This year Ms. Brownrigg will be teaching:
4th Grade Literacy
4th Grade Math
1st & 2nd Grade Enrichment
January 2012 / Happy New Year
We are on a roll!
After a busy 2011, we're off to furious start with 2012. h short stories and Zozobra activities, 4th
grade literacy is hard at work.
1st & 2nd Grade Enrichment students welcome new classmates and are preparing to do expert talks.
4th Grade Math students have set goals, begun planning and are working to complete the school year
by meeting Everyday Math/ New Mexico 4th grade math standards and exciting math projects.
Students have been working on math vocabulary terms from Unit 1 and Unit 2 to increase their math
vocabulary self-awareness.
Students are gearing up to do research on Math websites. They are practicing for the Winter Math DBA.
Students are increasing their multiplication fluency through timed quizzes each day. For 2012, the
timed quizzes have decreased from 60 seconds to 45 seconds.
4th Grade Literacy Students continue writing and responding to text and literature. They are focusing
on the revising process of writing as they write about their 30-day challenges.
APS GIFTED STANDARDS
Self Understanding:
* Understand nature of giftedness
* Personal responsibility for ideas
* Confidence in expressing ideas
* Recognizes strengths and differences
* Bibliotherapy
* Understanding giftedness
* Self acceptance
* Personal growth
* Understand nature of giftedness
* Personal responsibility for ideas
* Confidence in expressing ideas
* Recognizes strengths and differences
Thinking Skills:
* Compare and contrast
* Critical thinking
* Decision making
* Inductive reasoning
* Deductive reasoning
* Critiquing and evaluative skills
* Analyze various points of view
* Synthesize for new concepts
Interest Development:
* Introduction of new topics
* Wide range of interest
* Substantiates ideas
* Global awareness
* Research various historically important people
* Readings on selected topics
* Note taking for relevant information about topics Communication Skills:
* Discussion skills
* Written skills
* Oral skills
* Creative interpretation
* Organize ideas concisely
* Express ideas appropriately
* Build vocabulary
* Confidence in expressing own ideas
Creativity:
* Original plan and design
* Flexible thinking and planning
* Fluent ideas and oral skills
* Abstract Expressiveness
* Problem Solving Independence:
* Develop personal responsibility
* Improve self-reliance
* Evaluate knowledge of self
* Follow directions without adult intervention
Thinking Skills:
* Substantiate personal preferences and learning styles
* Clarify point of view
* Takes risks in thinking and in action
* Demonstrates flexible thinking Interpersonal Skills
* Takes personal responsibility
* Increase confidence in expressing ideas
* Empathize with others
* Promote leadership
* Build cooperative teamwork
