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Show 4B THE GREEN SHEET Thursday, December 17, 1987 Fun And Learning Offered On ' Super Saturday by Sherma Lind Yeates Green Sheet Staff Writer SANDY. School last Saturday "thrilled" more than 100 students who in participated Super activities held at Cottonwood Heights elementary under the direction of Sherry consultant for staff Wasden, development and gifted and talented, and Ann White, Super Saturday facilitator from Midvale middle school, both of whom were hostesses at the event. Super Saturday was a time of in depth studying for students, including the use of higher level or critical thinking skills. The students were investigators and to use appropriate learned methods of inquiry to understand and find solutions to problems they were given during the four sessions. Wasden and White termed the Super Saturday, held for the North area of the Jordan School district a "tremendous success" but the reports from the students told the story. , of the students we Many interviewed said, "It was great!" "I enjoyed it!" "I learned a lot." "I was thrilled." All students we talked to had positive comments and no one in the classes looked bored or had nothing to do. The classes were buzzing with excitement. One student said, "I wasn't looking forward to getting up for 8 a.m. classes and missing cartoons, but when I got to the microscopes I got into it." an is Super Saturday introduction for the Bright Ideas Program which is sponsored by the Jordan School District in partnership with Brigham Young University for three weeks in the summer and strives to develop creativity, critical thinking skills and a stimulated interest in the process of learning new and exciting materials. The program is open to anyone who registers and pays the cost. Super Saturday cost $25 and the summer Bright Ideas project will be around $130. Both programs stress skills used for gifted and talented programs but any students "benefit from exposnw i to.: those skills," adds WasQifcipevpfr the, T$tudents who luroeg out for the north area program were in the range of gifted and talented, some were average students whose parents wanted them to be exposed to higher level and indepth studies. Some students have problems concentrating and relating and teachers recommended the program to the parents because of the ratio of teachers to students and because of the interest and indepth, hands-oexperiences used the classes which are designed to ignite the sparks of the wonderment of learning in students, he explained. A visit to the classroom where students in kindergarten and first grade were engrossed in a unit called "Come fly with me," about Saturday -- n birds, revealed teachers Jjacque Garber and Jane Robinson busy making magic egg birds with the students who also created bird costumes complete with features and hats which sported feathers. The group went on a field trip and put out seeds for birds. They participated in a creative writing project with the theme, "If I Could Fly I Would." Students comments included "If I could fly I would surprise Grandma and Grandpa" or "I would like to land on my roof." The children thought of the perspective the birds have on the world and drew their idea of it. The teachers showed a book with characteristics of birds and taught the students a dance. Over in the areas where grades two and three were gathered everyone was busy with "It's a Small World" activities. Teachers Lourie Judd, Christine Ball and Dr. Phyllis Embley of Cottonwood Heights elementary and Jordan School District had such a large group, three were needed to work with the students who used and microscopes learned to make slides out of pond and common water things including feathers and sugar. In all students surveyed 20 different things, and used a big electronic microscope to look at other interesting parts of nature. The students made Shrinky Dinks and studied the concept of small to large and large to small. They did a brainstorming creative activity on what one can see under a microscope' before they began the studies, and after they had completed them to test in and growth learning of was The unit knowledge. study rounded out with music and drama to the tune of "It's a Small the archeological dig container used during the class. Sixth through eighth graders thought about lasers during "A spledid light" with teachers Kay Reimschussel and Bell Breen, students who concentrated attention on research of lasers and uses for art, technology, weapons, space, entertainment and in manufacturing. The students actually designed a laser, and did an invention of used own. their They nonand communciation communication skills. They drew what they experienced during a laser trip and shared their ideas with classmates. Students who participated in Super Saturday were also exposed to Spanish by teacher Sandy Brewster who taught the children to dance while singing a Spanish song. They also learned to say numbers in Spanish, names of food and how to take and give directions, and made a pinata. Two sessions of Super Saturday are still on the schedule. The teachers and subjects will be the same. at Bell View elementary, which, Wasden points out, is centrally located in Jordan District watch for information on the Brighton Ideas Summer Program which will be conducted this year Cost is $25 for the first child and $20 for an additional child in the same family. In the south area, the Super Saturday will be held on February 27, 1988 at Altara elementary, 800 E. 11000 South. In the west area, Super Saturday will be held on May 7 at Monte Vista elementary, 11121 South 27th West, South Jordan. For information on registration dates for these areas contact Ann White at 0 or Sherry Wasden at 565-7- 1 00 ext. 1 64. Teachers suggest that parents CUSTOM GARAGES ALL SIZES AVAILABLE LlErrff 4d Crrl WITH GARAGE COMPLETE KIT PRE BUILT WALLS AND TRUSSES JL. 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Grades "Digging four and five were In" to archeology and getting interested in artifacts and answers. The students performed an archeological dig in class under the direciton of teachers Sharlee Doxey and Mary Pusey. The studnets were also exposed to an art experiencetwjjcb aught blending of pastels an& waiercolor and black and white silhouettes of pictures which highlighted an aspect of archeology. Teachers taught the processes archeologists go through at a site and showed slides of actual digs including the uncovering a skeleton. The different that jobs archeologists do were stressed and the organization that is required for an archeological expedition were highlighted. The students learned to sift for artifacts and to record and verify what they found. One of the verification records recorded like metate, things spears, pottery, pieces of olden time nouses, baskets and hammer-stoneSuch items are hidden in 1 s. IsThereADoctorln The Neighborhood? COME FLY WITH ME . . . 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