The Dark Fires 4th grade team are our building Battle of the Books Champions for 2013. Griffin, Leon, Quincy and Shane beat their opponents and moved to the district round this week.
They competed against Rush using the Lync system on our presentation computer. With Lync, we had a moderating librarian on a video call asking the questions at one school, and two other teams competing in the comfort of their school libraries!
It was like a fancy conference call with video – very similar to Skype if you have ever used Skype.
Both teams were asked 10 questions about the required books. In 30 seconds they had to answer the question and have it written down on a white board. When time was called, each team revealed their answer to the camera. If they had the answer right, they got a point. The team with the most points after answering 10 questions won and moved on to the next round of competition in the district.
The Dark Fires team was awesome in the competition against Rush! The boys showed great enthusiasm and effort right down to the last question. Although they didn’t get to move on to the next level of competition, they have every right to be proud of what they accomplished this year!
Today, Rush became the LWSD District Battle of the Book Champions! Congrats to an awesome team!
The other teams who competeted this year were…
The Running Eggs: Taylor, Yennhi, Eleni and Grace
Wimpy Kids: Matteo, Alex, Logan and Ben
Skittles: Ola, Melody, Chloe and Parker
Sparkly Lollypops: Sabrina, Emily and Josa
Headshot: Niku, Carson, Stephen and Alex
Watermelons: Peyton, Madi, Daphanie and Anna
Green Hornets: Sha’Mea, Juan and Ruvim
Reading Bulldogs: Victoria, Madison, Bella and Claire
All of the Battle of the Books are available for anyone to check out! This is one of the best reading lists I have seen in a long time! Stop by and get one of these books. You will love the choices!
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What would you call your team in a reading competition?
If you have read one of these books, what question would you ask?
Dear Mrs Hembree,
Well done to your wonderful team getting as far as they did. I really feel after reading this post they did an awesome job. It would be such a challenge to answer questions in such a short period of time.
Now if I had to give a name to my reading team I would call them “The power of One.”
Sorry for the late comment but as they say better late than never.
From your pal in Australia,
AA 🙂