AIG Update

Happy Friday everyone! Here’s some short notes about what’s happening in our AIG groups.

4^Th Grade

ASGReading

So we’re moving beyond our initial work with Junior Great Books. [Touchstones from this work have been sent home along with student work and a self-assessment of our work together.]

Our next assignment is to read our way through Neil Gaiman’s Coraline. Students have very manageable 30-40 page reading assignments per week. We’ll meet to discuss themes and greater questions from the novel. We will focus on the novel, not the movie! So if you haven’t seen the movie, hold off! Let’s finish the book first.

Here’s Gaiman on Coraline:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bghlhgKnm0

ASGMath

Our groups are evolving into math clubs, where the focus is on challenging material and how to solve it! We’ll be drawing from sources like “Math SuperStars” and “Challenge Math” to establish smaller ‘response groups’ that solve and present.

CSG (our aptitude / thinkers group)

We’ll be discussing Howard Gardners multiple intelligences and constructing PowerPoint presentations about our findings later this month. We’ve also taken time to discuss attributes and played the game “Set.”

5^th Grade ESG

Between workdays and field trips our schedule for presenting SuperHero work has been pushed back some. We’re looking to wrap up this month, with early finishers taking a role in videotaping presentations.  There will be  some videos becoming available via my blog next week:

http://aigpruett.blogspot.com/

3^rd Grade

Aptitude assessments are coming up later in the month. I’ll let you know an exact date when I have that information. Whole group enrichment has been interesting. I’m glad to get to know the students!

Thanks for your support of the AIG program!

Have a great weekend!