WHAT ARE WE LEARNING THIS YEAR? 2018-2019 THEME - Exploration and Discovery Gifted Unit - Space; The Final Frontier
K-2 * Vocabulary building through Red Hot Root Words and reading complex texts to increase individual student Lexile scores * Problem solving through our Problem Solver Series: Figure it Out! and/or Math Rules. * Thinking Stations that provide opportunities for logical reasoning and creative thinking Tin Man Press creative thinking curriculum * Primary Education Thinking Skills (PETS) and mini-research units related to the animals and their habitats highlighted in PETS series * Introduction to STEM/STEAM through "STEM challenges", Lego First "Mission Moon" and STEM Field trips
P.E.T.S.
Primary Education Thinking Skills focuses on 6 characters who demonstrate different kinds of thinking skills, such as convergent thinking, divergent thinking, evaluative thinking, and visual/spatial perception. Students learn the different ways of thinking and analyze their own thought processes through this curriculum unit.
3-5 * Analogies (Verbal, Quantitative, and Non-Verbal) * Vocabulary Building through Greek and Latin roots study and reading complex texts to increase individual student Lexile scores * Problem solving (through The Problem Solver Series, Figure it Out, Challenge Math, and/or Math Rules) * Thinking Stations that provide opportunities for logical reasoning and creative thinking (Spheros, Robotics, Tin Man Press creative thinking) * Research/STEM Focus: Space; The Final Frontier, Lego First "Into Orbit", STEM Field Trips