Knowledge Bowl

This is Mark's team. They are all 5th graders and they worked really hard. 

Mark loved Knowledge Bowl last year at Highland. He learned so much about music and the arts. So Mom decided to bring Knowledge Bowl to Dry Creek. This year the topic was geography, and since Mark had advanced to fifth grade, he needed to know a lot. This included countries, flags, capitals, major features, vocabulary, states and their capitals, counties and their county seats, maps, and much more. Mom took on the large task of teaching both the 3rd-4th grade team and Mark's 5th-6th grade team. She put in many hours parsing information, making up games and quizzes, and getting them all prepared to complete.

Mom loved working with Mark in Knowledge Bowl. 

Mark was very serious about Knowledge Bowl. He worked really hard to learn everything about everything. His team recognized his leadership and voted him as team captain. This meant that he chose the member of the team who would give answers. When the competition came, Mark was lightning quick on the buzzer. He led the team to four victories scoring over 800 points. This easily placed his team in the winners' circle. (They release a list of Top-Ten winners, but they don't order them or recognize first place.) Mostly we were just happy they scored more points than the Highland team! Best of all, Mark gets to take the knowledge that he learned from Knowledge Bowl with him forever.

Mark was the best buzzer. Speedy fast!