100th Birthday for the Elroy Public Library

Our local library had it's 100th Birthday recently. They had a drawing contest and an essay contest to mark the occasion. Kyle kept making excuses as to why he didn't want to work on his drawing and essay. I didn't want to press the issue with him. Reeve reluctantly wrote an essay, which I made into a cursive writing worksheet using a great little website that I've discovered recently:

Well I'm happy to say that Reeve won first place for both his drawing and his essay. If you click on the picture above you can see the picture and essay better.

He was a little nervous when he had to go up in front of everyone to accept his prize money, but he was also very stoked! He never expected to win, but he secretly hoped he would.

The Library was very generous and the 1st Place Prize was $15 for the Drawing Contest (1st-4th Grade...Reeve's technically in 2nd Grade) and $15 for 1st Place in the Essay contest (1st-4th Grade).

When we got home Reeve told me that he felt very special. After he won he had lots of people that he didn't know come up to him and congratulate him. He told me later that he felt like Harry Potter, because everyone seemed to know who he was and they were very glad to shake his hand.