Personality Owls....3rd grade!

G.A.T.E. has begun!

This week has been a great start to G.A.T.E. at AES!  I finally have seen all my students and have started classes!  I was ready to see my students!   I hope you will check our blog often because I will upload photos and short videos of our class activities.

Our essential concept this year is TALENTS!  We will be exploring different learning styles, completing interest inventories, and taking online personality tests to learn more about who we are, how we like to study, what our interests are, and how we can work with others to share our TALENTS to make a difference in our class, our school, our community, and for our future!

Fourth grade GATE students created "personality owls" this week to share a little bit about "Whoooooo they are!"   Third grade students will create these next week.  Enjoy a short slideshow of the kids and their creations.

Third graders had a "photo shoot" in class to take pictures for their Ambassador badges.  I have uploaded a short slideshow of our Ambassador pictures.  Enjoy.  Check back soon to see 3rd grade personality owls!

We will be exploring our talents through a variety of ways this year.  Students will have the opportunity to share their talents and express creativity through our drawing/writing journals, self-portraits, INSPIRE art contest, and our study of "Blue Dog."  Fourth graders will be our AES Tech Team creating high quality research technology projects, such as videos, podcasts, brochures, and keynotes.  Third graders are our "Technology Team in Training."  This year students will have the opportunity to use a MacBook in class to learn iPhoto, iMovie, iWeb, Pages, Keynote, and more!  Some exciting news.....we have a class set of iPads!!!  The students and I are so excited to have this up to date technology at our fingertips!

2012-2013 will be a great year for GATE! I am excited about all the possibilities that await my students and me!