Summer ideas

Summer Ideas for your Gifted Child

Strategy Games Chess Mastermind Mancala Battleship Blokus Checkers Risk  Chinese Checkers Jenga

Puzzles Tangrams Shape by Shape Pentominoes Rubiks Puzzles Rush Hour Jigsaw Puzzles Squzzles 3D Slide Puzzles Rebus

Critical Thinking Games SET Plexars Q Bitz Blink Spot It

Word Games Quiddler Anagrams Cryptic Crosswords Scrabble Word Searches

Quantitative Thinking Games Tangrams Tessellations Pentomino Activities Probability Statistics Money Mental Math

If your life is free of failures, you are not taking enough risks. -Unknown

Engineering and DesignLegosLego MindstormsGears!Gears! Gears!K’ NexZoomToolBlock by Block (3D)Brick by Brick (2D)Marble RunKapla Erector SetsStraws and ConnectorsRube Goldberg Designs

If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected. --Bill Gates

ArtSeven Steps to Creativity Gather your information Sift the information Let the information bubble-

Try reading, listening to music, go for a walk, while your mind digests the facts.

Let the ideas flow! Shape and develop your idea Share your idea Repeat- Keep it going, until

you have the best idea you can come up with.

Great artist, writers and musicians first learned from studying the works of master craftsmen.

Craft Idea Books Drawing Books Geometric Design Books Cartooning Books Nonfiction books filled

with diagrams and illustrations.

Books with favorite illustrators

Music without lyrics Art Supplies

ResearchSuggested Resources:

Assorted Reference BooksMagazinesBiographiesNewspaper articles Hobby BooksNonfiction books Internet Research Journal If we knew what it was we were

doing, it would not be called research, would it? -Albert Einstein

Science Activities

Microscopes Magnifying lens Magnets Circuitry Models to construct Simple Experiments Collections- Rocks,

Shells, Bugs Sketch paper

Nature Field Guides Cross Section Books How Things Work-

David MacCauley Rubbings of leaves Eyewitness Books

Web Sites http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/

http://wonderopolis.org/

http://www.kerpoof.com/

http://www.wordle.net

http://buildyourwildself.com/

http://themaninblue.com/experiment/Cubescape/new.php

www.abcya.com

http://www.inventionatplay.org/playhouse_cloud.html

http://www.juliasrainbowcorner.com/html/funandgames.html

Apps for iPad

Qvoid IntroNbackCreationaryClockwork BrainMarble ParkBlokusSliding TilesZONRMancalaUnblock Me

Dot LineParking LotUntangleTinkerboxFamily Car Games

Day Trips San Jacinto Monument Houston Museum of

Natural Science Blue Bell Creamery,

Brenham, Texas The Aquarium Brazos Bend State Park Techno Chaos or

Bricks4kidz Lego Workshops

George Observatory

Space Center Houston Sea Wolf Park,

Galveston Houston Fire Museum Museum of Fine Arts Holocaust Museum Paleontology Hall at

HMNS

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http://texasbluebonnetaward2013.wordpress.com/master-list/ All books include activities and trailers.

Why Read?Reading the works of really good writers is one of the best ways to develop our abilities with words. Modern and classic novels, leading non-fiction books and top quality newspaper and magazine articles are all important sources for us. How often do you find time to read poetry? Try some new poems and re-read old favorites for inspiration.