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Gifted Eligibility Testing 2012

Letters for students that are eligible for gifted testing have gone home and should be returned as soon as possible.  If you did not receive a letter your child is not eligible for testing at this time.  The testing window for gifted eligibility will be January 10-24 2012.  Students will be tested during the school day.  Letters stating eligibility or not eligible will go home after all testing is done.  If you have questions about eligibility pleas look at earlier months on my blog for eligibility information.  Thank you.

The End Has Come

The end of the first half of the year has come.  each grade did a magnificent job on their final presentations!  I am very proud of each and every one.  Remember that there will be no Target in the month of January due to testing.  An email will be sent with information about the units and target days for the spring.  Have a wonderful winter break and I will see you next year!

Report Cards

Target report cards will be given at your child's conference the week of Oct. 24-28th.  Included with the report card are descriptors of the process and performance assessments and the fall Target newsletter.

Target Open House Info

Please review the ppt if you were not able to attend Open House.

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Items discussed:

1. New Standards

2.  Expectations/Target Day

3.  Report Cards/Continuation Criteria

4.  Resources

The First Couple of Weeks

We have been busy in Target learning our new standards and identifying what we do each day to meet those standards. During Target Chatter we've learned about the many ways we are smart and how creative we are.  We used this information to create goals to work on throughout our units.  As a whole we will be working on elaboration (area of creativity) and being more word smart (more to come).  We are also reading the book Nerd Camp by Elissa Brent Weissman which is about a gifted student going to a enrichment program during the summer and he discovers from his stepbrother that he is possibly a nerd.  Will he ever be cool in the eyes of his stepbrother?  Or maybe his stepbrither is a nerd too.

Target begins the week of Aug. 22nd

Please be reminded that target will begin next week.  Our schedule is as follows:

Monday- Grade 4

Tuesday- Grade 5

Wednesday- Grade 3

Thursday- Grade 2

Please be sure that your child comes to class with all of his/her materials and don't forget to label each divider in their binder (see newsletter for titles). 

Upcoming Dates:

Aug. 23rd- 5:30-6:15 target Open House Blackwell ES room 201

Target Newsletter- Aug. 2011

It was wonderful seeing some of you during Sneak-A-Peek this morning.  If you did not come by this morning please see the attachments for our newsletter and additional supplies needed for our two units.  I will also send a hard copy home with your child on Monday. 

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Download Supply List for Fall Units

Welcome Back!

Welcome back to the new school year.  This summer went by so fast!  I hope that you had a fun filled summer.  I went to Ohio twice and then spent some time in Maryland and Washington D.C.  I have been reading several books over the summer and spent a lot of time swimming.  I can't wait to see all of your smiling faces!

Cobb County Policy on Gifted Eligibility

Please view the attached powerpoint to learn more about Cobb County's policy on gifted eligibility.  If you have any other questions please feel free to contact me at monica.hodges@cobbk12.org . 

 

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