At conferences, Caleb's teacher informed us that her nickname for Caleb is Calebopedia! I guess it shouldn't surprise us, then, that he got to represent his class at the geography bee this year. The funny thing is that he didn't even tell us. His teacher emailed me a couple days after he was selected (the class takes a written test and the student with the highest score gets to represent his/her class). We were excited for him, and he claimed that he was shocked that he beat a few of his "really smart" classmates....it's great that he's humble, but this kiddo just doesn't realize that he's got one heck of a brain!
The morning of the bee, he looked at us and said, "Well, this is just another chance for Micah (one of his best friends) to show off how smart he is". We assured him that he would do well and we were just proud of him for making it into the bee. It was so encouraging to watch as his entire class cheered him on the whole time (his teacher even had them make posters). Caleb and Micah were neck and neck the entire time, and he ended up only losing by ONE QUESTION! Caleb was devastated, but eventually calmed down and realized that he should be quite proud of himself.
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