For more information on the Naglieri test (NNAT3), please click here.
K-2 Program Services
- Students in Kindergarten through 2nd grade receive differentiation and enrichment opportunities via the classroom teacher.
- AIG teachers consult and collaborate with grade-levels to provide resources to ensure each student has enrichment opportunities aligned with the grade-level Common Core Standard.
- Nurturing Program for students in Pilot Schools
Current Nurturing services offered by Wake County Schools are as follows.
· Primary Education Thinking Skills (P.E.T.S.)
· Jacob's Ladder
· Kids Into Thinking (KITS)
· Flexible grouping opportunities for students demonstrating potential in reading and/or math
· Habits of Mind
· Primary Education Thinking Skills (P.E.T.S.)
· Jacob's Ladder
· Kids Into Thinking (KITS)
· Flexible grouping opportunities for students demonstrating potential in reading and/or math
· Habits of Mind
PETS at Vance
The PETS program is a year-long thinking skills program for our K-2 students. In these sessions, students explore high level divergent, convergent, visual, and evaluative thinking activities Working very closely with a group of thinking specialists from Crystal Pond Woods, Mrs. Davis leads several activities each quarter that focus on a variety of high-level thinking skills. These specialists include Dudley the Detective, a convergent thinker, who loves to solve deductive logic mysteries to find the one right answer. Sybil the Scientist, Dudley’s best friend, is very analytical and relishes studying the parts of things. As a divergent thinker, Isabel the Inventor delights in looking at things in new and different ways and in brainstorming lots of ideas. Her best friends are Yolanda the Yarnspinner, a creative writer, and Max the Magician, a visual thinker who lives to explore different spatial perspectives. Finally, there’s Jordan the Judge, the evaluative thinker, who must weigh his considerations carefully before he determines the best answer when there is a choice to be made.The different thinking specialists will make their classroom appearances at different points in the school year. Be sure to ask your child if he/she visited Crystal Pond Woods today!
Thinking Areas of Focus for Quarter 1:
· Kindergarten: Habits of Mind
· 1st & Second Grades: Detective Thinking with Dudley
Thinking Areas of Focus for Quarter 2:
· Kindergarten: Detective Thinking with Dudley
· 1st Grade: Scientist Thinking With Sybil
2nd Grade: Scientist Thinking With Sybil
Thinking Areas of Focus for Quarter 3:
· Kindergarten: Magician Thinking With Max
· 1st Grade: Inventor Thinking with Isabel
2nd Grade: Inventor Thinking with Isabel
Thinking Areas of Focus for Quarter 4:
· Kindergarten: Judge Thinking With Jordan
· 1st Grade: Judge Thinking With Jordan
2nd Grade: Judge Thinking With Jordan
· Kindergarten: Habits of Mind
· 1st & Second Grades: Detective Thinking with Dudley
Thinking Areas of Focus for Quarter 2:
· Kindergarten: Detective Thinking with Dudley
· 1st Grade: Scientist Thinking With Sybil
2nd Grade: Scientist Thinking With Sybil
Thinking Areas of Focus for Quarter 3:
· Kindergarten: Magician Thinking With Max
· 1st Grade: Inventor Thinking with Isabel
2nd Grade: Inventor Thinking with Isabel
Thinking Areas of Focus for Quarter 4:
· Kindergarten: Judge Thinking With Jordan
· 1st Grade: Judge Thinking With Jordan
2nd Grade: Judge Thinking With Jordan
Thinking Fun Websites--For Parents!
The websites below are for resources for parents to print and use with their children. They are great for car rides, rainy days, and other times when you want to keep your children busy by "Stretching Their Brains"!
Check out these links to some printable puzzles that use our Detective Thinking:
Check out these links for some printable puzzles that use our Magician Thinking:
Check out these links to some printable puzzles that use our Yarnspinner Thinking:
- Change 12 Letters A1 & B
- Arithmagons
- Codes
- Cryptograms (for older students)
- Kakuro (Logic puzzles)
- Sudoku
Check out these links for some printable puzzles that use our Magician Thinking:
- Complete the Picture Puzzles
- Find The Difference Puzzles
- Grid Copy Puzzles
- Tangrams, Tangrams, and More Tangrams
Check out these links to some printable puzzles that use our Yarnspinner Thinking: