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Welcome to Pine Run PEN

Welcome to Pine Run PEN. Please find your child’s PEN folder and a pen Please feel free to introduce yourself to other PEN parents and enjoy refreshments! . Welcome to PEN. P rogram for EN richment. T onight’s Meeting:. Introductions 2009 ~ 2010 PEN GIEP

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Welcome to Pine Run PEN

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  1. Welcome toPine Run PEN • Please find your child’s PEN • folder and a pen • Please feel free to introduce yourself to other PEN parents and enjoy refreshments! 

  2. Welcome to PEN Program for ENrichment

  3. Tonight’s Meeting: • Introductions • 2009 ~ 2010 PEN GIEP • Sign NORA ~ (place in grade folder) • General Information • Off you go!

  4. Mrs. Pam Pensabene 11th year in Central Bucks 15 years in the Primary and Elementary Classrooms Central Bucks Parent Actively Involved!! Warwick Elementary: Mondays, Tuesdays, & Wednesday am Pine Run Elementary: Wednesday pm, Thursdays, & Fridays

  5. Gifted Individualized Education ProgramPACKET • GIEP: Invitation on top-Page 1 (info) - Page 2 (present levels - Pages 3 and 4 (grade level “Goals and Outcomes”) • Yellow pages NORA and Notice of Parental Rights • Please fill out the personal information and sign the NORA then place in the grade-level folders as you leave. Please keep the bottom copy of the NORA. Thanks! • Please note that all the papers in the folder will go home except 3 copies of the NORA.

  6. PAGE CENTRAL BUCKS CHAPTER • Goals • Provide Education & Advocacy • Link Parents • Support • Meetings • Fall: October 26th Bronwyn Duke & Alyssa Walloff • Winter: January 25thJim Loguidice • Spring: (Date TBA) Peg Solitario

  7. CONFERENCES • Group GIEP meeting each fall – PEN Back-to- School Night • Fall Conference & Spring Portfolio Conference Days • Individual or IST meetings or PEN teacher’s discretion • Parental request - phone or face-to-face meeting

  8. Endurance Learning • Open-ended: • No single answer • Arguable • Require reasoning • Doorway: • Lead to “BIG” ideas Essential Questions • Generative: • Spark inquiry & raise other questions • Recur: • Can and should be revisited

  9. Second Grade • Detective Science • Bridges Mr. Bear Day Tour of Bucks County Bridges • Scratch:Computer Programming

  10. About Scratch is a new graphical programming language designed to support the development of technological fluency. Scratch differs from traditional programming languages in several ways: Allows Wide Range of Projects Games, art, stories, music, dance…. Building-Block Programming Eliminates syntax errors Easy Sharing of Projects Over Internet and mobile devices Connection to Physical World Supports multiple design experiences Manipulation of Multiple Media Connects with youth culture Tinkerability Allows playful experimenting with program fragments Scaffolds for Powerful Ideas Makes concepts (such as variables) more tangible and manipulable http//scratch.mit.edu

  11. Third Grade • Cultural Universals: Ancient Civilizations Princeton Art Museum • Architecture Walking Tour of Doylestown

  12. Fourth Grade • Creative Problem Solving • Invention Convention • The Brain • Colonial America

  13. Fifth & Sixth Grade • Archaeology • Dig at Honey Hollow • Future Studies & Create a Culture • 6th Grade Robotics & Computer • Programming with Scratch

  14. CROW CANYON - Grade 6 • Archaeology Center Experience • Cortez, Colorado • July 31st to August 7th & August 7th to 14th • Cost last year was approximately $1,850 • Informational Meeting: Tohickon Middle School Library on: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 7:00 P.M.

  15. SIMULATED SITE - CAN YOU DIG IT? D:\P808001.jg D:\P8080021.jpg D:\P8080021.jpg D:\P808001.jpg

  16. At the Dig Site

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

  18. Thanks for being here tonight! "When parents and teachers collaborate on behalf of children; they create windows of light for the generations that follow." Unknown

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