The Walnut Springs GT program
serves students in grades 1-5. The screening process for Kindergarten
will begin with a parent meeting in January. Testing will take place in
February and services will begin March 1. They will be served by the GT
specialist, Mrs. Burroughs, in a general intellectual program and are
seen 2 times a week for 45 minutes.Screening for grades 1-5 begins with
a parent meeting around Feb. 1 with testing occurring in March.
First grade students are also served by the GT specialist in a general
intellectual program and are seen 2 times a week for 45 minutes. Second
through fifth grade are served with compacted and enriched curriculums
in the academic specific areas of Math and Language Arts. Our 2nd
and 3rd grade math students learn the foundational skills of problem
solving and participate in Lego Robotics. In Language Arts they learn
the instructional foundations of the Future Problem Solving Program.
Students grades four and five use the skills to participate in such
programs as Math Olympiad, Lego Robotics, and Future Problem Solving.
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