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December 2009
GATE Survey Now
Available:
GATE Parents are asked to take the GATE survey
during the month of December. You can
find a link to this survey on the GATE webpage.
Your input is very important to us. Thank you so much for your time.
5th
Grade Explorer Theme Park Project Open House is set for Tuesday, December 8th from
5:00-6:00 at Wayside Elementary. We hope
everyone will stop by and take a look at these creative projects.
4th
Grade Renzulli Projects have been
awesome. Look for student project
evaluations coming home in December.
About half of the students have presented their projects and the others
will present the first or second week of December.
3rd
Grade Habitat Projects
are almost finished. Each student
created a new species and has them posted on a private blabber website. You can find the GATE 3rd Grade
projects at
login: gate09
password:
student
We are in the process of uploading these to the
blabber site and they should be available by December 10th. You will need to save this login and password;
they are not available to the public.
2nd
Graders have been learning PowerPoint and will be
presenting their projects to the class during December. Any parent wishing to have a copy of their child’s
PowerPoint may send a blank cd with the child’s name
on it or it can be sent by email if requested.
DISTRICT SCIENCE
FAIR date:
March 5, 2010
(Friday)
District Science Fair forms are available on the
GATE webpage. Participation in the
District Science Fair is optional.
*Note: The
GATE 5th grade students will be required to do a GATE science fair
project which will be due February 22nd and 23rd. We will have a public viewing of the GATE
science fair the evening of Feb. 23rd.
GATE Web Page: www.bps-ok.org/gate
Thank you so much for sharing your children with us.
Teresa Underhill Todd
Rhoades Linda Key
underhilltd@bps-ok.org rhoadesta@bps-ok.org keylh@bps-ok.org