Inspiration Winners

Kali's and Sadie's school participates in what they call the Inspirations Program. It's the equivalent of the Reflections contest, but it's for charter schools instead. Well, this year Kali wanted to enter every category. After a couple of week of working on it, I informed her that she could only pick four categories (it was turning out to be a lot of work for me too). Sadie also wanted to participate, but she complained about doing it every day. I kept telling her that she didn't have to, but she kept telling me that she wanted to write a book but just couldn't think of what to write. Eventually the ideas came and after a lot of hard work, we got their projects turned in. Sadie entered the literature category and wrote a book on birds. Kali also entered the literature category with a poem entitled Nightingale. She also wrote a song for the piano called Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue. Then she submitted a picture of an outdoor scene that she colored with chalk and a photograph that she had taken of a nativity scene. The theme was "Beautiful Is...". Well, they both won medals. Kali and Sadie were actually entered in the same literature division because it runs K-2 and Kali won 1st place and Sadie won 3rd. Kali also won 1st place in the music category with her piano song and won 2nd place in the visual arts with her chalk picture. Sadie was so excited that she had won a medal that she could hardly wait to show it to me. When I asked her what it was for she said, "I don't know". I had to laugh. Only 1st and 2nd place winners move on to the regional level, so we'll have to see how Kali's projects do.