Please excuse the cookie - competing makes a kid hungry!
For most of the school year Meagan has been studying for the Lone Star Challenge. If you are familiar with Academic Decathlon or Pentathlon, it is very similar. It is the comperable activity for fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students.If you are new to all of this - think athletic decathlon but with academics instead. Students study information on a given theme and then compete by testing in several subjects: math, science, social studies, reading, and essay. To complete the whole contest there is the Super Quiz event. This is a relay race of sorts but instead of running laps, students are answering questions.
The theme this year was Pop Culture of the 60's and 70's. Cool - in my opinion anyway.
Meagan won three medals: Bronze in essay, Silver in Individual Super Quiz (she got four out of her five questions correct), and Silver in Team Super Quiz.
We are so proud of you Meagan! Keep up the great work!
1 comment:
Wow Meagan, that's great! I've never heard of this before, but it sounds very interesting...maybe it's something we could put into use in our building. I just love running into new ideas.
Meagan did a super job, and she looks so happy!!
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