6th, 7th
and 8th Talented and Gifted
NOTICE!!!
Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008
– 6th Grade Thinking Cap Quiz Bowl – After school - this will take
at least 1 hour and we have purchased 3 team disks. Contact Mrs. Cassidy as soon as possible if
you are in 6th grade TAG and are interested in the contest.
WE ARE SIGNED UP
Classes
Students will work on a Video Production, Newspaper
assignments, KEYB – 108 radio broadcast, as well as their regular assignments,
during the Computer Rotation class throughout the year.
Field Trips
The first field trip will be to the OmniPlex
to watch a movie “Hurricane on the Bayou”.
After School Activities
Any 7th and 8th grade student wishing
to compete in the “Thinking Cap Quiz Bowl”, need to
sign up in Mrs. Cassidy’s classroom.
Students will complete a timed quiz and the results will be sent in to
be entered into the competition. The
competition will be Wednesday, April 23rd at 3:15 in Mrs. Cassidy’s
classroom. The test is no longer than
one hour.
If students want to make a video from a play, speech, or
something they have written (and I approve) about Oklahoma and the history of
Oklahoma, Veterans’ Day, Presidents’ Day, Martin Luther King Day, etc., they
may work on this after school for 40 minutes Monday – Wednesday in Mrs. Cassidy’s classroom.
Another project
students’ may work on is the Future City Competition. For
this competition, students will need to sign up before 11-10-06 and be ready to
devote many hours of after school time to this project – check out the web site
to find out how much involvement students will be required to give.
Another project student’s may wish to
work on is the “ThinkQuest”
competition. Students need to go to this
site and then study the “Recent
Winners – ThinkQuest International 2007”. After checking out all the winners and
competitors, students will then study the Rules of the Contest. Once they have completed each of these
activities they will form into groups of 5 to 6 students and begin researching
and deciding the type of site they want to build for the competition.
Students’ may
participate in the Exploravision
Competition. Students interested
will need to read the rules and complete the entry process.
Still, another project students may work on is the Heritage Week
Competition – the entry deadline is October 12, - in order to mail in the
project we will need to mail by October 10th.
Students may compete in the Law Day
Competitions (Due Dec. 14th).
Compete in the Oklahoma
Mathematics League – registration due by December 15th -
Note to students and
parents
Any student who is not eligible will not be able to attend a
field trip, work on an extra curricular project, or participate in any
activity.
Students can watch Oklahoma
Centennial Stories
Students may try the Brain Twister and see how
informed they really are.
Read and study some of
these Awesome
Stories.
Students may play
games at The Space
Place.
At the end of each
class students (if time allows) will select a different Interactive tutorial to
study.