Hillside Elementary Students Excel at WordMasters Challenge
A team of fifth grade students from Hillside Elementary School won highest honors in the WordMasters Challenge, a national language arts competition.
Approximately 220,000 students nationwide compete in three separate meets held at intervals during the school year. Competing in the difficult Blue Division, Hillside’s team tied for 10th place among the 669 teams participating in the first meet.
The WordMasters Challenge is an exercise in critical thinking that encourages students to become familiar with a set of interesting new words, generally above grade level, then challenges them to complete analogies expressing various kinds of logical relationships. Working to solve the Challenge analogies helps students learn to think both analytically and metaphorically.
Alicia Zheng demonstrated outstanding individual mastery by posting a perfect score. Alicia was one of only 84 fifth-graders nationwide to achieve this level of success.
Strong scores were achieved by all team members: Cece Chu, Landon Chu, Heather Faulkner, Jackson Jaekle, Alex Joe, Isabelle Gallagher, Nipun Mallipeddi, Adam Oliver and Elise Romola.
Hillside Elementary School’s team is coached by Jane Tello, a fifth grade teacher.
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