Anxiety & Giftedness Under construction Click Here Every website has a story, and your visitors want to hear yours. This space is a great opportunity to give a full background on who you are, what your team does and what your site has to offer. Double click on the text box to start editing your content and make sure to add all the relevant details you want site visitors to know. If you’re a business, talk about how you started and share your professional journey. Explain your core values, your commitment to customers and how you stand out from the crowd. Add a photo, gallery or video for even more engagement.

Games We Love Here is a collection of games that many of our Excel students love. We're adding more all the time - let us know if you have a suggestion! Math 24 Offered in a tournament-style competition, students compete using addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division to develop solutions to problems that equal 24. This fast, fun, exciting math game is designed for students in Grades 4-8. How to Play SET Family Games "The award-winning family and educational games include SET®, Quiddler®, Five Crowns®, Karma®, WordSpiel®, and Zangle®, plus brand extensions! These card games focus on fun, perception, and challenge for players of all ages and skill levels while offering unlimited replay value. N o cards at home? Play online! Web-Based Thinking Games Digital Breakout Rooms Online Interactive Logic Puzzles - choose your level Chess New York Times Games - Wordle, Connections, Etc. Quirkle https://nerdlegame.com/ kenkenpuzzle.com https://sudoku.com/

Parenting Resource s for Gifted Kids Raising a child who is gifted can be both exciting and challenging. Children who are gifted may develop asynchronously, meaning they tend to develop at a faster rate cognitively than they do physically or emotionally. Parenting children who are gifted means understanding their unique development and providing them with extra attention and support. Perfectionism "It's not uncommon for high-ability children to also be perfectionists. Whether they worry about getting a drawing exactly right, earning all A's in school, or feeling helpless in fixing society's downfalls, approximately 20% of gifted children suffer from perfectionism to the degree it causes problems. " -National Association for Gifted Children Read on for tips to help manage perfectionism. Friendships & Fitting Sometimes, asynchronous development and/or feeling "different" makes developing friendships a challenge. Find tips for this here. Anxiety & Giftedness "It’s easy to assume that the intellectual advantages of gifted children give them an easier life, but it seems that each advantage also has an unexpected dark side. One of those side-effects is increased anxiety." -Ian Byrd Underperformance Underachievement is an issue that can be especially impactful among gifted students, particularly those who are profoundly gifted. -Davidson Academy Click here for tips to help! Gifted Intensities Gifted children often experience overexcitabilities, also called intensities. These areas of heightened stimulation are categorized in five areas: psychomotor, sensual, imaginational, intellectual, and emotional. While these are not, negative characteristics, they are often discussed as problems to solve. However, there are some wonderful benefits to “experiencing in a higher key.” (The Institute for Educational Advancement) Read on to learn more! ​ Social Skills: Cooperating & Interacting with Others Being able to handle cooperation and competition is an essential part of working and playing well with others. However, some gifted children struggle with group activities. Their strong views about the “Right” way to do things may make it hard for them to compromise. Because they are used to performing well, they may also find it hard to cope with setbacks, struggles, or losses. Find articles on this topic here! Executive Functioning The simple definition of Executive Functioning is GETTING STUFF DONE. It is the brain’s ability to take the steps necessary to accomplish a complex task or goal, the ability to self-regulate thoughts, emotions, and actions in order to accomplish goals, and to “execute” complex tasks. -Seth Perler Imposter Syndrome What happens when students begin to doubt that they are gifted? When they fear that they aren't as smart as people have said? These students struggle with Imposter Syndrome. -Ian Byrd Read on for tips on this topic. Twice Exceptionalities Twice exceptional, or “2e,” children are intellectually gifted and also have learning differences or disabilities. Twice-exceptional kids may have any disability. With giftedness, the most frequent learning differences include dyslexia, ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, sensory processing disorder (which is a component of autism, but not all children with SPD have autism), dysgraphia, dyscalculia, and visual and auditory processing disorders. -Corin Goodwin

Additional Enrichment Are you looking for a little more to extend your child's learning at home? Here are some ideas. Tip : Sometimes, it is a challenge for students to engage with extra enrichment at home. One of the reasons for this is that they have no audience for their work. Consider having them create or publish FOR something or someone. This creates a more authentic reason for your child to put forth effort and they will exceed your expectations! 01 Book Lists for Gifted Readers Sometimes it is challenging to find content-appropriate books for advanced readers. Here are some lists to help your reader find books to read. 03 Summer Enrichment Summer brings freedom and flexibility for some families, and there is great value to downtime and boredom that helps promote creativity and free play. However, some gifted brains go a little bonkers without the stimulation that may come from learning, If your child is in need of some summer structure or learning, find a variety of resources that can help support summer enrichment on this page. 02 Weekly Enrichment Calendars Looking for daily enrichment? Here are nine themes, each with a variety of subjects and resources to extend learning at home. 04 Games We Love Here is a collection of games that many of our Excel students love. We're adding more all the time - let us know if you have a suggestion! 05 Camps, Programs, & Experiences Here is a list of current summer enrichment experiences, local and virtual, that are available to students.

Start Here Has your child been recently identified as gifted? What exactly does it mean to be gifted? Check out these resources to learn more! Click Here for Resources There are many misconceptions about what it means to be gifted. People as a whole seem to think that gifted just means “smart” – like you think better than other people. At their heart lies this truth: when you are gifted, it’s not just that your brain is efficient. Your brain is divergent. Click Here for Resources Each family dynamic is different, but research points to sharing this information with your child. Here are resources to back it up, plus ideas for what to say and how to approach a conversation.

Weekly Enrichment Themes Are you looking for cross-curricular activities to keep your child's mind thinking? Each of these links takes you to a thematic group of enrichment activities for our K-6 learners. Pick and choose, or work your way through all of them! Themed Enrichment Links: Week 1: Masterpieces Explore and engage with architecture, literature, music, and art! Week 2: Mysteries Investigate a musical mystery, a historical disappearance, bridge design, and break out of a virtual escape room! Week 3: Environment Dive deep into biodiversity, be a world-beautifier, create some trash data, and learn about interconnectedness of species! Week 4: Poetry Celebrate poetry with miniature poems, write reverso poems, learn about pendulums, create blackout poetry, and try reading a duet poem! Week 5: Power How do batteries work? How does your brain work? Use glow-power to practice geometry, and harness your superpowers with a story. Looking for more? Research phototropism, bioluminescence, or sustainable energy! Week 6: Forests Explore and engage with decomposers, Fractured fairy tales, wolves, and the history of Pennsylvania's forest. Week 7: Luminaries Learn about people who inspire or influence others because of a certain expertise or talent. Then challenge yourself to try something in their specialty area. Week 8: Movement Explore energy through basketball, kinetic art, Lego car ramps, and create action verb art based on Keith Haring. Week 9: Adventure Explore treasure maps, virtual field trips, use the book Weslandia to invent a new country, and explore West African drumming. Games from Excel Class Set Game Play online! Digital Breakouts Padlet of Links Wordle Daily Puzzle

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