Award's Assembly at Fremont Elementary

This morning was the Award’s Assembly at school! 

HOPE OF AMERICA AWARD given by Sunset City Mayor and Kiwanis Club President to Mallory (with  Erin)

HOPE OF AMERICA

The first award they did was the “Hope of America” Award. This award is given to the top 6^th grade students at school from the Kiwanis Club who display leadership qualities. Mallory received this award from the Sunset City Mayor who is also the Kiwanis Club President for Northern Davis County. Mallory, Emmalee Slater, Kaylee Cardenas and Janeth Ameda received the award—all girls. Mallory’s teacher had told me she would be receiving this award three weeks ago so I could plan to be there. They had the parents come up and have our pictures taken when they gave the presentation. It was really neat! Mallory lead the Pledge of Allegiance in the assembly also.

MALLORY
Mallory received the following awards in the assembly:

·         -Hope of America

·         -Top Math Student in her class

·        - Davis Decathlon Participant

·        - Student Council 2015-2016

·         -Library Assistant Service Award

·         -Trophy for Davis County Math Olympiad participant

    Mallory also received a class award of being the best writer in her class. I guess she got 29/30 on her Final State Writing Assessment!

HAYLEY:

Hayley and her friend Shaylee at the Award's Assembly

Hayley received the following awards in the assembly:

·        - Davis Decathlon Participant

·        - Perfect Attendance Award for 2015-2016

·       -  Student Council 2015-2016

·      -  Library Assistant Service Award

·         -Trophy for Davis County Math Olympiad participant

Hayley was also called up as the 2016-2017 Student Council!!

BRITTNEY

Brittney received the following award in the assembly:

·        - Top Math Student in her class

After the Award’s Assembly, 2^nd grade had their own trophy ceremony for all those who read 100 hours during the school year (which entails reading 25-30 minutes per night all school year). Brittney was so excited to get her trophy! She ended up turning in reading logs for over 140 hours but I know she read a lot more than that! Way to be Brittney B!!!

Brittney's Math Problems

Each month, Mrs. Fong, the Math Coach at my girl's school, has a problem of the month for each grade. The other day Brittney was diligently working on two story problems-- one was for her grade (2nd) and the other was the 3rd grade problem. I took a picture of her work to solve the problem. Kids have so many creative ways that they understand and do math-- as parents, we were taught to allow them to solve problems whichever way makes sense to them! Her is a second grader's way of solving the following problems:

The Problem

The Solution- page 1

The Solution- page 2

Problem #2

Solution #2

Pretty amazing huh!

Each month, the girls earn tickets for the problems they are able to solve and then there is a big math store with some pretty neat prizes (it's not just candy and pencils-- the girls have bought stuffed animals, games, alarm clocks, etc.).

Good Job Mathematician Brittney!

Fremont Elementary School Carnival

I found out I was assigned a booth at the school PTA Carnival by chance--I happened to go to a PTA Meeting and I saw my name on the paper twice --I was to be in charge of the Hair Coloring Booth and also sell T-shirts at another booth. I do not recall every signing up for these "opportunities"--I think they were just assigned to me (Scott warned me about this-if you go to PTA Meetings you are going to get sucked in and before you know it you are the PTA President or something--don't worry--I have told them NO--PTA is not bad--I just don't have time to do a lot for the PTA right now, I would rather make a difference in Mallory and Hayley's individual classes right now). I don't know if it is a good thing or a bad thing I went to the meeting when I did!! They wouldn't have had capes for the Hair Coloring Booth if I didn't know I was in charge!!

Anyway, since I had jobs to do at the school carnival, my girls got to tag along!! They were so excited to get their hair painted and to jump on all the blow up toys that were at the carnival!! We all survived and Mallory was only lost once--for about three minutes we could not find her anywhere--she knew where she was but we didn't know where she was!! That is a very SCARY feeling when you are in a place with a lot of people and a lot of people you do not know!! Luckily we found her watching people get dunked in the dunking booth!!