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It's Baseball Season!  Marcus started off with a double header on Saturday.  Look how cool he is in his sunglasses.

Here's the cheering squad...Bri, Lexie, Emma and Olivia.  This is the only game these girls will get to see.  From here on they will be playing their softball games at exactly the same time as the boys play their baseball games.

Lily came along to cheer on the boys too.

Hi girls!

Marcus up to bat.

He swings.

Running to first base...high five to Russ, one of his coaches.

Marcus runs to second...

and to third.  He didn't make it home that time.

Here he is on first again.

and back to third...I believe he did score this time.

Marcus playing second base here.

Up to bat again.

Here he is warming up his swing.

And up to bat.

Walk...

Ready on first.

Rounding to second...

and on to third...coach Michael pointing to home...

Run Marcus Run.

Almost there...

And he scores.

Tom is right behind him...Marcus is standing to the right cheering him on.

Tom goes in for the slide...see Marcus getting ready to jump for joy?

Tom scores!  Marcus Jumps with excitement!  Go Mariners!

It was a long day; they started at 10:20 am with pictures, played from noon to 2:00 and again from 2:30 to 4:30...they were exhausted.

Great Game Marcus!

Math is Cool

The 2016 Math is Cool 4th Grade Class.

Math is Cool

The girls have been working hard to prepare for the Math is Cool competition which was Friday.  They were bused from School at 3pm to Whitworth University.  They had individual testing from 3:30 to 6 and then we got to come join them.  They all had pizza for dinner.

Alyson, Emma, Lexie and Olivia taking their dinner break.

Chattaroy Elementary had 4 teams of 4 kids.  Emma, Jacob, Olivia and Cody were one team.

We got to watch them compete in the College Bowl.  The had a string they could pull when they knew the answer the Proctor was asking.  It made a beep and everything!  It was like watching a game show.  They actually did really well...they had several rounds.

Then it was award time.  The first awards were to Top Individual Performer from each school.  Our little Emma was Chattaroy's Top Performer!  She went down to get her prize.

We were so proud of her!

Look at that sweet smile...I love it!

Next was divisional awards.  Chattaroy Elementary placed 4th in their division!  They all ran to get their ribbon...Look at Olivia's huge smile.

The girls were so proud!

The school gets the plaque; the girls were just holding it for a picture for me.

Emma wanted a picture of her cool award...a stainless steel water bottle.  Also her 4th place ribbon.

Cool bottle, don't you think?

The girls had such a great time...they have been going to school early every Friday to prepare for this and it all paid off.

The back of their shirts had all the Chattaroy kids' names on back.  What a great event!

Science Fair

The girls worked hard on their Science Fair projects over spring break.  Olivia did Melting M&Ms.  She drew a circle in the center of a plate.

She got her M&Ms ready.

She glued them on the plate.

Then placed them in the microwave for 30 second intervals.

She checked and recorded her findings after each 30 seconds.

She thought the darker colors would melt faster than lighter colors but after 2 trials found out the lighter colors actually melted faster.  

Emma did her experiment on which type of sponge would absorb the most water.

She poured the water in a large bowl.

Soaked each sponge and let it drain slightly.

She rung the sponge into a large beaker.

Then poured it into a smaller beaker and measured each amount from each sponge.

She thought the natural sea sponge would absorb the most but found the man-made cellulose sponge actually did.

The girls brought their projects to school and set them up.  

Olivia is so proud.

Emma is too.

Emma decorated her board using sponges dipped in paint...very clever, don't you think?

Olivia put dots on her board and put little "m's" on each dot to look like M&Ms.  Too cute.

Another Science Fair in the books!  Both girls did a great job!