Los Flemings

Sam's Odyssey of the Mind team placed second out of six teams for their problem in Division II (middle school) at the regional competition today. They will go on to the state competition in Boone on April 11. Two other teams from Evergreen competed in Division I (3rd-5th graders) and placed 1st and 3rd.

His team tackled a problem titled "Silent Movie" Here's a synopsis:
Lights, camera...action! In this problem teams will create and present a performance depicting a Director character that produces and presents a silent movie featuring a humorous villain character that commits three silly acts of “villainy”. Characters that are in the movie may not speak as part of the presentation of the movie. Instead, like classic silent films, the team will use music played on a team-created instrument and creatively displayed subtitles to convey its story to the audience and judges. Also, teams will use a signal to indicate when the movie begins and ends.

Enough snow for a true snow day & back yard sledding.

 The big snow predicted for last Monday night only turned out to be a glaze of ice here in town. Certainly not enough for sledding. And it forced the cancellation of the kindergarten field trip that Mame was going to chaperone.

To make the most of it we drove north to Wolf Ridge for some snow tubing and things turned out great. We had the place to ourselves for most of the 2 hours we were there and mama got to share in the snow day fun.





The snow tubing beauty