My 11 yo's good news
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My 11 yo's good news
She was accepted into the gifted and talented program at school in the area of language arts. It's called PACE (Program for Academic and Creative Extensions). She had to take a reading comprehension test and bring in 3 samples of her best writing. She even knew where these were in her room! She took in the permission slip and the writing samples.
This means she can participate in extra challenges above and beyond her regular class-time.
Here's what I found on the school district website:
MIDDLE SCHOOL
The middle school PACE program provides numerous opportunities for a variety of enrichment experiences. Programming includes subject area enrichment and extensions, assessments, and field observations. Students are provided program area experiences focused on identified areas and PACE teacher/student goals.
Some examples of the PACE curriculum experiences are as follows: field observations involve the Footlights Series at the John Michael Kohler Art Center, archeology dig, and genetics and biology labs at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Instructional content area extensions are provided in math, literature discussions, analogy challenges, current and historical events. Subject area opportunities include workshops in leadership, writing, the arts, and science.
The PACE learning experience for most PACE students at the middle school (as well as the high school level) will be different than it was at the elementary level. Involvement in PACE begins to be more student driven than parent driven or teacher driven. Your child will fill out a list of activities he’d like to participate in at the beginning of the year. Your child will also have several new extracurricular activities available at middle school. These activities include school plays, talent shows, middle school clubs (such as art club, school newspaper), after school athletics such as basketball and track, etc. Every student gets to participate annually in the geography bee. There are Maywood outdoor survival field trips offered to science students.
For the musically gifted child, band, symphony and chorus meet several times a week. And your child can try out for jazz ensemble (which, e.g., practices before school at Urban) and participate in the solo and ensemble festival in March. Several concert field trips are offered each year. For the artistically gifted, art classes are offered regularly. There is usually a hands-on field trip to the John Michael Kohler Art Museum every year. There is also an extracurricular art club at Urban. For the gifted in math, the PACE teacher works with advanced 6th graders weekly. Some middle schools are involved in Math Counts math meets and every middle school participates in the Lakeland College Math Meet. For the theatrically talented child, a play is put on at Urban and Horace Mann each year.
That is very cool news!!! Congrats to her...and you too for being a great mom!
That is great..
Thanks, you mean all that reading and countless numbers of workbooks when she was little are now paying off? My kids loved workbooks in their preschool and early elementary years. They went through them FAST, too!
What I would like to know is why my mom never wanted to believe me when my kids started reading? She always thought they must have memorized the book and were saying the words from memory. (just a sore point!)
I remember this dd being able to read the word "sunflower" in the newspaper without any other visual cues as to what the word was. To me that was reading! LOL!
That is so wonderful! You both should be proud
CONGRATS TO BOTH OF YOU!
That great! Congratulations to both you and your dd!
Congratulations! That is just so exciting. I just get all bubbly inside when I see a child getting excited about learning.
Congratulations! Wonderful news!
What wonderful news!!! Congrats to your dd!!
Awesome! Wonderful!!!! Congratulations....
That is great Dawn ! You and your family must be very proud of DD.
Thanks everyone. We are very proud of her.
What an achievement!!
WAY TO GO!!!
Thanks, Bea!
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