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It has been another successful year of GATE classes! Have a wonderful summer, and I hope to see
you next year!
- Third grade students finished the year by presenting the mysteries that they wrote to be
solved by their classmates.
- Fourth grade students presented their last projects to their fellow students in class.
- Fifth grade TAG students learned how the crew of the Mimi found the Lost City of the Maya in
the jungle of southern Yucatan.
- Verbal students received their own copy of "Verbalogy", an anthology of the best work
from the Verbal students. Each school library also has one for their permanent collection!
For fifth grade students - if you'd like the address where you can buy the "Stories with Holes"
books, e-mail me and I will send it to you. I limit this to the fifth grade students because the
third and fourth graders wouldn't have any fun with the stories if they knew all the answers.
HERE IS A PUZZLE FROM MY VERBAL STUDENTS --
Think of words ending in "-gry". "Angry" and "hungry" are two of them. There are only three
words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone
uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.
ANGELA, A FIFTH GRADE VERBAL STUDENT, HAS SOLVED THIS PUZZLE. So have a couple of my other
students across the district:
The answer is "language".
It is the third word of the phrase "the English language". This version apparently originated in
1996. See more at http://www.fun-with-words.com/word_gry_angry_hungry.html
There have been other versions, that refer to obsolete words. Here are two:
Perhaps the answer to the original version of the puzzle was "meagry" (rare) (archaic) Meager
looking, or "aggry" - applied to a kind of variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture(as
in "aggry bead"). There are over 100 obsolete words that end in "-gry", and these two were in
use until fairly recently. However, since there is no longer a real answer to this, modern
versions of the puzzle have turned from being puzzles to being riddles. There are perhaps as
many as a dozen versions in circulation - each with a different answer!
FAVORITE QUOTE: I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
The Dollars for Darfur Website for East Brunswick:
http://www.savedarfur.org/page/outreach/preview/DFD-Middle-
School/EastBrunswick5thGradersAgainstDarfur
Here is a link to Scholastic Book's site, where you can list your grade level or topic, and it
will give you your own suggested reading list!
For those 4 TAG students who would like to see their HyperStudio projects at home, you may print
out your project in class. HyperStudio is no longer available online as a "read-only" product.
Verbal students can find reading lists on the Photos/Docs page.
For those who want to find out more about Gifted Education, I have added a link to the
University of Connecticut's NEAG Center for Gifted Education.
I have added a Power Point called "Flooding: April 16, 2007". These pictures were taken by my
daughter, who lives one block from the Delaware and Raritan Canal. We had that day off from
school because of the flooding in East Brunswick. We are near the Raritan River. I will share
this with my fifth grade classes.
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Some of my students have expressed concern for the people of Darfur who have been affected by
the warfare there. To sign a petition to "Support UN Refugee Agency Action in Darfur", please go
to: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/590536492?z00m=9412446
I have added a link on the "Links" page for the New Jersey Association for Gifted Children.
Their Web site is http://www.njagc.org/index.php. This is an excellent place for parents to
begin learning more about gifted children, and what resources are available for them. I
encourage you to take a look at this resource.
Fourth grade TAG students sometimes ask me where they can get a copy of HyperStudio for home
use. I have added a link on the "Links" page that takes you to where you can get a copy.
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