Ma’kenzie Nichols was hardly tall enough to reach the top of desks, let alone shelves on the wall. But that didn’t stop the first-grader from searching high and low during a vocabulary scavenger hunt.
The 5-year-old zipped from room to room at Middlebury Academy, enjoying a variety of activities intended to spur a love of the written word. Nearby, stood her older sister Ma’Kayla, herself a recent graduate of the academy. She’s now a freshman at Archbishop Hoban High School.
Both of the students were under grandma Angienette Osborne’s watchful eye at Glow-In-The-Dark Literacy Night at the charter school which serves kindergarteners through eighth-graders…