This is the lady over "Motivation" from the TTM headquarters
What an exciting night that was! I LOVED it!! The auditorium was practically shaking with all the cheers and screams from all the students! I LOVED all the praise they were getting for all their hard work! I love when these kinds of things are rewarded! So much cooler than random drawings and un-worked for praise. I want my kids to know the difference. Most of the speeches were pretty boring, but I loved Mr. Flynn's praise of Luke. He so deserved that! I was so happy he had his little moment. I think he liked it too, even though he kept telling me how many times they said his name and how it was "kind of embarrassing" :). He loved it :). I could have done without Mr. Flynn mentioning us and our "18 kids"- the big stinker!- but other than that! I was glad that Bradley and Luke both got awards. I'm afraid the reason Bradley didn't get the main, big one for fifth grade is because Luke was for sure getting the fourth grade one and since they're brothers... because Bradley passed up the rest of the fifth graders by almost double. But I get that they have to try to include everyone. Just kind of a bummer for him. Not that he didn't get recognized, and they both were in heaven with all the attention :). Bradley riled up the crowd when they called him up to the front :). Funny kid. I'm just so happy for them and how hard they worked for that! They really did push themselves and did way more than we all thought possible. It was fun to hear Mr. Flynn bring up how "out there" his challenge to get more than 100 was :). Then to hear him point out how Luke overcame the impossible. Just cool. Sounds kind of cheesy repeating it now, it's just a math program, but still!! Such a cool experience! Talk about unifying the school! So much fun!! I can't believe they even got through the whole presentation with everyone cheering every other word! Kinda funny. Shouldn't just let them chant T-T-M the entire evening! They'd have been just as happy :). Anyway, it was so much fun!! Good times. And we got to see Mr. Denhalter at the end! We're so excited to have him be our principal!! I could totally do PTA with him as the Principal :). Maybe. 5-12-16
They escorted the "MATHletes" into the auditorium while blasting We Are The Champions... so fun :)
Bradley and Luke had special seats up near the front because they were getting special awards!
Mr. Flynn encouraging cheering and homeboy poses :)
I'm glad Nate got this picture. I wish we'd gotten one of the totals at the end- I think there was something like 800,000 lessons passed! SHEESH!
There's Bradley getting his award! We were on the wrong side of the stage to get good pictures of these. Look at that though- 544 math passoffs, I think his pass rate was 95%. 41 hours!! Good job, Bradley!
Shaking hands with school board/math reps, principal... very official award!
Got a picture of Rachael in case her mom wants a picture of her side/back.
Luke getting his! 1,112 math lessons (this is just for during the march madness... he actually had over 1,300), overal pass rate 99%, and 11,381 problems solved! I love that Mr. Flynn gave him credit for doing the impossible. Who knew he'd blow Mr. Flynn's challenge to get 100 passoffs, so completely out of the water!! Go Luke!
Presenting the trophy! (and a very bald head!)
Luke's class
Another one- who knows.
Bradley's class.
Our two Mathlete champions... this is really just too cool.
It was so much fun having Mr. Flynn's motivation and competitive nature through this whole experience. I think it took them both, but I love that Mr. Flynn gives Luke so much credit (have I mentioned that yet?).
1 comment:
Ahhh! Thank you for taking pictures of Rachel! I totally didn't bring my camera. We were pretty far back so I knew the phone wouldn't work and plus we had NO idea she was getting an award! Thank you thank you and I'm totally stealing them off your blog. :)
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