Competing in the difficult

Blue Division of the Challenge, Christian earned a perfect score in the

year's first meet. Nationwide, only 20 sixth-graders did so. Landmark's

Wordmaster students were supervised in preparation for the Challenge by

LeLe Longsdorf.

The WordMaster Challenge is

an exercise in critical thinking which first encourages students to become

familiar with a set of interesting words (considerably harder than grade

level), and then challenges them to use those words to complete analogies

expressing various kinds of relationships. Working to solve the Challenge

analogies helps students learn to think both analytically and metaphorically.

The WordMaster Challenge has

been administered for the past 16 years by a company based in Allendale,

New Jersey, which is dedicated to inspiring high achievement in American

schools. Joel is the second Landmark Christian School sixth-grader to

achieve a perfect score in the past few years.