WordMasters

Two students representing Fairmont Private School-Anaheim Hills recently won highest honors in this year's WordMasters Challenge-a national language arts competition entered by aproximately 220,000 students annually, which consists of three separate meets held at

Rebecca Choi and Yvonne Kim with their 8th Grade English teacher, Mrs. Sturman

intervals during the school year.

Competing in the very difficult Gold Division of the Challenge, eighth graders Rebecca Choi and Yvonne Kim both earned perfect scores in the year's first meet, held in December.  In the entire country only 51 eighth graders acheived perfect results.  Other students at the school who also achieved outstanding results in the meet included fourth graders Alexandra Brondum, Anastasia Huddleston, Channing Lee, Sunny Yang, Jelissa Lin, Sarah Hsiao, Mariano Chacon and Ava Malakooti; sixth grader Zoe Wang; seventh graders Lauren Lee, Ezekial Levin, Megan Mettler, Yannie Hoang, Nicole Kuntjoro, and Brittney Nguyen;and eighth graders Kayla Bach, Aaron Su, and Emily Yang.

The WordMasters Challenge is an exercise in critical thinking that first encourages students to become familiar with a set of interesting new words (considerably harder than grade level), and then challenges them to use words to complete analogies expressing various kinds of logical relationtionships.