Katie Smith

Gifted Intervention Specialist-Dublin City Schools

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Congrats to these fourth graders who completed at the Youth Ohio History Day! They shared their exhibits on the Titanic, Punic Wars, the telephone, and the Declaration of Independence!

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Student teams used their interest to develop business models. They then went through the interview process and created resumes. Finally they presented their plans to the sharks and received offers! Collaboration and communication was essential in our Shark Tank project!

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Shark Tank in fifth grade Cog Workshop was a success! Student teams presented their business pitches and the sharks made offers! Thank you to my daughters and a Pinney alumni for being amazing sharks!

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What a joy to have our parents at our dress rehearsal for our plays in Cog Workshop. The students used expression and really got into character! Well done!

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Absolutely loved having our parents come watch our plays! The students wrote their own scripts, planned the set and costumes, and even made a Play Bill!

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Third grade students using critical thinking skills and collaboration to solve various puzzles = complete engagement.

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Practicing the plays we wrote on our own! Just a few more days until we perform for an audience!

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Working together to count the money collected this year for our See Kids Dream project! Next step- research community issues and interview organizations to learn how we can grant this money and help our local community!

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The math class earned their final piece on the Sudoko board and celebrated all their hard work this semester with a ratio Gimket party- including chocolate milk and M&M cookies!

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Loved building community in our first ever Panther dens!!!

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Helping 2nd graders think about tough situations and ways they can use optimism to make the best choice! Answer with positivity and then play the arcade game to catch the positive frogs!

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Concentration and time under tension to accomplish the task of this cardboard creation!

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Optimism arcade in action- knock down the bad thoughts and focus on the positive thoughts!

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Collaboration and communication were essential skills in our positive mindset arcade creations and presentation!

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We had the opportunity to share our positive thinking arcade games with 2nd and 4th graders!

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Student created arcade games that emphasize optimism and positive mindset!

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Presenting our bearded dragon research! We have a class pet bearded dragon so it’s important we know about these reptiles!

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Fifth graders composing parallelograms from two triangles to determine the area of triangles when compared to the area of parallelograms. Noticing why A=bh for parallelograms and A=1/2bh for triangles.

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Fourth graders sharing their travel journeys! The students determined places of interest to travel and researched about their selected location. They then created travel brochures, maps, and artifacts to represent and share the information they learned.

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Fifth graders thinking critically as they solve the 3D Skyscraper puzzle. Each row or column must have buildings of different sizes and a certain amount are visible in each direction. They had to think flexibly and determine what works. The aha moments were worth it!