In this issue:

What’s Happening in Hi-Cap? 1

Enrichment 1

Young Writer’s Conference 2

Wax Museum

Professional Development

Opportunity

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3

Highlights 4-5

Hello Teachers, Parents, Students and Sequim Community;

Yikes! Where did March go? March was such a busy month in Hi-Cap so I’m combining the March and

April Newsletter to share all the highlights of what was and what’s to come.

The elementary enrichment students “played with their food” by manipulating pretzel sticks to

practice reasoning strategies with geometric shapes.

The final testing and identification for the 2015-2016 school year took place and was completed. All

parents of referred students received notification by mail during spring break. Permission to serve and

appeals documentation was included.

Thirty-three Hi-Cap students attended the Young Writer’s Conference at Peninsula College in Port

Angeles on March 22nd. The all day conference hosted two authors, several writing sessions, and

focused sharing sessions.

The fourth and fifth grade Hi-Cap students hosted a WAX MUSEUM to celebrate their learning and

research writing about inspirational people.

I hope you all enjoyed your spring break. Please don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions. I look

forward to hearing from you!

Warmly,

~Robin Forrest~

W h a t ’ s h a p p e n i n g i n h i - c a p ?

4/1: Hi-Cap Testing Results Mailed Home

4/4-4/8: ~Spring Break~ No School

4/13: Wolf Pack Watch

4/21: No 4th/5th Pullout Class due to SMS early release

6/20-6/21: Summer Teacher Workshop

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Students used “hands on” manipulating of pretzels to problem solve. Utilizing the work of Marcy Cook, students were encouraged to discover patterns and experiment with numbers and shapes to arrive at solution sets. Students were

expected to maintain an open mind, be curious, explore, and think divergently. And they got to eat pretzels!

E n r i c h m e n t

Testing is closed for the

2015-2016 school year.

Hi-Cap Testing

2015-2016

Remember: Gifted students are

gifted all day, everyday. Not

just for one hour once a week.

Robin Forrest

Hi-Cap Coordinator/Teacher

rforrest@sequim.k12.wa.us

(360) 582-3561

Highly Capable students in grades first through sixth were invited to the Young Writer’s

Conference at Peninsula College on March 22. Thirty-three students attended along with ten parent

chaperones. We were inspired by two guest authors, Suzanne Selfors and Stephanie Guerra. Students

shared prepared manuscripts and participated in a focused writing lesson. It was a wonderful learning

experience. A special thank you to the AMAZING chaperones who helped make this experience so

worthwhile. See highlights on page 5.

www.stephanieguerra.com www.suzanneselfors.com

The fourth and fifth graders had a wonderful time hosting a WAX MUSEUM

of past and present inspirational figures. We had an AMAZING turn out with

Disneyland-like lines out the door. Thank you to all those who attended! The

students worked incredibly hard to make this event happen. Each student

researched an inspirational person, wrote a research paper, created a presen-

tation board, and dressed and posed in character. Student wax figures would

“come alive” when their button was pushed to give an informational speech to

the guests. See highlights on page 4.

If there are any teachers who would like to host their own WAX MUSEUM

research project and would like my templates and rubrics, I will post them on

the shared drive for you (teachershare/SMS/Forrest_Differentiation). Please

message me since I have additional print resources that may be helpful.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR: THERE WILL BE NO 4TH/5TH HI-CAP

PULLOUT ON APRIL 21ST DUE TO SMS EARLY RELEASE.

Highly Capable

Professional Development Opportunity

Save the Dates

June 20th and 21st, 2016

8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Olympic Educational Service District 114

105 National Avenue N. Bremerton, WA 98312

Lisa Van Gemert http://www.giftedguru.com/

Lisa is a frequent conference keynote speaker, facilitator of educational and business professional development, expert consult to television shows, and author of articles published in magazines and peer-reviewed journals. Au-

diences love Lisa’s message of doing every-thing easier and better through smartification, using a combination of neuropsychology, peda-gogy, humor, technology and sheer fun.

Laurie Westphal

http://www.giftedconsultant.com/

After teaching science for more than 15 years, both overseas and in the U.S., Laurie Westphal now works as an independent gifted education and science con-sultant nationwide. She enjoys pre-senting staff development on low-stress differentiation strategies, working with teachers to assist them in planning, and authoring menu resource books to meet the needs of advanced students.

SPACE IS LIMITED! RSVP to Robin Forrest, Sequim Hi-Cap Coordinator ASAP:

rforrest@sequim.k12.wa.us (360) 582-3561

Sample Breakout Sessions:

Creativity Prescription

Resource-o-Rama

Pre-Assessment with Purpose

Differentiation Made Easy: Low-prep Potpourri

Executive Function Skill Development

Menus for the K-2 and 3-5 Classroom

Menus for the Secondary Classrooms including Science, Math and Humanities

Featured Presenters Include: Lisa Van Gemert & Laurie Westphal

WAX MUSEUM

Brad Evans Kyrie Irving J.R.R. Tolkien J.K Rowling Sacagawea

Inbali Iserles Beverly Cleary Rick Riordan Marie Curie Shane Dawson

Florence Nightingale

Che Guevara Bill Gates

George Lucas Johnny Depp William Bradford Kevin Love LeBron James

William Shakespeare William Clark

Anna Petrovna Maria Anna Mozart Albert Einstein Rosa Parks Nikola Tesla

Julie Andrews

Young Writer’s Conference 2016