The schools around her compete in what is called UIL -University Interscholastic League. There are different areas: arts, academics, music, theatre, and athletics.
Joseph was asked to be a part of his school's number sense (complicated math that you do in your head) and calculator (again complicated math that you do on calculators ensuring you enter all of hte processes correctly) teams.
We agreed that is would be a good experience for him.
He attended practices for a few weeks in preparation for the competition.
Not knowing what to expect, we were just happy he was joining his peers in an activity.
Parents could not watch the competitions but were invited to the awards ceremony.
Joseph did not place in number sense and so when the calculator names were starting to be called and he was not called for 4th, 5th or 6th I thought oh well it was a good experience. And then....
he took 1st PLACE!!! He is a smarty and math makes sense to him just like his dad!
We are so proud of Joseph and his hard work in school and the way he is excelling. I think next year we will encourage him to try a few more areas.
As a side note, Joseph was just accepted into the LEAP program at school; it is like gifted and talented. We had been asked if we did not want him in it since he was already taking most of the classes except English with all of the LEAP kids. He had been tested before but due to his anxieties, which he has learned to control, he never tested well in elementary school so we did not worry about it. Well, they tested him again and he did great. We always knew he was a smarty pants and it did not really matter what the rest of the world thought! He had to spend part of Spring Break working on his first assigned reading The Slave Dancer. Joseph go show the world what you are made of- we love you!
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