Author: Andria Hall

A.I.G. at O.G.

Issue 1

September Issue

Oak Grove Elementary School

Inside this issue:

What’s New
Remind 101
What are we doing? / S
Growth Mindset

Is it September already?!?!

Hello!!
It was great seeing some of you at our Parent Night on the 17th. If I did not see you, no worries! I am sending home your child’s DEP to have signed! Please send it back as soon as possible! DEP stands for differentiated education plan. It basically describes how gifted students will be serviced at Oak Grove.
Also we need parents who are interested in being apart of our Partnership Committee. It is for parents to meet and discuss ways involve other parents to support gifted education, form partnerships with stakeholders, how gifted services are offered at our site, and parent needs. This group will meet quarterly. Sign up today!
I hope your school year has been off to a great start! Please feel free to call or email if you have any ideas, concerns, or questions!
Ms. Hall
AIG Facilitator

Interested in being Part of the Parent
Partnership Committee?
Sign Up Today!!

Sign up for Remind 101!!
Remind 101 is an app that I can use to update you about projects, field trips, events, and homework through email! You can sign up by text message in two easy steps!
Enter this number: 81010
Text this message: @c0f24
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A. I. G. at O. G.

Oak Grove Elementary School
3810 Wake Forest Hwy.
Durham, N.C. 27703
Principal: Aisha Howard
Assistant Principal: Jennifer Halsey

A.I.G. Coordinator: Andria Hall
Phone: 919.560.3723
E-mail: andria.hall@dpsnc.net

Excellence is Our Expectation! We Won’t Settle for Anything Less!

http://www.oakgrove.dpsnc.net/
AIG info is located under Parent Info

Second Grade:
We have been working on story elements and reading Sylvester and the Magic Pebble. Students are creating their own stories that incorporates all story elements and has a moral. In math students are currently working on solving one and two word problems (using standard algorithm as well as number lines) and doubles. Students created a script of them explaining how to solve the problems and video taped themselves.
Fourth Grade:
We have been discussing theme and characterization based on the story “The Power of Light”. Students were able to role play and be interviewed as if they were one of the characters from the story. From that story it led us to learning a little about the Holocaust, which led us to our first novel study “Number the Stars”. In math our fourth graders are working hard solving math “Einstein” problems.
Fifth Grade:
We have been working on learning about segregation, folk tales, and illiteracy in America. All of this will lead up to our novel “Maniac Magee”. We have had one Socratic Seminar, which is a round table discussion. They did an awesome job! In math students have created 3 swimming pools. Each pool would need a volume of 4,000 cubic units and could not be rectangular prisms! It was tough but they came up with some great creations!

Growth Mindset
Our book study for AIG facilitators this year is all about a growth mindset. Having a growth mindset is a belief system that suggests that your intelligence can be grown/developed with persistence, a focus on learning and consistent effort. Our students are already smart, but lets instill a growth mindset. Let’s encourage them to grow even more! That’s where they will feel as though they can learn anything. It might take some struggle and some failure but they understand that with effort and perseverance, they can succeed! My goal this year is to challenge our gifted students to let them know that even though they are gifted they can learn and get smarter (even when the work gets harder)!