New Shirt
Order Information
Shirt orders are being collected now. Our new shirt is $12 and the first deadline is September 29.
Units of Study for this Year
This year I am going to focus on the following Big Ideas for each class.
3rd: Robotics and Circuits
Bee-Bots, Blue-Bots, Pro-Bots, Hummingbird Robotics, Cubelets, Drones Ozobots, Dash robots, We Care and Mindstorm Legos, Little Bits, Makey-Makey, Tesla, Smart Circuits, Doodle-Bots, and Pi circuits (to name a few).
4th: Coding and Creation
OSMO, Bloxels, Code Academy, Agent Cubes Online, Glogster, 3Doodlers, Creo-Pop Pens, 3D printing, video animation, design units Scratch, Tynker, MAD Learn app creation, Lego Education, and Google (to name a few).
5th: Business Planning and Cultures
Budgets and Inventory, problem solving in teams, scheduling, leadership skills, recipe science, business planning and simulation, food service health and safety, survey building, chess, land anguages and cultures (Italian, Chinese, German, Russian, Greek, and Egypt) (to name a few).
6th: Future City Planning and Engineering
OSMO, presentation skills and social media, Strawbees, Marble and Domino runs, Legos, Cardboard building, tuct tape creations, Microduino, engineering unit, Future City Planning, and SIM City (to name a few).
Combo: STEM and Rubik’s Cubes
Rubik’s Cube lessons, mosaics, and patterns, energy, life science, Earth Science, Space, development and design, construction, digital living, holiday STEM, machines, health, environment, communication, and nature (to name a few).
In addition to these big ideas all classes will continue with Microsoft Word, Web 2.0, Google, Kidblog, Typing Agent, the smoothie work, problem solving, STEM mini projects, and team building.
Class Dojo
I plan to use Class Dojo for my main communication with parents. Information on sign up will be sent home on the first day of class. Please be looking for the note.
Remind
3rd: @e4e29
4th: h2hbc9
5th: 9gd62k
6th : kcgcek
Combo: d439h
School Way
Sweetwater County School District #1 has the SchoolWay app. Community members may download this app to receive push notifications. Use the way code below to subscribe to the Gifted and Talented group. Directions for downloading the app may be found here: http://myschoolway.com/sweetwater
The WayCode for community members to add it is 73n20n.
Gifted & Talented is on Twitter.