Each weekday, two blocks of programs on UNC-TV's North Carolina Channel will serve students: fourth through eighth grade, from 8 AM-1 PM, and ninth through twelfth grade, from 1-6 PM (actual times may vary, please check the weekly schedule below). These educational program blocks are available on the North Carolina Channel, available statewide for free over-the-air, through cable providers and streamed online!
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Nominations for the AIG Program are accepted at any time of year. In order for a student to be considered during the FALL testing window of the 19-20 school year, all nominations must be received by Friday, 10/4/19. Nominations received after that date will be considered during the SPRING testing window. Please contact Carly Williams, AIG Teacher for Smith Magnet ES ([email protected]) if you'd like to nominate your child or for additional information! Please see below for information about nominating your child for Single Subject Acceleration (SSA)! Contact me, Carly Williams, at: [email protected] with any questions.
SSA Overview
February 13, 2018 Students meeting qualifying criteria in grades K‐7 can take advanced academic content in mathematics or English Language Arts through Single Subject Acceleration (SSA). This ensures opportunities for appropriate levels of academic challenge. Does My Child Qualify? SSA allows students to show mastery of content in select elementary or middle school courses. Students who prove mastery do not have to take the course and may move on to the next level. Parents may nominate their child to skip a grade level of content in either English Language Arts or mathematics. Students are nominated for SSA by their parents or guardians. They will be assessed at their school based upon grade level. Depending on grade level and subject, this could include a multiple-choice test and/or a writing sample. Your school will have more specific information about this process once your child is nominated. Nominating Your Child: We accept SSA nominations during specific times of spring semester for the following school year. The dates for the traditional calendar nomination window are below. The Single Subject Acceleration nomination form is due to your child’s school before final dismissal time on the last day of the nomination window. Nomination forms will be made available March 26 via a link from this site. Following is the Smith Magnet ES nomination window: Traditional Calendar (Including Smith Magnet ES) Nomination Window: April 13-26 See details below in English and Spanish for this informative presentation! All parents are welcome. Childcare and Spanish interpreting will be provided!
(Scroll to bottom of post for a link to a Spanish version of the flyer.)
What is Hour of Code? (From code.org)
The Hour of Code started as a one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify "code", to show that anybody can learn the basics, and to broaden participation in the field of computer science. It has since become a worldwide effort to celebrate computer science, starting with 1-hour coding activities but expanding to all sorts of community efforts. Check out the tutorials and activities from code. org! They are available free to all, and open all year round! I encourage everyone to try at least one!! The Hour of Code usually takes place during Computer Science Education Week, which is December 5th -11th this year. However, due to the huge traffic on the code.org site during that week, Smith's AIG classes will be having OUR "Hour of Code" week the previous week (November 28-December 2). More from the code.org website: Code.org® is a non-profit dedicated to expanding access to computer science, and increasing participation by women and underrepresented minorities. Our vision is that every student in every school should have the opportunity to learn computer science, just like biology, chemistry or algebra. Code.org organizes the annual Hour of Code campaign which has engaged 10% of all students in the world, and provides the leading curriculum for K-12 computer science in the largest school districts in the United States. Code.org is supported by generous donors including Microsoft, Facebook, the Infosys Foundation, Google, Omidyar Network, and many more. Are you ready to have the coolest summer ever?! Join the authors at Summer Sleuths from now until September for lots of good advice on how to write mystery fiction from North Carolina’s 2016 Piedmont Laureate. And don’t forget to enter their Summer Sleuths Writing Contest for young writers who are age 9, 10, 11, or 12. The contest opens for submissions on August 1st, with all submissions due by September 1st. You could win a cash prize and have your work published on the Summer Sleuths website!
Just click the writing contest link above for full details! Get your "summer sleuthing" on! :) **Above text partially quoted from Summer Sleuth website.** Looking for a way to expand your vocabulary? Do you love learning new words? Vocabulary.com is the answer for you!! Log in today using the below information and increase your lexicon!
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