Chess Tournament

Six students from Keystone participated in the Annual RIU#6 Elementary Chess Tournament. They won the tournament! Go Keystone!

LinguiSHTIKS

Three students participated in a LinguiSHTIKS training. This very challenging grammar game would be very tough for almost all adults. This game is making me relearn how to correctly use sentence types or structures, all uses of nouns, verbs, adjectives, clauses, prepositions, etc...

The Renaissance Fair

September 26th, 2009 Keystone Elementary's gifted class went to the Pittsburgh Renaissance Fair. All the gifted students and their families went into the fair and did all kinds of things! Like, some of them got to preform on a stage, watch a fire breather, watch a jousting match, play games and ride rides. They had good food like, giant turkey legs, corn on the cob, iced tea, lemonade, brownies, chicken, keilbasa, beans and sugar, and sinse it was so damp the sugar in the packets became one big hunk of sugar! Oh and don't forget about the gift shops! You could buy stuff like, wooden swords, fake eye patches, wooden shields, wooden barrels that could really hold water, wooden axes and toy puzzles (also wooden.) Then you could buy stuff like, cologne, air fresheners, tobacco, wine, CDs and wooden flutes. I would encourage everybody to go next year. I'll bet you'll like it and come back again the next time you get the chance.

By Alexander

Welcome Back

Welcome back to a new school year. I hope you enjoyed your summer and are feeling ready to start off the year great. This year our theme is the Renaissance time period. We will be taking a couple of field trips, making art and costumes, reading and researching, and hopefully having a great time while learning. If you know anyone with a Renaissance skill, please let me know. We would love to invite them in to our class.

Summer Fun

Happy summer to you all! I just came back from my vacation in Virginia and I have a recommendation for you. If you ever go near the Luray Caverns, I suggest the Garden Maze located near the cavern entrance. The trick is to find 4 goal locations and make it out of the maze as quickly as possible. The little gift shop is full of maze books and brain teaser activities. I thought of you all while I was there. Hope you are enjoying your summer!

Mrs. Gorog

As the year winds to an end, I hope that each of you gained valuable information throughout the year. You have advanced in your educational skills, but I also think you matured in your thinking and acting. Use this summer to your advantage. Go outside and play, find new adventures and come back to school refreshed and ready to learn in the fall.

Parents, encourage your children to play to become physically fit as well as play to expand horizons through creativity. Read with your children and have intellectual conversations to keep their minds educationally challenged. If possible, visit new places to learn more about the world around us. I can't wait to hear about all the new experiences.

All students are welcome to add to their blog over the summer. I would love to see pictures or read about summer adventures. I'll be sure to post comments when I see them.

Happy Summer!
Mrs. Gorog

Technology Unit

In technology we used to talk about inventers.Now we made a power point about whatever we wanted to write about.

by Alex

Making a Photo Album

We were editing pictures and stuff. It's cool because you can change it around alot and change the color and position. We could also put a bunch of random stickers and pictures around it all over the place. It's pretty cool. We put the edited pictures in a scrapbook and got to choose a layout, and background for two scrapbook pages. It was very fun.

by Jordan and Danielle

Creating Blogs

Creating blogs is fun. First you go to blogger. Then you sign in to a google account. Next you publish a post. Then you get people to comment. You can add special things to it like polls.



By Matthew and Devin

The secret of the old oak trunk

2nd grade is reading this book..

Alexander Grahm Bell

I studied Alexander Graham Bell.

I found out some things like

• He had a deaf mother
• He became president of the National Geographic Socity

Alex

Equations

A few days ago we went to Cranberry School for equations training and it was a very intricate game. You have to set a goal and try to use cubes to get that goal. Afterwards we ate out and had some ice cream.







By,
Matthew