A Report on Pixie

Abstract

Introduction:  My class of gifted and talented eight- and nine-year-olds is located in an elementary school in River Oaks.  The class is a self-contained gifted and talented pilot program in its second year.  Most of these children came to my class from a second grade gifted and talented, self-contained class.  Philosophy for Children was initiated with this group, during the second week of October with 21 children.  By January the group had been reduced to 16 students.  Three children were removed from the pilot program and two others moved out of town.  For the Philosophy for Children discussion, the novel Pixie (Lipman, 1981) was selected.