K - 5th Grade GT Packet May 11 - 21

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Kindergarten-5 Grade GT Packet Weeks 7-8: May 11-21

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GIFTED & TALENTED PACKET GT Packet for May 11-15 and May 18-21 Frenship ISD is providing our students in Frenship’s Gifted & Talented Program with OPTIONAL learning opportunities while we are practicing remote learning.

May 11-15: Students will choose 2-3 options on the NEW choice board attached.

May 18-21: Students will choose 2-3 options on the NEW choice board attached.

Our elementary GT program was awarded a mini-grant for the purchase of the Archaeology Dig Kits you will see on the choice board. We would like to say thank you to the Frenship Foundation for Leadership for the award and to further enrich our students.

If you have any questions, GT students or parents can email their school’s GT teacher.

Bennett & Upland Heights

Legacy & Westwind

Donna Branch

Taylor Nelson

dbranch@frenship.us

tnelson@frenship.us

Crestview & Oak Ridge

North Ridge & Willow Bend

Jared Kitchens

Tanya Carder

jkitchens@frenship.us

tcarder@frenship.us

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GIFTED & TALENTED PACKET

Embark on an archaeological adventure to discover Egyptian treasures!

Be sure to read the historical fun facts! (application, analysis, elaboration)

DIG KIT

TIME CAPSULE (originality, elaboration) You are living through history right now!

Preserve your memories in a time capsule! This is something fun for the whole family!

(available at packet pick up only) Complete the Archaeology Field Log page 4 as you dig!

Extra challenge: Create a story about the discovery of the Egyptian artifacts from your dig kit. Choose one of the artifacts and research it more in depth to include in your story.

JUSTIFY YOUR THINKING! (Critical thinking/problem solving)

WOULD YOU RATHER

Have a human body and an animal’s head OR an animal’s body and a human head?

For more questions like this, see the attached page 5.

Can you create your own “Would You Rather” questions?

(Social/ Emotional)

GROWTH MINDSET

Try something NEW Here are some examples: • • • •

Learn a new card trick Learn how to play a musical instrument Learn how to play a sport Learn how to cook a new recipe (with an adult)

Activity: Draw a picture or take a picture and post it on SeeSaw showing you trying something you have never done before!

This activity can be completed on pages 6-11 included in the packet. Be creative with your time capsule.

Examples: sarcophagus, pyramid, cat statue

CULTURAL SCAVENGER HUNT (fluency, flexibility,originality, elaboration)

Find 1 or 2 items around your house to fit 5 of the

CULTURAL CATEGORIES we studied this year!

Art/Architecture Fashion/Beauty Technology/Inventions Music/Entertainment Holidays/Tradition Government/Nationality Heritage/Ethnicity Beliefs/Religion Language/Communication Food/Drink (this one’s too easy-- try to find food from another culture) (Pick any 5 – It’s ok if you can’t find them all!)

Mummies in the Morning

(analysis/reference/ synthesis/creativity)

Read Aloud

Activity 1: Using a shoebox, or other box from home, construction paper, and other materials; create a diorama of a scene with a pyramid such as the one that Annie and Jack visited. Make the scene as detailed as possible so that it looks like it belongs in the story.

Activity 2: Create a cartouche out of play-dough or homemade clay (2 cups flour + 1 cup salt, then add 1 cup water slowly)

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Ancient Egyptian Archaeology Field Log Sketch your excavation block here before you begin:

Choose 2-4 artifacts to sketch and label:

Choose 1 artifact to draw and come up with 3 new uses for it.

List your discoveries:

Choose 2-4 other artifacts to sketch and label:

Choose 1 more artifact to draw and come up with 3 new uses for it.

Analysis, synthesis skills are being applied for Excavation Egyptian Dig activity – Additional challenges are on the Choice board

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Would you rather‌ 1

take a one week trip to the foreign country of your choice

or

take a four week trip around your own country

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play on a baseball team that always wins but always has to play in the rain

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play on a baseball team that always plays in sunny weather, but also always loses.

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be the best player on a team that always loses

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be the worst player on a team that always wins

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be banned from all computer use for a year

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not be allowed to eat any desserts or sweets for a year

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be able to control the weather live in Narnia

or or

be able to talk to animals attend school at Hogwarts

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be given $1,000 right now

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be given $50 a month for the rest of your life

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be a famous actor

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discover the cure for cancer

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be incredibly wealthy, but never fall in love or get married.

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have a happy marriage but be poor

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have many friends, but no close friends

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have just one or two close friends

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have bright blue teeth lose one arm be able to fly

or or or

have bright blue hair lose one leg be able to turn invisible

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get to take a shower every day, but you have to take a cold shower

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only get to shower once a week, but you get to take a hot shower

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Not be allowed to eat your five favorite foods for an entire year

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Be allowed to eat only your five favorite foods for an entire year.

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have a very strict teacher, but learn a lot

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have a really nice teacher but not learn much

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have a friend that was really fun to be with but not very nice

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have a friend who is kind of boring but also very kind

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have a job that you hate, but that pays you millions of dollars a year

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have a job that you love that pays you just enough to get by

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have one eye in the middle of your head like a Cyclops

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have two noses

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be given a $1,000 dollars

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have the charity of your choice be given $10,000 dollars

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YOU ARE LIVING THROUGH HISTORY RIGHT NOW

DRAW A PICTURE OF THE PEOPLE YOU ARE SOCIAL DISTANCING WITH HERE PAGES BY LONG CREATIONS

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I AM

MY FAVOURITES

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HOW MY FACE LOOKS

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HOW ARE YOU FEELING?

INTERVIEW YOUR PARENTS

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