Battle of the Books

and Global Reading Challenge!

 

Battle of the Books Champions 2007

"The Snooplets"

 

Global Reading Challenge Champions 2007

"The Bookworms"

 

Battle of the Books

 

*This is an optional program sponsored by LWSD Library teachers that is offered to intermediate students, to promote enjoyment in reading quality literature.  Teams participate in a double elimination tournament.    Our championship team then competes with other schools within our District, via a live web chat. 

 

Thank you to our classroom teachers for encouraging their students to participate and all their support.

 

Congratulations to our 2007 Blackwell

Battle of the Books Champions 

“The Snooplets”

 

    We had 21 teams of 4th, 5th, and 6th grade students who participated this year at Blackwell. We had several really strong teams and the challenges between teams were tough!  Our champions, “The Snooplets” from Mrs. Rhinevault's sixth grade classroom were victorious in the double elimination tournament here at school. The Snooplets challenged four other schools in LWSD and came in second place overall. This is the best that a Blackwell team has done in the online District tournament.  Great job Li, Dylan, Matthew, and Tyler!

 

Global Reading Challenge

 

Congratulations to our 2006 Blackwell
Global Reading Challenge Champions
“The Bookworms”

Seven teams, each with seven fourth and fifth graders, read ten books for the King County Library program called the “Global Reading Challenge.”  During the challenge, on February 6th,   the “Bookworms” from Ms. Hopper's fifth grade class ended up with the most points. Congratulations to Christian, Noah, Tenicia, Brock and Olivia.

The ”Bookworms" participated in the Lake Washington School District challenge on March 6th and showed great poise and sportsmanship when a traffic accident caused several of the team members to be late.  Even though they did not win the challenge we were certainly proud of their effort.

 

Information about Global Reading Challenge 2006: http://www.kcls.org/webkids/grc.cfm

 

 

Rules for Battle of the Books:

  • Teams shall consist of no more than four members, grades 4 – 6. 

  • Students may be from different classes as long as they have a common recess.

  • One team member shall be designated as the “Spokesperson” who will be responsible for putting forth the team’s answer.  The team may talk amongst themselves to come up with an answer.

  • Each team will be given 30 seconds to give the title of the book.  The timing starts as soon as the question is asked once.  The team may ask to have the question repeated, but the clock will be running.  After 30 seconds the scorekeeper will shout “Time.”  If the Spokesperson is giving an answer when “Time” is heard, she/he may finish the answer.

  • New questions will alternately be given to each team regardless of which team gave the last correct answer.  In other words, if team A is given a new question, team B will be given the next new question, even if team B just correctly answered a question that team A had just missed.

  • The title must be exact.  The moderator’s decision will be final in the case of any team answer, which may be questionable.

Scoring:         

  • 2 points for a correct answer to a new question

  • 1 point for a correct answer to a missed question.

  • Teams may not have a list of the books at their table during the competition.

 

So form a team and start reading!

Book List for 2008-09:

 

Title Author  Call Number
Archer's Quest Linda Sue Park F PAR
Beasts of Clawstone Castle Eva Ibbotson F IBB
Diary of a Fairy Godmother Dsme Raji Codell F COD
Fablehaven Brandon Mull F MUL
Gossamer Lois Lowry F GOS
Looking for Bapu Anjali Banerjee F BAN
Magyk Angie Sage F SAG
Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Kate DiCamillo F DIC
Modoc - The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived (picture book) Ralph Helfer 791.3 HEL
Mr. Chickee's Funny Money Christopher Paul Curtis F CUR
My Name is Sally Little Song Brenda Woods F WOO
Road to Paris Nikki Grimes F GRI
Room One - A Mystery or Two Andrew Clements F CLE
The Homework Machine Dan Gutman F GUT
Year of the Dog Grace Lin F LIN

 

 

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