Merced County Office of Education recently celebrated its 31st annual Writing Festival. This year, they invited students in Mariposa County to participate as well. Students at Sierra Foothill Charter School were excited to take them up on this kind offer.

Winning entries in prose and poetry were announced. Sierra Foothill Charter School students in Mrs. Baumann's first and second grade class won first place in their age division for a story they wrote entitled, "Hannah's Adventure."

SFCS student Jessica Milazzo won in the eighth grade category and Malte Salonen won in the fifth grade category.

The students' stories were selected out of 3,000 entries.

On May 6, the winners traveled to the Merced Mall to attend an awards ceremony.
Sierra Foothill Charter School Writing Festival winners, including: Mrs. Baumann’s 1-2 Class, Malte Salonen, left rear, and Jessica Milazzo, right rear.
SFCS fifth grader Malte Salonen stands by her winning entry.
Eighth grader Jessica Milazzo showcases her winning entry.
Mrs. Baumann's first and second grade class has been working on illustrating their story. They will be including copies of the illustrated story in the packages they are working on for Children's Hospital as part of their Service Learning project with Ms. Milazzo.

Congratulations to all the Writing Festival winners!

Sierra Foothill Charter School is a free, non-profit, K-8 public school. For more information, contact the office at (209) 742-6222 or visit SFCS’s website: sierrafoothillcharterschool.org. To stay up to date on all the latest happenings, “like” SFCS on Facebook.