, Higher Level Thinking Skills

What are PCPs? (Third, Fourth, and Fifth Grades)

You Tube

I am Gifted; teachertubeSPED; 4:37

Outside of the Box Gifted Learners; 1paul17; 5:39

Seminar Students K-5

First - 0 Second - 13 Third - 21 Fourth – 17+1 Fifth – 19 Math - 10 Total – 71+3

Aston – 31Pennell – 20Parkside – 9Coebourn – 10Holy Family – 1

PDE – Gifted Educationhttp://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/gifted_education/

7393Chapter 16 Regulations BECs for Gifted Students Monitoring Schedule for Gifted Education GIEP Team Meeting Gifted Education Forms Frequently Asked Questions

PAGE www.giftedpage.org

The mission of PAGE is to advocate for mentally gifted children by working with parents, teachers, administrators, policy makers, and the community to meet the diverse needs of gifted learners.

The Annual PAGE Conference is scheduled for April 30th and May 1st. It will be held at the Villanova University Conference Center.

Seminar Field Trips

Five seminar field trips were submitted for approval in September.

NO seminar field trips have been approved by administration at this time.

Seminar students will have the opportunity to attend field trips upon further review.

SECOND GRADE UNITS THIRD GRADE UNITS

Countries and Cultures Map Skills Continent Highlights Cultural Folktales Cultural Arts International Games &

Puzzles Independent Research Passports Presentation &

Celebrations

Medieval Times Life in Medieval Europe Heraldry, Armor,

Weapons Calligraphy, Illumination Chess Craft Guilds Black Death, Medicine

Flight and Rocketry Helicopters Paper Airplanes Butterflies Rockets

SECOND GRADE THIRD GRADE

Field Trip:Philadelphia Museum of Art – Around the WorldApril 23rd , 9:00 to 2:00$7 students/$16 adults

Country Fair:Wednesday, May 27th 12:40 to 2:40 Pennell Library

Field Trip:Philadelphia Museum of Art – Medieval CollectionDecember 4th, 9:00 to 2:00$7 students/ $16 adults

Archery Lesson/Middletown Archery ($10-$12 student)November 12th & 18th (half class)

Feast Set-Up – Wednesday, March 11th after school/eveningFeast – Thursday, March 12th, Pennell Library; 6:00 to 8:00pm

Take Flight Day – Monday, June 1st , 12:40 to 2:40 Pennell Gym

Fourth Grade UnitsArchitecture and Bridge Building Terms & Vocabulary Blueprints Research Building Activities Gingerbread Houses Paper Bridges K’Nex Bridges

Inventions & Robotics Why do we invent/The inventive process Flow Charting/Rube Goldberg/Simple Machines Why do we use robots Take Apart Day/How things work Why zany ideas are important & copying is not always bad

Fourth Grade Dates Gingerbread Houses – Friday, December

19th Tentative Architecture Night –

Wednesday, March 6, 2013; 6:00 to 8:00pm

Tentative Washington, DC trip – Thursday, April 9th (Cost will run about $100-$120 student/chaperone combined)

Inventor’s Expo – Thursday, June 4th ; 12:40 to 2:40, Pennell Library

Fifth Grade UnitsModern & Contemporary Art & Self Discovery Self portraits What does abstract mean? Surrealism/Op Research Project

Elementary Chemistry/Mystery Powders Laboratory Skills, Unknowns Deductive Reasoning using Observation, Lab Tests, and

Inference

Ancient Cultures, Archeology, Created Cultures Ancient Culture Research Project What is Archeology? Created Cultures/Dig 2

Fifth Grade Dates Dig (Library) February 4th, 12:40 -2:40 Field Trip: Modern Art at the Philadelphia

Museum of Art – March 26th; 9:00 to 2:00 Art Show & Presentations – May 6th ;12:40

to 2:40 (Pennell Library)

Sixth Grade Honors MathUnits:Models You Can Count On – completed Lunch Out ProjectExpressions & Formulas – current unitFraction Times (some student may test out)OperationsComparing QuantitiesDealing With DataFacts & FactorsReallotment Flooring Project

Math Each unit consists of one unit test and two

quizzes All units will be pretested to check for prior

mastery. (Last year most students were able to test out of one or two units.)

We will spend time working on math materials that are covered on the fifth grade PSSA. Students will be prepared, confident, and ready.

There will be two to three projects assigned throughout the year. Lunch Out is hanging in the hall.

Math Each month math packets will be assigned.

They are due by the end of the month. Students that need help on the packet need

to ask for assistance. I can work with individuals or groups.

All grades may be improved until the end of the marking period.

Monthly open ended problems come from the Franklin Institute Website.

Next year students will have seventh grade honors math with Mr. Kaufhold. They will be in class together along with some 7th graders.

Open-Ended Math Problems

This site is for the specific purpose of preparing Middle School students for OPEN-ENDED problem solving on standardized tests. We have divided each month into the five strands from the Philadelphia math standards:

Number Theory Measurement Geometry Patterns, Algebra, and Functions Data, Statistics, and Probability There are three levels of difficulty for each

standard.

The LineBirbal was jester, counselor, and fool to the great

Moghul emperor, Akbar. The villagers loved to talk of Birbal’s wisdom and cleverness, and the emperor loved to try to outsmart him.

One day Akbar, the emperor, drew a line across the floor. ______________________

“Birbal,” he ordered, “you must make this line shorter. But you cannot erase any bit of it!”

Everyone present thought the emperor had finally found a way to outsmart Birbal. It was clearly an impossible task. Yet within moments the emperor and everyone present had to agree that Birbal had made the line shorter without erasing any part of it.

How would this be?

Answer

Birbal simply drew a longer line next to the first one--- which made the first line shorter than the second.

________________________________ (Longer)___________________ (Shorter)

Thank You for the opportunity to learn with

your children!