Science Fair

Last week, Emily's school finally held their science fair. It was the school's first year doing it, so it was totally optional...volunteer basis only. They still got quite a few participants (although, a few of them did not follow any of the required guidelines issued). They may make it mandatory for at least the upper grades next year, I'm not certain. I don't think that they have even quite decided. There were two categories: K-3 and 4-6. The three winners of the 4th through 6th grade entries would continue on to the district science fair at UCR. But since all the kids volunteered to do this extra activity, they all got ribbons for participating and little pins to add to their lanyards. Emily was pretty happy about that.

Besides all of the science fair displays, the school's Lego League also had their display of what they have been working on so far. Caitlyn was excited about that. She wanted to join when Emily was asked to join, but unfortunately, she is still too young. Her current math teacher and Emily's former teacher is the one that heads that up so she is just counting down until she can join. Maybe it will encourage her to be more responsible about her school work as she will be under the same time constraints as Emily has this year. Emily has not made any effort into being more responsible and managing her time better, so I don't feel that bad for not letting her join the Lego League. She would like to join, but she never showed as much excitement for it as Caitlyn does. We'll see if it makes any difference.

This is the first year for the Lego League at their school as well. The new principal has been working really hard to make the school better and encourage kids in things they may be excited to learn and we've been pretty happy about the changes in the school since he started. I hope that it will make a difference as our school has been on "Program Improvement" for the past four years or so now. They have made slight improvements every year, but it is not yet been enough. Hopefully they will make it above their goal this year.