Carter - awards/end of school year

Carter was very busy at the end of the school year, so busy in fact, that we decided to take a season off from soccer. Besides his baptism and starting cub scouts, Carter was involved in Chess club. This ran for most of the school year once a week after school. Carter has become a better chess player and was able to participate in several competitions. The first competitions were very intimidating for him, but things seemed to improve with each one. His last competition was on the district level. Lamont spent the day with him at the competition. It was a good learning experience for Carter and he placed in the middle of his age group. He was very proud of the participation trophy that he was able to bring home.

During the end of the school year, Carter was also named Aurora Scholar. This came as a surprise to us, but of course we are very proud of him. The city of Aurora picks one child per grade at each school in the city of Aurora to receive this award. Carter represented the 2nd graders from Challenge School. Unfortunately, we were out of town when this award was to be presented to him by the city mayor and council, so it was presented to him at a later date from his principal and vice-principal.

Carter had a great finish to the school year. Here he is with his teacher Ms. Blakeslee. She is an awesome teacher that gets right down on level with the kids. She has been his teacher for the past two years. I know that I can speak for Carter when I say that she will be greatly missed this next year.