During the first semester, 3rd Graders participate in "Explorers" lessons. The first several sessions focus on preparing all students for the CogAt (the AIG screener assessment given in October and November, by track). Once testing is complete, Explorers moves to online virtual one on one sessions to help identify talented students. We leverage technology to increase the learning of each student.

ELA

This year's theme for ELA AIG is "The Journey" as we explore our world using a variety of texts. We also have a strong year-long focus on mindset and motivation as it is one of our goals to empower students to understand their gifted mind and how to use it to reach academic and social/ emotional goals. Students are learning to comprehend texts with depth and complexity. Students will practice reading texts using multiple comprehension lenses: Big Ideas, Details, Unanswered Questions, Language of the Discipline, and Across Disciplines. Be sure to ask your kiddo about using different lenses while reading!

Math

Instruction revisits concepts taught in the regular classroom, enriching content a couple weeks after it is introduced in the general education classroom. To start the year, students are building on their knowledge of data, graphing, and question types. They are researching careers and developing questions that elicit categorical and numerical data. They'll use technology to turn those questions into a survey for their peers, generate survey data, and choose appropriate graphs to represent their data.

ELA

This year's theme for ELA AIG is "The Journey" as we explore our world using a variety of texts. Students are learning to comprehend texts with depth and complexity. We are beginning where we left off in 4th Grade with our Depth & Complexity lenses by learning how to read while considering: Multiple Perspectives, Ethics, Rules, Relationships Over Time, Patterns, and Trends.

Math

Instruction revisits concepts taught in the regular classroom, enriching content a couple weeks after it is introduced in the general education classroom. To start the year, students are building on their knowledge of data, graphing, and question types. They are researching careers and developing questions that elicit categorical, numerical, and change over time data. We will consider perspective and how survey questions can be written to manipulate data. They'll use technology to turn those questions into a survey for their peers, generate survey data, and choose appropriate graphs to represent their data.