Getting children to read can sometimes be a bit of a struggle. But turn it into a competition, and the pages start flying.
On Monday June 13th Prairie Waters Elementary School hosted the ‘Battle of the Books’, which had them in a head to head competition with East Lake School. The teams each consisted of students in grades three and five and it was close from the start.
The teams were made up of:
East Lake School: ‘The Nerdy JellyBeans’
Abbey Mane (Grade 3)
Mackaylin Edeburn (Grade 5)
Kate Darr (Grade 5)
Mya Edeburn (Grade 3)
Zanab Al Aaridhy (Grade 5)
Prairie Waters School: ‘The Take Flight Readers’
Alexis Parmar (Grade 5)
Alexis Wartman (Grade 3)
Tiana Jacklin (Grade 3)
Emma Wenzel (Grade 5)
Emma Taha (Grade 3)
Malak Al-Zergani (Grade 5)
Proud mom, Shannon Edeburn, explained the concept of the competition saying, “The Battle of the Books is where kids form teams of five and commit to reading a total of 15 books that have been chosen by a committee of teachers. After a given time period the teams battle in competition by answering trivia type questions to see who knows the books the best. In one of the rounds the students have to beat the other team to the buzzer to have the opportunity to answer the questions. Other rounds allow the team to discuss together the answer. Those who understand the books the best move on! As a mom of two of the girls and someone who also works at the school I have seen firsthand how dedicated these girls are to reading the books. I love this idea as it opened up the opportunity for my girls to read books they normally would not choose. One of the books featured in this battle is Harry Potter- my girls would never have chosen this book and have now moved on to the next books in the series because they loved it so much!”
These dedicated young readers took on a wide variety of books and it was pretty clear in the competition that these young ladies knew their stuff. The books the competitors read were:
Books:
Miss Daisy is Crazy
The School Skeleton
Voyage to the Volcano
Shadows of Disaster
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Amulet
Who is Wayne Gretzky
Smile
Harry Potter: The Philosopher Stone
The River
Shooting Kabul
The Million-Dollar Goal
Flora & Ulysses
I Survived the Japanese Tsunami
Anne of Green Gables
After three intense rounds and the teams being neck and neck, the final score was 72-69 with East Lake School coming out on top.
