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General Math Enrichment, or GME, and do not forget about KEY!

Hi, you have reached the web page of, Laura Lee, math enrichment teacher for grades one through three at South School and a few grades two and all of grade five at North School. I am also the KEY teacher at North School.

I can be found soaring the halls of South School most on Mondays, Wednesday and

all-day Friday. I am down with the Bears every other Monday Morning, Wednesday until 11:00 and all day Tuesday and Thursday! The easiest, fastest way to reach me due to my nomadic schedule is BY EMAIL.

My email is llee@londonderry.org!

Expectations

My classroom expectations are that all children work on our PBIS expectations of

Respect, Responsibility and Safety.

At Both Schools, Executive Functioning skills will continue to be developed. My goal is to work on helping students learn solid active listening skills!

I also encourage children to try their very best! I believe when children find solutions to problems on their own through the use of strategies and skills taught, confidence is developed.

My goal is to develop active,engaged learners!

KEY

The KEY program is an enrichment program offered to those children that demonstrate

creativity, task commitment and academic ability.

We look at a variety factors in determining a

readiness for the KEY program.

These factors range from classroom teacher evaluations, work habits, personal traits,

a student created project and the scores from the OLSAT test.

All of these components get mixed together and the outcome is a group of self motivated, creative learners that are ready to delve deeper into a variety of Language Arts materials.

This years's KEY class meeting schedule is as follows:

Tuesdays are for 5th Grade KEY classes!

Rheault/Carballeira/Wienberg will be from 1:10-2:05

Currier/Haarlander/Gustavson will be from 2:05-3:00

Thursdays are for 4th Grade KEY classes!

Deignan/Francoeur/Martinez will be from 1:10-2:05

Rael/Raymond will be from 2:05-3:00

2013 NEW APPLICANTS TO KEY 2013

Students in 3rd and 4th grade that recieved a total higher than 2.9 in 3rd grade, and 3.9 in 4th grade in the Total Reading Language Arts Equivalancy on the 2012 IOWA will be recieving a letter from the school to try out for KEY.

Applications will be mailed home the week of 1/28/13 and due back NO LATER than 2/6/13.

The Otis Lennon School Ability Test (OLSAT) will be administered on February 12,2013. We are having these test machined scored which takes about 4-6 weeks. On return of results, we will send out RECOMMENDATION LETTERS as to whether or not your child will continue with the application process.

We expect to have those letter sent our no later than the week of 4/8/13.

Included in with you letter is the student packet giving you and updated timeline and guideline to charactersitics found in complete quality projects. Students should select a topic,hobby or interest and create a unique, interesting, multi-dimentional project that they will present. They should love what they are doing, and it will show when they present. Almost any idea, or combination of ideas is acceptable for projects! If students have questions they should see me at school and discuss with me their concerns!

Those students being recommended to continue with the process will meet

with me to review the project on the week of 4/15/13.

All Student Projects are DUE ON 5/28/13 at 9am.

Upon completion of the Student's Independent Projects acceptance letters will be sent home.

These letters will be sent the week of 6/3/13.

I appreciate all the students who took the risk and tried out for the KEY program!

DestiNation ImagiNation

I am also the school district coordinator for the award winning DestiNation ImagiNation program. I can be reached at the number and email listed above. Last year we 20 teams throughout the district. Of the 20, 2 teams attended Global final competition in Knoxville,TN.

www.londonderrydi.org

for more information and our HIStory!

What is D.I.?

For those of you who are unfamiliar with the D.I., it is a creative-problem solving program that is composed of up to 7 members and 2 parent managers. The children work on long and short term challenges throughout the year. This program helps build creativity, develops teamwork, and allows students to take risks and try all sorts of solutions to the challenges they face.

This is a hands-on program for children!

The adult managers are given tools and strategies to help develop teamwork, implement learning styles and talents,plus strategies of compromise and time-management that will assist your developing team. Adults MAY not get involved in the PROCESS of creating a solution as this is deemed "interference" and will penalize the team.

This is a hands-off program for adults!

Interference is a HUGE NO-NO!

Any idea, prop, costume where anyone has made or had input in to is not a usable solution

One way to assist without Interfering!

Manager has students' brainstorm what adults,teacher etc... that MIGHT be able to teach them a skill, and why students may want to ask that person for help learning a skill set. HOWEVER, kids must have the IDEA to ask that adult to show them,teach them a skill. Kids can then take that skill and apply it to their ideas. Posting this brainstroming session each week at meeting to keep session fresh....is fine!

Not Interference:

ie. Sewing

"Teammate John knows his Grandma has a sewing machine and could teach the team or a few members how to sew. John then asks Grandma to teach them how to use the machine and sew. Grandma shows kids patterns, machine and teachs them on scrap material. Kids then apply this skill to making their own patterns and sewing their own costumes."

KID GENERATED IDEAS AND SOLUTIONS.

Please contact our district coordinator Eric Melanson at emelanson9@aol.com

DestiNation ImagiNation of Londonderry

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