Carter's Gifted and Talented (GT) project that he worked on with a few other classmates throughout the year. They had to create a new city and do corresponding research.
Carter won an award for running the most laps in PE in the entire school! He ran the equivalent of 28 miles throughout the school year!! Crazy impressive. When it is time to run laps in PE, most kids run/walk and socialize with friends. Not my boy. He's out there to get it done and get some exercise. He won a toy prize and a $5 gift card to Chick Fil A.
(Caleb won in his years in elementary too. Their parents' competitive side has rubbed off on them!)
Carter also finished up the year with excellent conduct marks all year long and all As. His lowest score on his report card for his final averages was a 95!
Carter's All Star baseball season just wrapped up. 8 teams total competed in the district and their team ended up in 2nd place. Painful loss in the grand championship though. Their team was up by 3 runs in the last game, last inning, 2 outs, but two errors by one of the best players on the team (missed fly ball and error in a ground ball) cost them the game. Frustrating way to lose, but Carter enjoyed playing with some of the best players in his league. Matt did a great job coaching the All Star team; it was an honor to be selected as the coach. Carter had the highest on-base percentage and highest batting average of anyone on his team!
Grandma and Grandpa at one of his tournament games.
Papa, Matt's dad, loves coming to his baseball games and didn't miss a single one!
Carter's All Star baseball team
No pictures of Caleb, but he finished up his school year with a bang as well. He played in his school talent show again, this year accompanying a friend who did a live art display. He also received excellent conduct marks all year and all As. His lowest final average for all his classes was also a 95. Impressive! Language Arts and Writing are his weakest classes and some 9 weeks he scraped by with a low A.
The day after school got out, Caleb participated in guild for the 4th time where he played 10 memorized pieces in front of a judge who critiqued on little details. He had a tougher judge this year, so he did not score as well as years past but still played very well. His songs were obviously more challenging than previous years, one was a memorized 7-page Sonata! Since 3 or so of his songs were lengthy, when he needed to run through them, he had a tendency to do so as fast as he could to get it done with. I told him many times that you perform the way you practice. Sure enough, most of Caleb's negative marks were due to the speed of many of his songs which led to more mistakes than he might have had if he had pulled back on the tempo some. Hopefully the judges' comments will be a good learning experience for him, and he will be more cognizant of slowing down. Despite his fast speed, he had beautiful scale runs, musicality, and other small nuances that his piano teacher taught him. His score this year was 36 Cs (special commendation) and 5 As (needs attention).
Caleb is gearing up and practicing for his All Star baseball season. We were grateful that they didn't overlap this year!
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