Fine Arts & Academic Competition

On Friday, my entire junior high class (eleven 7th and 8th graders) went to New Hampshire to compete against eight other Christian schools from Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Connecticut.  There were 213 students total and we competed in 49 different events in 5 categories: Bible, Art, Academics, Speech, and Music. 

Our first competition of the day was hand chimes.  Trinity acquired three octaves of hand chimes over the summer so this is our first competition with them (and our second ever performance).  Everyone participates, regardless of musical knowledge or ability.  Our teacher has been out of school a lot in the past few weeks (due to a family emergency) so my mom stepped in to help us practice.  On competition day,  she was asked to direct us again.

This is me with my duet partner, Sophia.  We played Road to Listoonvarna, which is an old Irish fiddle tune.  Sophia picked the music because it's the only song she can play, and I worked with my guitar teacher (who helped me with song mechanics) and my mom to get it performance-ready.


We won first place.  Not bad for a first ever competition.

This is the junior high class...all eleven of us; eight 7th graders and three 8th graders.  That's me; front row, far right.

School Pictures!

Today I brought home my seventh grade school picture and the class picture that comes with it.

First Day of 7th Grade

Archer's Hideout

We're waiting for archery class to start and the boys found the most awesome climbing tree!

Erika

Sent from my iPhone

The Tag Game

This is the second video I created during camp.

The Moon Landing Gone Wrong

I spent the past week in a camp called "Claymation". Each afternoon we worked on a project that would lead to a claymation video.  We learned many elements of producing a video from setting up the storyboard to adding sounds to the video.  This was the first of two videos I produced during camp.  (Oh, and I was the youngest kid in class.)

Award Day

Yesterday was award day.

At school we had our annual academic competition with Websterville Baptist.

The fourth, fifth, and sixth grades all participate in the competition, and everyone takes the same tests; if you're testing in Math and History, you take the same test as a fourth grader that the sixth graders take.  Each grade only competes against those in their same grade; the goal is to get the most right in your subject areas of everyone in your age group.

Anyway, I competed against the other sixth graders, and my subjects were Science and English.  In Science I took Second Place, and in English I took First Place.

The certificate under my two academic awards was given to me for participating in Tae Kwon Do Winter Camp.