 All this month get any smartphone 32-gigand under for 50% off regular price at Appalachian Wireless. Better service, bigger savings, that's today's Appalachian Wireless. While supplies last, two-year agreement required. Southside Elementary School in Pike County is the first school in the district to host a pull-out program for the gifted and talented students. Typically, gifted and talented students are in the fourth and fifth grade, however, with the new pilot program, students in kindergarten through third grade can be selected to join the program. This is more where they can shine and the pressure is off, if you know what I mean. They can show me what they know and I just let them go with it. Gifted and talented students are typically the ones who get frustrated in class because they're bored. Ms. Pennian says her students are learning high school material and are excelling. She says it's sometimes difficult to come up with material to teach them. A gifted student is very unique because they're not only answering the questions in class, they're asking the questions. They're usually two to three, four grade levels above, so when they come to me I usually go with stuff that's two to three, four grade levels above and they're eating it up, they're acing it. It's hard for me to challenge them. The students say they enjoy the program because it offers them more challenging schoolwork. We do different things, like right now we're working on a PowerPoint for different things like pollution and crimes and drugs and things like that. We get challenged more than like when we're in class, so it's because usually we finish before everybody in class and it's like we get to go at our own pace, but in here we get harder work that's more on our level. Southside Elementary has 24 students in the Gifted and Talented Program. Reporting in Toller for EKB News, I'm Shelby Steele.