1st Grade- Pull out based on teacher recommendation. Lessons from P.E.T.S. (Primary Education Thinking Skills) Level 1 and The Center for Gifted Education at the College of William and Mary Unit Beyond Words part 1.
Lesson#1- Dudley Lesson #2-Deductive Reasoning w Mary Lesson #3-Isabel the Inventor Lesson #4-Inventive thinking w bubbles Lesson #5- Spare Parts Lesson #6- Sybil the Scientist Lesson #7- Scientific Pairs Lesson #8- Curiosity Caboodles Lesson #9- Yolanda the Yarnspinner Lesson #10- Stupendous Statements Lesson #11- Making News/Radical Riddles Lesson #12- Max the Magician Lesson #13- Make Max reappear Lesson #14- Hat Strings/Tangrams Lesson #15- Jordan the Judge Lesson #16- What Should We Buy? Lesson #17- College of W&M "Fog" Lesson #18- W&M "Cobbler, Cobbler" Lesson #19- W&M "Moon Poems" Lesson #20- W&M "Dream Maker" Lesson #21- W&M "Change" |
2nd Grade- Pull out based on teacher recommendation. Lessons from P.E.T.S. (Primary Education Thinking Skills) Level 2 and The Center for Gifted Education at the College of William and Mary Unit Beyond Words part 2.
Lesson#1 Dudley, "Favorite Games" Deductive Logic and Reasoning Lesson #2-Sybil, "Dudley's Blocks" Analytical thinking through Venn diagrams Lesson #3- Dudley, "Fall Cleaning" Convergent and deductive reasoning with analysis. Lesson #4- Isabel, "Cloud Spinners" Inventive side of divergent thinking, brainstorming, seeing ordinary objects in unusual ways. Lesson #5- Yolanda, "Word Pictures" Divergent thinking, brainstorming, adding richness to creative writing. Lesson #6- "The Marvelous High-Flying Kite" Divergent thinking, SCAMPER process. |
3rd Grade- Push in 1Xmonth per class. Lessons: The Gifted Center at the College of William and Mary. Units include Jacob's Ladder, Journeys and Destinations, and P.E.T.S. . Additional puzzles geared toward gifted students may also be used.
Sept. Lesson #1- The Wolf and the Lion by: Aesop (Literature Web= W & M) October, Lesson #2- Yolanda, Skeletal Sentences (P.E.T.S.1) November, Lesson #3- Yolanda, Good News! Bad News! (P.E.T.S.1) December, Lesson #4- Yolanda, Poetry with onomatopoeias! (P.E.T.S.1) January, Lesson #5- "Force fitting" Nouns and Verbs (#2PETS) February, Lesson #6- Nursery Rhymes in Disguise (#2 P.E.T.S.) or The Mystery of Harris Burdick (W&M) March, Lesson #7- The Memory String (W&M) April, Lesson #8- The Hamburger Method May, Lesson #9- Diamante Poem (W&M) |