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

2. 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

3. My Family

4. Mrs. Brown Bridge Valley: Monday thru Friday Grades K-6
“AT YOUR SERVICE” 
Bridge Valley:
Monday thru Friday
Grades K-6
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5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. Resources

14. 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!

15. 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.