AIG+Calendar

AIG Progress Reports will go home with the 4th and 5th grade student's report cards. Thursday, November 7, 2013 Report Cards will be sent home.

AIG Calendar
 * 2014-2015 School Year....Welcome Back**

Welcome Back to Pine Valley Elementary School 2014-2015

 * September 2013** : 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades: September 17, 2013 is Constitution Day! The Constitution was signed on September 17, 1787! We will compare and contrast The Constitution with Pine Valley's 5 School Wide Expectations: Responsible, Respectful, Safe, Kind, and Healthy!

September 8 - 12. We will complete student interest inventories, discuss the 2014-15 Battle of the Books competition, discuss Math program options, and offer Chess Club information to students who are interested.
 * Identified 4th and 5th AIG grade students** will begin push-in classes with Mrs. Flowers the week of


 * Third Grades Classes:** Mrs. Flowers will begin the weekly push-in format with each third grade class during September. We will focus on **OWL**: Organized While Learning, a graphic organizer (Thinking Map) to help third graders become better organized! The Constitution of the United States will be compared/contrasted will Pine Valley's 5 School Wide Expectations. Students will sign a third grade classroom "Preamble!"


 * Third Grade Testing:** All third grade students in New Hanover County Schools will take the **DAP-IQ** on Monday, September 22th. This is the "Draw a Person" nontraditional standardized test. The DAP-IQ is the mass screener used in New Hanover County to begin to "hone-in" on possible gifts and talents.


 * DAP-IQ Parent Informational Meeting:** An Alert-Now phone message will be sent to parents of all third grade students to inform you of the time and date for this years informational meeting. You will be invited to meet with Mrs. Flowers, Pine Valleys Gifted Specialist.


 * 2nd, 1st, and Kindergarten:** The K-2 Nurturing Program in New Hanover County Schools provides critical thinking skills to students in a whole class format. PETS "Primary Educational Thinking Skills" is the resource that is used. Individual students observed over time who exhibit higher level thinking skills, may become a Talent Pool, a small group of students who come to the Gifted Resource Room for "thinking" activities. This usually occurs doing the second half of the school year.


 * Six characters** help students with a special thinking strategy.
 * Dudley the Dectective** teaches Deductive Logic, **Sybil the Scientist** teachers Analytic Thinking, **Max the Magician** teachers Mental Manipulation of Shapes, **Yolanda the Yarnspinner** teaches Creative Thinking, **Isabel the Inventor** teaches Inventive Thinking, and **Jordan the Judge** teachers Judging.


 * Kindergarten PETS:** Introduces the thinking skills through activities and questioning strategies aligned to a wide array of kindergarten-level trade books.
 * PETS 1**: Introduces the six characters, each with a special thinking strategy, through a variety of problem-solving activities.
 * PETS 2**: Develops the thinking strategies further. The characters **blend** their thinking skills to work together to solve problems.
 * PETS** 3: Provides more complex challenges for expanding these problem-solving strategies in the young learner.

Thanks, Doris H. Flowers Gifted Specialist doris.flowers@nhcs.net