Work samples for AAP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I appreciate all the idea but sadly it really shows the privilege. Honestly how many parents will remember to capture those precious moments of their "gifted" children, especially those who have to work long hours to make ends meet? FCPS really should get rid of this home-provided work samples.

You don’t take pictures of your kid playing? It wasn’t hard to find pictures of him building and engineering. And it is not hard to google worksheets for math problems and print them out. Heck, you could set it up so the AART provides worksheets for samples for parents who want to appeal. The parent cold ask for math related worksheet and the AART hands over a few with instructions on what to have the kid do.

I don’t even know if the home work samples changes anything.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I appreciate all the idea but sadly it really shows the privilege. Honestly how many parents will remember to capture those precious moments of their "gifted" children, especially those who have to work long hours to make ends meet? FCPS really should get rid of this home-provided work samples.

You don’t take pictures of your kid playing? It wasn’t hard to find pictures of him building and engineering. And it is not hard to google worksheets for math problems and print them out. Heck, you could set it up so the AART provides worksheets for samples for parents who want to appeal. The parent cold ask for math related worksheet and the AART hands over a few with instructions on what to have the kid do.

I don’t even know if the home work samples changes anything.

Not every kid “creates”. Some kids just normally play and don’t leave a trail of engineering wonders behind them… So for those kids you might need to go the extra mile and set up the activity and then you can “capture it” on camera.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I appreciate all the idea but sadly it really shows the privilege. Honestly how many parents will remember to capture those precious moments of their "gifted" children, especially those who have to work long hours to make ends meet? FCPS really should get rid of this home-provided work samples.

You don’t take pictures of your kid playing? It wasn’t hard to find pictures of him building and engineering. And it is not hard to google worksheets for math problems and print them out. Heck, you could set it up so the AART provides worksheets for samples for parents who want to appeal. The parent cold ask for math related worksheet and the AART hands over a few with instructions on what to have the kid do.

I don’t even know if the home work samples changes anything.

Not every kid “creates”. Some kids just normally play and don’t leave a trail of engineering wonders behind them… So for those kids you might need to go the extra mile and set up the activity and then you can “capture it” on camera.

Or, maybe those aren't the kinds of kids who will excel in AAP. Why are we forcing every kid into that box? There is nothing wrong with gen ed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I appreciate all the idea but sadly it really shows the privilege. Honestly how many parents will remember to capture those precious moments of their "gifted" children, especially those who have to work long hours to make ends meet? FCPS really should get rid of this home-provided work samples.

You don’t take pictures of your kid playing? It wasn’t hard to find pictures of him building and engineering. And it is not hard to google worksheets for math problems and print them out. Heck, you could set it up so the AART provides worksheets for samples for parents who want to appeal. The parent cold ask for math related worksheet and the AART hands over a few with instructions on what to have the kid do.

I don’t even know if the home work samples changes anything.

Not every kid “creates”. Some kids just normally play and don’t leave a trail of engineering wonders behind them… So for those kids you might need to go the extra mile and set up the activity and then you can “capture it” on camera.

Building structures with Legos, bricks, blocks, marble runs and the like is pretty normal fare for kids in 2nd grade. Drawing pictures and writing stories is pretty normal far for 2nd graders. These are pretty normal activities. I would even guess that a good number of kids mix up toy sets when they play because that is also pretty normal behavior. My kid liked watching videos on marble run builds and dominos and asked us to film some of his builds so we had pictures. And I did think his tossing a drum in there to bounce the marble from one structure to the other was cool. And I appreciated that he experimented with what size drum worked best and where to place the different sets.

They may well get rid of the appeal or the work sample but until they do, parents are allowed to use work samples and appeal. It is a part of the process. So chill out and stop blaming parents for doing what they think is best for their child.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I appreciate all the idea but sadly it really shows the privilege. Honestly how many parents will remember to capture those precious moments of their "gifted" children, especially those who have to work long hours to make ends meet? FCPS really should get rid of this home-provided work samples.

You don’t take pictures of your kid playing? It wasn’t hard to find pictures of him building and engineering. And it is not hard to google worksheets for math problems and print them out. Heck, you could set it up so the AART provides worksheets for samples for parents who want to appeal. The parent cold ask for math related worksheet and the AART hands over a few with instructions on what to have the kid do.

I don’t even know if the home work samples changes anything.

Not every kid “creates”. Some kids just normally play and don’t leave a trail of engineering wonders behind them… So for those kids you might need to go the extra mile and set up the activity and then you can “capture it” on camera.

Or, maybe those aren't the kinds of kids who will excel in AAP. Why are we forcing every kid into that box? There is nothing wrong with gen ed.

Exactly!!

[Anonymous]

Calm down, no one blames parents here, we have to do what we have to do. All I was saying is this work sample thing is a joke, it demonstrate parent's ability instead of children's. That is all.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I appreciate all the idea but sadly it really shows the privilege. Honestly how many parents will remember to capture those precious moments of their "gifted" children, especially those who have to work long hours to make ends meet? FCPS really should get rid of this home-provided work samples.

You don’t take pictures of your kid playing? It wasn’t hard to find pictures of him building and engineering. And it is not hard to google worksheets for math problems and print them out. Heck, you could set it up so the AART provides worksheets for samples for parents who want to appeal. The parent cold ask for math related worksheet and the AART hands over a few with instructions on what to have the kid do.

I don’t even know if the home work samples changes anything.

Not every kid “creates”. Some kids just normally play and don’t leave a trail of engineering wonders behind them… So for those kids you might need to go the extra mile and set up the activity and then you can “capture it” on camera.

Building structures with Legos, bricks, blocks, marble runs and the like is pretty normal fare for kids in 2nd grade. Drawing pictures and writing stories is pretty normal far for 2nd graders. These are pretty normal activities. I would even guess that a good number of kids mix up toy sets when they play because that is also pretty normal behavior. My kid liked watching videos on marble run builds and dominos and asked us to film some of his builds so we had pictures. And I did think his tossing a drum in there to bounce the marble from one structure to the other was cool. And I appreciated that he experimented with what size drum worked best and where to place the different sets.

They may well get rid of the appeal or the work sample but until they do, parents are allowed to use work samples and appeal. It is a part of the process. So chill out and stop blaming parents for doing what they think is best for their child.

Your child is a genius, definitely AAP material. He’ll probably go to TJ as well! All better? Now you can chill out…

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I appreciate all the idea but sadly it really shows the privilege. Honestly how many parents will remember to capture those precious moments of their "gifted" children, especially those who have to work long hours to make ends meet? FCPS really should get rid of this home-provided work samples.

You don’t take pictures of your kid playing? It wasn’t hard to find pictures of him building and engineering. And it is not hard to google worksheets for math problems and print them out. Heck, you could set it up so the AART provides worksheets for samples for parents who want to appeal. The parent cold ask for math related worksheet and the AART hands over a few with instructions on what to have the kid do.

I don’t even know if the home work samples changes anything.

Not every kid “creates”. Some kids just normally play and don’t leave a trail of engineering wonders behind them… So for those kids you might need to go the extra mile and set up the activity and then you can “capture it” on camera.

Building structures with Legos, bricks, blocks, marble runs and the like is pretty normal fare for kids in 2nd grade. Drawing pictures and writing stories is pretty normal far for 2nd graders. These are pretty normal activities. I would even guess that a good number of kids mix up toy sets when they play because that is also pretty normal behavior. My kid liked watching videos on marble run builds and dominos and asked us to film some of his builds so we had pictures. And I did think his tossing a drum in there to bounce the marble from one structure to the other was cool. And I appreciated that he experimented with what size drum worked best and where to place the different sets.

They may well get rid of the appeal or the work sample but until they do, parents are allowed to use work samples and appeal. It is a part of the process. So chill out and stop blaming parents for doing what they think is best for their child.

Your child is a genius, definitely AAP material. He’ll probably go to TJ as well! All better? Now you can chill out…

Not a genius, we deferred AAP, have no clue where he will attend high school. You can go worry about your kid and stop dropping into AAP threads and question what parents think is best for their kid.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I appreciate all the idea but sadly it really shows the privilege. Honestly how many parents will remember to capture those precious moments of their "gifted" children, especially those who have to work long hours to make ends meet? FCPS really should get rid of this home-provided work samples.

You don’t take pictures of your kid playing? It wasn’t hard to find pictures of him building and engineering. And it is not hard to google worksheets for math problems and print them out. Heck, you could set it up so the AART provides worksheets for samples for parents who want to appeal. The parent cold ask for math related worksheet and the AART hands over a few with instructions on what to have the kid do.

I don’t even know if the home work samples changes anything.

Not every kid “creates”. Some kids just normally play and don’t leave a trail of engineering wonders behind them… So for those kids you might need to go the extra mile and set up the activity and then you can “capture it” on camera.

Building structures with Legos, bricks, blocks, marble runs and the like is pretty normal fare for kids in 2nd grade. Drawing pictures and writing stories is pretty normal far for 2nd graders. These are pretty normal activities. I would even guess that a good number of kids mix up toy sets when they play because that is also pretty normal behavior. My kid liked watching videos on marble run builds and dominos and asked us to film some of his builds so we had pictures. And I did think his tossing a drum in there to bounce the marble from one structure to the other was cool. And I appreciated that he experimented with what size drum worked best and where to place the different sets.

They may well get rid of the appeal or the work sample but until they do, parents are allowed to use work samples and appeal. It is a part of the process. So chill out and stop blaming parents for doing what they think is best for their child.

Your child is a genius, definitely AAP material. He’ll probably go to TJ as well! All better? Now you can chill out…

Not a genius, we deferred AAP, have no clue where he will attend high school. You can go worry about your kid and stop dropping into AAP threads and question what parents think is best for their kid.

And why are you here? Why do you feel the need to comment around here? Perhaps you can go worry about your own stuff and get off this board.

[Anonymous]

Any recent ideas for 2024? we were told we can only provide 2 examples of work... so trying to make the most of it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any recent ideas for 2024? we were told we can only provide 2 examples of work... so trying to make the most of it

This depend on school of course. Our school AART allowes 2 pdf pages and two samples per page.

So we put two math puzzels solut3 into the first pdf page, and two pages of writing and drawing into the second pdf page. The writing was longer and initially we consenses four pages of writing into a pdf page and was told to redo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any recent ideas for 2024? we were told we can only provide 2 examples of work... so trying to make the most of it

Unless something has changed, it’s typically 2 pages of work samples. You can shrink things down (but still legible) to fit quite a bit. be sure to include a sentence explaining what the sample is showing. If child has any weaker scores, I’d include a sample to demonstrate strong skill in that area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any recent ideas for 2024? we were told we can only provide 2 examples of work... so trying to make the most of it

Did your AART already do the full-time AAP presentation? They put good ideas for samples in there and at least as of last year they hadn't changed.

I always made my 2nd graders do Reflections (PTA art contest) to provide a writing sample. Bonus with Reflections is the kids have to explain how their story/poem/song/whatever goes with the theme. That little write-up shows higher level thinking to the committee. It's perfect.

Our AART's big tip was to have your kid write a sentence or 2 explaining their thinking for each sample as part of the 2 pages.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any recent ideas for 2024? we were told we can only provide 2 examples of work... so trying to make the most of it

It doesn't matter what anyone else put. Put whatever your kid has done that made you go, "Whoa." For my kid, that was puns and jokes he had written himself during his phase where he wanted a career "telling jokes on tv". I thought it showed fabulous mastery of the english language and creativity, and many of them were really clever. I also put photos of a book he wrote and illustrated crossing characters from two other books he'd read. I felt it showed he had a really high reading comprehension level (was able to pull relevant bits from both series), and again, creativity and mastery of the english language.

I did not put any math examples, because his math test scores were through the roof and I didn't feel I needed anything extra there.

The only thing I have heart definitively from AARTs is "no legos".

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You want things that show creative thinking and high level thinking. Things that don't have a right or wrong answer. We used questions like "Why is zero important" or "Write an original problem using any 5 numbers where the mean is 12. Explain why knowing the mean is important in your data set" or "Why is poetry important?" or "What do you know about the number 66?" or "Can one person influence the world? Explain" or "The answer is 80, what is the question if you must use 9 in the question?" or "Write an original word problem where the rounded answer would be 40. Explain why people round numbers" or "Adam solved 8 + 3 X 6/9-5 and got the answer 28. Is his answer correct? Explain." or "My calculator does not have a 5 key that works. How can I use my broken calculator to multiply 33 X 85?" or "Among 1 2 6 8 and 12, choose a number which is different from the others and explain why it is different. See if you can come up with something different for as many of the numbers as possible"

We've also done lots of art work, creative writing samples, etc.... I have 4 kids who all got into AAP on the first round and all were in pool. Of course you can't use my examples or you will look crazy. However, I wanted to show you how simple the questions can be and what they want to see is HOW your child thinks.

You’re crazy…seriously

Possibly an overly-thorough response by the pp but I don’t think she’s crazy for explaining w examples how to demonstrate your child’s thought processes through work samples. These kinds of questions are exactly the samples school submitted for my child from class lessons w/ the AART. .

Because no 2nd grader would be exposed to such questions unless he/she’s taking math enrichment classes, that’s why. Again privileged families trying to show off

Not even close. You can get these kinds of writing prompts from homeschool materials and enrichment workbooks. No need to pay for classes and tutoring.