TEAMWORK KEY TO PERFORMANCE\Wildwood 6th-graders capture 4th place in academic competition.Byline: R.A. Hutchinson Daily News Staff Writer Quicker than the miller's daughter could say Rumplestiltskin, a chorus of voices shouted shout n. A loud cry. tr. & intr.v. shout·ed, shout·ing, shouts To say with or utter a shout. Phrasal Verb: shout down To overwhelm or silence by shouting loudly. a unanimous answer to the multiple-choice question appearing before them on the computer screen. A quick, accurate response racked up bonus points for the team. A click of the mouse and another question is displayed. "If we answer in under eight seconds, we get bonus points," explains 12-year-old Heidi Armstrong, a member of the sixth-grade Knowledge Master Open team at Wildwood Elementary School Wildwood Elementary School may refer to:
Their quick and accurate responses earlier this week gave the nine members of the KMO KMO Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (test to assess the appropriateness of using factor analysis on data) KMO Knowledge Master Open (academic competition) KMO Kunglig Majestäts Orden team a score of 703 out of 1,000 - enough to put them in fourth place in the state and 54th out of more than 1,500 competing schools nationwide. The team competed Wednesday in answering more than 100 questions in just over an hour. The team members are Heidi; James Downing-James, 11; Zach Elsea, 11; Sarah Freeman, 12; Thomas Jensen Thomas Jensen (1898 – 1963) was a Danish orchestra conductor. Born in Copenhagen, Jensen led several Danish ensembles, including the Danish State Radio Orchestra and the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra (then known as the Aarhus Civic Orchestra). , 12; Jason Kaminsky, 12; Jacob Mersing, 11; Natalie Patenaude, 11; and Tim Speer, 12. "The fun part was telling them how well they did," said Linda Spellman, principal at Wildwood Wildwood, city (1990 pop. 4,484), Cape May co., SE N.J., on an island off Cape May; settled 1882, inc. as a city 1911. It has large commercial fisheries and is a popular summer seaside resort with many vintage motels and other buildings from the 1940s–60s. and the team's academic coach. "Usually our team has scored in the middle. At the first time out, we projected their score and they knew they could get 688." Spellman said that teams fielded from Wildwood the previous two years scored in the 600 range. At the third and final timeout - after 90 minutes of answering questions - the students learned they could go over 700. "We did pretty good except for the last question 'cause we got stuck," said Thomas, 12. The tricky Adrian Thaws (born January 27, 1968), better known as Tricky, is an English rapper and musician important in the trip hop and British music scene (despite loathing the "trip hop" tag). He is noted for a whispering lyrical style that is half-rapped, half-sung. question asked the students to recognize the proverb proverb, short statement of wisdom or advice that has passed into general use. More homely than aphorisms, proverbs generally refer to common experience and are often expressed in metaphor, alliteration, or rhyme, e.g. "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush," but the bird was called a feathered feath·ered adj. 1. Covered, provided, or adorned with feathers. 2. Having feathering, as an animal's coat. 3. Moving swiftly: feathered feet. 4. biped and the bush was a "greatly overgrown overgrown said of a part that has not been kept trimmed. overgrown hoof overgrown hooves put unusual stresses on bones and tendons and allow for distortion of the wall and sole. shrubbery." To prepare for the competition, the students said they studied and ran through practice tests over and over, particularly in logical math and geography, two of their weaker areas. "We spent a whole day just studying an atlas," James said. "Ms. Spelling would say, 'OK, if you go in this direction, what city will you find,' " added Sarah. The students agreed that the most important lesson they learned by participating is how to function as a team. "I liked working in a group," Speer said. "I wasn't nervous." Natalie and Jacob agreed. "I learned a lot about teams and I learned a lot about geography and logical math," she said. Jacob added: "I liked that we were all able to work together as a team and that were competing against other schools just like us." Others said they enjoyed the competitive atmosphere. "I just like answering questions and I like the competition between the other schools. It's a lot of fun," Zach said. Spellman said that in addition to learning to listen to each other and respect each other's areas of expertise, the students also learned to be confident in themselves. Instead of saying, "I think" that's the answer, the students learned to say, "I know" this is the correct answer. CAPTION(S): PHOTO Photo The sixth-graders on the Wildwood Elementary Knowledge Master Open team scored 703 Wednesday. Dusty Locke/Special to the Daily News |
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