And the Winner Is….

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On Thursday, the Cuddly Koalas and Dark Fires teams met to face off for the final round of the Battle of the Books competition. In the last battle, the teams answered 20 questions. It was stiff competition. The teams matched each other point for point and were tied until question 20. I don’t think I have ever seen such a close completion. The very last question broke the tie, and we had a building winner – DARK FIRES, with their second building win! Dark Fires won last year as well and moved forward to the district round in 2013.

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With every win, is another team that has to face the difficulty of accepting loss. Cuddly Koalas put up a fierce fight and deserve the honors as runners-up. I equate these results to gold and silver medalists, just like in the Olympics. Both are winners and have everything to be proud of. More than that, this competition is about creating life-long readers. When 53 students read 12 assigned books on their own time, I can only feel happiness! I am so proud of every student who put reading first and participated in this competition!

The Dark Fires will compete again after vacation at the district level using our Lync meeting set up. The winning teams from participating schools battle it against each other until we have a district champion. Let’s all cheer for the Dark Fires!

Team members are holding their favorite Battle of the Books novels. The books are no longer reserved for battle participants, so stop by and check one out today!

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4 thoughts on “And the Winner Is….

  1. Hi Mrs Hembree,

    The Battle of the Books sounds like it was nail-biting right to the end! Congratulations to both Dark Fires and Cuddly Koalas on their fabulous reading effort – it makes my heart sing too hearing about these students reading so many books in their own time.

    As an Australian, I’m wondering where your cuddly koala mascot came from?

    Good luck to the Dark Fires in the district battle!

    Happy reading!

    Miss Y 🙂

    • Dear Miss Y,
      Yes, isn’t it funny that our team here chose an Australian mascot? I have no idea why they chose their team name. Perhaps they like koalas!
      Do your schools have a similar kind of reading competition?
      From,
      Mrs. Hembree

  2. Dear Mrs.Hembree and the Battle Of The Books finalists

    Dark Fires,
    You did amazing you got every single point right in the first qualifier you guys are amazing readers.

    Cuddly Koalas,

    You girls did amazing just 2 more points and you would have won!

    Everyone,

    Thank you for participating in the battle of the books competition. I think everyone who participated is a winner.

    There’s one person who competed all by himself and his name is Logan. I noticed that while I was competing that Logan competed all by himself and didn’t give up. I think a lot of kids might have given up if they had to do that by themselves.

    By Josa

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