In this video, boost your superpowers of calm and focus by breathing as Puffer Fish keeps time. Try playing this mindful game when you are overly excited or are in a meltdown. It is also helpful to play this game when you feel already feel relaxed to build the muscles of calming down in more stressful situations.
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Website for Parents
SENG (Supporting the Emotional Needs of the Gifted) is a nonprofit network of people who guide gifted, talented, and twice-exceptional individuals to reach their goals intellectually, physically, emotionally, socially, and spiritually.
THe SENG website is loaded with resources to help parents and educators guide gifted children. By joining SENG, members can register for online SENGinars, join a parent support group, and have access to the SENG library.
https://www.sengifted.org/
Book Recommendations
Gifted Kids Survival Guide: 10 and Under
An updated, informative book examines the problems of gifted and talented students and explains how they can make the best use of their educational opportunities, get along better with parents and friends, and better understand themselves.
Gifted Kids Survival Guide: Teen Handbook
Written with help from hundreds of gifted teenagers, this handbook is the ultimate guide to surviving and thriving in a world that doesn’t always value, support, or understand high ability. Full of surprising facts, step-by-step strategies, practical how-tos, and inspiring quotations, featuring insightful essays contributed by gifted teens and adults, the book gives readers the tools they need to understand giftedness, accept it as an asset, and use it to make the most of who they are. Teens learn the facts about giftedness, including:
- what “giftedness” means (and doesn’t mean)
- the truth about IQ, tests, and testing (and four reasons why tests can’t be trusted)
About the Author
Award-winning author and publisher Judy Galbraith, M.A., has a master’s degree in guidance and counseling of the gifted. A former classroom teacher, she has worked with and taught gifted children and teens, their parents, and their teachers for many years. In 1983 she started Free Spirit Publishing, which specializes in Self-Help for Kids® and Self-Help for Teens® books and other learning resources. Judy is the author or coauthor of several books, including The Gifted Teen Survival Guide, When Gifted Kids Don’t Have All The Answers, What Kids Need to Succeed, and What Teens Need to Succeed. She has appeared on Oprah and has been featured in Family Circle and Family Life, as well as numerous other magazines, newspapers, and broadcast and electronic media. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota
NAGC Parent Resources
As you get to know your sensitive, energetic toddler, watch your 10 year struggle to fit in at school, or agonize with your high schooler about multiple college choices, you may wonder why your child seems different from other children. Is your child gifted? If yes, what next? NAGC works to provide you the tools you need to help your child succeed.
Advice from William Schlitz, father of Haley Taylor Schlitz, on raising a gifted child.
#38: History of Plastics
Plastic is not just used for milk jugs and bottles of soda…it’s EVERYWHERE! Watch the video below about the history of plastic and then do some further research on something specific mentioned in the video.
Spark your thinking!
1. Set up your social studies mini spark recording page: #38: History of Plastics
2. Watch this video. Record the names of plastics along with dates that they are invented, if mentioned.
3. Choose 2 questions to answer after watching the video. Remind your teacher that the answer key can be found in the social studies mini spark folder.
- Who invented celluloid, and in what year did this invention occur? Describe the characteristics of celluloid that made it unsuitable for billiard balls.
- What two substances were combined to create Bakelite, and why was it considered an improvement over celluloid?
- List at least three types of plastics that were developed after Bakelite and briefly describe their uses.
- Explain the process of the manufacturing technique was invented that allowed for rapid production of plastic items?
- How did the production of plastics change during World War Two?
- Discuss some of the environmental issues associated with plastic production and usage as mentioned in the video.
4. Check out Jeff Kirschner’s TED Talk. Learn more about the environmental impact of plastics and other litter and how solutions as being spread around the world.
The task for this step is to record the cities or countries Jeff Kirschner says in the video on your recording sheet. There will be 6 in total. ***Note: The last two places mentioned at the very end of the video. They are cities, and they both start with H.
5. Look over your list. Scroll to the bottom of this post to see if you have them all recorded. Put a star next to those that you can find on a map easily. Put a check by those places that you need to look up. Use a map to find those places. Change your checkmark to a star..
6. Share your social studies mini spark recording page with your teacher/EY coordinator.
Oakland (mentioned a few times)
China
San Francisco
Amsterdam
Honolulu
Hanoi
Blackout Poetry Contest
According writersdigest.com, a blackout poem is when a poet takes a marker (usually black marker) to already established text–like in a newspaper–and starts redacting words until a poem is formed.
If you’re not familiar with blackout poetry, this 5ish minute video provides a good overview.
You can also “Google” blackout poetry” and find a plethora of images/examples.
Contest Rules
- Create a blackout poem. You can use a newspaper, magazine, book that you own (the EY Team has some to choose from), etc.
- Submit your blackout poem by Wednesday, October 14 using this Google Form link: https://forms.gle/VDQZYLexB6uwxivX6
- Prizes will be awarded! Good prizes! You should definitely do this contest!
#37: International Dot Day
International Dot Day is on September 15th. There are so many ways to celebrate that dot 365 days a year! A dot might be small, but it’s a powerful way to show your unique individuality and creativity.
1. Set up your STEAM mini spark recording page: #37: International Dot Day
2. Get started exploring the dot by watching “The Dot” by Peter H. Reynolds. What is the message of the book? Record your answer on your recording page. Use at least 3 sentences.
3. Go to wonderopolis and read about how this day is celebrated in classrooms. Take the did you get it quiz and add your score to your recording page.
4. Listen to the song, the Dot. What things do you do to encourage others, show persistence, and spread positivity. Write 3-4 sentences about this on your recording page.
5. Timed Creative Challenge. Have an adult or a friend print this challenge sheet you. Don’t look at the challenge until you are ready to get started. You need a pencil or colored pencils and a timer set to 3 minutes. Turn the challenge over and read the directions. Start your timer. When you are done add a picture of your drawings to your recording sheet.
OPTIONAL STEPS
6. Create a dot on a piece of paper. You can use markers, crayons, paint, or colored pencils.
7. Animate your dot. Use the app Chatterpix Kids. Launch Chatterpix Kids. Snap a photo of your art, then add a talking mouth. You now have 30 seconds of recording time to talk about your dot!
8. Save the Chatterpix Kids video onto your camera roll, then share it with your teacher.
9. Share your STEAM mini spark recording page, your dot challenge and your Chatterpix with your teacher/EY coordinator.
Check out the Dot badge on the EY Website.
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20-21: Weekly Challenge #3 – Cardboard Box Challenge
We can’t wait to see what you create! When you’re ready to submit your creation, use this link: https://forms.gle/Jg8JCezSdmDzyQiq7
20-21: Weekly Challenge #2-Kitchen Challenge
What’s Cooking?
This week’s EY Weekly Challenge has you cooking up something in the kitchen!
For this Weekly Challenge, please choose one of the following options:
- Ask a grandparent, relative, parent(s), etc. for a family recipe. Is it something you always have at a holiday gathering? Something only prepared on a special occasion? Submit a family recipe along with an explanation of its significance to you/your family.
- Make something in the kitchen and take a picture/video of the process and/or final product. Make sure your creation has a name and that you provide the ingredients necessary to make your recipe. Make sure to get an adult’s approval first before you start.
Google Form Link: https://forms.gle/RzHSWDHtnonnRvFu7
Image Source: https://www.clipart.email/clipart/kid-chef-clipart-33460.html
Weekly Challenge #1 Highlights
Wow! Over 80 mask submissions for our first Weekly Challenge!
Thank you all for submitting your fun, fashionable, functional and fitting mask designs for the first EY Weekly Challenge! Each week, we will pick out a few of our favorites to highlight.
Calista from Loveland went the fashionable route for her mask. Check out the reversible Halloween mask that her and friend Katie sewed themselves!
Whitney from Rockbrook sewed a mask with her Grandma. The pleats make for a functional and comfortable fit!
Click here to see Whitney’s mask.
Logan from Loveland went the functional route with cooling fans and a zipper for eating and talking.
