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Gifted Program

Our Perkins Gifted Team! 

Anne Ware & Ilyse Fisher

 

 

Fisher and Ware with Albert Einstein Lego

This year, our learning will launch with a focus on Space, Story, and Structure.

Together, we’ll journey across dimensions—both real and imagined—as we explore how stories are built and how ideas transform. One highlight of our adventure will be reading A Wrinkle in Time, where we’ll travel through space and time alongside unforgettable characters, uncovering deeper truths about identity, courage, and connection.

 

Throughout the unit, students will engage in accelerated content, dive into creative and thought-provoking activities, and take on differentiated challenges that build critical thinking and spark curiosity.

 

Get ready for a year of exploration that’s out of this world!


Your two amazing and creative teachers are Mrs. Ilyse Fisher and Ms. Anne Ware.

Attached are the teacher wish lists if you would like to donate toward this year’s adventures:

 


 

High Achiever

Remembers the answers

Is interested

Is attentive

Generates advanced ideas

Works hard to achieve

Answers the question in detail

Performs at the top of the group

Responds with interest and opinions

Learns with ease

Needs 6-8 repetitions for mastery

Comprehends at a high level

Enjoys the company of age peers

Understands complex, abstract humor

Grasps the meaning

Completes assignments on time

Is receptive

Is accurate and complete

Enjoys school often

Absorbs information

Memorizes well

Is highly alert and observant

Is pleased with his own learning

Gets A’s

Is Able

Gifted Learner

Poses unforeseen questions

Is curious

Is selectively mentally engaged

Generates complex, abstract ideas

Knows without working hard

Ponders with depth and multiple perspectives

Is beyond the group

Exhibits feelings and opinions from multiple perspectives

Already knows.

Needs 1-3 repetitions for mastery

Comprehends in-depth, complex ideas

Prefers the company of intellectual peers

Creates complex abstract humor

Infers and connects concepts

Initiates projects and extensions of assignments.

Is intense

Is original and continually developing

Is original and continually developing

Enjoys self directed learning

Manipulates information

Guesses and infers well

Anticipates and relates observations

Is self –critical

May not be motivated by grades

Is intellectual

Creative Thinker

Sees exceptions

Wonders

Daydreams; may seem off task

Overflows with ideas, which will never be developed

Plays with ideas and concepts

Injects new possibilities

Shares bizarre, sometimes conflicting opinions

Questions: What if?

Questions the need for mastery

Overflows with ideas, many of which will never be developed

Prefers the company of creative peers but often works alone

Relishes wild off the wall humor

Makes mental leaps. Aha!

Initiates more projects than will ever be completed

Is independent and unconventional

Is original and continually developing

Enjoys creating

Improvises

Is an inventor and idea generator

Creates and brainstorms well

Is intuitive

Is never finished with possibilities

May not be motivated by grades

Is idiosyncratic