W e love to read and write poetry in the Gifted Resource Program, and this year, we congratulate three of our students for winning first place in the Kyrene School District poetry contest for their grade levels. We studied Benjamin Bloom's Taxonomy of Higher Order Thinking Skills, and put that new learning into practice. Groups of two or three students read a primary level book and developed a Literature Unit Packet containing questions using Bloom's Higher Order Thinking Skills, a vocabulary list from the book, writing activities, an Internet connection, and a fun sheet. The class was divided into two groups, the Seismologists and the Volcanologists. Each student researched one disaster and created a web page.
Curiosity has it's own reason for existing.
I nventive Genius was our first research project for this school year. Each of the fourth and fifth grade students researched an inventor, wrote a report, made an oral presentation, and created a web page. On these pages, you can read about the lives of nineteen creative minds. Check out Mrs. Sunda's Summer Links for a wide variety of web sites that are both fun and educational. Also, for those of you going on to Middle School, see the Summer Reading List for some great books arranged by genre.