FritzFury: Nathan's 5th grade activities

Sunday, January 18, 2015

Nathan's 5th grade activities

SUPER SAGE

Nathan is part of the SAGE program at school. It's students in academically gifted education. He's been there since kindergarten. We were really hesitant when his teacher presented the idea to us. We held off for s short time. But after talking to the SAGE teacher we felt that we could give it a try. One day a week he is bussed to another school and attends class with other students in the program. It is a class that requires a lot of self learning and research projects. It has been great for him. It's always been his favorite day of the week.

This year in SAGE his teacher had them participate in the First Lego league competition. They had to create and program Lego's to accomplish certain tasks. They had to also do a skit and presentation and posters. Alot of work went into this competition. And she only had these kids one day a week to accomplish the task. So from Sept to Jan this was their focus. Their first competition they scored well enough to advance. They went to Union Station in downtown Kansas City for the final competition. They did well but did not place. They went up against teams that meet much more frequently and not to mention they had kids that were much older then them, high school kids, that they competed against. I know they were bummed they didn't win but what they did accomplish at their age was fantastic. It kind of seemed unfair to have elementary kids competing with middle school and high school kids.

In front of his displays.

His team was called Super Sage and they all had matching shirts.

His whole team waiting to begin the programming table.

supporting the guys doing the actual programming

Waiting for results.

DARE GRADUATION

Not a whole lot needs to be explained for this event. Nate participated in the dare program and this was his graduation. Didn't get many pictures. It was a very short and sweet program. So these are just a few of the pictures that I got.