Gifted Education News
Bloomingdale Elementary School
Volume 1 Issue 2
School Mission:
To ignite a passion for Effective Learning Continues in Bloomingdales
learning and teaching
at high levels.
Gifted Resource Classes
School Vision: Our students have truly
From school to the enjoyed this past marking
world: All students period in their Gifted Re-
prepared for pro- source Classes. First grade
ductive futures. students have completed
the main part of their unit
entitled Plants. They
will continue with the
Lets Remember growing process by using
Our Bear lima beans in class experi-
ments. They will also be
Necessities: moving into a new unit
this marking period enti-
Be Prepared to Learn tled, Animal Kingdoms.
The second grade stu-
Expect Excellence dents have been learning
about the culture of
Accept Responsibility China. They will begin
creating student products
Respect Everyone that will include designing
Show the Golden Rule
Fourth & Fifth Grade Students Become Keen
Investors in the Georgia Stock Market Game
Points of Interest
The fourth and fifth grade
January 8, 2016 gifted students have recently
completed the Georgia
Report Cards Issued
Stock Market Game. The
January 9, 2016 competition involved building
a hypothetical investment
Student EXPO at portfolio by researching pub-
licly traded companies, read-
Savannah Mall
ing business publications, &
January 13, 2016 by crunching the numbers to
buy stocks. Each team
School Spelling Bee started the competition with
January 14, 2016
STEM Night at School
Winter 2016
a dragon costume. The and worked on solving prob-
third grade students have lems in our Hands-On Equa-
been researching various tions Unit. The fifth grade
historical figures and then students completed assign-
completing writing pro- ments on primary and secon-
jects and PowerPoint dary resources, reflected on
presentations to share this acquired information in their
valuable information with Metacognition Journals, com-
their class. The fourth pleted lessons in the Hands-
grade students have re- On Equations Unit, and con-
cently completed their ducted research into various
unit entitled, Acid, Acid, topics for the Social Studies
Everywhere. They Fair Competition. Several
tested the pH levels of fourth and fifth grade stu-
various solutions, partici- dents are also reading novels
pated in a real world and writing questions in an-
problem-solving scenario, ticipation for Georgia Book
created ph charts, de- Awards Media Quiz Bowl
signed cartoons using sci- Competition in May.
ence terms and concepts
$100,000 and then they ing with public /private school
learned to buy and trade teams at both elementary and
stocks and mutual funds listed secondary grade levels. Out
on the NASDAQ Stock Market of 165 teams in Georgia, we
and the New York Stock Ex- had teams that placed 23rd,
change. Each team worked 32nd, and 34th respectively.
together each week to evaluate Bloomingdales top three
their portfolios. The goal was teams include: The Gifted
to possess the highest equity in Geeks & the Duck, XOE
their portfolios at the end of Scorpions, & The Mod Squad.
our competition. Our students Congratulations to all of our
did a wonderful job of compet- students!