Thank you for sharing your great ideas!
Isabell

On 10/02/09, GT Teacher wrote:
> On 10/01/09, Isabell wrote:
>> I am a retired K teacher. My principal has asked me to
>> take a one day a week position teaching gifted children.
>> I'll be working with grades 2 and 3 for half the day and
>> grades 4 and 5 for the other half day. There are no
>> curriculum guides or materials. Any suggestions would be
>> SO appreciated!
>> Thanks!
>> Isabell
>
> It will be fun - sounds like it can be wonderful enrichment
> time. What resources do you have? A laptop connected to a
> projector would be nice.
>
> What are your interests? I can feed you material but with no
> curriculum to follow, you can follow your bliss. What about a
> first unit entitled "Speaking Through Stone"? One of my
> favorites and we study public sculpture - who puts these huge
> and sometimes small monuments into our parks and by our
> highways? Why? How do they decide who gets a sculpture and
> what it will look like?
> Princeton New Jersey considered several versions of an Albert
> Einstein sculpture before letting the public choose one. You
> can access hundreds of public scupltures on line and the kind
> of 'out of the box' thinking that this is works well for GT
> children.
> And get some clay - after consideration of other sculptures
> intended to honor someone or some event, let them make one of
> their own. In fact, this 'unit' could cover two weeks.
>
> Consider the two monuments and the HUGE fight over them that
> are the memorials to those who died in the Vietnam War.
> There's a great documentary on it - I'm blanking on the name
> but it's certainly one the older children could watch. Which
> of those two represents the concept better? Consider also the
> huge fight over the new statue of Franklin Roosevelt and
> whether he should be portrayed as physically challenged or
> not.
>
> GT children have the ready ability to consider such matters
> and have strong opinions about them.
>
> For a start the above might work well - I've used it many
> times and every time it's been well-received by students and
> parents alike.
>
>

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