Age 8 or Third Grade
I am at a total loss when it comes to Third Grade. I can remember almost nothing about this year!! I remember I was in a team-taught classroom with Mrs. Sampson from Second Grade & a new teacher, Mrs. Robertson. I remember Mrs. Robertson had me say the ABC's backwards one day & I did it! I remember feeling a major surge of accomplishment. But literally, that is everything I remember about Third Grade!
I have thought & thought about this for the last week & I have nothing. So I decided to tell you a little about the Quest program I was in, although it may or may not have happened in Third Grade. I was in the Gifted & Talented group of students at my school. I was always ahead in things at school & so my mom had me test for this & I was placed in the program. Once a week I would go to another elementary school in our county & would spend the day with a group of about 15 students doing more accelerated activities. I remember doing things like logic puzzles or accelerated vocabulary. The word I remember in particular was loquacious. I always loved that word because it was a much cooler way to describe myself. I've always been a talker, but after the Quest program, I could say I was loquacious. So glamorous!
Ever since being in this program, I've always felt a desire to work with the gifted & talented students. I also have a special place in my heart & my lesson planning for the students who are struggling to keep up, but I was the student who was ahead & bored in the classroom. I think a lot of times students who are gifted are assumed to be other things like ADD or uninterested when really they are just beyond whatever level their activities are & therefore are bored. I think students need to be met where they are at - high or low. Lower students need some special attention to get them where they need to be & higher students need to be given activities that keep them engaged & interested & challenged. I remember being challenged in the Quest program & I remember loving every second of it!
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7 comments:
My daughter was in gifted and talented too. I never was, but I sure share your fondness for logic puzzles. I have spent hours doing them!
I was in gifted and talented too! I loved that program! I remember the cool programs we did dressing up as greek and egyptian gods.The awesome field trips! My daughter has ADHD and she is extremely creative and sharp.
Cool! I think you've jogged a memory for me for the fourth grade. I had no idea what to write about, but I think I'll write about a similar program at our school called SURE.
What a wonderful word for a kid to choose to describe themselves!
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Great word. I love "collecting" words like that. ;-)
Facetious is my fave "big word". :)
I remember our school having a Quest program too. I was never tested but I wanted to be because I thought I was smart enough for it. I remember being so jealous of the kids that were in it!!
Thats good though that this has given you a passion now to meet students where they are at like you said! I am sure you will make a great teacher just having that extra perspective!
Funny that the whole of third grade has slipped you by! You are doing pretty well to remember anything of primary school though, I think.
Love reading about the American school system (in your state). Ours is so different here in Aus, although we do have GAT programs too.
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