NWCS Gifted Preparation/Exploration Level 1 Course Schedule – Spring Semester 2019

Instructor: Hanson Dai

Week # & Date Spring Semester Topics

Week 1 – 2/9/2019 Introduction, Ice-Breakers, Fall Semester Review, 1 Digit

Multiplication and Times Table

Week 2 – 2/16/2019 Even and Odd Numbers, Introduction to Division

Week 3 – 3/2/2019 Telling Time and Reading Analog Clocks Application

Week 4 – 3/9/2019 Number Rounding to the Nearest Tens Place, Finding Reasonable
Sums, Estimates, 2 Digit Subtraction Application, Problem Solving
Using Data

Week 5 – 3/16/2019 Plane Figures and Polygons, Introduction to Fractions

Week 6 – 3/23/2019 Statistics

Week 7 – 3/30/2019 Mid-term Exam Review

Week 8 – 4/6/2019 MID-TERM EXAM

Week 9 – 4/20/2019 Homophones and Rhyming, Vocabulary Quiz 1, Introduction to

Triangle Proofs

Week 10 – 4/27/2019 Contractions, Vocabulary Quiz 2, Perimeter Part 2

Week 11 – 5/4/2019 Sentence Structure, Subjects and Predicates, Vocabulary Quiz 3, Area
Part 2

Week 12 – 5/11/2019 Sentence Parts and Ending Punctuation, Vocabulary Quiz 4, Greater
or Less Than, Measurements

Week 13 – 5/18/2019 Basic Biology and Ecology, Baby Animals, Animal Analogies
Challenge, Vocabulary Quiz 5

Week 14 – 6/1/2019 Final Exam Review, Introduction to Sales and Marketing Final
Project, Adding and Subtracting Money

Week 15 – 6/8/2019 FINAL EXAM

Week 16 – 6/15/2019 END-OF-THE-YEAR PARTY & SALES AND MARKETING

PROJECT PART II

Please note that course topics and dates are subject to change due to time restraints overall class and individual
student reasons, etc.