Intermediate Elementary Grades

There are two ways in which gifted and talented services may be offered:

Placement within a self-contained gifted and talented classroom ALL day or,   Through "pull-out" by coming into the self-contained classroom for a specific period of instruction in the student's identified area of giftedness.

Students in third, fourth, and fifth-grade are provided accelerated instruction in the four core subject-areas:

Language Arts
Students are introduced to both the process skills of critical/analytical reading and the foundation skills and concepts of written and oral language.

Mathematics
Student explore the vast mathematical spectrum by investigating basic, as well as advanced, mathematical concepts and applications.

Science
Students are introduced to BOTH the process skills of the scientific method and the foundation science concepts of life, earth, and physical science.

Social Science
Students are given an opportunity to examine their community, state and country within a humanities framework.