Welcome to Bridge Valley’s PEN Back-to-School Night 2017-2018 Program for Enrichment

About Mrs. Brown 19th year in Elementary Education 3rd Grade: 3 years 4th Grade: 5 years 12th year: Gifted Support Education College of New Jersey Masters in Art of Teaching University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education Leadership Certificate in Gifted Education

My Family

Mrs. Brown Bridge Valley: Monday thru Friday Grades K-6 “AT YOUR SERVICE”  Bridge Valley: Monday thru Friday Grades K-6 267.893.3700 x1488 lbrown@cbsd.org Website: http://www.cbsd.org//Domain/949

Weekly Schedule Kindergarten Pull-out/Push-in support Grade 1 @ 1 hour/week Grade 2 2 hours/week Grades 3 – 6 2.5 hours/week

Weekly Schedule K – 4th Grades First Grade Thursday 9:00-10:00 Second Grade Wednesday 9:30-10:30 and Friday 11:30-12:30 Third Grade Monday 1:00-1:45 and Thursday 10:15-12:30 Fourth Grade: Tuesday 10:00-11:30 and Thursday 12:50-1:50

Weekly Schedule 5th & 6th Kelly/VanZant Howley/Ziska Johnston/Foreman Monday 10:10-11:05 and Wednesday 1:45-3:15 Howley/Ziska Tuesday 1:45-3:15 and Friday 10:10-11:05 Johnston/Foreman Monday 2:00-3:00 and Wednesday 11:30-1:00 Moyer/Wyss Tuesday-11:45-1:00 and Thursday 2:00-3:15

GIEP Review Meetings Annual GIEP meetings: date varies for each child If you’d like me to sit in on your child’s conference with his/her classroom teacher, please let me know closer to the date. I will do my best to accommodate all requests. 6th Grade Transition GIEP Meetings in June of each year

First and Second Grade Creativity/Logic Power Up: Tinkering Study of the Simple Machines and Mechanical Advantage Cardboard Challenge: Build an Arcade Game that utilizes working simple machines. Detective Science Logical thinking Problem solving Solving mysteries Experimentation Mr. Bear Day: Wednesday, January 24th at BV

Third Grade Game On! Architecture Intro to game design History of gaming Game mechanics Create your own game Architecture Study of architects and types of architecture Design a family vacation house Walking Tour of Doylestown Wednesday, October 18th Rain date: October 25th

Fourth Grade Creative Problem Solving/Inventions The Brain Identify a problem and solve it with an invention Much of the year is about collaboration and problem solving as a team Invention Convention in May: Tuesday, May 8th at Cold Spring Elementary The Brain

Fifth & Sixth Grade Robotics Goal Time Robot programming Lego Challenge C the Future, B the Change! District wide Robotics Challenge Location and date TBD Goal Time Passion Project Independent study Students work to meet GIEP Goals

Resources www.giftedpage.org www.hoagiesgifted.org

You are vital to the success of PEN If you have special connections to any of our Units of Study please let me know how you would like to help!

Thanks for being here! Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain.