brain boosters

All Star Brain Boosters (500 points or more)

* = current year participants

Brain Boosters Hall of Fame

(45 stars or more)

*current school year

Brain Boosters Club

Math

Name the perfect square numbers up to 225	Write in Roman Numerals up to 100 (100 pts)	Name 5 famous mathematicians and write why they're famous	Give the definition of a prime number and name 10 of them.
List the place values from the ones to the hundred billions	List and define our school problem solving strategies (5 stars)	List and describe 10 geometric figures.	Reach highest level in Rocket Math Multiplication (10 stars)
Name 8 types of quadrilaterals and triangles (Brian M.)	Name the prime numbers under 1,000 (175 points) (Kellie B.)	Reach highest level in Rocket Math Division (10 stars)	Enter the Challenge Club in Multiplication 40 Points

Social Studies

Name 15 world countries	Name 15 major world cities	Name 15 types of dwellings	Name 10 South American and Central American countries
Name 10 countries bordering the Pacific Ocean	Name 10 countries in Europe	Name 10 countries in Africa	Name 10 major mountain ranges
Name 10 major world rivers	Name 10 large deserts of the world	Name 10 large lakes in North America	Name all of the continents
Name the 50 states	Name the 13 colonies	Name 10 Native American tribes	Name all of Massachusetts counties
Name 8 Civil War battlefields	Name the 1st - 10th U.S. Presidents in order	Name the 11th - 20th U.S. Presidents in order	Name the 21st - 30th U.S. Presidents in order
Name the 31st - 43rd U.S. Presidents in order	Name the 50 state capitals	Name the 5 Great Lakes	Memorize the Preamble to the Constitution (50 points)
Name 10 explorers from the Age of Discovery	Read a historical fiction or nonfiction novel and write a short summary.	Name 100 cities in the U.S. (100 points) Joe N.	Name all of the countries in the world. (200 points) Joe N.
Name all 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence and List the Colony they're from (Joe N.) 112 points	Name 10 Boston Historical Landmarks (Noel Reed)	List the two largest cities, state motto, year admitted and state nickname for each of the 50 states. (David A.) 300 pts.	List each of our Presidents, the state in which he was born, and his Vice President (David A.) 132 pts.

Science

Name 15 kinds of fish	Name 15 marine creatures	Name 15 mammals	Name 15 vertebrate animals
Name 15 desert animals or wildlife	Name 10 amphibians	Name 10 reptiles	Name 10 dinosaurs
Name 10 types of birds	Name 10 rain forest birds or mammals	Name 10 deciduous trees	Name 10 rocks or minerals
Name 10 chemicals and their symbols	Name 10 constellations	Name 10 organs in the human body	Name 8 types of clouds
Name 5 inventors and their inventions	Name 5 human body systems	Name the stages of the water cycle	Name the order of the colors in the rainbow
Name the order of the planets in the solar system	Name 10 types of snakes	Name 15 horse breeds	Name and describe 10 types of climate 20 pts.
Name 100 types of sharks (Noel R.)	Name 100 Living things (Joe & Brian N.)	Name the elements of the Periodic Table Nick P. (116 points)	Give a definition of reflection, refraction, transparent, translucent, and opaque and give an example of each. 20 points (Noel R.)
Name the 7 wonders of the world (Noel R.) 7 points

Language Arts and Linguistics

Name 20 prepositions	Name 15 subordinating conjunctions	Name 7 capitalization rules 20 pts.	Name 10 comma rules 20 pts.
Name 10 Newberry Award Winning Authors and one book he/she wrote	Give 2 examples each of alliteration, personification, simile, metaphor and onomatopoeia 25 points	Write numbers 1-20 in French or Spanish	Use Sign Language and "sign" the alphabet
Write 9 editing marks and what they mean 20 pts.	What is a prefix? List 10 words that have 10 different prefixes	What is a suffix? List 10 words that have 10 different suffixes.	List and describe 6 types of poems
Write a haiku poem 25 points	Name 8 parts of speech and give and example of each in a sentence.	Write a scary October story one page in length 25 points	create a comic strip using at least 5 sentences 20 points
Write the letters of the Greek Alphabet (Nick P.) (25 pts.)	Write a funny limerick (Joe N.) 10 points	Name 10 poets (Noel R)

Miscellaneous

Name one career for each letter of the alphabet	Name the birthstones for each month	Name 20 different modes of transportation	Name 15 breeds of horses
Name 15 breeds of dogs	Name 12 winter Olympic events	Name 12 summer Olympic events	Name 10 large U.S. corporations
Name 10 instruments in a marching band	Name 10 instruments in a symphony orchestra	Name 10 famous composers	Spell all teachers' names correctly (grades k-6)
Come up with a Mastery Club challenge for our class! 5 points	List the Patriots starting line-up	Spell all of your class members' names correctly (First & Last Names)	List 25 different types of sports
Name the 100 All-Time home run hitters (100 points) Joe N.	Name the top 50 All-Time NHL Goal Scorers (50 points) Joe N.	Name the baseball teams that won the most World Series, and which years they won 50 Points Joe N.	Name 50 famous people and what they're famous for Brian N. 100 points
Name one animal for each letter of the alphabet. (Jessica H.) 26 points	List the 32 NFL Teams and their home city (Brian N.) 64 points	List five food world records (Noel R.) 5 Points

Thank you, Mrs. Renz of Redmond, Oregon!