My website is set up to enhance communications with my schools, students, parents, and anyone at home. 

I have created school pages where I will post specific updates, important announcements, and/or messages to parents and students which pertain to the aforementioned populations.   Although these pages may be similar, they are not uniform and will vary depending on any form of needed communication.  

There is a page designated to my lesson/unit plans.   Within, there's sometimes resources I use for reference with any given class.  In the Enrichment Resource Program, our goal is to expose children to different areas of study that are found outside of their regular classroom.   I think it is important for students to take ownership in what they learn in any area of study as well as afford project ideas that allow them to showcase what they are learning.  My lesson plans/unit plans are merely a tool to help facilitate learning. 

Please feel free to explore my site.  I update it frequently so if you have any questions, please feel free to email me at any time! 

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All students who participate in the Smyth County Enrichment Resource Program (ERP), must have a permission slip signed and returned to the ERP teacher each year.  I will be giving forms to unit 1 participants on their first day of class and to new comers of each unit there after.  I have provided a link to that document (found above) as well as the Emergency Medical Release Form that we must have for any field experiences. 

Permission to Participate in ERP

Emergency Medical Release Form

Things ERP students will be doing...

Edmodo

Edmodo is a site where students complete different activities online through a closed network.  Students practice writing skills and enhance technology skills by using a discussion board open to the whole class during class times.

Some ERP Student will be using Edmodo from time to time to complete and contribute to class projects and/or assignments.

Scratch

Google Classrooms 
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Students have been working with different components of computer coding over the last few weeks.  Students are currently working on creating an animated winter story that require specific elements from a coding program called Scratch.  
Students in grades 3-7 will be working inside of Google to complete some assignments/projects. 

Looking at Previous Years

7th Grade ERP trip 2017

ERP Students Participate in the Hour of Code During National Computer Science Week, December 3-11, 2016

Virginia Department of Education recognizes and encourages students to participate in the hour of code.
2016 ​“Hour of Code” – Superintendent's Memo:  National Computer Science Education Week
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During the week of December 3-11, 2016, ERP students participated in the Hour of Code, as part of recognizing National Computer Science Week.  Terry Hawthorn (pictured above) Smyth County Director of Technology, came to Saltville Elementary School to talk about Computer Science and to code with students.  We greatly appreciate him taking the time to come and work with us!

Smyth County Gifted and Talented

Smyth County School Board's Gifted and Talented Website
Smyth County Local Plan for the Education of the Gifted
Smyth County Enrichment Resource Program Parent's Guide
Enrichment Resource Program in Smyth County:  
The goal of Smyth County Schools' Program for the Education of Gifted Students is to provide appropriate intellectual, academic, creative, and social opportunities allowing gifted children to develop to their full potential.  The program is designed to provide additional methods of quality education appropriate to the unique abilities, talents, and aptitudes which are innate within each child.

Smyth County provides a continuum of services in kindergarten through grade twelve for students gifted in intellectual aptitude.  All aspects of the program are sequential and integrated into the basic curriculum.

Blast from the Past!

PAST ERP EXPERIENCES