Antonio Jackson won a keyboard for being the top-scoring musician at W-WPS. Beginning the program for Honors Day this year was the performance of the W-WPS "Primary Performers." This group of 50 students from the second and third grades sang four selections for the program including "Big Dreams," "I'm Gonna Be" and "Summer is Coming" by Teresa Jennings, and "Friends to the End" by Jay Althouse. The children in this special group received a certificate for their participation in the performing music group.

Honors Day at W-WPS was exciting with many awards being given for reading, math, attendance, behavior and others. One of the special awards given was for music achievement.

"Music is a discipline worthy of diligent study at any age," said Ann Tiller, the school's music teacher. "Children are never too young to think and learn musically. At WWPS one of the components of the music program for children in first, second, and third grades is a computer program, "Music Ace," which challenges children to learn new and more difficult musical concepts as they are able," she explained.

Every year the children are challenged to make as high a score on the "Music Ace" games as they can. At the end of the year the two topscoring children receive musical prizes from Mrs. Tiller.

The first place winner this year was Antonio Jackson, a third grade student, who scored 19,270 points. His efforts were rewarded with a 61-key midi keyboard from the local Radio Shack. The second place winner was Carlos Lopez, a second grade student, whose score was 15,700. His prize was a Remo drum practice pad and drum sticks.

There were 13 second grade students who received a certificate for making 10,000 or more points. In the third grade there were 22 students receiving certificates for the high scores of 10,000 or more.

"This is outstanding for scores in a primary school setting," Tiller said. "Everyone worked hard. Those that did not reach 10,000 points learned much from the program. Next year we will see where they can go in music."